How I Met Your Mother

[Phantom-like Menace]

Does anyone else watch this? I think it's the first thing I've watched regularly on CBS in . . . perhaps ever.

It's generally pretty funny, and most of the characters graduated from high school the year after I did, so the references are always dated for my consumption. Of course I mostly bring the show up because of the fact that they will have a Star Wars reference every couple of shows. It's slightly unfortunate, though, that the first episode I watched was the "Slutty Pumpkin" episode and none has been as funny as that episode. Well, an episode involving Winnie from Wonder Years and a pineapple came close.

As far as consistent laughs go, Neil Patrick Harris (yep--Doogie) makes me laugh the most often with his over the top women's man, love of Laser Tag and battle cry of "Suit up!" Of course I wouldn't be me without mentioning that Cobie Smulders is good reason to watch this show regardless of its content otherwise.

[dxdave]

Kind of unexpected to see a posting for "How I Met Your Mother" on this website, but hey, it's a GREAT show. The only shows I watch on tv are The Sopranos and King of Queens...but I caught wind of "How I Met Your Mother" when it first started and I've been hooked since....the characters are very cool and were close to my graduating time, too....I may be a couple of years older, but the laughs are a usually from a good flashback remembrance. Barney is a cool character and I have adapted his "suit up!" exclamation to my wife's annoyance. Add some more great writing and Alyson Hannigan's cute self and I look forward to tune in every week.......oh yeah, and Star Wars is the best movie of all time.

[Banthaholic]

I love this show, and I think alot has to do with Doogie's character being such a polar opposite from Doogie. He's almost like the guy he played in Harold & Kumar (if anyone wasted 1 1/2 hrs on that movie, I did but I was wasted).

[UKWildcat]

He's almost like the guy he played in Harold & Kumar (if anyone wasted 1 1/2 hrs on that movie, I did but I was wasted).

I loved Harold and Kumar. That movie was freakin' hilarious. NPH did a great job as well. I still laugh when I picture him blowing those lines of coke off that chicks butt in the car. lol

Sometimes I'll watch HIMYM but it's not a show I sit down and watch every night it's on. The episodes I have seen are surprisingly good though. This is a show I'll definitely visit when it's released on dvd.

[JediTricks]

The show is cute, but the writing has gotten kinda mired in sitcom standards, and Ted & Robin thing is lame lame lame. Barney is almost always funny though.

[Rocketboy]

I don't know how this show lasted an entire season.

I prefer my sitcoms to be funny.

[Phantom-like Menace]

The Ted & Robin thing is lame lame lame.

Not to mention it likely paints them into the corner where no one is going to be happy with the resolution.

[Banthaholic]

I loved Harold and Kumar. That movie was freakin' hilarious. NPH did a great job as well. I still laugh when I picture him blowing those lines of coke off that chicks butt in the car. lol
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Yeah at times that movie had me laughing.

Doogie definitely does steal the show when he's 'bad Doogie'

[figrin bran]

oh. i guess this isn't a thread about slicker's mom. why you misleading thread title!

[UKWildcat]

....(drums)*doo da dum zsst* :D

[JediTricks]

Not to mention it likely paints them into the corner where no one is going to be happy with the resolution."Kids, I have something to tell you... Aunt Robin is your mother. That's right, the question of how I met your mother, I answered it when we first started talking about this whole thing. No, I can't explain why I've been calling her 'aunt' Robin to you all this time, shut up!"

:p

The great thing about Barney is that he's just like Neil Patrick Harris' character from Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (where he played Neil Patrick Harris) except without the drugs and success.

[Phantom-like Menace]

"Kids, I have something to tell you... Aunt Robin is your mother. That's right, the question of how I met your mother, I answered it when we first started talking about this whole thing. No, I can't explain why I've been calling her 'aunt' Robin to you all this time, shut up!"

I'll also accept, "And that's how I met your mother. . . . But I've been having a wild affair with your Aunt Robin ever since. In fact, let me tell you about how I'm leaving your mother."

[JimJamBonds]

I've only seen the show a couple of times, I've actually thought its pretty good.

[OC47150]

NP Harris does make the show. You have to tune in to see what great one-liner he'll have that week.

Allyson Hannigan is pretty funny, too.

[Phantom-like Menace]

Well, I turned on my TV yesterday, called up my DVR recordings and had some How I Met Your Mother goodness waiting for me.

I missed the second to last episode of last season and the second half of the last episode due to recording problems, so I was a little behind and surprised at events. I really didn't imagine Marshall and Lilly breaking up (even if temporarily), but I'm not too surprised about Ted and Robin getting together.

So anyway, good episode, but I don't remember too many of the parts that made me laugh. I liked when Ted's children told them it felt like he had been telling them for a year how he met their mother. Self referential jokes are good when they work. Of course the number one line goes to Neil Patrick Harris's Barney: (paraphrased) I'm at a fundraiser, a fundraiser to help attractive young ladies to pay for Community College. Ted: So you're at a strip club.

Ah, it's been far to long since Cobie Smulders has been a weekly part of my entertainment. Didn't a wise man once say television allows you to be entertained in your living room by people you want to entertain you in your bedroom? I know it was something like that.

[OC47150]

NP Harris, of course, had some of the best lines. His little pantomines with the new couple were hilarious.

[OC47150]

Had a church meeting and got home in time to see the last two minutes, when Lilly confronted Barney in the bar with the clemedia. Throughout my meeting, I kept looking at my watch, thinking it's quarter after, it's twenty after....

Arggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Phantom-like Menace]

Had a church meeting and got home in time to see the last two minutes, when Lilly confronted Barney in the bar with the clemedia. Throughout my meeting, I kept looking at my watch, thinking it's quarter after, it's twenty after....

Arggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, joke-wise, you missed the set-up but caught the punchline to the only really funny part of the episode. Barney promised to take Marshall out and help him meet women, but every woman Marshall met Barney ended up going home with. He was just about to go home with the twins when Lilly showed up and asked if there was anything she could do to make up for breaking up with Marshall. He apparently asked her to go into the bar and accuse Barney of giving her an STD.

If you had to miss an episode, that was a good way to go. You didn't miss much. Spoiler-wise, Marshall told Lilly that they can't get back together. I didn't really even follow the complete logic in it, because I was cooking or surfing the Internet both times I've attemtped to watch it.

[OC47150]

Thanks for the recap. :thumbsup:

[Phantom-like Menace]

De nada.

And apparently that message was too short, so I've added this message about how the above was too short.

[Phantom-like Menace]

I haven't commented in a while on the show, not from lack of enjoyment but from a very tight schedule in which I was barely able to find time to watch the show let alone comment on it.

The latest episode had me cracking up quite a bit. While I was upset that a 501st Clone Trooper was described as a Storm Trooper, I'm willing to allow that Alyson Hannigan made the mistake and not the writers, since they tend to reference Star Wars heavily and should know better. Barney's apartment was great, especially the bed. I was hoping, though, when he was trying to get the girl to leave he would point out that he has a full-sized Star Wars costume. And though I saw the second wall-sized television coming, it still made me snicker. I'm glad they never tell us what Barney does for a living.

The Marshall subplot was kind of goofy, but Ted and Robin's reactions were good for laughs.

