Recap: The HIMYM Finale That Surprised, Shocked, And Sank The Boat

Jill Pantozzi

Published: Apr 1, 2014 11:02 am

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Wow. I did not see that coming, did you?

On last night’s series finale of How I Met Your Maru, things didn’t go quite as planned. [SPOILERS for HIMYM finale!]

In the episode, titled “Last Fur-ever,” fan fears were brought to light as we realized Maru had been a Cyrano de Bergerac! The character our other lead characters had been obsessing over for nine years really had no talent at all and was just putting on a show. The real talent was Grumpy Cat, pulling the playful strings from the background the whole time.

Needless to say, fans were pissed.

So how did we leave things? Maru was left to becoming an internet footnote, barely a blip on the Wikipedia radar. Grumpy Cat? She went on to film heartwarming videos shared the world ’round with the person behind the camera, in love with her the whole time…

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Jill Pantozzi

Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."