<P> Jessica Goodman from HuffPost said the episode was "pure delight for "HIMYM" fans with encyclopedic knowledge of the gang's universe ", complimenting its many Easter eggs . Goodman also described the storyline as "heartbreaking" and summarised that the episode was "one of the strongest, most beautiful episodes...in years". </P> <P> Sandra Gonzalez of Entertainment Weekly summarised the episode as "an unraveling a person". Gonzalez said it changed her perception of what The Mother was like, replacing a mental image of "this Dream Girl put on this Earth solely to be the opposite end of Ted Mosby's two - piece puzzle life" with "a real woman" going through heartbreak . </P>

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