[OC47150]

The bros are taking Broadway!!

I thought Barney's apartment was great. And friend and I really laughed at his spot-lit porn collection.

[JediTricks]

Barney should have corrected her on the Clone Trooper armor thing, it bugged me. Plus, that was some pretty cheesy armor when we got a good look at it, and it only covered the front half of the mannequin. Still, his apartment was pretty awesome.

[Mr. JabbaJohnL]

Well, technically, they're stormtroopers at the end of ROTS (such as when Obi-Wan and Yoda kill them in the temple), so she wasn't wrong. :D

The Marshall stuff was pretty damn funny, too. This show is great; a hell of a lot better than that abomination known as The Class.

[Phantom-like Menace]

I can't remember much of the show previous to the latest episode, but I do remember the line, "Well hats off to your lady friends, but I'm not buying it." It's rare a guest gets the best line.

Last week's was funny. The funniest bit was also the stupidest: Swarley! Best line went to Robin for the line about signing him up for People en Español under the name Suarlos. I'm very happy they did the Cheers thing at the end.

It's nice to see Morena Baccarin again, and with Nathan Fillion on Lost that same week, I can almost convince myself I've had my Firefly fix. Incedently, the guy at the coffee shop was Tom Lenk, who played Andrew on Buffy and Angel. This show has had quite a few Buffy/Angel alums on it, which is certainly not a complaint.

[OC47150]

Monday's episode (11-13) was the first time we'd seen Robin at work this season.

Nice that she still has a job.

[Phantom-like Menace]

This most recent episode ranks right up there with the Slutty Pumpkin episode for me (though Slutty Pumpkin edges it out). Every time someone got slapped, I all but had to pause the show so I could stop laughing enough to continue.

Barney's triple slapping of Marshall was brutal! And the reaction of the other customers in the bar was perfect. They looked horrified. Even the explantion that he had been practicing by slapping a tree trunk was funny by itself. And while I saw the final slap coming, I didn't expect it to be a viscious (though surprisingly casual) backhand slap like that. Perfect.

All the lines about Canada were funny, and I like Canada, so I don't want to hear any complaints. The one about how the video was shot during the nineties but looked like 1986 because the eighties didn't come to Canada until 1993 was funny enough, but my favorite was where Lilly said Canadian marriages might be like Canadian money or the Canadian military; no one takes them seriously.

Finally, that video was one of the scariest things I've ever seen in my life, though I still couldn't stop laughing. Given the choice I would have tried to convince everyone my secret was that I was married to a man too, and I'm a heterosexual male. That video was just too embarrassing. Marshall's answer that he just didn't want to get slapped again to Lilly's question about whether he was as terrified as she was gave me a pretty good laugh, as did Robin's line about how her fake husband didn't leave because of her, that it was a business move.

So, what I'm saying is that I thought it was a good episode. I'm curious how it fared in the opinion of others.

[Mr. JabbaJohnL]

This past episode was freakin' hilarious! I loved the slap bet, and when Marshall slapped the crap out of Barney at the end was great. :D The video was just too damn funny, and so was the part about how Canada didn't get the 80s until 1993. :lol:

[Blue2th]

Great show. One of the few sit-coms I like. NPH, originally from Albuquerque, recently "came out"

[JediTricks]

Funny episode, the slapping was great and that video was too much - who know Robin could look so different wearing a blond wig that covered her face differently. It wasn't one of my favorites, but that's not at all saying it was bad. I must confess I didn't go on CBS's website to see the whole video, we saw so much on TV that I couldn't take any more "let's go to the mall". :D

As for Neil Patrick Harris coming out of the closet, it's good that he was able to take charge of it in such a smart way after the media tried to take it out of his hands, and I'm glad to hear he's having a good life (especially after being a child star), but in a small selfish way I sorta wish he hadn't just because it's a little difficult to think of Barney the same way since he's so over-the-top heterosexual - my sister suggested it explained why the role feels so over the top, it's a bit of put-on. No matter what though, NPH is a good actor especially in comedic roles, his performance in Harold & Kumar had me rolling (that's apparently what got him the part in "How I Met Your Mother"), so gay or straight he's still awesome.

[Mr. JabbaJohnL]

Are people still watching this? This most recent episode (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/video/video.php?cid=446409135&pid=8hxFzqWXRKj9qNs_jYdnlJdNLSNQP0c_&category=recent&play=true) almost entirely centered on Star Wars, and it was awesome. I'm willing to bet many of us here have been through what Ted has to one degree or another so this one was especially good.

[JimJamBonds]

Yup I watch it, the only bad thing is that I've gotten into Chuck as well which starts at 7:00 my time and HIMYM is at 7:30. So if Chuck is new I watch that and check out HIMYM on dvr.

[Phantom-like Menace]

I still haven't watched the most recent one (TiVoed), but I follow it regularly. Monday is a killer night for television with several shows I watch on three or four networks. I spend most of the week watching them on TiVo, hulu.com or whatever place my brother downloads them from.

[OC47150]

I enjoy watching my Monday night comedies in person and tape the other shoes.

HIMYM is great. Always have to tune in to see what Barney says and does.

[JimJamBonds]

HIMYM is great. Always have to tune in to see what Barney says and does.

True dat! You deserve a Barnicle Bump for that.

[JimJamBonds]

I picked up Season III the other day and I finished taking it down today. In the packaging there is a flyer for the release of 'The Bro Code' in book form in November.

[JediTricks]

Good merch idea, though I can't imagine them really filling a whole book with it.

[JimJamBonds]

Good merch idea, though I can't imagine them really filling a whole book with it.

More like a phamplet. I'll read it at Barnes and Noble after it comes out.

[Mr. JabbaJohnL]

Last night's episode had more great SW stuff in it. Apparently Marshall reads the forums every day. Now we know JediTrick's true identity. ;) :D

[dr_evazan22]

Really enjoyed last weeks "Naked Man", LOL'd at Barney and Ted posing in the bathroom.

[JediTricks]

No brothers and not in NY, but yeah. :p

Was bummed they used a friggin' Hasbro saber for the turkey scene at the end.


NPH is really cut, didn't need to know that, but hey, there ya go.

[JimJamBonds]

I read The Bro Code yesterday at a local Barnes and Noble. It only took about an hour (I had time to kill). Its a nice fun little read, I'd never pay the $15ish dollars for it. Has anybody else read it?

[OC47150]

Thanks for that info, JJB. I forgot that the book was out.

[JediTricks]

Anybody else annoyed at the ripoff last 2 episodes?

[OC47150]

After you come off an instant classic like the texting ep, anything else is a letdown.

[JimJamBonds]

Anybody else annoyed at the ripoff last 2 episodes?

Two episodes ago Older Ted goes on and on about how running into Stella was such a huge deal yet in the next episode it hasn't been shown how its such a big deal (although if you read the synopsis for the finale you have more of an idea). The real bulk of the story was about Barney and his "200th."

As for this past weeks episode while it wasn't bad it didn't give much to the audience as far as advancing the plot goes. As I said above you don't know why running into Stella was such a big deal (other then confirming she isn't the mother).

So yeah I guess I feel a bit annoyed but I wouldn't say its been a ripoff.

