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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Stella character's existence is totally vindicated. It might just be the alcohol, though.

i dunno, i feel like they progressively made her character less funny and harder to like as they slowly pointed toward her inevitable exit from the show. good episode, though.

^somewhat agreed, but we did get some great episodes out of it (especially that anti-NJ one) at least. I loved that false-future joke tonight with "if only I had let her talk to Robin" with the two completely different kids!

I resisted this show for so long...it just seemed a dumbed down version of friends and did not have the spark or click that I wanted it to have. Every once in a while I catch an ep and it's still just ok as far as I am concerned, yet since there is no real ensemble sitcom of its genre, it works. Two and a half men however has grown on me. The humor is dryer, more edgy and a bit dark and a bit risque without being raunchy.

The hamburger ep was pretty funny for the most part, but I felt it got a little ho hum yawn toward the 20 minute mark.

i just saw the episode with barney blogging to the doogie howser theme and nearly died omg.

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The humor is dryer, more edgy and a bit dark and a bit risque without being raunchy.

are you fucking kidding me? do you even watch two and a half men? it's probably the most raunchy sitcom ever.

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the bit about Ted's dadjokes kept making me think about me and slocki

me too :/

kind of a lame episode, this show needs to cut back on the emotions

i didn't laugh as much last night as i usually do but i don't mind the wussy stuff in this show when they balance it right

Drunk baby Lily was just enough to put it in the "win" column for me.

ugh no

embarrassing

it was silly, but I lol'd. Lolling at HIMYM seems to have an inverse ratio to the screen time for Sarah Chalke, so I'm happy at recent developments. With Hannigan really preggers I am all ready for BABY TIME. It's been a while since we've had a sitcom baby and I trust these guys to find a fresh spin on it.

Glad this show is doing better in the ratings than Heroes. Not directly competing schedulewise, but this and that Big Bang Theory (which I've never seen) are even tying with Dancing With The Stars for the 18-49 crowd now.

i thought robin had all the best lines last night. um, not that i can remember any, but maria and i were laughing pretty hard.

i watch big bang theory every week. i dig the nerd jokes. like, they were playing klingon boggle last night, and it was entertaining.

big bang theory has gotten better they more they focus on the tall skinny OCD guy, he's super funny

yeah i grudgingly have come to respect Big Bang Theory, their joke-a-minute approach is pretty consistent.

Robin's kinda been quietly becoming one of the funniest people on HIMYM for a minute, it's like it took them a couple years to figure out how she can bring the lols.

i am so in love with robin.

robin complaining about marshall and lily not wanting her to shoot beer bottles on the roof is my kinda robin moment. "oh, the neighbors are complaining, oh, you almost hit me..."

whoever wrote that episode last night was smoking some serious reefer. it was a mess. but i still dug it.

yeah it was a little more scattershot than usual, but funny anyway.

better than last week

plus, meadow soprano love never dies. um, at last for me it doesn't. it just grows stronger.

and this was pretty great:

"The world absolutely needs Woo Girls. If there were no Woo Girls, there would be no 'Girls Gone Wild,' no bachelorette parties, no Las Vegas poolside bars. All of the things that you hold dearest, Lily, would be gone."

"Those are none of those things --" Lily tried to interject, but Barney continued. "The souvenir shot-glass industry would collapse; so would the body-glitter industry -- and, the stretch Hummer rental industry. Tiny cowboy hats would be worn only by tiny cowboys. And when 'Brown- Eyed Girl' would come up on the jukebox, all you would hear ... would be silence .... and 'Brown-Eyed Girl.' But who would 'woo,' Lily? Who would 'woo'? Would you? Would you ... 'woo'?"

I loved that part.

"Maybe she only observes the High Holidays like Mardi Gras and Spring Break. Maybe she's just a cultural Woo."

i don't watch this show very often but i liked this:

-this is great, we're like madmen!
-yeah, we're totally like Mad Men!
-i'm going to go downstairs and slap a secretary's ass.
yeah, that's totally what they would do on that show.
-...what show?

That Dr. Seuss moment between Robin and Lily was pretty amusing, I have to admit.

i definitely never expected myself to LOL at such a corny rhyming joke--but i did.

This one was my favorite episode of this season. Just completely solid all the way around.

Agree 100%. Naked Man was AMAZING.

best episode since slapsgiving yo.

yeah i laughed a lot

this has gotten a lot better since they ended ted's engagement. more laughs, less emo. robin is getting especially good, i was cracking up at her being turned by violence in tonight's episode

Agreed, I love Robin becoming more cartoonish and slutty in the last several weeks (crazy dad, woo girls, naked man). (especially the sluttiness)

robin and ted being single = more laffs for sure

(this is probably always true of every show ever though. more tension. more desperation. more humiliation. more hilarity.)

shes pregnant! in real life. robin.

but i thought willow was pregnant? it's gonna be barney's isn't it...

both of them are pregnant at the same time

I really hope they don't decide to make Robin pregnant in the show because of her pregnancy. At least Lily and Marshall it kind of makes sense for them, but it would be a real show momentum-killer for Robin to have a kid.

plus they'd get all emo about it

it is gonna be barneys obv. and have some epiphany bullshit.

okay, it's official. it's robin's world, the rest of them just live in it. she totally made that episode last night.

I liked Marshall's karaoke rendition of "Let's Go to the Mall".

That was great!