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I can’t believe that I’m on the verge of watching the final of the final of the final episode of the series.

A total of 9 Seasons, a total of 208 episodes and I’ve watched 206 of them — the last one, #207 & #208 being season 9’s finale.

Wow, I’ve watched nearly 400 episodes of One Piece as well, and that’s nearly double of How I Met Your Mother, but there’s just something special about this show.

Unlike Friends, unlike Roswell, unlike any other rom-com or family comedies that I’ve grown up with, I can’t really say that I’ve grown up watching this show.

It’s just been the last 2 years or so that I revisited every single episode from the pilot and it just so feels that I’m blessed to have experienced it, a show of bromance, romance, family, parenthood, childhood, workship and most of all, of friendship.

There is this overwhelming camraderieness or warmth when it comes to friendship material in this show, and of all the show I’ve known, this one takes the cake, glazes its own icing and places itself into the fridge so that you can have a slice of it at any time and it’ll be the coolest thing you’ve tasted, ever.

Ever.

Ironically I hated the show the first time I watched it, years back, and I hated it without even watching the show ever — but I’m really glad that I took on a chance and made myself sit down after watching an episode which I couldn’t remember that forced me to watch the series all the way from it’s Season 1’s pilot episode.

What if I had continuously snubbed the series’ gleefulness?

But I’m glad I didn’t.

And now, it just feels a little overwhelming that I’m about to watch the mother of all finales, pun intended.

I don’t mean this post to come as an overture for the show — I’ll probably do that some time later — but rather just as a gathering of myself moments before the ultimatum unveils itself.

It’s just, unbelievable how things work and culminates itself to this moment now, because it seems surreal.

But I guess like any relationships that one bonds with, it’s just a little hard to know that the day has come for us to say our goodbyes.

And sometimes, we have to say our goodbyes.

How I Met Your Mother, Season 9, Episode 23 & 24, well bring it on.

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