[Darth Metalmute]

I read The Bro Code yesterday at a local Barnes and Noble. It only took about an hour (I had time to kill). Its a nice fun little read, I'd never pay the $15ish dollars for it. Has anybody else read it?

I picked it up around December for 7 bucks. Good, fun read. Some of the "Codes" were laugh out loud funny. You ever check out Barney's Blog? They have the napkin where they wrote "50 Reasons to have Sex" on.


Anybody else annoyed at the ripoff last 2 episodes?

Without Lily, it just isn't as good of a show. Not that she makes the show, but the five of them work so well with each other that when one is gone it hurts the product. It's kinda like a short handed situation in hockey.

Speaking of Lily being gone, did anyone look up the punchline to Barney's joke that caused her to leave? What's the difference between Peanut Butter and Jam? Disgustingly funny, depending on the punchline you find.

[Mr. JabbaJohnL]

Speaking of Lily being gone, did anyone look up the punchline to Barney's joke that caused her to leave? What's the difference between Peanut Butter and Jam? Disgustingly funny, depending on the punchline you find.
Wow, I just looked it up . . . that's hilarious! lol

A few weeks ago, when Barney and Marshall were listening to the big, black guy and fawning over him, I was thinking that he had a cool, somewhat familiar voice. Later on in the episode, I looked over at my animated Jabba, and then I put two and two together right before the credits confirmed it: it was Kevin Michael Richardson, who's done tons of voice work, including Jabba in TCW. I thought that was kind of funny.

[Darth Metalmute]

A few weeks ago, when Barney and Marshall were listening to the big, black guy and fawning over him, I was thinking that he had a cool, somewhat familiar voice. Later on in the episode, I looked over at my animated Jabba, and then I put two and two together right before the credits confirmed it: it was Kevin Michael Richardson, who's done tons of voice work, including Jabba in TCW. I thought that was kind of funny.

Thats pretty cool. Can you imagine Jabba giving woman advice to Barney and Marshall?

Thats whats great about voice over work. You never know where they'll show up next. I think the guy that did the voice of Barricade in the Transformers movie did the voice of Wakko Warner in Animaniacs.

[JimJamBonds]

Speaking of Lily being gone, did anyone look up the punchline to Barney's joke that caused her to leave? What's the difference between Peanut Butter and Jam? Disgustingly funny, depending on the punchline you find.

Does anybody know the difference between jam and jelly?

[JediTricks]

Does anybody know the difference between jam and jelly?
The difference between them is that jelly is a clear pectin-gelled, fruit-juice-based preserve; jam is pretty much the same but includes other parts of the fruit beyond just the juice, giving it a unique texture and making it semi-opaque. Essentially, jelly is filtered while jam is not.

[Darth Metalmute]

Does anybody know the difference between jam and jelly?

I do! But the answer is rated NC-17!:twisted:

[JimJamBonds]

I do! But the answer is rated NC-17!:twisted:

That is correct DM!

[JimJamBonds]

I liked yesterday's season finale, I thought the Robin/Barney story was well done. I did however think that we'd get more out of the "mother" part then 'she was in that class.' That I thought was a bit weak, but then again why rush it? Also I thought the goat story was weak (other then the fight sequence) considering its been talked about the last two seasons.

[Darth Metalmute]

I liked yesterday's season finale, I thought the Robin/Barney story was well done. I did however think that we'd get more out of the "mother" part then 'she was in that class.' That I thought was a bit weak, but then again why rush it? Also I thought the goat story was weak (other then the fight sequence) considering its been talked about the last two seasons.


Yeah, I was expecting some big event, even if the goat would have chased Marshall over the building ledge......

Kinda disappointing for the goat story. Although when the doctor came in and asked if Ted was the guy who tried to have sex with a goat.......lol

[JimJamBonds]

KKinda disappointing for the goat story. Although when the doctor came in and asked if Ted was the guy who tried to have sex with a goat.......lol

The addition of the goat being female was nice as well. :D

[JimJamBonds]

It was good to see HIMYM back on the air last night, it wasn't their best episode, in fact I thought it was a little on the weak side. But that being said its good to have new episodes again!

[Darth Metalmute]

I thought the part where Ted taught the economics class about architecture was great.

Pregnancy was great for Lily, not so much for Robin.

[Mr. JabbaJohnL]

I thought it was pretty good. The Indiana Jones stuff was hilarious. :D

[JimJamBonds]

I thought it was pretty good. The Indiana Jones stuff was hilarious. :D

That was freakin' great!!!!!!!!

[JimJamBonds]

I thought this week's episode was better then last week's. Although I like the "B" storyline better then the "A."

[Darth Metalmute]

The dopler bit was extremely funny to me. Last week while watching TV, a commercial for a local buy back company came on where a guy playing a guitar and a naked woman holding cue cards to hide her body came on. Bear in mind, this wasn't cable. The commercial was a little blurry but the woman looks exactly like my wife. I called her in an asked her when she was going to get the money for this commercial. She laughed and said I was stupid, but after we watched HIMYM, she said she saw the commercial again and the resemblance was uncanny.

[Mr. JabbaJohnL]

The Peter Mayhew shout-out alone made it a classic. Great stuff.

[JediTricks]

I have to say, I find Ted's behavior really stupid. This broad is somehow great enough to consider taking to the next level but not 100% perfect so it's dumpsville twice??? This is one of those things that bugs me about modern writing, "the perfect one" and then everybody's expectations are so high that even the slightest crack ends in divorce, assuming the partners get to know each other at all instead of just going on expectation.

But at least we got to see Ted in a Wookiee costume. :p And Stripper Lilly's horrible accent.

[OC47150]

The show is starting to hit its stride. Very funny episodes.

[JimJamBonds]

The show is starting to hit its stride. Very funny episodes.

IMHO this last one I thought was even better then last weeks. I hope they can keep that up. :thumbsup:

[JimJamBonds]

While I enjoyed the Barney/Robin run I'm kinda glad they are over. Those two were the focus of the show for the majority of the season and while what goes on with those two is important to the show (along with Marshall and Lilly) I feel that THE point of the show ie. finding out how Ted meet his wife has been lost. Hopefully they'll get back on point.

[Darth Metalmute]

The last episode was hillarious. I showed my co-worker, who's single, and he's going to try some of those.

[Mr. JabbaJohnL]

This season has been on a roll. The Star Wars references lately have been awesome.

[dr_evazan22]

Did you notice that in Barney's apt (or office) he now has a Stormie, whereas last season he had a clone (I think it was a 501st)?

[Mr. JabbaJohnL]

Did you notice that in Barney's apt (or office) he now has a Stormie, whereas last season he had a clone (I think it was a 501st)?
Yeah, that is weird. I remember them calling the clone a stormtrooper . . . maybe you could chalk it up to Ted's memory changing while telling the story, or maybe this isn't SW and we don't need to retcon it like that. :p

[JimJamBonds]

Yup I also noticed that its a stormie where it used to be a clone trooper.

[OC47150]

I noticed the clone/stormie switch, too.

A Slapsgiving episode tomorrow night! It should be good.

[JimJamBonds]

A Slapsgiving episode tomorrow night! It should be good.

I'm excited for another slap bet episode as well!

[JimJamBonds]

I thought this week's episode was a little on the weak side. To be honest it was still good but compared to some of the other episode's this season it was one of the weaker ones imho.

