Within the years since How I Met Your Mom aired its polarizing finale in 2014, I’ve heard individuals argue that the central protagonist, Ted Mosby (performed by HIMYM solid member Josh Radnor), is the worst character on the present. Talking as a longtime fan of the beloved TV sitcom, I’m not going to lie and say that these arguments are completely invalid.
Nevertheless, I additionally consider that the hopeless romantic remains to be an honest human, an awesome good friend, and is completely worthy of the love he finally finds. In case you continue to don’t agree, I reviewed the perfect HIMYM episodes and compiled greater than sufficient proof to show that Ted’s strengths outweigh his weaknesses.
Ted Steals The Blue French Horn For Robin
Within the very first episode of How I Met Your Mom, Ted Mosby proves his chivalrous romantic aspect by stealing a uniquely coloured brass instrument from the restaurant the place he and Robin (Cobie Smulders) had their first date. This type of factor is, after all, frowned upon and never one thing I might suggest, however Robin does admire the difficulty he goes via to amass such a significant reward.
Ted Tries To Assist Barney Turn out to be A Higher Boyfriend
In “Robin 101,” Robin begins to have second ideas about her new relationship with the previously commitment-phobic Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris). Robin’s ex, Ted, as an alternative of utilizing this as a chance to interrupt them up, tries to assist the connection by providing Barney courting suggestions based mostly on her persona, recognized habits, and so on.
Ted Convinces The Gang To Do The Proper Factor
“False Optimistic” sees the gang meet for a screening of It’s a Fantastic Life, however Ted finally ends up going alone after giving the others a much-needed discuss their priorities. He encourages Robin to chase after her dream job as an alternative of taking a job flipping a coin for a recreation present, Barney to make use of a surplus of cash for charity as an alternative of a diamond-encrusted swimsuit, and Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) to proceed making an attempt to conceive, which they started to develop hesitant of.
Ted Invitations Lily To Be In His And Marshall’s First Roommate Picture
A lot of Season 5’s “Say Cheese” sees Lily criticizing Ted for “ruining” group pictures by inviting his then-girlfriends to pose in them, till they bear in mind when Ted requested Lily to hitch him and Marshall for his or her first photograph as roommates. Marshall and Lily had solely been courting for a short time, however a refreshingly optimistic Ted inspired his good friend to not concern a possible breakup that might have made the image a clumsy reminiscence.
Ted Spends Thanksgiving Volunteering At A Homeless Shelter
How I Met Your Mom‘s first Thanksgiving episode, “Stomach Filled with Turkey,” sees Ted and Robin exhibiting up at a kitchen feeding homeless individuals, the place they’re very shocked to see Barney (who seems to be finishing court-ordered group service). Ted even steps in to do proper factor when he discovers that among the volunteers have been stealing among the meals for themselves.
Ted Helps Robin Discover Her Locket
In Season 8’s “One thing Outdated,” Robin comes near discovering a locket she as soon as buried in Central Park with Ted’s assist – an in any other case variety gesture that Barney was later offended at Ted for doing behind his again. Ted later jumps via a number of hoops to retrieve the misplaced heirloom however doesn’t find yourself giving it to her, based mostly on the recommendation of others who consider it may probably destroy her engagement with Barney. Regardless, his dedication to relocating one thing so private to her was heartwarming.
Ted Sells His Automotive To Assist With Marshall’s Monetary Woes
Season 3’s “The Chain of Screaming” sees Marshall attain a breaking level over his insurmountable debt, crooked house, and demanding boss, main him to give up his job when he wanted it probably the most. To assist hold his finest good friend afloat for a little bit bit in his time of economic want, Ted decides to promote the blue Toyota Camry Hybrid he had just lately bought (however by no means had an opportunity to drive) and hand Marshall the revenue.
Ted Places On An Astonishing Vacation Gentle Show To Cheer Robin Up
Season 7’s “Symphony of Illumination” is a How I Met Your Mom episode that places Robin within the highlight, specializing in her emotional response to studying she can’t have youngsters. Ted, with out even realizing this secret, makes it his solemn obligation to cheer his roommate up by adorning their house with a stupendous vacation gentle show set to an AC/DC music.
Ted Covertly Prevents Barney From Manipulating A Lady
In a flashback to the night time they first meet one another from Season 3’s “How I Met Everybody Else,” Barney coerces Ted into serving to him choose up a lady named Audrey by posing as his non-hearing good friend, Edward, however is shocked to be taught he truly speaks American Signal Language, as does Audrey. Barney believes Ted put out an excellent phrase for him in ASL, just for Audrey to provide him a pretend quantity. Because it seems, Ted, who was nonetheless removed from calling this womanizer a good friend at that time, revealed Barney’s dishonesty to Audrey and satisfied her to provide him the pretend quantity.
Ted Takes Stella On A Two-Minute Date
In Season 3’s “Ten Periods,” Dr. Stella Zinman (former Scrubs solid member Sarah Chalke) admits she likes Ted however tells him that, by juggling work with being a single mother, she would solely have time for a “two-minute date.” As a substitute of giving up on them, he units up an elaborate date involving dinner, a film, dessert, and a stroll down the road all inside that tight timeframe, marking the beginning of their relationship.
