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

great job on this thread you guys

i think the window shot is there so you assume he let the cat get out and killed it out of negligence, and not that he accidentally stepped on it or fed it rat poison or something much more grisly

gouda anyone?

when marshall was looking out the open window his face looked like it had been scratched up by the cat too - think we were supposed to infer ~something had gone down~ also wasnt him taking care of the cat --> cat dying a pretty obv (if hilarious) direction to take the joke?

Why would Marshall make a music video with some hippie-looking dude and Lily on drums?
Why would Marshall obsess over Gouda?
Why would Marshall and Barney make wagers involving slapping the shit out of each other?
If Robin was a famous Canadian pop star in the '90s, why do her videos look like Cyndi Lauper knockoffs?
How does Barney not have syphilis?

etc. etc. etc.

guys you are forgetting that within the context of the show, it was marshall who assembled these photo montages. please consider his motivations for using the photo of the cat jumping out in the window in his montage in all of your analyses.

If Robin was a famous Canadian pop star in the '90s, why do her videos look like Cyndi Lauper knockoffs?

you answered your own question here

Because Canada only caught up to the 80s a decade late dude.

ha xpost.

the cheese was Marshall's only food responsibility so he got overzealous about it and "the 80's didn't come to Canada til like '93" (xpost)

How does Barney not have syphilis?

http://www.tac.org.za/community/files/condomCartoon.jpg?

yeah see that's the level of track-covering i expect from himym.

Why would Marshall make a music video with some hippie-looking dude and Lily on drums?

because he's a textbook Extreme fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_dN1WXBxuw

Man I drew a comic about safe sex recently (for work) and I'm pretty disappointed I didnt get to draw that condom dude, just some youngsters and stuff

Teenagers not children

Um, guys, I know all the explanations. Just pointing out the regular absurdity of the show - looking for realistic character motivation in creating creepy/obsessive photo montages is kind of silly.

Marshall is all the explanation I need

Same for Barney

Also Ted = douche explains an awful lot there

and so on

Suedey's username still makes me laugh btw.

this THREAD has jumped the shark that's what's jumped he shark

your spelling jumped the shark with the post

but what did you think of the episode, max

i thought it was OK

well that was kind of awful, even if marshall did rip up a phone book.

LOLed at kenny rogers' audiobook about sparky

Robin/Barney angle was OK. Lily being a wet blanket in generic sitcom jam was kinda lame. Kenny Rogers gag was amusing. Fiero/500 Miles callback was great.

I liked the Kenny Rogers and all of the Canadian baiting. The Tim Hortons looked very realistic.

when max says he thought is was OK, he really thought it was shit, but doesn't want to sound like me bitching

it sucked

oh that was last week

this week sucked too

the show is self-aware enough that it will probably jump the shark by having barney jump a shark.

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i think the show is self-aware enough to know that doing the 'lol jump the shark' thing literally would be pretty lame

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but by that point it would be a lame show, so you see

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the show is self-aware enough that it will probably jump the shark by having barney jump a shark.

what would be totally amazing and unprecedented is if they had Henry Winkler aplaying a recurring character and then showed him jumping a shark for no reason in one of the late episodes

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haha totally forgot about this whole exchange

last weeks was ok this weeks wasn't very good though

stupid plot, characters acting more stupid than usual

loved the Proclaimers callback though

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.

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

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

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.

why did tv stop in america?

because we're a week away from November Sweeps

what are november sweeps?

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.

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

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

epic episode

shut the bagpipe up!

Loved Ted calling himself "T-Mose"

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

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