[Darth Metalmute]

I thought this week's episode was a little on the weak side. To be honest it was still good but compared to some of the other episode's this season it was one of the weaker ones imho.

Yeah, Lily's dad storyline was un-needed. They only introduced her mom once, and that was at a bachlorette party.

[JimJamBonds]

Yeah, Lily's dad storyline was un-needed. They only introduced her mom once, and that was at a bachlorette party.

I'm ok with Chris Elliot being her dad but the manner in which it he was 'used' just didn't turn my crank.

[JimJamBonds]

A solid episode on Monday night with an OUTSTANDING song by Barney to finish the show!!!!!

[Mr. JabbaJohnL]

A solid episode on Monday night with an OUTSTANDING song by Barney to finish the show!!!!!
Yeah, that was a great episode. Good stuff all around.

[JimJamBonds]

but ummmm ;)

[OC47150]

Last night's ep alone should get Jim Parsons another Emmy nomination. Instant classic!!!

[JediTricks]

Yeah, you don't get to see Sheldon break down that badly too often, and he made good work of it.

[JimJamBonds]

Why are we talking about Big Bang in the HIMYM thread?

[OC47150]

Tantrum!!!

Reminds me of Jolt from about 20 years ago. I used to drink that stuff during finals in college.

[Ando]

My wife and I have just discovered this show in the last few months and it's been a delight to watch 2 re-runs (on Lifetime) and 1 new one each week.

I like all the characters and it's been fun to catch up. NPH is HILARIOUS.

Having said all that, I couldn't help but be a little creeped out by the Lily/Scooter story in light of an elementary school teacher in Tacoma, WA (2 1/2 hours north of where I live) being killed last week by her stalker, someone who'd known her and been obsessed with her since they met in college. Story here (http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/02/jennifer_paulson_tacoma_elemen.php).

I know shows are written and made LONG before they air, but it was too "close".

It reminded me of the time a Simpsons rerun that aired here in Portland a day or two after Dale Earnhardt was killed. The episode? The one where Maude Flanders dies at a NASCAR race.

All in all last night's episode was pretty funny and the subject of people being "on the hook" (or in my circle of friends "BF/GF on the shelf) rang true since I've seen it with friends and in my own life.

[JediTricks]

I didn't care for last night's episode, it just felt off, splintered. And Carrie Underwood (really? why?) didn't seem even remotely up Ted's alley.

That's weird about the similarities to life. Unfortunately, that's how fiction works sometimes. The X-files spinoff The Lone Gunmen had its pilot episode dealing with a plot to fly an airliner into the World Trade Center which aired in March of 2001.

My sister and I were on the phone watching the episode, and she and I both exclaimed that Scooter looked enough like NPH to be his brother. Turns out, it's NPH's long-term boyfriend!!! Yikes.

[Ando]

That's weird about the similarities to life. Unfortunately, that's how fiction works sometimes. The X-files spinoff The Lone Gunmen had its pilot episode dealing with a plot to fly an airliner into the World Trade Center which aired in March of 2001.

I think I remember that episode.

I really liked that show. I was sorry to see it canceled and to see the characters die on the X Files.

[JediTricks]

Me too, I liked it and was bummed it didn't continue, and then that crappy X-files follow-up episode was a massive disappointment.

[Ando]

...and then that crappy X-files follow-up episode was a massive disappointment.

Much like most of the final 2-3 years of the X Files themselves (IMO).

[JediTricks]

Much like most of the final 2-3 years of the X Files themselves (IMO).
Yeah, no kidding. The last full year with Duchovny and then ESPECIALLY the episodes with Annabeth Gish were unbearably bad.

Fox treated another X-files-related show badly, Millennium built and built and then disappeared, only to get a crappy final story in another garbage late X-files episode.

[Ando]

Fox treated another X-files-related show badly, Millennium built and built and then disappeared, only to get a crappy final story in another garbage late X-files episode.

Fox was a graveyard for good shows in the late 90's/early 00's.

[JediTricks]

Fox was a graveyard for good shows in the late 90's/early 00's.
Actually, it's pretty bad from the early '90s up until now, here are shows I liked that were killed early thanks to Fox:


Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Arrested Development
Back to You
Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
Brimstone
Briscoe County Jr
Dark Angel
Family Guy :p
Firefly
Futurama
Get a Life
Greg the Bunny
Herman's Head
It's Garry Shandling's Show
John Doe
Justice
Keen Eddie
Killer Instinct
M.A.N.T.I.S.
Millennium
Ned & Stacey
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Space: Above and Beyond
The George Carlin Show
The Lone Gunmen
The Tick
Titus
VR.5
Wanda at Large
Woops!

[Ando]

I liked a LOT of those shows.

Don't forget "Action (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206467/)" with Jay Mohr. That was a funny show.

[DarthQuack]

Not gonna read any of the posts before this since I just started watching this, I'm 3-4 episodes in and I think it's great! :thumbsup:

[Lord Malakite]

That's weird about the similarities to life. Unfortunately, that's how fiction works sometimes. The X-files spinoff The Lone Gunmen had its pilot episode dealing with a plot to fly an airliner into the World Trade Center which aired in March of 2001.
The Time Force season of Power Rangers (which aired from February through November) suffered heavily in a similar fashion because of the 9/11 thing in 2001. The main villain was Ransik, who was portrayed as a "sympathetic" terrorist gang leader. The Rangers' Shadow Zord always posed on top of "twin towers". Several of Ransik monster attacks took place at the "Trade Center" district. And just two weeks before 9/11 happened an episode was aired with an "airplane" themed monster of the day. The story of the episode, a reporter takes a picture of the Rangers unmasked and Yellow Ranger tries to convince the reporter not to print the story. Meanwhile, the "airplane" monster attempts to topple over the skyscraper building where the newspaper is based, so we get an "inside the building look" as Yellow Ranger and this news reporter tries to help people escape from the badly damaged building before it collapses.

[JimJamBonds]

I didn't care for last night's episode, it just felt off, splintered. And Carrie Underwood (really? why?) didn't seem even remotely up Ted's alley.

She didn't seem up Ted's alley because he was on her hook. :D


My sister and I were on the phone watching the episode, and she and I both exclaimed that Scooter looked enough like NPH to be his brother. Turns out, it's NPH's long-term boyfriend!!! Yikes.

Wow, I looked that up and its true, they've been together since '04.

[JediTricks]

I liked a LOT of those shows.

Don't forget "Action (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206467/)" with Jay Mohr. That was a funny show.Yeah, I forgot about that one. Fox has a way of putting on product that folks might want to see and instead of nurturing it, KILLING IT IN THE MOST PAINFUL MANNER POSSIBLE. That's a skill, I guess.



The Time Force season of Power Rangers (which aired from February through November) suffered heavily in a similar fashion because of the 9/11 thing in 2001. The main villain was Ransik, who was portrayed as a "sympathetic" terrorist gang leader. The Rangers' Shadow Zord always posed on top of "twin towers". Several of Ransik monster attacks took place at the "Trade Center" district. And just two weeks before 9/11 happened an episode was aired with an "airplane" themed monster of the day. The story of the episode, a reporter takes a picture of the Rangers unmasked and Yellow Ranger tries to convince the reporter not to print the story. Meanwhile, the "airplane" monster attempts to topple over the skyscraper building where the newspaper is based, so we get an "inside the building look" as Yellow Ranger and this news reporter tries to help people escape from the badly damaged building before it collapses.Wow, that is really bad. Time Force was one of the PR lines I liked most too, but I didn't watch much of the show.

