Ted Mosby's How I Met Your Mother

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Ted Mosby, is revealed as the protagonist and hopeless romantic in the show How I Met Your Mother. The creators, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, made up the show at a time where sitcoms were a thing of the past and did not realize they were going to shake up Television history. (‘Legen-wait for it-dary') Steven Johnson, refers to how television shows have become more complex since the creation of television. How I Met Your Mother shows Steven Johnson’s theory throughout the series. The story is told by the older Ted Mosby by flashback to his children about how he indeed met their mother with his pals along him normally hanging out in "MacLaren's Pub. Along the way, Ted Mosby is described as the ‘hopeless romantic' and is "longing for a monogamous relationship with ‘the One.' (Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit) He is trying to find "Mrs. Ted Mobsy" because he has this recurring thought that he is going to end up as "'weird uncle Ted'" to Marshall and Lily, his best friends, kids. One of his main quirks is worrying about his future, as …show more content…
Ted goes against everything that Victoria said they were going to do. Referring back to the Britannica Academic, the 1980's didn't categorize ‘stalker' as criminal. Ted Mosby was just so obsessed with finding Victoria. The two date for a period of time, and then they break it off because Ted is in love it Robin. ("Nothing Good Happens after 2 A.M.") In a later encounter with Victoria, in "Ducky Tie," she foreshadows the ending of the series by saying, "[Robin] is so much bigger in your world than you realize. And this thing that you're all doing, you, and Barney and Robin, where the three of you hang out at the night in, night out, like you're just buddies? That doesn't work." ("Ducky

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