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

He meets the mother at the wedding he is best man at, and at the end of the season he is best man at a wedding?

do we know that the wedding is happening at the end of the season?

i think the timeline was mentioned iirc? like it seemed months away and not years away?

whether the wedding is at the end of the season or not i feel like it's a given that they're never gonna really introduce the mother, show her onscreen and everything til the finale or maybe last few episodes. both because of the opportunity for some kind of big deal stunt casting, and so that they don't have to worry about the minefield of introducing a 6th main cast member for the last season or seasons and letting the audience decide whether she's a good character/worth the wait, etc.

you really think this show lacks in confidence?

and stunt casting p throwaway - or lol is that katy perry?

oh wait sorry i forgot superbowl week television is a big thing thus katy perry, lol america

we're talking about a show that once ensured its renewal for another season by throwing Britney at her trainwreck peak into a couple episodes

eh tbh if the wire had a chance to get britney on, it would have taken it

i'm just saying, i'd be willing to wager a little cash that my prediction (mother revealed very close to the end of the show's run + played by someone very famous or at least well known and cast for some kind of clever/in-jokey reason) is correct. although this show is totally journey not destination for me, not particularly invested in how it ends like Lost or something.

would totally watch britney as a bitter ex-stripper solving crimes in her spare time on the streets of Detroit. two kids and a mean ex-husband played by cole hauser. and a wacky grandmother who deals weed. executive produced by eminem. rappers galore.

We don't know that he meets her there - only that she's in the wedding band. He could find that out after the fact if they find out they're getting an eighth season early (and don't want him to meet her) or something.

I really want them to introduce the mother early in the final season and let us see him winning her over, but that won't happen. Writing in romances for Ted just seems to be pointless at this point - the show is more about the rest of the cast, let him have a fling here and there, but being in love with Zooey? Eh.

Zooey is full on cast member at this point, no? Liike even if they break up, she's been Robin'd into the group?

no way, totally a recurring season-long arc.

yeah she'll be gone

But she is proper friends with everyone? She is going to have to do something diabolical to change that.

well cant they just break up + then itll be like 'i just cant hang around ted any more'

Hoping zoey stays on for awhile, I like her interactions with the rest of the group, though i still feel she hasn't really been fully fleshed-out as a character yet - i guess most of that happened off-screen when Ted temporarily became the Blitz.

also all of Ted's serious girlfriends have played a part in getting him one step closer to the mother so i'm thinking zoey will be the same if she isn't already in this one.

btw, I didn't notice this until this was pointed out to me by a website commenter but with the exception of Lily, all of the characters were dressed in colours of Clue characters, which Marshall was playing at the start of the ep.

Zoey wears white=Mrs.White, Ted wears purple= Professor Plum, Zoey's cousin Honey wears red= Miss Scarlett, Barney wears Green=Mr.Green, Robin wears Blue=Ms Peacock. The only other major clue character that is missing is Colonel Mustard and the show even makes reference to that when Marshall explaining the dilemma with clue cards uses the Colonel Mustard card for the Captain(obviously off screen)

was that artemis?

That whole Barney as Predator thing is really silly and all, but whenever he appeared and started making those clicking sounds it got me everytime. Also yeah, I think that girl looked like Artemis.

i hate to say it, but they are kinda losing me a bit. barney is a prop. robin hasn't had anything interesting to do in a while. ted and his love life...eh. i really do kinda wish marshmallow and lilypad would move to marshall's home town for their awesome spin-off about small town life. could get into that.

marshall and lily have always been favorites for me so i have no problem with them getting more shine for a while at the expense of the other characters

i think i'm too dumb for this show. tried to watch it now that it's in syndication, but each time feels like Inception - flashbacks-within-flashbacks and now we're back at the bar, but it's 5 years before the last time from another character's POV. then I say fuggit and retreat to Wheel of Fortune...

yeah the continuity stuff can be a little confusing, especially if you haven't been watching for a while. it's pretty dumb that the reruns tend to be two episodes in a row but in no particular sequence, just a random season 5 episode followed by a random season 2 episode. if they ran it in order it'd probably be way more accessible to people who haven't already been watching for years.

Interesting... The show seemed uber-traditional to me until people on this board pointed out how it plays with narrative. Not sure why. Maybe the plotlines and humour?

I mean, I always liked it anyway.

Barney and Robin have moved out the frame for a reason - it is all about Marshall's dad dying and learning to cope w/ that? They aren't integral until Barney has his own dad storyline - but one at a time. Two would be overkill.

it is amazing how well this show bounced back after a really terrible season last year

Kyle MacLachlan insisting "we had great big boners for each other!" was a great moment in TV history.

"who is this flower child and what has he done with my lion-hearted friend ted mosby?"

show is soooooooooooooooooooo fuckin awful

no

it is you know

who is going to report about ted's movie?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/movies/27radnor.html?hpw

it has nick sobotka in it too

Trailer looks terrrrrrible, but I doubt that I can help but go see it when it plays here.

show is soooooooooooooooooooo fuckin awful

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Saturday, February 26, 2011 12:18 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

my condolences on hearing of the loss of your correctness

you like a show where this is a joke

"whats up?"
"planning my wedding. stressville: population me!"

man, and that's the most beloved joke in the show's history too! don't make me get out my "Stressville, USA" t-shirt.

lol hoos

lol'd at 'you can't just tell someone what you want out of a relationship: this isn't england'

can you explain it please

that was a sad barney story. : (

Liking this barney arc a lot, seems right that he has an emotional breakthrough of some sort just before he (presumably) meets his dad.

Really loving this season's focus on early 30s milestones - Marshall's dad dying, Robin's career change, babies etc.

sandwich brownies

Seems the writers realized Barney was becoming a prop and started moving him into a different territory. On the other hand he was the one character that provided comic relief when all the others failed... season 6 is sort of a downer.

so i never realized it until syndication ep tonight but after the initial episode with ted's sister heather she is totally dropped from the show. but she lives in NYC and ted is a cosigner on her lease. did they ever explain why she just totally disappeared from the show?

I don't think she disappeared, she just hasn't been involved in any storylines. Same thing with Robin's sister.

well, Robin's sister visited NYC and then went home, Ted's sister moved there, so it's a little different. but yeah it's not so much a plothole or weird oversight as just the show not having much else for that character do, compared to say Barney's brother (although it is kinda dumb that they could have an episode about Ted's wedding and not have his sibling at least show up for a minute or something).

reeally glad that barney ending was a fakeout