Decades later, the hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother was an unlikely echo of Fitzgerald’s themes of unfulfilled yearning and performative excess. The Great Gatsby, set in the Roaring Twenties ...

How I Met Your Mother’s second episode has some ... Thomas and Bays were inspired to build HIMYM’s second episode, “Purple Giraffe,” around Ted inviting Robin to several different parties ...

Thomas and Bays were inspired to build HIMYM ’s second episode, “Purple Giraffe,” around Ted inviting Robin to several different parties in an effort to get to know her better — with the added bonus ...