Ted Mosby is a Terrible Father!

So recently I have become a huge fan of the TV show How I Met Your Mother. It is clever, and fresh, and interesting. It makes me want to move to New York and wear suits.

However, over the course of the TV show the writing has strayed pretty far from the premise of Ted telling his children the story of how he met their mother. The element is still there, but it has lost any sense of reality.

Ted has occasionally mentioned how much he looks forward to one day telling his kids the story of how he met their mother over the course of the story, but I don't think any real father would tell this story to his kids.

Let's recap the stories Ted has theoretically told his kids...

-the story of how he got in a three way
-various stories about him and his buddies trolling for bar skanks
-various stories about him and his friends smoking weed in college
-personal stories about his friends and the poor decisions they have made
-stories of adultery
-stories in which they are constantly drinking, or at bars
-stories about all the women he was with before their mother

I mean who would tell their kids that? What kind of values is he teaching them? "Hey kids, it's awesome to sleep with everyone you can, get high during school, get drunk a lot as an adult, and gloat about it." I mean, the story is theoretically supposed to be romantic, but what is romantic about all of the things he has experienced prior to his marriage? So many of these stories have NOTHING to do with that.

Now I'm not saying it's a bad show. I love the show. I think it's hilarious. I even find that the voice of Bob Saget's narrative to be an awesome element to the show. I'm just saying that the idea the show is based on is pretty disturbing if you consider that each show is supposed to be a story he is telling his kids...

-noodles