The End of the Aisle
- Episode aired Mar 24, 2014
- TV-14
- 22m
With only half an hour to go, both Barney and Robin have panic attacks about their upcoming nuptials. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily rewrite their old wedding vows.With only half an hour to go, both Barney and Robin have panic attacks about their upcoming nuptials. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily rewrite their old wedding vows.With only half an hour to go, both Barney and Robin have panic attacks about their upcoming nuptials. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily rewrite their old wedding vows.
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- TriviaRobin's wedding march song is the Robin Sparkles song "Sandcastles In the Sand"
- GoofsThe wedding layout is wrong. Unless it is a Jewish Wedding, the Bride's side at a wedding is to the left as you face the alter.
- Quotes
Robin Scherbatsky: Shouldn't I be with the guy who finds me my locket? The guy who steals me the Blue French Horn? I mean, look me in the eye and tell me: Why shouldn't I be with that guy?
Ted Mosby: Because I'm not that guy anymore.
Robin Scherbatsky: Then why did you work so hard to find me my locket?
Ted Mosby: It was a wedding gift.
Robin Scherbatsky: Ted, stop it, okay? I know you better than that. This is more than a wedding gift.
Ted Mosby: Maybe it started out that way. Maybe some part of me thought...
Robin Scherbatsky: ...that maybe you still loved me.
Ted Mosby: Maybe. But the truth is, I don't love you like that anymore. And you don't love me. You love Barney. And if you think that I would ever be a part of screwing that up, then maybe you don't know me at all, Robin.
Robin Scherbatsky: Oh, I can't shake it, I can't shake this feeling that nothing about me and Barney makes any sense!
Ted Mosby: But love doesn't make sense! I mean, you can't logic your way in or out of it. Love is totally non-sensical. But we have to keep doing it, or else we're lost, and love is dead, and humanity just packed in. Because love is the best thing we do. Look, I know that sounds cheesy, but it's just true. You love Barney, and he loves you. And that doesn't have to make sense... to make sense.
- ConnectionsReferences Jeopardy! (1983)
With this episode they didn't just portray love, they portrayed love correctly. They were honest with the fact that vows aren't kept, and love and life changes. I adore how they handled Marshall and Lilly in this episode. It was so honest and so bittersweet.
A recurring theme I found during this episode was that the characters would show up at just the right time to hear something or see someone that they needed to hear or see. I don't want to spoil the show. But Barney finally learned it. His character finally became the character he needed to become in order to be married. It was all due to his lessons learned from Marshall and Lilly.
I won't spoil anything, all I have to say is that this episode was extremely touching. All the way from the new vows, to the only vow, to the letting go, to the ring bear, to the twists and turns, to the sealing kiss, to the humor and, of course, to the final slap.
I don't have much else to say in this review. I could rave on and on about this episode. How the creators have handled this season in such a delicate and incredible way. It's amazing. A lot of people gave the first half of this season a lot of crap. I stuck it out. I knew it'd be worth it. And it was. This episode wrapped up so many plot lines. It left me perfectly satisfied.
Ted's speech on love - now that was perfect. "Love is the best thing we do."
I'm a huge romantic. I always have been. I'm emotionally touched by a lot of things - this show is included. I dream of my wedding day all the time and I constantly imagine the outcome of my love life. I'm a writer, and I write romance books. I don't know why I'm such a romantic, but I am. And that's why I connect with this show so well. I relate to Ted. I mean, I hope I don't end up 35 and basically alone, but I relate to him in the hopeless romantic sense.
Love is the best thing we do, my friends. There's a lot of hate in this world, and there's a lot of anger and animosity but it doesn't matter. There's love. Love is all that matters. I don't have to explain this to you. As Ted said, "It doesn't have to make sense to make sense."
Without love, guys, we'd be nothing. Without these quests for the other half of ourselves, without the wedding days and the first kisses and the honeymoons, without the vows and the proposals and the falling in love, our purpose in life would be nothing.
Of course, we aspire to achieve and succeed and chase our dreams, but I think the biggest dream of all is to fall in love with one who reciprocates. There's a Greek myth or something out there that there were these beings too powerful to be one person, so they were separated into two people and placed on separate parts of the earth in order to find each other. These people were called soul mates.
My friends, go looking for that soul mate. It's daunting, it's not promising, but without it we'd be for naught.
Without love, we'd be nothing.
Because love is the best thing we do.
- readjacksonporter
- Mar 24, 2014
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