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

i like ted mosby more than ever

Are the Friends comparisons superficial? Young people in NY - but the show has more depth in the characters and in the way its written. Attention to backstory is almost Lost-esque.

Also, everyone seems to have a soul, where all the Friends could have been the spawn of Satan. Maybe I'm just blinded by my hatred of Matthew Perry.

i don't think the characters on friends ever ate sandwiches

Well, besides Phoebe.

Milo is right that the HIMYM characters have more depth, but it does seem it fills the same niche, just with better writers.

for some reason i thought slap bet countdown was last night?

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/slapbet_countdown/

LANCE HARDWOOD, SEX ARCHITECT

john cho was great

Re this show and "Friends": does anyone else remember that episode where they try hanging out in a Central Perk-ish coffee shop instead of a bar and can't stand it?

That was a lot of risque material for early prime time. Guess they figure the kiddies don't even know how to find CBS.

Wow, Mancuso is so ripe for parody, he isn't even safe on his own network. Another fun episode.

also: didn't realize they've had the same girl (wendy?) playing the bar waitress since the pilot.

kind of awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhXsJjVdj1E

oh man, that was excellent

That makes me so happy!!

what happens here? I have no volume at work. I pretty much love this show and NPH.

NPH and Jason Segal sing a duet from Les Miz ("Confrontation"?)

is this show on in the UK at all? i've seen some episodes during transatlantic trips this year, and have become fond of it.

ty n/a

I DID NOT HATE THE USE OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE BIG STAR SONGS DURING THE CLOSING MOMENTS OF LAST NIGHT'S EPISODE. that's how i know i like this show. cuz if a lesser show had used a song like thirteen to be "touching" i might hate them for it. cuz i am an infant like that. that whole scene was total cusack territory. but it worked somehow.

britney was an awesome guest star. she should come back.

and, so, it looks like that doctor is the mother of how i met your mother.

i realize i am probably talking to myself here...

You mean this whole time, they haven't said who the mother is?

That's like Lamont not showing up until Season 4 of "Sanford & Son".

oh it's back!

no, at the beginning of every show they show the future and you see dude's future kids and bob saget's voice telling them about his life and how he met their mother. but you never knew who the mother would be. but i think this woman is her. they bumped into each other at a club on st.patrick's day on the premiere episode.

rrrobyn sparkles x-post

anyway, on the first show, future dude/bob saget told his kids that their mother was at that club that night and they didn't meet. but he bumped into this woman for a brief second and i think it was the doctor lady from last night's episode.

haa

this show is single-handedly keeping the traditional sitcom alive - (i'm not counting 30 rock in that genre) - and maybe the traditional sitcom should die but not until this show is over
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This show is really clever at times. Maybe I'm a dolt, but the whole mustache thing was super funny to me.

I've tried to like this. It's just so...sitcommy.

scott the doc's almost definitely not the mom but almost definitely was gonna be the mom until alicia silverstone pulled out of the ep - her from scrubs is only gonna be on a few eps (cuz she gotta go work on scrubs).

just because shes the mom doesnt mean shell be in a ton of episodes from now on, though!

Also Scrubs is off the air after this season.

There is a god.

still liking this show a lot

last week's was pretty good, until The Moral of the Story (drunk Ted is a dick) ending

the doogie howser moment at the the end of the show tonight was so so classic.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/just3apples/brotp/114finalmoments.png

so gonna happen

Barney ep tonight = good. Who doesn't love continuity whoring on this show! Kind of a cop-out with the ending, though.

the 20 (!) minute song at tedmosbyisajerk.com is a future dementia classic.

WOW WHAT A SONG!!!!!

kudos for that!

Amazing. Hard to believe that CBS gave the green light on that. It almost something you'd put on a mixtape next to Brainticket, "Diary Of An Unborn Child", and Jandek's acapella material.

I checked the tag information at http://www.tedmosbyisajerk.com/audio.mp3, and the artist is tagged as The Solids, who do the HIMYM theme song I believe.

ok, the song starts out good and then graduates to amazing about 3/5 of the way in, when it's just her mumbling while a sax squawks

omg. Around 16:00, it becomes totally batshit crazy insane amazing. This is going on my top 10 songs of the year list.

THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF ROBIN SPARKLES!!!

show has been killing it post-strike

video wasn't as good as the first one and neil patrick harris is right that the show shouldn't resort to so much stunt casting, but, still good.

the full video on myspace was funnier than the snippet on the show. the melody is very much "i think we're alone now".

i think the stunt casting is currently needed to prop the ratings up. Himym hasn't been renewed for next season as of yet.

death metal puppy montage was the a+ moment

also a fan of punchy

looking forward to the episode of awkwardness to follow

Good stuff, though I am getting a little annoyed by the stunt casting. Whatever it takes for the show to survive, I guess. They should've given us more Alan Thicke!

I was a bit disappointed by the video too, but it was really impossible to live up to "Let's Go to the Mall". Also it is funnier if you watch it complete, off the website.

Will Bobin pick up enough mileage to the season finale? I just hope next season we don't see a bunch of silly filler episodes as both of them go dating their separate ways to start off... still, this season has picked up, but it seems impossible at this point to catch up with last year's quality.