Talk:Doppelgangers (How I Met Your Mother)

Please revert the deletion of The Wedding Bride (How I Met Your Mother). It is an upcoming episode of the television series How I Met Your Mother and due to air in less than three weeks. Advanced press releases and publicity for the episode have been released. IMDB and TV.com already exist. If there are issues with the article that need to be improved please say so but it is very difficult to improve a deleted page. The page was deleted so quickly there was little chance to grab a copy of the page. The page will inevitably be recreated in the next few weeks when the episode airs if not sooner. If we must wait so be it but please indicate where I can get a copy of the former version of the page to work on in my sandbox. This request was also posted on the userpage of User_talk:Jimfbleak who appeared to be the administrator responsible for the deletion. -- Horkana (talk) 22:41, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Barney is actually driving...
Maybe we should add this fact in the continuity section. It was previously shown in season 2 episode 17 that Barney did not know how to drive or at least did not learn to drive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.176.23.140 (talk) 09:10, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

That was my thought too. But Barney could be seen driving in a couple of episodes since "Arrivederci, Fiero" (I'm sure the fact is included in each of these episode's Continuity section). I guess he just learned how to drive, that's all. Still, I agree it's worth including something about it in the article. Jocateme (talk) 03:51, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Absolutely atrocious!
Every single article of a HIMYM episode must be deleted! It completely goes against What Wikipedia is not and is full of useless trivia such as the "continuity" section that goes against wikipedia's trivia rules. All of these episode articles must be deleted! This is an abomination! Cadiomals (talk) 22:02, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

That is ridiculous. The episodes are relevant enough that they warrant articles, as shown by how many users contribute to them and the popularity of the show. If you don't like the way the continuity sections are run, discuss and change them as appropriate. What's atrocius is how deletionsist Wikipedia has become recently. Do not expect these pages to go anywhere. Map42892 (talk) 05:05, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Barney and driving
Yes, Barney is shown driving and, yes, he was previously said to be afraid of driving, but his overcoming that and learning to drive is well documented on other episode pages for previous episodes, specifically As Fast as She Can. Does his past fear of driving need to be mentioned in every episode now where he is shown to be driving? It's not an issue at this point any more and has been covered. 99.192.72.250 (talk) 13:21, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I disagree, it was an important character trait that changed in this episode. Darrenhusted (talk) 12:19, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You are wrong. This trait did NOT change in this episode. As I pointed out in the edit summaries previously (please check and see), this change has been known since the season 4 episode As Fast as She Can, and there already is a mention of it in the continuity section there (again, please check and see that, too). It is old news by the time Doppelgangers was made. 99.192.69.121 (talk) 13:47, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Smoking in continuity
To mention events of other episodes involving smoking is not a continuity point for this particular episode because no character at any point smokes or mentions smoking. Smoking is not a part of this episode and so it cannot be a continuity point for this episode. 99.192.72.250 (talk) 13:22, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I disagree, it is an important revelation that all the characters give up at specific points. Darrenhusted (talk) 12:20, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You have ignored the fact that there is NO mention of smoking in the episode nor does ANY character smoke in it. Something cannot be a point of continuity for this episode if it is entirely absent from the episode. If you wanted to add something to the Last Cigarette Ever page (like adding right after the sentence "Lily quits the day she decides to try to get pregnant" a parenthetical like "(which she does in the episode Doppelgangers)" then that would make sense, since in that episode reference is made to the day she decides to get pregnant). But there is no continuity issue for this episode because there is no reference to smoking in it. 99.192.69.121 (talk) 13:41, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Lily "quoting"?
When Lily tells Marshal to put a baby in her she is using a line that she used in a previous episode, but how is that continuity? There is nothing significant about any connection between her saying this in a couple of episodes. This is just dialogue trivia. 99.192.72.250 (talk) 13:24, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It is consistent with the language that the characters have with each other, therefore a continuity. Darrenhusted (talk) 12:21, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
 * This explanation does not make sense. what does "consistent with the language that the characters have" mean? Pretty much everything the characters say in every episode is "consistent" with the language they use. This is not an explanation of there being continuity. 99.192.69.121 (talk) 13:35, 30 October 2012 (UTC)