Or, rather, how we wish Ted hasn't met the mother. In this week's TV. Watch. Repeat., The Dipp's Allison Piwowarski and Kate Ward bemoan the soul-sucking being that is Ted Mosby while telling the origin story of the 2005 CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Plus, how an unreliable narrator affects the pilot and beyond, and the insane cast that almost was until Neil Patrick Harrison and Cobie Smulders joined the series.