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

i dont remember the belle & sebastian thing

haha oh ok - yeah i wouldn't know about that. chalk it up to future ted getting the dates wrong again or something.

xp max, the girl who beat ted up after he broke up with her (twice) on her birthday was a belle and sebastian fan.

I think he dated a girl who was obsessed with.. chickfactor? I do remember the LOL-gigantic pile of B&S cds all stacked up on top of each other

'we rule the school' was the song that was playing, unless i'm remembering it very very wrong.

how have i missed so many episodes!

oooh I think you're right Gukbe! All I remembered was a slow tempo :)

It feels like to me they've toned down a lot of the musical references (probably to save the annoyances of inevitably cutting them from the DVD releases, which is really weak in this day and age - most shows have that locked up before broadcast now) but I have to admit I smiled when they used a song from Terror Twilight at the end of one of the first season eps.

(also I agree, I think they just have good taste in general, it's not a cynical ploy)

the fact that they've used 2 Pavements songs and they've both been from Terror Twilight is imo something that put them in a corny overload danger zone

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is the music different on the dvds?

they make up for the corniness with cheap trick and bon jovi.

What, because Terror Twilight is such a cultural touchstone? Would it be worse or better if they used "Cut Your Hair" or something like that? I think the creators/musical director just liked that album... corniness be damned, I guess. Either way the reference is fairly appropriate for characters who got out of college around that time (same with that more plot-critical B&S ref).

^^ A lot of songs are cut from the DVDs. For some reason they'll pay for the TV broadcast rights but not for the DVD rights. This comes up a lot in older TV shows to DVD - Freaks and Geeks was notoriously held up for years as they painfully acquired rights to every song in the show - but for a new show in this age it's kind of stupid they didn't clear them beforehand. I haven't seen any of the DVD sets in a while, so maybe they stopped doing it after season 2 or 3, I don't know.

jesus christ

Nhex i did not mean to hurt your feelings, it was an offhand comment and I did not think through the way it would impact you emotionally

jesus christ

(@ 80% of thread, not Nhex)

was it arguing about b&s or pavement that put it into corny overload danger zone for you, will?

i thought i posted a slight retraction on the belles comment, but apparently not. thinking back, that incident must have taken place around the early noughties (right?) which would have been pretty otm for that time iirc. still think there was a continuity error tho.

also, insanity about the music licensing.

let's change the subject. marshall removing the chewbacca head to do the voice? awesome!

rewatching the naked man. must be the season peak.

i really felt bad that they weren't watching Robin's show.

i really felt that bad that we didnt get to watch robin's show. its a must for dvd extra imo

still think the season (and maybe show) peak was barney's family

lol @ lily knowing a bit too much about barney's porno fantasy.

some dude: Sorry, maybe that did come off touchier than I wanted it to.

^ I am so hoping this turns out to be from Ted Moseby: Sex Architect!

where is the “touchier” quote coming from? I don’t recognize it? maybe just a brain fart…

he's referring to the whole exchange re: Terror Twilight

oh look, you are some dude!

sorry, bro

many many xposts, but there was nothing pseudo about that Lebowski homage. Totally full-fledged.

well, there was no bowling alley/pins! I don't think they even turned in the sky like the Dude does..

please

hey if Barney had started referring to his dick, johnson, or his rod - fine

yes they should have had a giant flashing message at the bottom that said BIG LEBOWSKI REFERENCE (WINKY FACE)

i guess they basically already did but come on

hey man I was first to mention it on this thread anyway or should I make THAT blink? damn bbcode

just make a .gif about it

maybe I will!

I met a Wooooo! girl last night.

In five years, will this show be as irrelevant as Friends is now? Assuming we agree that Friends feels irrelevant now.

if we're talking about cultural relevance, HIMYM was never popular enough to enter any Friends-type conversation on those terms, and if we're talking about i dunno.... social relevance? i suppose unrealistic singles-in-NYC sitcoms are bound to become even less realistic over time, but does it really matter?

HIMYM has been a perpetually-in-danger-of-cancellation show, so, yeah, the question is moot. That said I never thought Friends ever had any kind of realism or social relevance, it was a fantasy through and through. HIMYM is at least a little closer to being realistic (though I grant that most of us don't live in giant apartments and are friends with playboy wall street types and news anchors), I suppose that's pretty debatable anyway.

I don't know if it'll have any cultural relevance in a few years but really I don't care all that much as long as it keeps making me laugh. And anyways it's not like it's a big TV show that everybody watches is it? There isn't that much of an audience for the show (I'm guessing, I don't live in the US) so most people have no clue wtf I'm talking about if I mention a sleeping cravat do they?

Yeah, until this thread started I felt like the only person who even watches this show. It's been on the verge of cancellation nearly every year.

word. i only know like one other person who watches it irl.

do people really care how "relevant" the shows they enjoy are?

n/a OTM, I don't see how that matters in terms of how one can enjoy a show like this (also I'd argue that "Friends" is a bad example since it seems that it gets funnier to me as it becomes more irrelevant; now that it isn't being held up as THE PINNACLE OF MODERN COMEDY I have space to find things in it that make me laugh).

Episode tonight (at half an hour earlier? Did they cancel Big Bang Theory?) is really lol.

WTF? I hate it when they pull this shit, now I have to torrent it *grumble grumble* BBT is far from cancelled, hell, it already got renewed for two more seasons while HIMYM is, yet again, kind of on the bubble.

I never said either show was realistic. First of all I made the comparison not because of popularity but because they're both about supposedly average 20-somethings doing what supposedly average 20-somethings do. Whether or not the show was fantasy, Friends was rooted in 90's culture and it feels dated even now. I think HIMYM is a lot more honest about how its characters fritter away their time while dealing with their major life/relationship issues like Friends never was, ie. drinking heavily, taking drugs, sleeping with strangers, etc. And in that way think that makes it kind of timeless. Fuck your semantics.

I was going to be all "wtf no one brought realism into this" but then I reread the thread

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yeah if you're going to show two episodes, one old and one new, why would you show the new one at the wrong time and the old one at the right time?