[Lord Malakite]

Wow, that is really bad. Time Force was one of the PR lines I liked most too, but I didn't watch much of the show.
Yeah, Time Force is one of my top seasons as well, but it was indeed bad with the "too soon 9/11" stuff. A lot of the pre-9/11 episodes were re-edited for future airings after 9/11. Not quite certain how extensive the re-editing was though, whether or not it was just the aired copies shown on TV or if it included the original "masters". Lots of building explosions removed, re-dubbed the lines about mentioning the Trade Center, the two tower shots removed completely. Even an "Al Queada" type speech given on TV by Ransik was removed.

Could of been worse in the terrorists 9/11 stuff though. Go back two seasons earlier during the Lost Galaxy season and you have a finale that features the Sting Wingers (that season's "Putty Patrol" type foot soldiers) in the hundreds, easily, with explosives strapped to their chests as they ran into various buildings, crowds of people, and even the Rangers themselves acting as "suicide bombers".

[Ando]

Yeah, I forgot about that one. Fox has a way of putting on product that folks might want to see and instead of nurturing it, KILLING IT IN THE MOST PAINFUL MANNER POSSIBLE. That's a skill, I guess.

And I am still a littl bit bitter that we never got at least a season of "Heat Vision and Jack".

[JimJamBonds]

Anybody else watching this season of HIMYM? Any thoughts on Zoey? I had been thinking that she could maybe be the mom (although she is married) but now that I think about it the mom already lives with Rachel Bilson's character, plus wouldn't Zoey be too old?

[OC47150]

Zoey's nice but being married knocks her out, IMO.

I think we've met the mother in passing but haven't lately. Again, my own thoughts.

My favorite ep this season was the chase around NYC.

[Darth Metalmute]

Anybody else watching this season of HIMYM? Any thoughts on Zoey? I had been thinking that she could maybe be the mom (although she is married) but now that I think about it the mom already lives with Rachel Bilson's character, plus wouldn't Zoey be too old?

I don't really care for the addition of Zoey. If they have any respect to continuality, she shouldn't be the mom, but I got a bad feeling she will be. She fits his description of her too well.

[JimJamBonds]

Zoey's nice but being married knocks her out, IMO.[QUOTE/] Yeah, but I had been thinking if she divorces "The Captain"/he dies AND THEN becomes Rachel Bilsen's roomie then it could work since she is a student of Ted's, which Old Ted has mentioned a couple of times
[QUOTE=OC]I think we've met the mother in passing but haven't lately. Again, my own thoughts.

Do you mean that we have seen her but they haven't acknowledged it? We briefly saw her ankle in one episode.


I don't really care for the addition of Zoey. If they have any respect to continuality, she shouldn't be the mom, but I got a bad feeling she will be. She fits his description of her too well.

I was thinking the same thing but with what we already know including some key info that was revealed this season there is no way she can be the mother. I did see that Zoey will be in the Thanksgiving episode so she will be around a bit longer to some degree.

[Phantom-like Menace]

What evidence presents Zoey as possibly being the mother? I'm not saying it's not there, mind you, just that I missed it if it is. I can think of evidence that she's not.

As far as continuity goes, though, the creators have informed us that Ted is an unreliable narrator explaining past events as well as he can remember. I assume that's not intended to give them leave to do anything they want, but there may be some surprises.

I did find it odd in the most recent episode to learn that Zoey is protesting the GNB building, but her husband is an associate of a head honcho in charge at the same bank. That just seems like a recipe for more trouble than we're seeing.

I loved Galactic President Superstar McAwesomeville.

[Darth Metalmute]

The only evidence I was refering to is that I recall Ted describing his wife as an activist, who once she believed in a cause, set out to defend it. That fits Zoey's description.


Yeah, but I had been thinking if she divorces "The Captain"/he dies AND THEN becomes Rachel Bilsen's roomie then it could work since she is a student of Ted's, which Old Ted has mentioned a couple of times

She was already Rachel Bilsen's roommate when Ted dated Rachel. It's possible that she could have married the captain since then, but why would she leave him that quickly?

[JimJamBonds]

I loved Galactic President Superstar McAwesomeville.
That was great buy Ted, and I loved that The Captain kept using that name in place of 'Ted.' lol


The only evidence I was refering to is that I recall Ted describing his wife as an activist, who once she believed in a cause, set out to defend it. That fits Zoey's description.Interesting, I don't recall that.


She was already Rachel Bilsen's roommate when Ted dated Rachel. It's possible that she could have married the captain since then, but why would she leave him that quickly? That is possible, but that seems to be a very quick timeline. Although who knows!

[Darth Metalmute]

Activist might be too strong of a word, but I seem to remember (I think it was in the episode where he bought the house) him saying she had strong beliefs and stood up to them.

[JimJamBonds]

Activist might be too strong of a word, but I seem to remember (I think it was in the episode where he bought the house) him saying she had strong beliefs and stood up to them.

Ehh doesn't matter, its a bit about the mom that apparently the rest of us forgot.

So what do we know about the mom?

- Went to the same St. Patty's day party as Ted and Barney did a couple of years ago.
- That was her yellow umbrella that Ted had (he got it the day after the party when he went back to find his phone.
- She was a student of his.
- She was a roomie of Rachel Bilsen
- Ted picked out 3 things in Rachel's room that he liked about her only to find out that they were her roommates (I don't recall what those were off hand other then some obscure bands cd)
- She laughed at Ted's lame joke (don't recall that either)
- She was sort of activist/interested in certain causes.

Anything else?

What was it from earlier this season when Marshall and Ted are outside a church having a beer???

[Darth Metalmute]

I could be wrong about these two but I think;

He "meets" her in New York at a wedding.
Her name is Tracy.

[JimJamBonds]

I could be wrong about these two but I think; He "meets" her in New York at a wedding.Yeah, and he is the best man...makes you wonder who is getting married? Barney!?!?:sur:

Her name is Tracy.Now that I don't remember, no offense but I hope you're wrong. I say that because I don't want to know who it is the second she says her name.

EDIT: I did a quick search and found this. http://www.beawesomeinstead.com/television/2008/the-name-tracy-theory-from-how-i-met-your-mother/

After checking it out I do remember reading/hearing about the 'Tracy theory.'

[Phantom-like Menace]

We also know she was in the Economics class Ted walked into his first day teaching.

Also, she's probably a brunette, based on the fact that Ted's son and daughter have dark hair, but Ted said they'd have blond hair if he had married Stella.

[JimJamBonds]

He "meets" her in New York at a wedding.


So that would be Punchy's wedding I take it???

[Darth Metalmute]

So that would be Punchy's wedding I take it???

Not sure, wasn't Barney in the wedding as well?

I love the name Punchy. reminds me of Hawaiian Punch.

