How I Met Your Mother

[Jilly]

Maybe it is because I am a church geek, but this is comedy gold to me!!! I have no idea if this got embedded or not.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8NWDXg266A

[Silock]

Last night's episode was the only one I can remember liking in a LONG time.

[007]

Yeah, this was the first ep in a quite a while that I was actually laughing out loud a little.

[Discuss Thrower]

Surprise surprise. They actually do a little bit of character development and people like the show.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Surprise surprise. They actually do a little bit of character development and people like the show.

Kind of hard from them to do that when they chain their final 24-26 episodes to 56 hours.

Yeah, I'm still mad about it.

[DJ's left nut]

Did anyone actually watch that rhyming episode?

We had 4 weeks saved up on the DVR and I made it through about 4 minutes of that before I skipped to the end, saw he was still on the bus and hit delete.

I'm presuming I didn't miss anything and in the process retained a fair amount of sanity, yes?

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Did anyone actually watch that rhyming episode?

We had 4 weeks saved up on the DVR and I made it through about 4 minutes of that before I skipped to the end, saw he was still on the bus and hit delete.

I'm presuming I didn't miss anything and in the process retained a fair amount of sanity, yes?

Rehearsal dinner ep wasn't bad

[Mr. Plow]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Did anyone actually watch that rhyming episode?

We had 4 weeks saved up on the DVR and I made it through about 4 minutes of that before I skipped to the end, saw he was still on the bus and hit delete.

I'm presuming I didn't miss anything and in the process retained a fair amount of sanity, yes?

I watched it. I couldn't tell you what happened outside of some stupid ass stories in rhyme form. I may have fell asleep, or zoned out, or starting ramming my head into the wall - I can't remember.

Haven't watched the newest one. You guys have given me a little hope that it's decent.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

I watched it. I couldn't tell you what happened outside of some stupid ass stories in rhyme form. I may have fell asleep, or zoned out, or starting ramming my head into the wall - I can't remember.

Haven't watched the newest one. You guys have given me a little hope that it's decent.

It took a few minutes where the sight of the newly bearded Rannells had my mind picturing Andrew Sullivan moaning in bearish ecstasy to recalibrate, but it rounds out nicely starting with the appearance of Mother.

[ragedogg69]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Did anyone actually watch that rhyming episode?

I fell asleep.

[jiveturkey]

This show remains on the DVR list but has been relegated to dinner making time or iPad game playing time.

I catch about 5% of it.

[ragedogg69]

Originally Posted by jiveturkey

to dinner making time...

I catch about 5% of it.

This reminds me of what a CSI writer said an executive told him. He had to dumb down every script he submitted because they had to be easy enough to follow, that a housewife doing the dishes with her back to the TV could follow. It made me mad reading that, but every once in a while I find myself doing just that. So it kinda makes sense. Most cable shows do not allow that.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

This reminds me of what a CSI writer said an executive told him. He had to dumb down every script he submitted because they had to be easy enough to follow, that a housewife doing the dishes with her back to the TV could follow. It made me mad reading that, but every once in a while I find myself doing just that. So it kinda makes sense. Most cable shows do not allow that.

I find myself occasionally caught flat-footed when a exposition-heavy show all of the sudden goes montage and I'm in another room wondering what's going on.

I usually don't back-burner stupid shows, I back burner exposition heavy shows, such as legal procedurals, L&O and the like. 'Dumb' shows like like CSI too regularly go to montage for the evidence collection and analysis, so you miss most of the value of the show if you just key into the summation 10 minutes later. The interest is visual as they lay out the investigative techniques, and you miss all that doing dishes.

[Discuss Thrower]

Shit just got real man...

Spoiler!

Cold open starts with Ted in bed with very pregnant Yellow Umbrella girl / Mother in 2017. Cut back to "present day" (May 2? 2013) at the Farhampton Inn. Lily and Marshall eventually retire to have sex to prolong the impending argument about Marshall accepting a judgeship in conflict with Lily's plan to relocate to Italy for a year as part of her art consultant career. Ted and Robin get Barney drunk to the point he tells the truth about anything he's asked, which he reveals a certain number of gags including what his job really is. Lily and Marshall's argument starts and explodes to the point where Lily claims Marshall's decision is selfish, with him responding her decision to move to San Francisco (back in Season 1/2) as equally selfish and that he and Marvin are a "consolation prize" for her career as an artist not working out. She storms out of their hotel room, calls someone who arrives in a black sedan and leaves. Cut back to the future where Ted and the Mother get into a van holding their daughter Penny en route to the hospital for the delivery of their son, Luke.

[BourbonMan]

Great episode...I thought last weeks was great too.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by BourbonMan

Great episode...I thought last weeks was great too.

I thought it was kind slappapointing but it did make me laugh so it served it's purpose. This week's though... damn. The Marshall - Lily plotline worked out the way it should've outside of the end because it opens up the possibility of something jumping-the-shark worthy.

And I don't care if she's a cross between Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders... Cristin Millioti might be my dream girl.