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

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you know, cuzza the robot and the canadian prime minister and all:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o3bmfD43s-k

― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 02:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh, i didn't know about new thread title rules. didn't want people to know that she had...been a canadian teen queen.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 02:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

ten slaps now or five slaps any time from now to eternity?

― milo z, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 02:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

Hey Scott! Are you posting from OFF-ISLAND?????

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 02:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

milo watches!!!!

we got back today, Beth! we had a great time and had much food and drink with all these ilxors.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 02:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

BP - do you live on MV? I ask because I'm thinking about taking my husband there this summer for our 1st anniversary and have never been. I would love suggestions about where to stay etc. as the time nears if, in fact, you do live there! Sorry to hijack thread.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 02:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

the slap bet episode was pretty great.

― Gukbe, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 02:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

i watch this and the canadian music video ruled. this show in general kind of rules.

― akm, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 03:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

should i watch this show? what's its deal?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 03:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

SWARLEY!

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

ENBB, we have a guest room, also lots of space to pitch a tent, but that wouldn't be very romantic. Some friends of ours found a not-too-pricey B&B in Oak Bluffs, I can't remember the name, but I'm driving by there today—I'll look for a sign. Would you want to stay off in the woods or in one of the towns? OB is a lot of fun because it has a labyrinthine neighborhood of pastel carpenter-gothic houses to walk through, and also a deep-water harbor so you can walk along the dock past all the drunken boaters. You can also eat right on the harbor. The other towns have not developed their harborfronts in such a user-friendly way.
Bear in mind that all towns are "dry" (no liquor stores, restaurants are BYOB) except for OB and Edgartown. Edgartown is lovely—lots of stately whaling captain's homes with roses galore, but there's a stuffy GOP feel to the place. The Edgartown Yacht Club casts a psychic pall. We live in Chilmark, which has the most beautiful town beach. We can give you a walk-on pass.
Poke around on the net, and then tell me what you find. I'll go look at it and tell you if it's downwind from a sewage treatment plant.
After all this I'll probably interpret the spamproofing characters incorrectly.
B

Yep. What was that inverted-"u" thing if not an "n?" Fer Feck's Sake.
So here it is, further high-jacking the thread!
email me outside ilx channels if you find a place you want me to check out or need more info. marthasmini✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.c✧✧

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

love this show.

― teeny, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

I saw this last night. I ROFLed.

― n/a, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

or LOLed, rather.

― n/a, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

Kee-RIST. Aren't we protecting us from ourselves!
marthasminions at yahoo. DOt, COM.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

And now I shall post my phone number:
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― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

So what you're saying is you want us to go to the mall...today?

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

"The New Adventures of Old Christine" was actually really funny too. I am not embarassed to make that statement.

― n/a, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS IS A GENIUS

― n/a, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

that christine wedding episode is great!

― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

and i'm not ashamed to say that the episode of 2 & a half men where charlie and alan think they might be gay is a great one too.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

scott seward do you have a position on the king of queens

― A B C, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

i am a fan. i have defended that show more than once on ilx. that and raymond. i am all about cbs apparently. er, and nbc too, i guess. cuz i like 30 rock and earl and even scrubs. though i'm not a scrubs fanatic. last nite's king of queens was pretty good, mostly for the father/daughter stuff, but adam sandler was a bit much.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

How I Met... is the only multi-camera sitcom I watch. I generally don't have time for them, though I've seen enough of Raymond/Queens/2 and a Half Men to not feel like I'm missing very much.

I do love 30 Rock and The Office, though surely they're in a different league.

If it wasn't for the gonzo ratings of 2 and a half men, I would ask if the multi-camera was dead.

Also, i remember reading not too long ago that How I Met is on the bubble because the head of programming doesn't "get it", whatever that means.

― Gukbe, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

NPH is incredible on this show.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

Barney playing the obscure and impossible asian gambling game in Atlantic City was a gem.

I think Ted is underrated on HIMYM. He's really good and i have no idea who he is or what he did before this show.

Via Youtube, i found out that Robin played a hottie artist/sculptor on The L Word. A show I still have never seen.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

BP - I just saw your post now. Thanks so much for the advice. It's not for a little while yet so I'm going to do some thinking and research and will definitely email you if that's where we decide to go! :-)

― ENBB, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

should i watch this show? what's its deal?

Yes you should.

Young New Yorkers have sex, make LOLz. Gets the Friends tag, but it's much funnier, better writing. Plus NPH.

― milo z, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

Via Youtube, i found out that Robin played a hottie artist/sculptor on The L Word. A show I still have never seen.

link, dude.

― milo z, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

My TiVO season passes are down to this, Grey's Anatomy and Entourage.

― milo z, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

Robin on The L Word:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMBRYRu9BQ

― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

Last night's christine and 2.5 men were brilliant (not the weed talking, I swear!). I love how consistently funny the penis jokes are on 2.5 men. And Christine's underwear! Hahaha.

― Maria :D, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

For a traditional sitcom, this show is great. Perhaps even legend (wait for it) dairy.

