Freeky Friday: Where's That Yellow Umbrella?

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Welcome to another Freeky Friday! Today's topic:

Who is your pop culture alter ego?

I feel like everyone expects me to write about Belle, or some other Disney character. But the truth is that when we came up with this topic, my sister and I created it with my alter ego already in mind.

For those of you that don't know, that is Ted Mosby from the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. But how, faithful tribe, can my pop culture alter ego be a 30-something-year-old male architect on a very public quest for love? True, I am none of those things, but the T-Mos and I have some eerie similarities.

Ted Mosby's best friends are a married couple consisting of an opinionated redhead and her goofy lawyer husband.

We discovered that I am Ted Mosby because a long, long time ago, my sister and her husband decided that they are Marshall and Lily: Dave being a goofy lawyer with a good heart and Julia being a spunky redhead with great taste in dresses. They spent ages trying to decide who their Ted was since all of their friends are married. And one day, it dawned on them: I AM TED MOSBY. The relationship the three of them have is really lovely, and that front porch test is something I'm sure my sister has instated at least a few times. But I wasn't convinced that Ted Mosby was my pop culture alter-ego until I learned...


Ted Mosby is fluent in American Sign Language.






In this episode and one other, Ted uses some pretty accurate ASL. And a few episodes later, he becomes a professor... so yeah, professions are actually pretty similar. Also, apologies if there's no sound on this video; my internet is kind of crappy right now so I can't really tell. But it's a silent language now so it should be fine.


Ted Mosby's heart is both drunk and a kid.


In one episode, Marshall invents a game called "Drunk or Kid", in which he tells a ridiculous story and asks the other characters to guess whether he was drunk or a kid when he did whatever dumb thing he is recounting. Keep that in mind.

In this episode, Ted buys a house for his future family that he plans to have with the wife that he has not yet met. The other characters taunt him and basically call him an idiot the whole episode - what the hell was he thinking? Buying this run down rat-infested house was a huge mistake. But Marshall leaps to Ted's side, defending that he ALWAYS rushes into things. He tells Ted that his heart is both drunk and a kid - it does really, really dumb stuff, but it's in the right place. This line perfectly sums up Ted. And it perfectly sums me up too.

Also, Ted has some pretty kick ass friends, and so do I.

Who is your pop culture alter ego?

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