i know i'm one of the only people on ilx who watches *how i met your mother* on a regular basis, but did anyone else see the robin sparkles episode? where robin didn't want people to know that she had

Haha yes the Barney driving paradox is one of the show's biggest flaws. I admire people who remember that Marshall uses his shins to turn Lily on at that brunch when they're broken up.. I only usually dedicate that kind of love to LOST. Reading some comments on the LJ page has me suspecting this girl writes fanfic and that's why she has this crazy encyclopedic knowledge of the show... 0_o

oh and the bit where Barney said he'd only "give something" to Marshall if what Lily "gave him" was great.. so great

The calves callback and Lily's hungry look was great!

btw did jason segel gain a mess of weight? or maybe i only noticed now because he was shirtless whenever he wasn't pantsless in this episode.

hes always been kinda chubby at least the hair is better

as i think i've mentioned in this thread before, Lifetime plays HIMYM reruns on Monday nights now, and it's definitely noticeable to see Segel in season 1/2 and then in a new episode that he has gained wait...i wouldn't say "a mess" but a visible amount yeah.

gained waits

http://www.wiretotheear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/tom_waits.jpg

were it so easy to lose wait

Isn't the Barney driving incident set way back in the past (its about their memories of the car) + his first experience driving, thus there being a time+reason for potential driving lessons inbetween?

I can't believe I cared enough to think about that.

the wire reference was great. the episode was great. how could anyone in this thread say otherwise?

what wire ref?

"the game is the game"

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:46 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lily: she's gots to get got
robin: the game is the game

btw prepon is so hot

i dunno man i thought she was looking a little plastic

yeah the ep was so good. robin's sleep-NHL announcing made me unreasonably joyful.

the pacing was Dirty Rockish in the constant joeks without caring if the audience absorbed them or not.

Yeah, I think Prepon is hot, but she didn't look so great in this episode for some reason. Maybe it was because the character was a douche and they played it down.

Great episode, again.

I've assumed that while Barney can't really drive, he was able to manage driving the one block from Ted's apartment to the back of Maclarens. I don't think it's that much of a stretch.

way to keep a running gag behind the draggy emotional part in the last ep. some oldschool lucy sitcom homage right there.

totally.

also, i hate myself for think about it this hard, but backing a track into an alley is sort of an advanced driving maneuver.

I actually thought the Lily relationship-breaking retcon stuff was actually pretty well done, because it was plausible that her character would do that sort of thing (both intentionally and unintentionally breaking up Ted's relationships).

It could easily just be my interpretation, but I feel like the show is more and more acknowledging that Ted is an annoying jerk, and he dates mostly annoying women, and this acknowledgment is a good thing for the show.

yeah...i think the show is building on the idea of Ted as not just a not always sympathetic character but an unreliable narrator (with some of the gags based on his distortions of the truth, like "sandwiches" and Robin's exaggeratedly old boyfriend) in a way that lets them layer stories and characterization in a neat way. i had a weird little epiphany recently where i thought, maybe Barney isn't actually as broad and ridiculous as he seems on the show, but if somebody's telling their kids about a crazy friend they had when they were younger of course they're going to make him sound even more over the top than he really was.

last two posts otm.

such a good episode. love the way they kept the three storylines - ted and lily, barney and marshall and the nightshirts, robin on tv in the background - all in one setting.

That some dude post = an awesome version of this for me:

srsly my favorite show on tv. i love 30 rock but there is not a bit of sentimentality in that show, it's all slapstick. this show is a joy to watch for other reasons.

^^^^^^^^

& bonus points for pseudo-Big Lebowski homage (flying in the sky, listening to The Man in Me)

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/ha_ha_ha_i_can_t_believe_how

it's funnier than that onion article

rules of engagement is funnier than that article

srsly my favorite show on tv. i love 30 rock but there is not a bit of sentimentality in that show, it's all slapstick. this show is a joy to watch for other reasons.

+1. this show is mad deep imo - chars inhabit a world so much more fully than in 30 rock feel like these dudes are my neighbors whereas 30 rock is always on tv. used to think that 30 rock had better jokes but now i think that its just that himym is on a next level like two episodes ago the runner about barney cheering for the villian in movies is a bite of a thrown off gag about kenneth thinking the kids in footloose were evil but a) himym's was funnier and b) that joke in that episode had all sorts of sly resonance to ideas abt the viewer and interpretation in context.

not tryna be sum sitcom theory dbag or anything and the show is mostly awesome cuz it brings lulz but yah it has something extra 30 rock doesnt imo

i would like to give a brief shout-out to big bang theory on monday. sheldon drinking his first cup of coffee and the whole episode were a hoot.

i love how you just won't start a big bang theory thread

Love that they are just refusing to make Lilly pregnant. This episode w/ loose pajamas and magazines in front of her working, it will great if they can carry on getting away with it.

is cobie smulders pregnant now also, y/n?

y

the best was having lily stand behind a giant globe

the hot-dog eating contest!

Oh, that one's gotta be the winner!

i wonder if theyre gonna be done shooting before the babby is due

It'll likely be close - according to wiki both actresses are due this spring. The weird thing is it really seemed like they were going to write in Hannigan's pregnancy, when they did that "one year later" bit a few months ago and they showed Lily not drinking the expensive liquor with everybody else. (Though personally I'm still hoping they avoid doing any pregnancy/children storylines at all in the show.)

In Entertainment Weekly they said they filmed the finale back in January because of the pregnancy.

but I feel like the show is more and more acknowledging that Ted is an annoying jerk, and he dates mostly annoying women,

i think this actually makes him more relatable to me

i cd write a whole essay abt the show but the real selling points on it 4 me are:

1) arresting & original narrative structure both along the axis of the entire series & w/in specific episodes (i.e. every dam show does something new & interesting w/ how it tells the story & the way it locates its arc)

2) recognizable, relatable characters (i.e. not totally corny/embarrassing depictions of what its like being yung in nyc--yes i cringe @ the wilco refs but i cringe when i hear real life 30 yr olds talk abt wilco too)

3) the way those 2 things overlap (i.e. the way that ted tells his stories & relates his characters is both realistic AND narratively daring--like those episodes where he tells 1/2 the story and then is like "oh wait i forgot tell u abt this other thing" and that other thing is the final 1/2 the story--or the goat)

yeah...the way they set up Ted and his relationships is generally more realistic and internally consistent than the Seinfeld-style "male protagonist's girlfriend of the week has this quirk or this flaw that will have comedic payoff x," which enriches the character whether or not he's being more or less jerky at the moment.

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i had completely erased wilco refs from my memory

lol there are at least 2 including ted trying to have a threesome--winnie cooper is all "wheres that wilco cd you said we shd to listen to"

i do like the fact that for better or worse the corny music beds/references seem kind of like sincere representations of the creators' tastes and not just product placement, and there's as much 'classic' college rock (the Replacements, the Pretenders, Big Star) as there is contemporary lol indie.

besides, ted def seems like a wilco kinda guy.

well yeah i actually thought wilco worked there--it didnt really seem like it was trying too hard, and wilco is pretty big, and honestly, i bet ted loves the shit out of wilco