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

i would have weekly appointment sex with all these white people shows

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

another great episode, we roffled

― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

It was a nice episode, though I didn't find it particularly funny. Even so, the mere concept of Barney+The Price is Right is worth watching.

― Gukbe, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

haha when i first watched those youtube links i thought "how did i miss this show in 2002?" but you're telling me this is a show now, in our time, and it's weirding me out. i'm fine with that but what am i doing that i missed both the existence of this show and the emergence of 'totes' as an expression that people think is okay

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

it's not too late, rrrobyn! start watching whenever you feel like it. don't know about totes though...

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

i am not into totes. totes is not me. i say totally and no one's gonna take that away from me.
maybe i will dl this show though

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

youtube video that redoes the HIMYM intro with the theme song/credit sequence to Friends

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

this week: awwwwwwwww

― milo z, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 04:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

why milo z, i do declare you have a heart underneath all that crusty texan gun-ownin' marxism!

i liked it too

― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 05:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

scott, you are right abt this show. it is cute! and pretty funny!
(i wish it weren't in traditional sitcom form but hey)

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 19 May 2007 18:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

i like this show

― cutty, Saturday, 4 August 2007 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

these kids are alcoholics

― cutty, Saturday, 4 August 2007 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

whoa so weird b/c i watched a bunch of episodes this week and was going to revive this thread
i laughed out loud several times! - the barney runs a marathon one, the fiero one, etc
i like that they hang out in a bar

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 4 August 2007 18:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

my gf loves this show, and it is pretty charming. I'm glad NPH got an Emmy nom.

― da croupier, Saturday, 4 August 2007 19:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

if John Larroquette got 4 Emmys for Dan Fielding, NPH is due.

― da croupier, Saturday, 4 August 2007 19:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

I really only watch this show because Jason Segel is a comic genius. There are some funny jokes and scenes but the standard sitcom format of the show is a tremendous drag on it. The laugh track pains me so much. It's watchable now, but it could be just so much better without the cruft. Also, they get points for putting Martin Starr in an episode.

― Bill in Chicago, Saturday, 4 August 2007 23:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

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loved the Proclaimers callback though

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:54 (1 month ago) Permalink

the Robin Sparkles episode was on uk tv yesterday. her video was all kinds of fantastic especially the robot and the robot.

not really feeling ted and robin as a couple though. is unconvincing.

― koogs, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:59 (1 month ago) Permalink

good thing the whole show isn't arranged around the premise that they belong together and she's the future mother of his children, then

― some dude, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:03 (1 month ago) Permalink

you know what sucked? they went from TANTRUM! to just being sedate&boring in the car all episode.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:14 (1 month ago) Permalink

Yeah exactly! TANTRUM! was great, doesnt work if you get the audience all hyped up and then *they're* disappointed with the rest of the episode. This show has always been kinda hit and miss like that though. O well. Im sure it wont be too long before another good ep.

― The nation's most valiant right back (Suedey 2), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:06 (1 month ago) Permalink

why did tv stop in america?

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 11:06 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

because we're a week away from November Sweeps

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:03 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

what are november sweeps?

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:07 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

one of several 'sweeps' periods during the course of the US television season. generally they are times when they establish that more people watch tv than at other times of the year (i think this is how it works?) so they all compete with as much new programming and, usually, bigger storylines.

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:11 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

most important thing is that the ratings during sweeps are used to determine advertising buy rates, so this is when every network puts out their most gimmicked programming, attention grabbing stunts (am I fired because I'm a lesbian?), celebrity stunt casting, and even pulling weak shows temporarily just so keep their numbers up (current example: Dollhouse being pulled until December for reruns of House... it's doing that badly).

it's typically held in November, February (mid-season debuts and returns), May (season finales) and July (this one I don't totally get, but I guess summer still needs to be monitored). note how the month before all these tends to be stuffed with reruns

if you remember earlier this year there was a kerfluffle because sweeps had been "moved" from february to march because the mandatory switch for broadcasters going from analog to digital signals was originally supposed to be in feb. -- nielsen said they didn't want this to effect metering -- of course, then the date was pushed to June. this led to some mix ups, some networks went with it and moved their new episodes to march (including this show, i believe), others took the usual route anyway

― Nhex, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:26 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

just laughed all the way through barney's one man play.

― koogs, Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:34 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

epic episode

― Roz, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 06:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

shut the bagpipe up!

― suggest friend (hmmmm), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 06:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Loved Ted calling himself "T-Mose"

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:08 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

best episode of the season so far, but still not really feeling it. maybe i'm just not that interested anymore.

