How I Met Your Mother

One of the most popular shows of its era, How I Met Your Mother, describes the lives of five individuals by using situations related to real life problems. These life problems coincide with comedy in order to brighten up the show and make it appeal to a vast variety of audiences. Of all scenes in the nine seasons of How I Met Your Mother, one stands out greatly when dealing with the idea of family. Not all characters are present in this scene, but the tone it sets and the problems the individuals face does create a scene full of emotions and problems that in the end help to set the stage for what will develop in the future episodes of How I Met Your Mother. The scene first began with a male walking into a jail cell with a cop to see …show more content…
This was the time in the scene where trust was established and the fight finally ends. The final part of the scene ends with the couple struggling to look at the pregnancy test. They talk about where they want their family to be and how they want them to be raised, but their actions are in complete contrast, saying that they do not want a family, at least for that moment in time. This was likely due to their age since both appeared to be in their late twenties. Regardless of the situation, they finally decided to look at the test, but when they are about to flip it over and see the result, a cop yells from somewhere else in the jail that the test was negative. Afterwards, they hug and seemed filled with joy until Lily yells angrily at the cop for saying the result, ending the scene. The final seconds where the news of her not being pregnant are key to the ethos present in the scene. After the cop says that it was negative, Lily nor Marshall looks at the test. They automatically believe what the cop was saying, establishing that this specific individual was a trustworthy person. Because of this trust, it was evident that during no time in the scene was the pregnancy test viewed by either Marshall or Lily. In such a short scene of How I Met Your Mother, so many aspects this individual artifact established themselves. As the viewer watches the scene over and over again, it is apparent that this simple scene that only lasts around three minutes has a vast amount of aspects that can easily be analyzed in order to understand it better. This scene from a television show, along with many other scenes, or more broadly other artifacts, hold much more information, despite what most people may think. Artifacts tell a story, and this