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

this show makes me cry all the time this season

^yeah. Wish it made me laugh more though.

'infertile Robin' was pretty whoa

"Aunt Lauren sure loved a toasted bun."

have you guys ever been out with your friends and the night started to kind of lag and you fantasize barney walking in all like "ok guys watch this I call it the iowa caucus" or something? do i watch this show too much?

i know it's structured around ted and his finding the mother of his kids but 9 times out of 10 i kind of wish they would just write him off the show.

Thank you for the revive - is it new tonight? I'd forgotten it was on!

loved the changed theme song sequences tonight, especially the one that was a reference to the Russian version of the show that i posted itt a few months ago: 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

cosign!

"..we built chip city.."

ok, might be the time to get off this train.

but ted loves robin againzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

i did like the tag with the stripper but that can't make up for ted/robin

Wow how shit was that?

really don't understand people's ire for recent episodes/seasons of this show

I've liked most of this season actually (big rebound in general for the show after two seasons ago which was iirc a real low point), but i thought last night's ending was terrible. i thought the robin/kevin stuff was played pretty well and realistically, but we already know (due to robin's childlessness, the entire premise of the show being ted talking to his kids, the constant references to robin as aunt robin) that ted + robin will never work so this feels a little bit like the show is just turning gears bc we know they aren't going to end up together and it has kinda mined this particular plot point extensively over the course of the first few seasons. so it does feel like a retread. maybe they'll dismiss it pretty quickly tho, or maybe it'll turn out Ted telling her he loved her really meant that he loved her as a close friend or some other corny twist like that. In any case, it was a pretty shitty ending I'd say.

um, adoption?

I seem to remember the childless Robin episode ending with Ted saying that while Robin went on to do many things, she never became a mother.

I remember the same thing.

I thought he said she never became a pole vaulter? Maybe I'm mixing things up. Either way, there's no way he'd refer to his children's mother as "Aunt Robin".

Certainly there's a part where she's talking to her kids and then she says something like, "But you don't exist," or something and they vanished, which presumably wouldn't be the case if she had adopted children.

Find the flaw there, Mordy. I started to point it out to you, then had a moment where I realized that I was about to get pedantic on the fine points of a sitcom on an internet board. Thank God my self-respect has kicked in at the last moment.

I don't mind the pedantry. What's the flaw? I admit I don't remember every detail of that episode...

OK, they handled that really well, I have to admit.

Yeah, the resolution was decently done, but it still irks me how they throw that up as a Big Moment the week before. I guess I had figured that the Robin/Ted thing wasn't an issue anymore, but I suppose it ties in with that bit earlier in the season where they said they would eventually realize they couldn't be friends anymore.

really don't understand people's ire for recent episodes/seasons of this show

Seriously. I feel like they must have never watched a show that had a legit and noticeable decline. There may have been some imperceptible troughs, but the show has been shockingly stable in terms of quality for almost seven years. I'm hard-pressed to think of many shows that have pulled that off.

I actually agree with that and have said so upthread. I just thought the ending of last week's was really disappointing. But, like I say, they actually made it work this week!

I am sloooowly becoming one of those nuts who is starting to think the punchline of the series is going to be "and that's how I met your mother, and it was fantastic, but she's been dead for a year and I'm hooking up with your Aunt Robin now. Hope you're ok with that."

watching this episode i realized that i am pot committed to this show

i thought maybe things had picked up this season, after last year, but however many episodes in i just found that i didn't care if i missed it anymore. : /

The punchline of the series is going to be that Ted is dying. Or I'd like to think so.

i admit i choked up a little when he said, "you know what they say about closing a door..." and the street is full of yellow umbrellas

heh did anyone notice this?

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

I thought I was crazy when I saw that - I was like, "That dude in the background looks a LOT like Conan . . ."

yeah he won a walk-on role at a charity auction, but he didn't want to make it a big splashy cameo. it's pretty great even though i didn't even notice him the first time around.

Don't Marshall and Lily still own an apartment in the city?

I was wondering that. I guess they sold it when they moved to Long Island?

has there ever been a sitcom in the history of television as obsessed with young ppl getting married as himym?

You heard it here first, the mother is the stripper.

No, Ted didn't meet her at a wedding.

SPOILER .............

In season six, future Ted says he met the mother at "a wedding" -- not "the wedding" or "Barney's wedding". So we can't assume that he meets her at Barney's wedding. OTOH, Ted and Victoria met at a wedding, so are we sure she's not the mother? Does anything else disqualify her?

sounds plausible to me. i forget - whose wedding did they meet at?

I don't think anything else disqualifies her and I hope that they're planning on wrapping the story up reasonably soon so Victoria would be as good as any other choice. It's totally possible that she could have been a roommate of his ex and could have been at Columbia when he was teaching, right?

oh i forgot about that. no, i don't think that's likely at all. unless they retcon it because they realised that after 7 years they've only written one decent romantic interest for Ted.

i think they'll probably bring her around more and more frequently over the next couple seasons (they just got renewed for two, right?) and kinda weave her back into the story until they feel like it'd be a big payoff for the audience to have this particular character marry him after all these seasons. why else stick her in the finale after that last sendoff episode where they say goodbye at the train? <- i mean, seems very possible to me. i don't think i care one way or another

last sentence grimly summing it all up for me too tbh

best theory i've seen: barney's sister

Yeah, they've been stretching it out so far that it's hard to maintain the same level interest (yet we're still watching).

One thing I find weird about this show: at least twice now, Ted has gone over all of his exes, picked out the one that seems like the best option to settle down with, and called her out of the blue to hang out and try to get back together. Do real people really do this??

yeah, lames

half-invested in this show, half want to tell it to fuck right off

i don't think the character Ted is generally about "people really do this irl"