Ted Stays By Tracy’s Facet By Her Sickness
On the finish of How I Met Your Mom‘s sequence finale, “Final Eternally,” we uncover that, throughout the complete time Future Ted (voiced by Bob Saget) has been telling his youngsters this story, his spouse, Tracy McConnell (Cristin Milioti), has been useless from an unnamed illness. Throughout her sickness, he has the power to decide to caring for her at each step and to elevating their youngsters on his personal after she passes.
Ted Chooses His Pals Over Karen
After Ted reunites together with his pretentious, manipulative faculty girlfriend, Karen (Laura Prepon), in “The Entrance Porch,” she dumps him when she finds one other girl’s earring in his mattress, which Ted later learns was planted by Lily to interrupt them up. Lily comes clear about it to Karen, who tells Ted they will by no means hang around along with her or Marshall once more, which finally ends up being the long-awaited last nail within the coffin for his or her poisonous relationship.
Ted Helps Marshall Get Over Lily
How I Met Your Mom‘s first season had a bittersweet ending, with Ted and Robin lastly getting collectively and Marshall and Lily instantly splitting up after a decade collectively. The Season 2 premiere sees Ted doing no matter he can to assist make his buddy really feel higher… together with his new girlfriend round for a lot of it. Then once more, Robin was very supportive, too.
Ted Aspires To Make Up For Hurting Victoria
In Season 1’s “Nothing Occurs After 2 AM,” Ted commits his all-time stupidest mistake by making out with Robin when he’s nonetheless in a long-distance relationship with Victoria (Ashley Williams), who’s at a culinary institute in Germany. After working into her years later on the Architect’s Ball in Season 7’s “Ducky Tie,” he instantly strives to earn the now-engaged baker’s forgiveness by providing to do her dishes, which does, admittedly, virtually result in Victoria making the identical mistake Ted made that ended their relationship. Nonetheless, Ted’s preliminary effort to atone for his sin on this episode is aspirational.
Ted Offers Marshall The Excellent Christmas Reward Concept For Lily
In Season 2’s “How Lily Stole Christmas,” Lily will get offended at Ted when she hears an answering machine message he left when she and Marshall have been damaged up through which he calls her an insult we solely hear as “grinch.” Nevertheless, they’re able to patch issues up after Lily learns that Marshall’s thought to provide her the identical Straightforward-Bake Oven she wished as a toddler got here from Ted.
Ted Invitations Robin To Keep In His Visitor Room
Firstly of Season 4’s “Not a Father’s Day,” the unemployed and homeless Robin is staying with Lily and Marshall, which cuts considerably into their plans to start out a household. By the top, Ted comes up with the thought to let Robin keep in his spare bed room till she finds one other place to reside, however, as Future Ted factors out, this could mark the start of the exes’ new, years-long relationship as roommates.
Ted Pays Milt To Get Marshall’s Charts Again
In Season 4’s “Proper Place, Proper Time,” Ted unwittingly throws out the essential charts that Marshall made for work, alongside together with his pointless ones. He finds them with a homeless man named Milt (Dan Castellaneta), who calls for $1 million in trade for them. Ted agrees to pay him $1 per day for the subsequent a million days and is ready to get Marshall his charts again so he can proceed on together with his work presentation.
Ted Chooses To Spend Thanksgiving With The Lonely Zoey
“Blitzgiving” marks the top of Ted’s rivalry with Zoey Pierson (Jennifer Morrison), however solely after it involves a searing peak when the gang makes an attempt to spend Thanksgiving along with her, throughout which he compares her to Cinderella’s depraved stepmother. Ted comes to comprehend that her step-daughter truly hates Zoey, which explains why she was spending the vacation alone, and decides to share the meal along with her in spite of everything and turn out to be her good friend.
Ted Encourages Robin To Admit Her Emotions To Barney
In Season 8’s “The Ultimate Web page,” Ted (whose emotions for Robin had just lately resurfaced) learns that Barney plans to suggest to Patrice and guarantees to maintain it secret, however as an alternative tells Robin, realizing she nonetheless has emotions for Barney. He takes her to the World Extensive Information constructing so she will have an opportunity to do one thing about it. Whereas we later uncover that he was being manipulated by Barney as a part of an elaborate plan to suggest to Robin, Ted’s willingness to place her pursuits earlier than his personal was one in one million.
Ted Strikes Out Of The Condominium For Marshall And Lily To Preserve
Many modifications to the gang have come to cross in the beginning of Season 7’s “Karma,” together with Robin shifting out of Ted’s house, resulting in a seek for a brand new goal for the now-empty visitor room. Ted finally decides to make it a bed room for Marshall and Lily’s unborn youngster after he realizes his time on the house has ended and leaves it to them.
Ted Urges Victoria To Go away Her Groom A Word
Within the Season 7 finale, “The Magician’s Code: Half 2,” Victoria chooses to depart her fiancé, Klaus (Thomas Lennon), on the altar for Ted, who learns within the Season 8 premiere, “Farhampton,” that she has not left him a be aware explaining her absence. Having been on the opposite aspect of this case when Stella left him, he convinces her to return to the venue to a minimum of ensure that she provides him a correct goodbye. Because it seems, although, Klaus was too nervous to undergo with the wedding anyway.