[Phantom-like Menace]

I liked the exchange about it being weird for two guys to be sitting around watching porn or kids' shows. And I nearly could have spit out my drink along with the guys when the girls started talking about their beavers.

I kind of got the feeling they were talking about the wedding as well. But who knows. Part of me figures we'll meet the mom more or less in the last episode just given the fact that the show is called How I Met Your Mother, not How I Met Your Mother and Got Along With Her for Some Length of Time. I'm curious if the creators of the show are looking for a specific time to have Ted and the Mother meet or if they'll milk it for as many seasons as possible.

A lot of people are complaining about how whiny Lilly is this year. Wow, this episode isn't going to help at all. I wanted her to shut up.

I noticed Cobie "Robin Scherbatsky" Smulders is in Maxim this month.

[Ando]

Yep, I am still watching. Last night's episode was hysterical. I love the Robin Sparkles stuff.

No idea where they're going with the Zoey character, but she annoys me.

[Darth Metalmute]

I kind of got the feeling they were talking about the wedding as well. But who knows. Part of me figures we'll meet the mom more or less in the last episode just given the fact that the show is called How I Met Your Mother, not How I Met Your Mother and Got Along With Her for Some Length of Time. I'm curious if the creators of the show are looking for a specific time to have Ted and the Mother meet or if they'll milk it for as many seasons as possible.

I think I read somewhere that the series will end with the episode where he meets her. I hope that they change there mind as I have a feeling that it is looking like this could be the year. This is one of the few enjoyable shows on TV right now.

Maybe it will create a spinoff called How I Dated Your Mother. Followed by How I Married Your Mother. Concluded with How I Murdered Your Mother since the mother is obviously not in the picture anymore and the dad sounds like he is telling these kids what has happened from a DVD.


I noticed Cobie "Robin Scherbatsky" Smulders is in Maxim this month.

I've seen some of it. Not bad Scherbatsky.

[OC47150]

Robin Sparkles #3 is my new favorite ep of the season. Too funny.

[JimJamBonds]

The Sparkles/Glitter stuff was good but I thought Lilly WAS annoying. In fact when it started and she was talking about 'her kid' I thought "did I miss on the fact that she is preggers?"


Not sure, wasn't Barney in the wedding as well?Well from what I remember Ted and Vanilla Thunder are outside a chuch and I think Marshall is wearing a tux as well. He asks Ted if he is nervous and then says he stashed some beer inside the church and then the both have a beer. I don't remember Barney being in the scene.

[JimJamBonds]

I thought the episode the other night was a really good one, I'm not sure if it really answered any questions. I'm still not sure that Zooey is the mom, yes they've now hooked up but from what we already know it doesn't add up. Specifically Ted has already seen the mom, albeit only her ankle because when he dated Rachel Bilson (don't recall the characters name) the mom was already living with her, not the way its been portrayed. Anywho, I'm really enjoying the show right now, keep up the good work!


p.s. this is the first post to this thread in nearly 3 months?!?!?! WTF!?!?!

[Darth Metalmute]

p.s. this is the first post to this thread in nearly 3 months?!?!?! WTF!?!?!

The show has had some weird lineups. New one week, repeat the next. Kind of hard to get into a flow.

The episode in which Marshall's Dad died and the one at the funeral were very emotional and well done.

[JimJamBonds]

I had one more thought on the topic of "why Zoey isn't the mother." In this weeks episode Ted doesn't remember Katy Perry's characters actual name, instead he calls her Honey. If he marries Zoey wouldn't he remember the name of her cousin who he was hooked up with? Yeah its 20 years in the future but it seems if this is the 'big meeting' he'd remember somebody as important to the story as Honey.

[JediTricks]

Zoey was living with The Captain for a while, no way she's whatsherface's roommate at that time. Also, Ted originally pranked his kids about a stripper being their mom, the stripper's name was Tracy in the story he was telling them, so it seems likely that's what their mom's name is as well. And there's nothing to do with the umbrella with Zoey, is there? So, Zoey is leaving The Captain for Ted and then that'll flop too.

[JimJamBonds]

No word yet on the umbrella, I agree JT that Zoey isn't the mother. We will meet her at Punchy's wedding. That said its been fun watching this arc. :seasonfinalecan'tcomesoonenough:

[Darth Metalmute]

So Ted's the bad guy and we have another "filler" Girlfriend. Nice to see some closure for Wendy the Waitress though.

[JimJamBonds]

I liked last nights episode. I have a buddy who was saying that Zoey would be mom, this will now thankfully shut him up. ;)

[OC47150]

I expected the Zooey is she/isn't she to be stretched out further than what it was. I know, I know, we know she's not the mother, but still.

[Phantom-like Menace]

I enjoyed the Captain's version of recent events more than Zoey's. Ted leering at her all mustachioed with no shirt had me laughing more than anything in that episode.

Though I've never even kind of thought Zoey was the mother, I'm surprised to hear it won't end well. I supposed that shouldn't surprise me, because if she remained a close friend, we would have seen her in some of the future flashbacks.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of Nora. I'd smile when I say her name too.

[JimJamBonds]

I expected the Zooey is she/isn't she to be stretched out further than what it was. I know, I know, we know she's not the mother, but still.Yeah me too but remember Ted told his kids in the first episode or two that Robin wasn't the mother and then they (producers) proceeded to have Ted spend the majority of season I trying to get with Robin and season II with Robin. So yeah its a bit of a surprise but not unprecedented.

[Darth Metalmute]

Man, do they have HIMYM running in sindication!
You can watch it 7 different times a day!

Lifetime has it on at 7:00 and 7:30 and at 11:00 and 11:30.
WGN has it on at 9:00 and 9:30.
And UPN has it on at 10:00.

I was sick last week and got a great fix. :thumbsup:

[JimJamBonds]

Man, do they have HIMYM running in sindication!
You can watch it 7 different times a day!

Lifetime has it on at 7:00 and 7:30 and at 11:00 and 11:30.
WGN has it on at 9:00 and 9:30.
And UPN has it on at 10:00.

I was sick last week and got a great fix. :thumbsup:
Aren't some of those repeats either the same day or say for example 'todays' WGN is 'tomorrows' Lifetime?

[Darth Metalmute]

Not as bad as you would think. It appears that WGN and Lifetime are showing them in order but have started at different times, so they are about 2 seasons apart. UPN is random, epsecially on the weekend, but they seem to have alot of repeats to those other networks.

[JimJamBonds]

I was a bit disappointed in Barney in Mondays episode. First he pulls the same business with Robin's friend as he did with Robin and now he freaks out and jacks a basketball hoop because his old man isn't like him. I hope John Lithgow will be back again and they 'explore' Barney and the issues he has had to deal with.

[Darth Metalmute]

It's been really hard keeping up with this years season. A new episode every other week? I hope this is just bad foresight on CBS's behalf and not due to the "Two and a Half Men" fiasco.

[JimJamBonds]

I have no idea why but I agree it'd be nice if they were a bit more consistant with new episodes. Although I know there have been "other going on's" in tv land so they've shown a repeat.

[JimJamBonds]

Anybody else catch last nights episode? And did anybody else think Barney had an unusually large amount of slides on the Ewoks?

