I love "How I Met Your Mother," a sitcom that has some of the smartest writing on television. The set design and the inside jokes are clever, which is why I watched part of the last episode with my ...

They were icons of late-1980s America: framed posters of soaring eagles, rowing teams or lonely mountain peaks, each captioned with a mighty concept like "Perseverance," "Teamwork" or "Excellence" and ...