Valentines Day is the absolute worst holiday. I am with Jesse on this one. It’s a day that we should deny exists. It’s made up by Hallmark (and hey, we love Hallmark). It’s the absolute worst.
Yes, I am bitter and bitchy.
Regardless of how I feel about the holiday, we’re talking about How I Met Your Father and you know that they are all a mix of emotions when it comes to any holiday. That’s part of what I love about this group of friends.
The are all different, but their love for each other and for life keeps them going. It also keeps them all talking.
At the bar, they’re all discussing Valentines Day, when Ellen arrives carrying an ice statue. Now, what on earth would make her think that is a good gift, I am unsure. Can you imagine, for Valentines Day your significant other gives you a statue of yourself naked that is going to melt?
Hard pass.
Ellen’s girlfriend had to go out of town for Valentine’s Day and understandably, Ellen (who seems to be a stage five clinger in love) isn’t taking it well. When Sophie offers to tell her about her worst Valentines Day to make Ellen feel better – well, Ellen admits it would make her feel better.
While everyone starts to talk about their worst Valentine’s, Sid gets word that Hannah’s plane got diverted and she won’t make it. The two of them has sent every Valentine’s Day together since they met and he looks forward to it every year.
Charlie keeps trying to tell his story, which no one is listening to, because he doesn’t know how to be succinct. Also, his stories are boring AF, mostly. That is until he explains that he covered himself in whipped cream, got stood up, and then got a yeast infection. Things you never wanted to know.
We found out that Sophie and Valentina spend every Valentines Day together. We found out that they met when they both showed up at their boyfriends door, only to find out that they were sleeping with the same person.
But it’s Jesse’s story that got to me, because it led to him and Sophie talking about their relationship (which is long overdue). See Jesse apparently had a habit of telling women that he just met that he loved them from a young age.
No one understood why this upset Sophie, but we did. Sophie felt special, because Jesse told her that he loved her on technically their first date. It made her feel alive and as if they had a really great connection. Now that she knew that he just said it so freely, she felt as she wasn’t special, that it didn’t mean something.
Here’s our thing. We know that it’s way too early to tell who the father is, but it doesn’t mean that we don’t want to know. Because we do. We just know that we want it to be Jesse and we’re afraid that it won’t be. We know that it’s early and that there are men and people that Sophie hasn’t even met yet.
Ships are a weird thing. They take a hold of you and they hang on. They get you and they make a part of you feel alive. Jesse and Sophie just make you smile.
When they talk about their relationship and feelings, they make sense. They look whole. They seem alive again.
Hannah ends up making it to New York just in time. Ellen’s girlfriend has Little Caesars delivered so they can eat together over Facetime. Charlie finishes his story.
But it definitely was Jesse and Sophie this episode for us.
How I Met Your Father airs on Hulu.
