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

its going to be robin

that would be such a cheat considering that the narrator (lol @ ted turning into bob saget) refers to "your aunt robin" when talking to the kids like 1000000x

i don't really care who the mother is at this moment but i think having that mystery is one of the things that make the show so much fun - like the sandwiches ep where we see Lily, Marshall and Ted smoke up in the future and ted idly wondering where his wife was.

that would be such a cheat considering that the narrator (lol @ ted turning into bob saget) refers to "your aunt robin" when talking to the kids like 1000000x

― meat of beef (Jordan), Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya i hate 2 break it 2 u but... its going to be robin

i will bet you 10 suggest bans that it won't

Ted would not marry a woman that's into the Old King Clancy.

considering how much the writers are into subverting expectations and putting odd twists on plots, i feel like it's not giving them very much credit to say "it'll be robin duh".

ya... its gonna be robin, tho

Not only does he refer to her as Aunt Robin, I think he actually says at the end of the first episode, "That was NOT your mother."

max u mad and wrong

ted ends up with robin but, and this is the twist part, the kids aren't ted and robin's, they're just these two other kids.

yeah i can totally see the narrator turning out the be barney

nah it's barney's kids and the narrator is their uncle ted. and how he met their mother.

ted is their dad, but maybe he divorced their mother and married their aunt robin. that's as far as i go.

but doesn't the narrator sometimesrefer to "uncle barney?"

i'm hardly a fanatic (HIMYM runs a distant third to 30 Rock & the office in my sit com rating system. tbh, they're the only three on the list), but the fact that this is dangerously close to being canceled and Big Bang Theory & 2.5 Men are "hits" pretty much sums up everything wrong about America

I'm just glad to get American imports at the moment. Big Bang Theory is still pretty much better than any English comedy right now, unless Two Pints suddenly figured out how to be great or something.

i wouldn't say i hate them. hell, i usually watch them without protest. even so...

I think someone theorized it way earlier in the thread, but I like the theory that Ted marries Robin in his 40s or something, maybe after the kids' mother dies or leaves. Robin can't be the mother of his kids but there's got be a reason why the whole series starts with and focuses on her.

Oh that Alan Thicke.

a heavy apron
a basketball
a whole rack of basketballs
an acoustic guitar
what seemed to be a burlap sack?

(gentleman's agreement, huzzah!)

Bunny Colvin!

maybe he refers to all his friends as "aunt" and "uncle" because the big twist is they find out they're all secretly related and have a big incestuous family together

great episode, teen wolf was a+

i was at work late, missed this :(

I feel like Murtaugh these days.

great episode, teen wolf was a+

+1

feels kinda weird how on the nose this show is @ depicting lyfe tho

so what's the difference between peanut butter and jam? alyson hannigan going on maternity leave, apparently.

I CAN'T PEANUT BUTTER MY DICK UP YOUR ASS!!!!

sorry...

o snap

I missed the opening gag - I see it must have had something to do with peanut butter - so did a debate over these two foodstuffs send Lily away for four weeks?

Robin looking SOOOOO pregnant, oh man.. Episode overall was a little disappointing, they should get rid of Ted and not let Barney ever say "Wait For It!" again.

barney told ted & marshall a dirty joke, they told him not to tell it to lily because it's "boy funny", he told it and "we didn't see lily for four weeks".

pretty lame episode imo, i only really liked how flippantly they got rid of lily and "a hot guy telling you when you can and can't pee? that's the dream!"

it felt like most of the jokes were broad/dumb in a different (worse) way than they usually are.

Last night's was the worst ever by a mile. I love the show and it was weird to be struggling to get through one.

Maybe it was a sneak preview of season 7 or something.

It just felt like filler that did some things that are kind of important (finding out marshall knew; ted's business) that had to be done and didn't really have any jokes. Shame fantasy guy didn't get more screen time tho.

the show is self-aware enough that it will probably jump the shark by having barney jump a shark.

i swear i've heard that joke IRL, i think the punchline is something about how a dog will lick peanut butter off your wang or something

i think the show is self-aware enough to know that doing the 'lol jump the shark' thing literally would be pretty lame

but by that point it would be a lame show, so you see

It's weird because I absolutely love Robin/Cobie but when they do these generic Friends-style Robin-sluts-it-up episodes, it generally doesn't work that well. I still enjoyed the ep, though - Barney's frustration was excellent as always, and the Sports Guy angle was pretty good. Wolverine claws!

i cringed but i laughed also. robin having trouble breaking up with people was funny.

went back and watched the murtaugh ep, the teen wolf was cheap but i laughed so hard

(lol at "the teen wolf" and "a teen wolf")

also, bunny colvin!!!

the show is self-aware enough that it will probably jump the shark by having barney jump a shark.

what would be totally amazing and unprecedented is if they had Henry Winkler aplaying a recurring character and then showed him jumping a shark for no reason in one of the late episodes

maybe it's the martini talking, but the jesus speech is totally awesome.

yeah nph went hard in that episode (nh)

no patrick homo

NPH did a good job on that one, overkilling it - Cobie's reactions helped.

The whole "three day rule" thing is such a sitcom cliche but as usual the rest of the cast made the episode enjoyable nonetheless. The guy who played Stan was great!

Stan is freaking killing it. Dude is a genius.

I think Stan was on the short-lived Knights of Prosperity, which also featured Christopher's AA sponsor from The Sopranos who was "great at forging documents." I liked that show, should've gone longer.