How I Met Your Father Is Risking Repeating HIMYM’s Saddest Barney Moment
Warning: Contains spoilers for How I Met Your Father episode 9.
In How I Met Your Father episode 9, the series is at risk of repeating Barney and Robin’s second break-up from the original series. How I Met Your Father has some big shoes to fill, arriving almost a decade after the end of the original How I Met Your Mother, which ran for 9 successful seasons. This leaves How I Met Your Father having to walk a delicate line between paying homage to the original series as it uses the same framing device while still defining itself as something new and different.
How I Met Your Father episode 9 sees Jesse (Christopher Lowell) and Sophie (Hilary Duff) dealing with the fallout of their kiss at the end of the previous episode. Having decided that they want to date, Sophie makes plans to break up with Drew (Josh Peck) and then meet Jesse for dinner. It is hard, but she manages to separate from Drew, acknowledging that they’re not right for each other but arrives at the restaurant to find that Jesse is not there. Meanwhile, Jesse has met up with his ex, Meredith (Leighton Meester), having learned that she regrets turning down his proposal and she suggests that they go on tour together and try to work things out.
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This whole storyline between Sophie, Drew, Jesse, and Meredith is extremely similar to the narrative that plays out in How I Met Your Mother season 7, episode 10, “Tick Tick Tick…,” between Barney, Nora, Robin, and Kevin. After Barney and Robin sleep together, the two decide to break up with their partners to be together. While Barney breaks up with Nora, admitting that he cheated on her when he returns to the group he finds that Robin has decided
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