Ted Chooses Acceptance Over Revenge On Stella
On the finish of “Fortunately Ever After,” the Season 4 episode that follows when Stella leaves Ted on the altar, Ted is able to inform her off about selecting her ex, Tony (Jason Jones), over him and shifting with him to New York. Nevertheless, after seeing how joyful they give the impression of being along with their daughter, Lucy, he realizes that he and Stella have been by no means proper for one another within the first place and chooses to depart them be and transfer on.
Ted Offers Up His Greatest Man Place
In Season 2’s “Bachelor Social gathering,” Marshall discovers that Barney was partially answerable for serving to get him and Lily again collectively. After listening to that story, Ted tells his longtime finest good friend that Barney deserves to be the Greatest Man at his marriage ceremony. After all, Marshall finally ends up selecting to make each of them his co-Greatest Males.
Ted Tries To Keep away from Hurting Naomi’s Emotions
How I Met Your Mom‘s first Halloween episode follows Ted’s longtime search for a girl in a suggestive pumpkin costume, whom he lastly meets once more in Season 7. Sadly, he quickly realizes that Naomi (Katie Holmes) shouldn’t be the one for him, however takes his time working as much as the break-up so he can let her down simply. Nevertheless, it seems she felt precisely the identical approach, and it took a drink of her specialty cocktail, The Tootsie Roll, to seek out the braveness to be trustworthy with him.
Ted Honors The Robots Versus Wrestlers Custom
The gang’s historical past of attending Robots Versus Wrestlers has a rocky starting within the Season 5 episode of the identical title, through which Ted initially chooses a excessive society social gathering over the sporting occasion. He later realizes that, though they often give him a tough time, he ought to put his buddies first. Future Ted later explains that, it doesn’t matter what, the gang would reunite for the occasion yearly, as seen in a second from the sequence finale.
Ted Buys A Home
After attending his mom’s marriage ceremony to her new husband in Season 5’s “House Wreckers,” Ted begins to really feel a bit caught and decides, hoping to hurry issues up in his life a bit, to place a down cost on a home. Some followers might name this an impulsive and determined transfer, however I consider it’s a lovely approach of holding on to his dream of sooner or later having a household and ensuring he has a house to provide them when that occurs.
Ted Invitations Tony To His And Stella’s Wedding ceremony
Few individuals would have the spine to ask their fiancée’s ex to their marriage ceremony, however that’s simply what Ted does in Season 4’s “Shelter Island.” He couldn’t assist however really feel sympathy for Stella’s former boyfriend, Tony, who felt shunned from seeing the mom of his youngster get married. I nonetheless acknowledge this as a wonderfully mature and fairly daring gesture, even when it did result in Stella’s resolution to depart Ted on the altar.
Ted Tries To Suppress His Crush On The Married Zoey
Ted’s rivalry with Zoey Pierson finally was a friendship that slowly advanced into one thing extra, however he initially tried to forestall it from shifting in that path to keep away from wrecking her marriage to George “The Captain” Van Smoot (Kyle MacLachlan). It seems Ted had nothing to fret about as Zoey was going via a divorce right now, however selecting to maintain issues platonic and never act on his emotions towards a lady he believed was nonetheless married is the mark of a stand-up man.
Ted Replaces Robin’s Door Mat
In Season 1’s “Recreation Night time,” Ted is compelled to disclose that he, whereas closely inebriated, broke his “vomit-free since ‘93” streak onto Robin’s welcome mat. The episode ends with Robin opening her house door to discover a new, personalised mat on the ground, which we’re led to consider got here courtesy of Mosby.
Ted Rents A Limo For New Yr’s Eve
Future Ted opens How I Met Your Mom‘s first New Yr’s Eve episode reflecting on how uncommon it may be to have an excellent time ringing within the New Yr, which Current Day Ted is out to alter. He goes out of his approach to verify his buddies benefit from the transition from 2005 to 2006 by renting a limousine (pushed by their cabbie good friend, Ranjit, performed by Marshall Manesh) and mapping out a information to all the perfect events in New York.
Ted Chooses His Friendship With Robin Over Marrying Victoria
In a Season 8 storyline that feels borrowed from a Pals episode (and never the one time the present was accused of that, as identified by ScreenRant), Victoria accepts Ted’s marriage proposal, however on the situation that he stops being buddies with Robin, whom she believes has saved him from sustaining a relationship. No particular person ought to pressure their romantic accomplice to chop ties with somebody they think about household, even when Victoria might have been proper that Ted nonetheless had some lingering emotions for Robin. Regardless, it was clearly a tough resolution, and Ted made the correct name.
Ted Decides To Transfer To New Jersey For Stella
Regardless of his fervent disdain for New Jersey, Ted decides he’s prepared to depart New York and transfer in together with his fiancée, Stella, as an alternative of the other like he beforehand assumed the association could be. He ended up staying in New York in spite of everything, as a result of ill-fated marriage ceremony, but it surely was nonetheless a selfless gesture.