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

i don't know how biographical the show is (for the writers or creators), but it gives the impression of having been really well imagined / observed up until last season when suddenly they no longer knew what their characters would be like doing the things they decided to make them do.

thoughts on the first ep of the new season? i was into it

couple nice things like marshall leaving the office, and robin generally,* but i was a *bit* ehh [via yawnsome marshall-lily sub-plot]

*really, robin 'still being hot' shouldn't really be a joke, so kudos

really hoping marshall + lily dont get boring

some dude, you will be happy to learn that the daughter is now playing the mole on 'nikita'.

i've been thinking that maybe one reason the last season seems to have taken such a bad turn (or seems to me like it did—i haven't been able to work up the willingness to watch it again) is that everyone's future prospects seem to have gotten all confused—mainly, lily and marshall getting married takes away a whole bunch of stuff to put into play, and their careers have all gotten murky, robin's, ted's, and marshall's at least. (lily's and barney's have never much been in question, except for after lily dumped marshall—just sources for workplace-and-character-specific jokes.) a lot of the old humor played off the mix between their careers and love lives, but there hasn't been any dynamism in their careers since ted became a professor—which they could have exploited a lot more but didn't. the relationship plots are bound to start seeming stale with less change elsewhere.

lily and marshall are bound to be boring because the show's main comedic-dramatic engine is 'will i get what i want or not?', and now that they're married not enough is at stake.

fave joek, remembering it, was barney starting to tell the story of capt dibs or whatever

I believe the SS Dibs was lost at sea..

pretty avg episode, I laughed at "you're giving me a de-rection"

laughed at this a lot, but it may have been just that nice feeling from seeing friends you haven't seen in a while. in the form of a tv show.

i really enjoyed this because i had a DIBS argument with a good friend just this past weekend

some dude, you will be happy to learn that the daughter is now playing the mole on 'nikita'.

I have made up a backstory for her character where being locked in room listening to Ted's stories for many years turned her into a heroin addict/killer.

omfg actual realisation of how and where he meets the mother. i know everyone else is blase about this but omfg.

watched this when i was pretty drunk and genuinely don't remember that at all.

we don't know who's wedding it is tho right?

or did he mean at bilson's?

It's Barney and Robin's wedding duh

***SPOILER***

it's ted's wedding

PONDER THAT

***SPOILER***

Best man at his own wedding?

dude's a narcissist

was the chick the OC girl was into Leighton Meester? and if it is, do u think it's supposed to be a meta joek that josh schwartz' two characters from diff shows are way into each other?

Don't know who she was, but it wasn't Leighton Meester

yes that was rachel bilson - she was reprising her role from the 100th episode last season

ok this episode was a+ up there with the best of them

o rly. thought it was horrible.

yeah. super weak. espesh compared with the other ep at barney's mum's house.

Was the other ep with his mom the one where he had a fake wife and kids? Because I hated that and it was way over the line as far as plausibility goes, even for a Barney episode.

yeah it was

who gives a shit about plausibility?!

that ep was hilares

this ep wasnt v funny at all

i was amused by it enough. also liked the S2-style laidback ted and robin shenanigans

last one to air here in england was the funniest in a while, if only for the seinfeld-esque collision of the pickpocket, ted's model, the doll collection and the paper aeroplanes.

ok that was LOLz

ya classic himym imo

Liked how Barney perving on crying chick was actually setup for the end of the episode. also "Marshall v the Machine"!

classic material

usually when they say something will happen in a few months, it does. be p surprised if they got woody allen tho.

yeah, really good one!

good set up for an extended douchey ted scene, 'here's a fun fact…'

robin was looking fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine in this.

Jennifer Morrison, though, not so much. Why do you keep doing this, HIMYM?

keep doing what?

In addition, she will join the cast of CBS' How I Met Your Mother as recurring character Zooey Van Smoot, a mischievous architecture nerd and love interest of lead Josh Radnor's Ted Mosby, and “the biggest female character we’ve maybe ever added to the show in Ted’s life”, according to executive producer Craig Thomas.[7][8][9]

ooh, never knew she was recurring.

intentionally killing the attractiveness of many fine actresses - i mean with Cobie it's actually a running gag at this point

i wonder if they're going to make her a scion of the famed van smoot family (from the pre-wedding episodes).

good catch, looks like they've used that name a lot on the show, from googling. maybe it'll turn out Michael York will be her father...

tara lols via meta and singing

"Coming up, a Manhattan architect gets punched in the throat!" + cut to Ted holding his throat = IRL lolz

yeah, that was beautiful

OK, Ted and Robin's dead-eyed car alarm singalong was one of the single best things I've ever seen on this show

last night's was the best one in AGES. Funny enough but also maintained a good balance with the more serious character stuff. Marshall's corporate self was finally (and nicely) dealt with. Barney's story was pretty funny but they turned the screw at the end which was good. Even if I'm not convinced by Dr. Cameron or what role she plays, it was alright too. And The Captain worked.

basically it accomplished a lot without ever feeling like it was trying too hard.

yeah...I have kind of deliberately avoided whining in this thread when I haven't been real into new episodes, but I haven't really been feeling the magic much for a while, and last night was like a perfect crystallization of everything I like about this show.

haha also thank you for finally helping me figure out who the girl is, was really bugging me that i couldn't remember where i knew her from and kept forgetting to google it

So, how distracting was Alyson Hannigan's cleavage in the scene where she's talking to Extinct Marshall?