[Darth Metalmute]

yeah, you can check them all out here.
http://www.cbs.com/shows/how_i_met_your_mother/video/2150684675/how-i-met-your-mother-the-ewok-line-presentation

[bigbarada]

Anybody else catch last nights episode? And did anybody else think Barney had an unusually large amount of slides on the Ewoks?

Someone posted a link to the entire episode on another site and it's actually the first time I've ever watched this show. Pretty hilarious and I liked all the Ewok slides.

Except I was born just 9 days prior to Neal Patrick Harris' "Ewok Line" and I've always loved the Ewoks, so he might need to adjust this theory a bit. :)

[JediTricks]

According to Barney Stinson, the Ewoks' gliders were invented by the Kintaka brothers at Kittiewok, North Karolina. That is some bad pun right there.

Then again, he also says their average weight is 112 pounds, which seems way off, and that their average fecal deposit is 98% of that weight. But he does correctly identify nose color as a significant trait. :p

Among the tasks available to Ewoks are justice, doctor and nurse, wrestlers, juice, and memory.

But the fact that this is set to Yub Nub alone is worth the price of admission.

[JimJamBonds]

Excellant work Darth M!


But the fact that this is set to Yub Nub alone is worth the price of admission.Yeah this is awesome! I like the Ewok anatomy abdominus ewokus.

[JimJamBonds]

Wasn't Lilly preggers at the end of last season ie. May yet in last nights episode she became pregnant at the end of August???

[Darth Metalmute]

Anyone catch the Christmas episode? What a strange, sad twist to the series.

[OC47150]

I've been hit or miss with the show for the last year or so, more miss than hit. No reason why.

That bad, huh?

[Darth Metalmute]

I'm wondering if they are worried about getting their last year in. So far, a lot seems forced/hasted as if they are rushing to finish the story.

[OC47150]

I'm wondering if they are worried about getting their last year in. So far, a lot seems forced/hasted as if they are rushing to finish the story.

I have to agree. What episodes I have seen seem like the writers are trying to tie up loose ends and storylines.

I still enjoy the show (enjoy the reruns better) but the premise is getting a little stale.

[JimJamBonds]

I'm wondering if they are worried about getting their last year in. So far, a lot seems forced/hasted as if they are rushing to finish the story.The show has been renewed through next season so I'm not sure I'd say forced/hasted, they have something like 30ish episodes left, and we don't even know where it will end ie. do we see a girl and older Ted says that's how I met her? Or do we see the courtship etc?

[Phantom-like Menace]

I've been feeling exactly the opposite on the rushing thing. We've had several episodes in a row where nothing is really happening. Okay. Barney likes Robin. Robin likes Barney. Even if the writers don't spend the next several episodes rinsing and repeating, and even if Robin is the one Barney's marrying, they've still got a wedding to plan.


The show has been renewed through next season so I'm not sure I'd say forced/hasted, they have something like 30ish episodes left, and we don't even know where it will end ie. do we see a girl and older Ted says that's how I met her? Or do we see the courtship etc?

I've heard he meets the wife and that's it. But you're right, the show's hardly in any danger of not having another season. I'm more worried we're going to waste another half a season with the "will they, won't they" between Barney and Robin.

[JimJamBonds]

I've heard he meets the wife and that's it. But you're right, the show's hardly in any danger of not having another season. I'm more worried we're going to waste another half a season with the "will they, won't they" between Barney and Robin.I hope not, in this past weeks rerun I was reminded that there is a guy that Robin will sooner or later be with, he was the guy at the store where Ted bought his red boots. I think the Robin/Barney thing has played out...or at least I hope it has.

[Phantom-like Menace]

I'm going to have to look around for the boots thing. I can feel my memory jogging, but it's jogging in circles just at the moment. Edit: I looked it up. In "Hopeless," in flashback, we see Ted and Robin at a clothing store where Ted is buying the boots, and she sees a guy she finds attractive. In the present Robin runs into the guy, who is about to talk to her, but she and Ted had been pretending to be together, and Ted announces they're going to get married. The guy calls a friend and mentions that he ran into that cute girl again but that she's getting married. Future Ted narrates that more is to come of that.

Totally with you on the Robin/Barney thing. I really think Barney should have stuck with Nora. I'd say I want her to be the one Barney is marrying (If I was unconvinced Robin and Barney were getting together before, you reminded me of that other guy), but I'd be pretty annoyed if her character takes Barney back.

[Darth Metalmute]

Yeah, she ran into him twice so far and supposedly going to run into him again. But ultimately I believe she is supposed to end up with Barney as referenced in their break up episode. There is also supposed to be some huge break up in the group between Robin/Barney/Ted.

[JimJamBonds]

It was nice to see a new episode tonight, although who didn't see Robin's storyline coming a mile away?


www.puzzelsthebar.com (http://www.puzzelsthebar.com)

[Phantom-like Menace]

I liked the exchange between Sandy and Robin as she dragged him back to the show. Suggesting a three way was bad. Starting by yourself made it worse. Finishing by yourself was the nail in the coffin.

[JimJamBonds]

I was glad to see that the writers didn't waste much time with the whole Ted and Robin thing, I hope based on what was said there won't be anymore Barney and Robin.

[Darth Metalmute]

I was worried that they were going to do that for the rest of the season. They are hitting the message from Victoria hard.

[JimJamBonds]

I was worried that they were going to do that for the rest of the season. They are hitting the message from Victoria hard.
She was the one that said something along the lines of Ted/Barney and Robin being friends is weird/somebody will get hurt right?

[Darth Metalmute]

Yeah, she said neither one of them would have a meaningful relationship as long as they remained best friends with Robin. I still expect Robin and Barney to end up together, but apparently, robin still has to hook up with the guy from the clothing store.

[Phantom-like Menace]

I was glad to see that the writers didn't waste much time with the whole Ted and Robin thing, I hope based on what was said there won't be anymore Barney and Robin.

I wouldn't be surprised either way, but my money's on Barney and Robin not getting together.

[JediTricks]

Barney is going to marry the stripper from last week, I just got that vibe from the whole thing, and it'd be a fitting twist on the character.

[JimJamBonds]

Ted smoking meat in Robin's old room? Come on!?!?! Plus, ok I get it they want out of LI but come on they just bought that joint!!!

Robin and her 'journal' was great, that whole story probably would have been iffy but they way they showed it...great!

[Phantom-like Menace]

Barney is going to marry the stripper from last week, I just got that vibe from the whole thing, and it'd be a fitting twist on the character.

That's how I see it going down too. Unless the writers strongly suspect there will be a ninth season, they're going to have to get Robin and Barney back into separate relationships, end those relationships, get back together and marry by the end of next season. It's not impossible, but it's more rushed than I'd like it to be. And who knows, maybe they'll got for a ninth season and get Barney and Robin back together seven or eight more times.

And I'm wondering if the writers aren't trying to show Barney and Robin are terrible together. All they seem to do is run up a list of people they hurt, including each other. They're not really entertaining together, and they're not particularly likeable.

Then you have Barney who seems to be on a path toward changing his wild ways toward family (he's had three significant crushes--Robin, Nora, and Quinn all within a year), married life with children (he went so far as to borrow his brother's baby). You have Robin who's dead set on pretty much being exactly what she is now, career-oriented, without the life-changing presence of children. Barney needs a woman who's different than he is, a wife to help him make that change for, not a bro to smoke cigars and go to clubs with. Robin more closely represents the life he's moving away from, not the life he's moving toward.

