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It's hard to dislike any of the main characters from How I Met Your Mother, but Lily got worse as the series went on...
It's hard to dislike any of the main characters from How I Met Your Mother . The hilarious sitcom had a rockstar cast of lovable and relatable principals. Nevertheless, it is pretty unanimously agreed upon that the show peaked in its first five seasons, and eventually, some of the characters' signature charms wore off.
Nowadays, one of HIMYM 's characters who is looked back upon with the most disdain is Lily Aldrin . The peppy wife of Marshall Eriksen , Lily started out cool, fun, and personable, but as the series carried on, some of her less appealing qualities came to the foreground.
Endearingly portrayed by Jason Segel , Marshall is perhaps the nicest regular on HIMYM . For the most part, he and Lily seem like absolute soul mates, an ideal pair. That being said, they do have their occasional fallings out as a married couple. By the later seasons, we start to notice a pattern: Lily is almost always the one who instigates the drama with Marshall, often running away or acting without consideration for her husband. Benevolently, Marshall takes her back time and time again. Sadly, she never seems to fully appreciate his forgiveness.
When Lily and Marshall 's son (Marvin Wait-For-It Eriksen) was first introduced via birth in the season 7 episode, "The Magician's Code," he became a staple of the show for a little while. After about a season, though, he seemed like little more than an afterthought in Marshall and Lily's regular lives. We're not saying that Lily literally forgot about her son, but her identity as a mother definitely grew less and less pertinent as the series went on. Sometimes her and Marshall would be at the bar and the show wouldn't even address who was watching the kid. This hardly seems like admirable parenting.
Perhaps Lily's advantage-taking of Marshall, as well as her increased absence as a mother, both stem from the fact that she grew more and more hedonistic as the series went on. Lily has always loved attention, relishing in birthday celebrations and hosting events. However, this self-centeredness eventually grew tiresome for viewers and fellow characters alike. Oftentimes, Lily acted without considering her actions' effects on others, creating an annoying and toxic cycle. By season nine , she had made major life decisions without discussing them with her husband, unwarrantedly meddled in her friends' lives, and insisted on inclusion in spaces where she was not wanted.
Speaking of Lily sticking her nose into other people's businesses, she developed a pretty egregious track record of butting into Ted 's romantic endeavors by the final season. Despite Ted being nothing but supportive of Lily and Marshall from day one, Lily hardly returned the favor. She repeatedly went behind Ted's back and sabotaged his relationships with women, usually justifying it with the sad excuse that she knew the woman in question was not "the one" for him. Maybe she was correct, but only Ted should be able to act on that call. No amount of good intentions gives her the right to barge into Ted's love life without permission.
Lily's manipulation of other people's lives was pretty juvenile throughout the show, but her childish ways did not stop with those invasive acts. Throughout the series, Lily thew numerous tantrums and fits. Sometimes they were warranted, but they were nevertheless immature.
It was not uncommon for her to break down in tears, sputtering nonsense phrases when she did not get what she wanted. This joke was maybe funny the first time, but its repetition quickly rendered Lily irritatingly babyish. Perhaps her kindergarten students had worn off on her a little too much over the seasons .
By and large, most of the characters on HIMYM possessed potent geeky sides . Usually, this geekiness came off as relevant and appealing, such as Ted's love for Star Wars or Marshall's fascination with the Loch Ness Monster. By contrast, Lily's geekiness was simply irksome. Unlike her friends, she seemed constantly out of the zeitgeist and consequentially, her inner-nerd came across as directionless, frustrating, and (once again) childish. She geeked out not over phenomena that the audience could identify with, but over apparently trite things like apartment decorations, nondescript fashion, and Halloween costumes .
Despite how likable he was as a character, we cannot deny that Barney Stinson was a pretty deplorable person. HIMYM 's suave womanizer, Barney did some pretty awful things on the show, especially to the ladies in his life.
Earlier on in the series, Lily would sometimes serve as a moral compass for Barney, calling him out on is immoralities. As the show continued, she became far more lax, even being okay with Barney marrying her best friend. Again, we love Barney, but we wouldn't want to see anyone we know fall into a relationship with the cunning maverick. This is one front that Lily should have continued intervening on.
Speaking of Lily's best friend, her relationship with Robin Scherbatsky definitely took a turn for the strange in the later seasons. Early on, Robin and Lily were typical besties, the show's female counterparts to Ted and Marshall in a way. However, while Robin remained the same cool lady she always was, Lily developed a strange bisexual attraction towards Robin. While there's nothing wrong with bisexuality, the fact that Lily developed these feelings for Robin right in front of Marshall is a bit curious. Plus, the way the writers circled back to this trait time and time again started to feel like a weird fetishization rather than genuine character development.
Lily ran away from the gang on multiple occasions, creating unnecessary drama and ruining her relationships with each one (including her own husband). Still, she always ended up coming back, and her friends gregariously welcomed her back with open arms each time. The reason that Ted, Marshall, Barney, and Robin did so well together was ultimately because they were loyal to each other. Lily never seemed to understand this, as she broke that loyalty so often, and yet also took advantage of it by returning time after time, abusing the goodwill of those around her.
Stemming from The Simpsons ' character Ned Flanders , the term "Flanderization" denotes the process by which a TV character's particular trait becomes exaggerated to the point of complete consumption. This seems to have happened with Lily, as her mousy innocence felt genuine when we first met her, but by the series finale, it became severely overdone. Come season nine, Lily was nearly a complete satirization of the sweet woman we were introduced to during the pilot. Once again, this folly is on the writers, for they essentially trapped Lily in this unflattering box.
A.W. McGowan is an organic list writer for ScreenRant and a news staff writer for Lynxotic.com. His essays and articles on entertainment, media, and critical theory have appeared in numerous academic and popular publications. He also has experience as a weekly radio host, a children's web series producer, and a poet, recently releasing the spoken word album "Channel Zero Static." He graduated from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in English and Education and a minor in Cinema Studies; he now lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Played by: Josh Radnor
Future Ted narrated by: Bob Saget

