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

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"

the Robin reveal was obvious as shit, another pointless romance for Ted, etc.
Barney's stripper girlfriend has been the best character this season

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

But what are we supposed to think of this? Seems a bit calculated to be a wild romantic gesture.

(they just got renewed for two, right?)

They're only renewed for one more season, S9 isn't confirmed yet. I guess that's why Barney and Robin's wedding happens "somewhere down the road" rather than "in X years time".

Barney's change from man slut to faithful husband would have been 1000X more interesting if this wasn't the *third* time he'd decided to get serious about a girl. We already know that Barney can change so why should I be surprised if he wants to settle down? So I can't really get invested in the Quinn/Barney relationship at all. Not to mention that every relationship on HIMYM is about the chase, once people finally get together the writers run out of ideas for them and they become boring and break up for no reason after a few episodes.

That plus I just don't feel any chemistry between them.

Are we sure that was Barney's wedding?

We saw in the first ep(?) this season that Barney wanted Ted's opinion on ties. Also NPH tweeted we'd find out who Barney was marrying on Monday afternoon..

I read an article with the creator about some future storylines that disproves a couple theories being tossed around, spoil* yourself if you're interested!
http://www.vulture.com/2012/05/himym-barneys-bride.html

*It actually just refreshes some plot points about the clues he's dropped about the mother

Actually this Wiki elaborates about 'the wedding' Ted meets the mother at
http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/The_Mother

why do i watch this

Because Marshall is the prettiest girl in the city

I gave up watching this. I hate the fact that I watched 6 seasons in the hope all would be revealed. I got suckered in and was left feeling a fool.

you were seriously watching to find out who the mother is!?

we saw the wife tonight but not her face because it was obscured by that yellow umbrella but we know where they meet now

ted is so so awful. that said, this was just an emo recap episode, so whatevs. german jokes were good tho.

Tom Lennon's accent was kinda weird. Hard to tell if he really speaks German or not based on the little bits there, but he had an Eastern Switzerland/Western Austria thing going on.

My husband speaks some German and apparently when Ted first tells him "I know wunderbar" he starts going off about how excited he is to meet an American who speaks German and that he didn't have any friends in America he could really talk to, which I found funny.

FYI: The How I Met Your Mother soundtrack has been released on itunes. It looks pretty awesome.

he's already clearly taking of the baby 24/7, they should have made lily's dad the guardian

This show is really going downhill this year.

yeah that last ep was esp horrible. marshall and lily's thing, like serious, whoever thought that was a fun joke that needed to be repeated over and over deserves a slap or smth. so many failed proposals and running out on your wedding/lg term relationship in this show, i've lost track.

i still can't help but watch though. i feel like a drunk the morning after a bender who keeps saying he'll never drink again and ends up puking his guts out the next night.

I've been enjoying this season, not finding it any worse than last season.