Plus Quinn's a stripper. How legendary could that be? You know it. I know it. The answer is very!


Plus, ok I get it they want out of LI but come on they just bought that joint!!!

I haven't watched the new episode yet, but how's this for a prediction? Barney will buy the house from them to start his family with Quinn. He will happily live on Long Island and will hate the prospect of ever having to take the Drunk Train.

[JimJamBonds]

I know the 5 main people are locked in for an 8th but I think that may be a good time to shut things down. I read something about NPH might or not be back for a 9th and as many movies and whatnot Jason Segal is doing I'm not so sure about him coming back for a 9th either. As for the other 3??? They aren't doing anywhere near as much away from HIMYM as those 2 so maybe they'd want to continue?

[Phantom-like Menace]

I just looked at a poll that showed more than sixty percent of the people answering think Barney and Robin will get together. Only a little more than twenty think Barney and Quinn will get together, and the rest voted for an unknown third option.

As far as timing goes, I like a 2015 birth working with a 2013 meeting of the mother. That gives Ted and the mother a year to date, and a year of marriage before their daughter is born. Obviously it doesn't have to happen like that, but I like that timetable, mostly because it works nicely with the year-to-year, season-to-season format of television.

Weird thought: I've heard something about footage being filmed early on showing the children's reaction to learning who the mother is. That way they wouldn't have to get the actress and actor who play the daughter and son later and wouldn't have to explain why they may have aged several years over the course of the story. What if Lyndsy Fonseca, the actress who plays the daughter, plays the mother as well? I'm not even kind of saying this is my prediction, but it was, as mentioned, a weird thought I had. It would be easier to age progress her rather than age regress her. She'd definitely share a family resemblence. They would have been able to film the end in its entirety years ago. They'd be able to make Back to the Future references. Again, just a weird thought, and it doesn't work with the fact that an early plan was to have us learn Victoria was the mother if the show had been cancelled at that point.

[OC47150]

First ep in a long time I can honestly say I sat down and watched. The trilogy part didn't hurt. Loved Robin in the stormie costume.

[JimJamBonds]

The kids have been 'aging' as the show goes on...although they aren't really shown all that often.

Barney + Robin = blahh.

[Phantom-like Menace]

The kids have been 'aging' as the show goes on...

They haven't shot new footage of the kids in years. It's being reused. According to Wikipedia: "Scenes revealing their reactions to the end of the story were filmed during the second season since the actors would be young adults by the time the last season airs."

[JimJamBonds]

They haven't shot new footage of the kids in years. It's being reused. According to Wikipedia: "Scenes revealing their reactions to the end of the story were filmed during the second season since the actors would be young adults by the time the last season airs."
Yeah they could just reuse the "WHAT!?!?!" when older Ted tells them their mom was a stripper (from season 1)

[JimJamBonds]

Pretty good season ender with Waitforit showing himself to the world. Although who didn't see Robin being the bride?

[Darth Metalmute]

What a great middle name. It's going to be interesting to show how they get out of the Quinn situation.

[Phantom-like Menace]

Hmm. Robin. I wonder if it would have been Quinn or someone else if it had landed on tails.

[JediTricks]

Part of me feels like they're going to cheat again, pull some switcheroo to jerk the audience around regarding Robin as the bride. If they can finally avoid doing that, then it might just work out, but they really need to get somewhere soon, it's really losing steam.

PS - Ted is full of crap, he doesn't nor did he ever love Robin in that way.

[Phantom-like Menace]

Part of me feels like they're going to cheat again, pull some switcheroo to jerk the audience around regarding Robin as the bride. If they can finally avoid doing that, then it might just work out, but they really need to get somewhere soon, it's really losing steam.

They've said Future Ted is an unreliable narrator. They can use that to justify just about anything.

They've just promised to hit the reset button on at least half a season. Ted tells us Robin never has children, so Barney's going to make a complete 180 degree reversal on having children, which has been a large part of his character arc, which means essentially they've spent all this time to develop, change the character only to pretty much undevelop, unchange the character, and if this coming season is the last, they have no more than a season to do it.

My big problem with last season was that the first half was just marking time. We're going into the next season with three lame duck relationships now. It's pretty much an express promise that the first half of the season will be marking time again.

[JimJamBonds]

Part of me feels like they're going to cheat again, pull some switcheroo to jerk the audience around regarding Robin as the bride...
Like what we saw was a DOUBLE wedding and Barney and Robin marry different people?

[Darth Metalmute]

Like what we saw was a DOUBLE wedding and Barney and Robin marry different people?

Thats possible. We still don't techincally know when the wedding is and That guy from the clothing store is supposed to make a return.

[JimJamBonds]

...and That guy from the clothing store is supposed to make a return.That's right I forgot about him, good call DM!

[JimJamBonds]

Nice reference to Omar from The Wire in last weeks episode.

[Darth Metalmute]

Spoiler Alert. I guess we now know how he met their mother.

[JediTricks]

Spoiler Alert. I guess we now know how he met their mother.We still haven't seen how her yellow umbrella fits into that though.

[JimJamBonds]

They have said she was a student of his so this (may not) exactly follow along.

We already knew that he met her at the wedding, but it seems like he doesn't talk to her until he is on the platform waiting for the train not at the wedding 'proper.'

[JediTricks]

They have said she was a student of his so this (may not) exactly follow along.

We already knew that he met her at the wedding, but it seems like he doesn't talk to her until he is on the platform waiting for the train not at the wedding 'proper.'Actually, Ted didn't say she was a student of his, but that his teaching a class was the best job because that's why he met the mother, and at the time they showed that he was teaching the wrong class, mistakenly teaching an Economics class, so it the mother was in the economics class.

[JimJamBonds]

HIMYM is confirmed for a 9th and final season.

[Darth Metalmute]

HIMYM is confirmed for a 9th and final season.

I was surprised by this. I read somewhere that this was the eighth and final season. They are going to run Robin and Barneys
wedding into the ground by then.

[JimJamBonds]

Yeah it was going to be the final season, I'm surprised that NPH and Jason came back for another season. As far as the others they don't really do all that much (not quite so much for Cobie) so I can see them wanting to do another.

[OC47150]

Yeah it was going to be the final season, I'm surprised that NPH and Jason came back for another season. As far as the others they don't really do all that much (not quite so much for Cobie) so I can see them wanting to do another.

Saw an article the other day where Cobie may reprise her Avengers character in the Avengers TV show but filming it wouldn't interfer with HIMYM.

[JimJamBonds]

A grunge Robin Sparkles? Not the best episode but pretty decent none the less.

[JediTricks]

I was pretty meh about the Robin Daggers episode, it felt like it was trying too hard and missing a stronger punchline.

So, the creators of the show are saying season 9 will feel vastly different from other seasons, and TV.com is theorizing that it'll focus on the mother character's tale which will allow the show's stars to come and go during the season.

[OC47150]

I look forward to the Robin Sparkles eps. I hope the producers and writers can eek one more out next season.

Overall, I didn't think this one was too bad. Didn't expect her to go grunge.

[JimJamBonds]

Senator Mike Tyson?