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Now, this was a long con worth waiting for. "Daisy," a title which took on a few different meanings during last night's episode of "How I Met Your Mother," was a payoff in a lot of ways. With only a few episodes to go -- three to be exact -- I expect each moment to count. There's no doubt that Craig Thomas and Carter Bays obsessed over about each look, each gesture and each line as they stumbled towards the Season 9 finish line. In "Daisy," that precision showed.

First and foremost, "HIMYM" revealed where Lily ran off to in the middle of the night a few episodes back. At the time, I was confused at the lack of time spent on her disappearance, and was only mildly concerned where she went or who she left with. But, it was the same confusion I felt when she demanded to get out of Ted's car on the drive to Farhampton in the very beginning of the season. I thought both instances were time wasters.

I'm glad I was wrong. Turns out, Lily called the Captain, whose car took her to his mansion close by. As Ted unfolded the story of Lily's disappearance, revealing the gum-snapping, the anxious car ride and that daisy pot in the Captain's bathroom, I, too, wrote down "LILY SMOKES!" in my notes. I love that this was his immediate suspicion, because it recalled "Last Cigarette Ever" from Season 5. (Major "HIMYM" fans will also note that in that episode, future Ted said Lily had her last cigarette ever when she started trying to get pregnant, negating the notion she would smoke on Robin's wedding day.)

No, Lily didn't leave the Farhampton Inn to have a cigarette at the Captain's. She left to take a pregnancy test. The little blue plus sign brought back all those warm, gooey feelings I have when I look at Marshall and Lily in total marital bliss. Immediately Marshall said they have to move to Italy so Lily can live out her dream because she already gave him his ... twice. (I mean, come on. All the mush right there!)

One year later we see them in Italy with Marshall's mom, Lily's dad, a bag of Funyuns, Marvin and new baby Daisy. It was the most satisfying scene we've had since the mother's rendition of "La Vie En Rose" in "How Your Mother Met Me."

I love these kind of episodes in "How I Met Your Mother" land. They remind me that in Bays and Thomas' world, every scene has a purpose, even if we didn't know it at the time. They may be gushy and tied up in neat little packages with ribbons, but as the finale comes closer, I have to admit, that's kind of what I want.

Don't believe me? By the end of just the first week of June, the heap of Netflix Original and returning content making its way to your screens will include the entire Conjuring franchise, the full Divergent series, all nine seasons of How I Met Your Mother, Crazy Rich Asians, rom-com Hit Man starring Glen Powell, Perfect Match season 2, and Sweet Tooth season 3.

The rest of the month welcomes the Shondaland-produced documentary Black Barbie and a whole bunch of continuations and sequel seasons: My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman season 5 featuring Miley Cyrus, the highly-anticipated Bridgerton season 3 part 2, The Mole season 2, and That '90s Show part 2.

Bring your best ducky tie and graffiti coat, because Netflix has announced that the entirety of How I Met Your Mother will return to the streamer in the United States on June 3. The story of how Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) met the woman who would eventually become his wife came to a close a decade ago, but that doesn't mean that fans are tired of watching the character's complicated quest to find love. Fate wasn't always kind to Mosby, but luckily for him and audiences around the world, his friends were always there for him.

The main characters of How I Met Your Mother also include Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders), and Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris), as the group struggled to improve both their careers and personal relationships in New York City. When the series was nearing its end, Cristin Milioti joined the cast as the titular mystery character, establishing Tracy as the mother of Ted's kids. Unfortunately, Tracy fell ill a few years after their love story began, with Ted looking for Robin once again.

How I Met Your Mother ran for nine seasons, from when Ted met Robin for the first time, until he came back to her in the controversial series finale. After the conclusion of Friends, How I Met Your Mother became one of the most beloved television comedies of its time. The fact that Netflix is bringing the series back to its platform proves many still consider the series a comfort-watch.