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:13 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

yeah i don't want to be a downer - i'm still enjoying the show, but i don't feel like any episode's really hit it out of the park yet, it feels like they're kind of coasting on standard sitcom relationship plots still (i mean, this one had two: committed couple vs. newly in love couple, and the couple that pretends everything is great when shocker! they're fighting all the time), like they don't know what else to do with the Barney/Robin pairing. but what's nice about their pairing is that they don't care about maintaining the typical relationship facades, like lily/marshall do... in theory

otoh, lily's extra sluttiness this season has been wonderful

― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:07 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

haha yeah, between the stripper lily and the barney fantasy sequence it's almost like she's asking the writers to find ways to have her slut it up without totally changing the character

― the tuppence takes manhattan (some dude), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:08 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

'people upstairs making lol noises' also a pretty obvious sitcom convention.

i have really enjoyed this series but only since i finally admitted to myself that it would never do anything as awesome as say the original Slap Bet or the one about seeing a friends play again.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:10 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

i don't think the plots or the Barney/Robin pairing are bad per se, but considering how funny Robin had gotten in the last couple seasons i think they're kinda squandering her by making her the new default straight man to Barney's antics -- her shutting down Ted's nicknames was like a little glimpse back of the stuff they used to give her to do more often

― the tuppence takes manhattan (some dude), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:11 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

you're totally right, Robin is strangely subdued for these arcs, when the last couple years she's really gotten awesome

― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:14 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Ted making up New Relationship Smugness, or NRS for short, is a further sign of him becoming Barney.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:22 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

well that made me :(

love horny lily so much tho.

― jon going hamm (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:38 (1 week ago) Permalink

best ep of the season i thought, i was dying when they were all in the station wagon

― max, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:38 (1 week ago) Permalink

oh it was a great episode, i just wasnt expecting them to kill off robin/barney so quickly.

― jon going hamm (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:40 (1 week ago) Permalink

i got squat!

can't believe they didn't use the opportunity to bring back Ted Moseby: Sex Architect, though

― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:43 (1 week ago) Permalink

also whenever Murder Train comes back it's always amusing!

― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:43 (1 week ago) Permalink

^^^yes!!! to both of these!!!

― jon going hamm (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:44 (1 week ago) Permalink

yeah the stakeout and "legend WAIT FOR IT...s of the fall, legends of the fall" were great but it was definitely subpar for me, although a lot of that was just cringing at them totally going for it with NPH in fat makeup.

they seem to kind of change relationships once every season but maybe they saw that there wasn't that much fuel in the barney/robin thing after all. although marshall and lily only stayed broken up for like half a season so nvm.

― some dude, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:45 (1 week ago) Permalink

marshall and lily have tons of chemistry, but barney and robin have pretty much none, hate to say

the fat suit stuff was kind of lame, but lily's kraken plan was really amusing. i'm kind of glad they did this, though, to end the generic sitcom couple plots - that they cut it off so early probably means they realized it just wasn't working, as you say

― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:56 (1 week ago) Permalink

I thought it was dumb for the writers to put Barney and Robin together and then have them act like a conventional couple, so I'm glad it's over.

― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:57 (1 week ago) Permalink

tonight's episode in the uk featured Winnie Cooper and Audrey from Dawson's Creek...

― koogs, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:02 (1 week ago) Permalink

tricycle ep, right? that was ok, but it's always nice to see those two. and she is Kim Kelly from Freaks and Geeks!

― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:05 (1 week ago) Permalink

cbs seems to be delaying putting the full episodes up on their site by a week now. lame.

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:08 (1 week ago) Permalink

oh, i just assumed they weren't doing it at all after the first few episodes. now i can catch up.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:41 (1 week ago) Permalink

just watching an old episode + the school teacher from mad men is on it

― just sayin, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:53 (1 week ago) Permalink

crazy eyes?

― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:54 (1 week ago) Permalink

no it was blah blah

― just sayin, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:57 (1 week ago) Permalink

well, blah blah is the crazy/hot scale girl, but i can see how that's easily confused w/ crazy eyes girl

― some dude, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:00 (1 week ago) Permalink

that girl is, and i quote wikipedia, "also known for her role as the blogging enthusiast in Twix advertisements."

― some dude, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:02 (1 week ago) Permalink

that girl is, and i quote myself, "slammin"

― max, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:03 (1 week ago) Permalink

would slamsh

― cutty, Friday, 13 November 2009 17:11 (1 week ago) Permalink

two volume set, right here

― Nhex, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:00 (4 days ago) Permalink

It was kind of weird seeing Susan Sarandon Jr. with her top on.

― smashing aspirant (milo z), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 05:37 (4 days ago) Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_von_Matterhorn

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:36 (4 days ago) Permalink

After the airing of this episode, "Lorenzo von Matterhorn" (one of Barney's playbook aliases) became the most common Google search for the day of November 16, 2009

― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:56 (4 days ago) Permalink

oh man, yesterday that was a page dedicated to how big Lorenzo's penis was, and how he floated down a river as a baby and was adopted, and references to how the river & adoption was in Milan probably contributed to his excellent sense of style.. Too bad it's gone!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 15:42 (4 days ago) Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lorenzo_von_Matterhorn&oldid=326284305

― abanana, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 17:55 (4 days ago) Permalink

Great episode, the mozart music during the intertitles was a good touch I thought.

I wonder if they'll do something special for the 100th episode that's coming up. It struck me the other day that CBS rarely if ever does the extended hour long sitcom specials that NBC does.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 18:14 (4 days ago) Permalink

It's supposed to be a musical, I think? I hope Jason Segel gets to do a dracula song.

― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:03 (4 days ago) Permalink

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