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

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.

This show has no direction anymore. They all broke up with people after just a few episodes and we hardly ever saw them onscreen, why should I care about any of them? They brought Victoria back after six years only to sacrifice her to the 195857th version of the "Ted needs to stop being friends with Robin" storyline? Then he proposes to her and they break up in the space of half an episode? And the whole thing is forgotten by the next episode? One week Nick is a girly girl, the next week he's a goofball chef who rides a motorcyle, the next week he's dumb. Couldn't they make up their minds?

I do like that the unreliable narrator lets them retcon characters all the time. Or I did like that -- now I'm sort of tired of it after the billionth time.

They brought Victoria back after six years only to sacrifice her to the 195857th version of the "Ted needs to stop being friends with Robin" storyline? Then he proposes to her and they break up in the space of half an episode?

This was pretty frustrating to me too. The Marshall/Lily 'snap sister' thing was probably the best part of that episode, which isn't saying much.

(Haven't seen last night's yet though.)

OK, wow, NTBT OTM.

i haven't watched this for two (?) years, no longer rewarding to follow : /

my dad really likes this show

slash my dad has a thing for alyson hannigan

which is obscurely depressing

I do not now, nor have I ever, fancied Alyson Hannigan.

This was pretty good.

like i said upthread, i haven't watched this in forever - don't know what's been going on, seems not to matter anyway - but that ending was pretty affecting

i have to say i agreed a 100% with robin's speech to barney... and then she says yes, wtf

Last minute turnaround by Jason Segel means there will be a season 9. Damn.

They've gotten back on track again after finishing with all those stupid breakups. The "PS I Love You" episode was genius.

robin sparkles episodes are always a treat.

I'm not sure what accent they were going for. Definitely didn't sound like Vancouver though.

I think I'm just still watching because I've invested enough time in that I want to find out who the mother is. Looking over this season's episodes, I don't know if I've been that into any of them. I didn't even buy Barney's stupid convoluted proposal scheme.

Barney's proposal was horrible and no one ever should buy into it. Robin even had a big speech about it but then caved in. Otherwise same as you I've spent o much time waiting for the mother I might as well hang on for a few more episodes. And once in a while there's a good episode, like this one to remind me why I liked this show in the first place.

Confirmed: Season 9 will be the last, the program will end in 2014, and we WILL meet the mother

Your post made me realize they could end this show with the biggest fuck you ever. Last episode ends with Ted talking to a girl we can't see and he just says" and that's how I met your mother" without ever showing her.

I've long had the feeling that that's exactly how they're ending the show.

is it true that luc robitaille was on the show

100% true, while wearing an la kings shirt iirc

I saw 3 minutes of this the other night and was kind of appalled.

Not unfair.

at least they're not doing the fat suits.

all time how imho.

http://o.canada.com/2013/02/05/tim-hortons-creates-the-prestley-after-how-i-met-your-mother-joke/

that's the sequence I saw.

is James van der Beek sposed to be cool now?

I liked him in Apt. 23

I liked him in Dawson's Creek, don't apprec the faux ironic version

nah, the irony is sincerely meant.

Mark my words: we meet the mother, the big reveal is as he is talking to the kids she's been dead for a year and he's asking their permission to date Aunt Robin.

Mark my words: we meet the "mother", the big reveal is that after all those years of searching for the mother, he realized that actually he was into dudes.

I thought those sequences were kind of dumb btw. I just thought it was amusing that Tim Horton's actually named a doughnut based on something from the show.

I think they just whipped up a batch in the kitchen, unlikely it'll get added to the rack.

Unionville, sour cream glazed.

Loved all the Dave Coulier jokes.

Yeah, loved the Dave Coulier stuff and the, uh, "big reveal"/confirmation that Robin Sparkles was based on Alanis (as opposed to, say, Tiffany).

They just went through a year's worth of storylines in about four episodes (i.e. with all the break ups) because they weren't sure they were coming back for another season. Now they somehow have to stretch out Robin and Barney's engagement for another year (and find a year's worth of stuff for everyone else to do), it could be a long and painful ride to the finish although the last few episodes have given me some hope.

i didn't realize abby elliott is chris elliott's daughter!

Note deliberate avoidance of showing Robin's left hand in flash-forward scenes (to make marital status unknown), and the maternal feelings ex machina -- my theory is so correct.