After How I Met Your Mother came to a close, the main cast continued to appear in exciting stories across film and television. Smulders had a recurring role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Maria Hill, one of Nick Fury's (Samuel L. Jackson) most trusted agents. The character would eventually die in last summer's Secret Invasion, after more than a decade of being a part of that world. Segel recently starred as Paul Westhead in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, and Harris was recently seen as The Toymaker in Doctor Who. Hannigan has dabbled in voice work for the past few years on shows like Fancy Nancy and American Dad and Radnor recently appeared in Hunters and Fleishman Is in Trouble.

I didn't know who Duncan Trussell was before watching his Netflix show The Midnight Gospel (no offense). But after a couple episodes I had to know more about the guy behind this bizarre show where real-life conversations about the biggest existential questions from Trussell's podcast are laid overtop these totally wacky, yet genius animated videos created by his friend Pendleton Ward (creator of Adventure Time).

But the longer you live in Trussell's world, the more it all starts to make sense. I think. Or maybe it doesn't and that's OK because it feels like a safe place where you can say things you've never said and there are no wrong answers because everything is absurd and why not scream and wail at all the things that hurt us. But also why not laugh? Why not laugh even through the hardest of things? That's where this conversation starts.

Duncan Trussell: When my mom finally passed, I went crazy. I would read about grief, about how it's a rollercoaster, it's not normal sadness, and thought that sounds horrible. And then suddenly you're just out of your mind. You don't even realize how out of your mind you are.

And that weird thing happens, which is that you become an accidental grief counselor to other people. You've just been sobbing, considering wetting the bed instead of going to the bathroom, and then all of a sudden you're, like, giving this lofty grief advice: "Well, let me tell you about how to handle grief."

Rachel Martin: Oh my God, that totally resonates with me. My mom died of cancer in 2009. And I remember even just a few months later, I went to one of my dearest friend's weddings. I was just in this, you know, weird fog of grief. It's all you can think about.

And I remember a few handpicked people were getting up to give toasts at the reception. I was not one of them. And then all of a sudden I was just like, I feel moved to speak in this moment. And to talk about the significance of life and death and I mean, whatever. I think everybody was like, poor Rachel. Let's not give her too hard a time. Like, she's going through a thing. But you do. It's all you can think about.

Trussell: Yeah, and I think it's a beautiful thing that you did that. Very brave and good. People are so afraid of death. They want to avoid it at all costs. So to have someone like you, right next to it, then becoming the mouthpiece of it, that's probably a little too much for people who just wanted to talk about how cool your mom was. So, yeah, I think that's great you did that.

Trussell: Well, she was very close to dying. And I was doing everything I could to avoid what was happening. Everything I could. I was reading The Hunger Games on my Kindle. So anyway, she called me up to her room. I knew she wanted to do a podcast. But I was so heartbroken and I just knew it would be our last podcast together.

Martin: I remember when my mom was going through the same thing, I thought, oh, this is my thing. This is what I do. I talk to people and we share these intimate conversations. And I remember thinking, I don't want to, I don't want to do that.

I was in denial too, because to somehow do that, to interview her, would have been like the end. Like I would be asking my mom for these big thoughts and that that was going to be the end of her. So it was brave of you to have decided like, OK mom, let's do this.

Now, when I watch that episode, which is still hard for me to do, I realize she's telling me things that she knew I would want to hear later. And that she knew I wasn't hearing then. Because she knew I would listen to it later. So I'm so grateful to her for that. That she was smart enough in her last few weeks of life to give me something to answer the questions that I would have asked her now that I have kids if she were still alive.

So it was a wonderful thing that she did and that's how it came about. And then for it to end up on The Midnight Gospel, and now every week people tell me how much it helped them with their grief or letting go of someone, I can just see her smiling. She would think that it was very wonderful that somehow that happened, that it spread all over the place.

Martin: When you say that you might not have been open to everything she was saying in the moment, is there something in particular that you can point to that you learned from that conversation only from watching it later?