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

Robin's popular with fans but i don't think Ted & Robin is popular like Ross & Rachel or anything, i'm sure there are some goofballs out there rooting for them to get back together or for the show to wave some LOST-style fairy dust and make her the mother, but probably not most viewers?

The "Mother" is a brunette, I am sure of that at least.

i get the general impression that more fans root for Robin and Barney than Robin and Ted actually.

Did I miss something or did the writers screw up a little? I thought that originally Barney had never met his Dad at all: That was why he could believe that Bob Barker was his Dad and later believe, if briefly, that his Dad was black. If he had actually known and even lived with his Dad until he was 6 (looked older than that!), what we know about his background so far makes less sense. Besides, his mother was not supposed to be the type who would have stayed with a man for 6 years.

his dad posed as his uncle iirc

Oh, he said "Uncle Jerry"? Cool, I thought maybe I missed something since they're usually really good about narrative and continuity.

i sort of feel ted wasn't going out with robin when he got the boots

ha you're right -- the original red boots episode was halfway through the 3rd season, which began w/ them breaking up.

yeah but didnt he already have them in that episode?

i guess he could have bought the boots during the relaish but not really made a thing of wearing them till after

I believe it was bought up how he couldn't pull off his red cowboy boots, thus making him wanting to prove he could. I don't think there was a mention of when he bought them.

Chick that sold him the boots was smoking.

I have to say I really liked the transition "We're also.... a band!" and then them playing the credits.

Especially since I really dislike their usual credits.

did not care for this episode at all. but my lithgow tolerance is pretty low. kinda feel like this show is winding down in a big way and yet i know its probably gonna be on for another 3 years.

waiting for lithgow to turn out to be a serial killer

that episode DID kind of suck. but yes, title sequence was a nice change-up.

well overall i didn't really enjoy this episode a lot but there were still some things I liked. I don't really know why but like the fake lives Barney gave out made me laugh and I really enjoyed Marshall completely getting into his playwright thing. Tbh I kind of tend to give this show a free pass and enjoy it however shitty the episode is.

yeah, I feel the same way. It's just that when it's on, it's really motherfuckin ON

actually dug the club talk

Don't know why when Segel said he had written one rock opera, he didn't finish off with "about Dracula, but with puppets."

nah Marshall's rock opera is probably about Nessie

xp to Phil that would have beem sublime

really enjoyed Marshall completely getting into his playwright thing

yeah. and i liked the idea of the credits but not the credits. there was something kind of sour about the robin/ted thing and it didn't make a lot of sense to me. anders is swole but doesn't have a particularly handsome face. whatever. if they're closing the season with the wedding then they haven't shown much sign of doing so.

Ted's friend (Punchy?) is engaged. That makes the most sense, at this point, for it to be his wedding.

best scene ever
http://video.aol.com/video/whos-on-first-sort-of-how-i-met-your-mother-41811-tv-replay/482495844

Thought last night's was excellent.

Wish Zoe (Zooey?) would fall down a well, but otherwise I thought it was a good episode.

She's hotter here than she was on House.

^^^

This is true. Unfortunately, not hot enough to make this angle worth suffering through.

she's so unfunny. i think its unfair to have unfunny cutie love interests.

speaking of which, that scrubs woman on that jack black show after this show must be in some competition to be the most unfunny person on cbs since jenna elfman. jenna being the apex of blonde unfunny. the mount everest of unfunny if you will.

and its totally a cheap trick. yay, she's finally gone from this show! awww, she's on another show! booooooo!

its like a four way race on that show between jack black, american pie, scrubs, and annoying red head to see who can be the lamest. maybe that show is some elaborate tax write-off for the network.

I've never been a big Zooey fan either, actually, but, accepting that she's part of the show for now, I did think this episode was very well-crafted.

HIMYM for some reason just doesn't know how to use guest stars, whether one-off cameos or recurring character arcs. lots of hot girls, sure, but nobody that's been really memorably funny or has had the kind of chemistry the main cast has with each other.

also imo Sarah Chalke was often funny on Scrubs but has been deadweight in pretty much anything else

loved the family feud and absinthe bits

yeah those were both great

Zooey breaking and explaining that her family lived at the Arcadia and Ted saying he loved her was way more touching than I expected it to be. I R sappy.

the drinking stuff was pretty funny.

The season finale didn't do much for me. This season really took a downturn after Marshall's dad died.

Agreed.

it also reminded me of the mistake that was robin + barney (and 'robin + barney get fat and ugly').

what a mess.

i think/hope they realized the ugly fat Robin & Barney was a low point for the show and that future storylines about them being together will be completely different, although the callback was a bad sign. i like that they brought Nora back, though, things definitely felt unfinished w/ her.

At least now we understand why they suddenly took a break from the Nora/Barney storyline. They've been screwing up all the relationship storylines though, they know how to stretch out the chase but Ted and Zoey became 1000X less interesting after they got together, for instance.

it looks like it's far from a callback—on the basis of robin's sad-face, that's going to be robin and barney's plot next year.

well obviously the plot will be them having feelings for each other again, but i don't assume that means the same "we look like crap when we're a couple" thing all over again (which may be wishful thinking admittedly)