How I Met Your Mother

Was surprised we didn't have a page for these series.

Anyway, who wants the honor of adding "The Playbook" to the Xanatos Roulette page?

I've started watching this show as it airs on E4, on the strength of this wiki's recommendation. It's partway through season 3, I think. I really like it. Likeable, consistent characters, good use of Continuity Tropes and clever plots. My favourite episode so far is probably "Swarley", although I like "Come On" a lot just for Ted's Crowning Moment Of Awesome.

Really like this show. Haven't watched it this season, though, unfortunately.

Just like Idler, I started on E4 a while ago. Not because of this site, though, I just thought it would be worth the investment of my time. Its not every show that tells you exactly what it is building up to in its very premise and title. Well that, and the announcer described it as basically new episodes of Friends without boring Ross. Should be somewhat entertaining, I thought, and I was right.

God bless E4 and their snarky, Lampshade Hanging voice overs.

4 slaps down, one to go.

I have never seen a series (especially) a sitcom, that is as well written as this one. Episodes like "The Pineapple Incident" make HIMYM a real gem. It's not just a repetitive - uhm - repetition of "funny" lines and running gags, but has a very unique and often very well used story telling.

Legen - wait for it - dary!

edited 7th Dec '09 3:49:15 AM by XanderHarris

So the ending of "The Window ... does this qualify as Never the Selves Shall Meet or not?

"Rabbit and Duck" had a lot of great parts (including the tie-in to the Superbowl) but I gotta say I absolutely loved the argument about which was better, rabbits or ducks?

Almost as good as the "cavemen vs. astronauts" debate from Angel.

I saw part of an episode. I liked it.

And it's got Neil Patrick Harris.

There's just one teensy problem I have with HIMYM. Marshall and Ted both started college at 18, as stated repeatedly. At the start of the series, Ted is a fully licensed architect, a plan that generally takes 6 years. This implies that he's been an architect for around 3 years. This is not my problem. My problem is Marshall. Why is Marshall only in his second year of law school at 27? Seems to me to be a really late acceptance. Has this been answered? I've only seen the first two seasons.

Maybe, inbetween being an undergraduate and going to law school, Marshall had to spend some time working a 9-to-5 job to save up some money for it.

Tonight's episode was quite good. I thought for sure we had found the mother, but no she's just a lesbian. The reveal was pretty funny though. No surprise that Barney would tape it, but it was still funny.

What's most interesting, for me, is that Barney is getting married. Likely Barney/Robin, but who knows...

And if not him, then I want to know who we haven't met that feels they know Ted well enough for him to be his best man.

edited 20th Sep '10 8:01:23 PM by Swish

Maybe Robin convinced her future husband to let him be best man? I don't know. I just can't picture it being Barney. It just doesn't fit his character.

^ I see that as also possible. I agree it doesn't really fit Barney's character, but I don't see Ted accepting the position of best man for anyone else's wedding. That would be out of character for Ted.

I assumed the wedding Ted and Marshall were at was for Cindy and can't-see-her-ankles girl.

Anyone else find the most recent episode kinda racist? It's supposed to be a sign of how deluded Barney is that he thinks a black guy is his father, but no one finds it odd that James has a white mother; Neil Patrick Harris may not look the least bit black, but Wayne Brady doesn't look the least bit white, either. I dunno, it just kinda reminded me of reading about pre-Civil War America where a person was officially considered black (and thus fair game for slavery and other discriminatory laws) if they had so much as a single black ancestor.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into a piece of Fridge Logic?

Probably. I'm pretty sure Wayne has appeared as Barney's brother at least twice before. It was natural that he come back for this episode.

I think that there's really no other reason for him being black than just rule of funny.

^ Well, the father wasn't much lighter than Wayne, so it kind of fit. Barney's reaction was definatly Rule of Funny though.

So Ted's gonna design the new GNB building. That gets me wondering, you know how they do those shots of the New York City skyline in-between scenes a lot? If this new headquarters gets built, are they going to add it those shots, or will they stick with the stock footage?

Who knows? I was too distracted by the latent Ho Yay to think about that.

As a guy who considers Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World the funniest movie of all time, this episode was pure heaven for me.

Watching a flaming gay guy playing a convincing manwhore is pretty righteous, if not quite making up for the rest of the show.