The main character and narrator, a thirty-something architect professor of architecture (and later an architect again) at Columbia with an excessively romantic disposition, looking for love in New York.

Marshall: Ted and I have a history! I could do things to him that would blow his m... ...Why do we keep trying to have sex with Ted?
Barney: I don't know; it's weird.

"The only people in the universe who haven't seen Star Wars are the characters in Star Wars . And that's cause they lived 'em, Ted! That's cause they lived the Star Wars!"

Ted's former college roommate and best friend, a sweet-tempered goofball who makes his way through law school and eventually takes the Bar during the course of the series. In the pilot, he becomes engaged to his girlfriend Lily. They eventually wed and have a kid of their own.

An artist and kindergarten teacher with a slightly rebellious streak, who is nevertheless deeply committed to Marshall. Together they represent the voice of stable, adult relationships in the series, as the resident Beta Couple .

The unrepentant bachelor who offers a counterpoint to Lily and Marshall's monogamous bliss. Barney is a business executive who works a high paying desk job, does exactly what he wants all of the time, makes it a point not to sleep with the same girl twice, and makes no apologies for what he is.

Former Canadian teen pop star turned reporter for a crappy news station and later to a researcher for a more respected one, she's got a fun mix of geeky/guyness to her. Ted falls in love with her at first sight, but it's not meant to be. She ends up a member of the gang (and Lily's best friend) anyway. She slept with Barney once, which seems to have given him a case of feelings for her, and she seems to reciprocate. They get together (then break up). Then get married (then divorce). And finally she ends up with Ted after he recovers from the death of The Mother.

"Robin Scherbatsky is many things: friend; confidant; occasional guest star in some confusing dreams that remind me a woman's sexuality is a moving target , but she is no crazy, jealous stalker-bitch."

"Kids, I'm gonna tell you an incredible story. The story of how I met your mother."

The woman about whom Future Ted is telling a story to his kids about. Little is known about her, other than that she owned a yellow umbrella and that she was in the class Ted's seen teaching at the end of season four. Glimpsed in part several times during the course of the series, and finally revealed in the last episode of the series.

Penny played by: Lyndsy Fonseca
Luke played by: David Henrie

Ted's son and daughter living in the year 2030. Currently he's subjecting them to a lengthy and needlessly detailed tale of how he met their mother.

The gang's favorite cab/limo/anything driver. Meets the main five for the first time in the pilot episode, and after driving them around a few times eventually becomes friends with them to the point of knowing many personal details about their lives.

The owner of the bar the core five frequently go to. He has known the gang at least since 2001 and seems to be relatively close to them.

The most prominent waitress at MacLaren's Bar. Like Carl, she seems to be relatively close to the main five and even had a short fling with Barney.

Victoria is the first serious girlfriend Ted gets in the series. She shows up in mid-season one and stays around for most of the remaining episodes of the season until she gets a baking scholarship in Germany.

Scooter is Lily's ex-boyfriend. Their parents are friends and the two of them dated throughout their teenage years, but Lily broke things off when she went to college. To this day, he's still trying--and failing--to win her back.

Brad is one of Marshall's friends from law school. He's introduced in the second season and becomes friends with the rest of the gang.

Stella is a dermatologist who Ted visits for the purpose of removing his lower-back tattoo and becomes his main love interest throughout seasons three and four and almost marries him. She has a daug
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