Ted started off his latest tale on "How I Met Your Mother DVD"by informing his future children that in it he was "just a jerk." I'm not quite sure that I buy that. I see where he was coming from with the statement, and think it could be argued that way, but I just don't know that I agree.

Tiffany, Ted's would-be girlfriend of the week, as the gang pointed out, had Ted hooked. The poor boy would do anything so as to get to spend a few more minutes with her (can you blame him, she was Carrie Underwood). But, as the show made abundantly clear, we all have treated someone like that in the past. Consequently, while we may not have been in the right when we did it, there's surely some little bit of understanding that we can all have towards one another about our actions at that time. While I think there are plenty of jerks in this world, I don't think we're all jerks - which is what the show would have had us believe.

Now, I had been hoping that Ted( "How I Met Your Mother DVD) was going to act like a jerk towards Tiffany. After all, didn't she deserve a comeuppance? He was perfectly respectful though to her, which really again argues against his being a jerk.

The potential jerkiness came for Ted with his actions towards poor Henrietta, the girl he had on the hook. Certainly he knew she was on his hook and it is absolutely true that he didn't treat her well, but I don't think that made him a jerk. Plus, I don't really think that it's possible that Ted could have had her so on the hook that she wanted to introduce her parents to him. That, however, is neither here nor there - the girl was clearly on his hook, did that make him a jerk?

Look at this way - the show put forth the idea that all the hookers were jerks. Was then Marshall a jerk at the end of the episode for giving Scooter the "right now" thing? Marshall was allowing Scooter to stay on the hook rather than allowing him to swim free, but I'd say that Marshall(How I Met Your Mother DVD) was coming from a place of pity rather than a place of jerkiness. Wasn't he? Thus, not all the hookers were jerks.


What I really want to know is what happened How I Met Your Mother DVDat that wedding when there was no ring.