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 worry a lot that jason segel is going to leave the show

Not stanning, she's just very nice on the eye.

why? it's not like I Love You, Man's gross was so amazing that he'd feel too big to do a show that he seems to really enjoy making. (xpost)

I too was worrying about Jason leaving but I do think he just loves sitcoms. He's essentially been playing the same guy since Freaks & Geeks, though he may have been playing Mustache Marshall in Undeclared..

lol...i dunno i've thought about it, he definitely has a 'type,' but his characters in How, F&G, Undeclared, FSM, etc. are all at least in different enough situations that they're all pretty distinct, and he kind of has different levels of dorkiness/emotional neediness/goofiness for each of them.

Sooooo much better this week.

BOWL

best episode in like forever. dug it a bunch.

such a goofy show. i love it though.

really like this show's depiction of relatively realistic career arcs (i.e. basically none of the characters ending up with the jobs that they want)

is marshall still working at barney's bank?

i mean they all still have pretty ridiculous jobs but yeah

so glad this is easily watchable online (cbs, and tvguide.com apparently). i don't remember that being the case before this season.

i dunno about tvguide but it's been on cbs.com for a while

easily watchable, that is

guess i was just busy last season

silly penguins acting all fancy

loooooooooooooool

great when they break out the ted storytelling lies, the thumbs up replacement and robin's non-erogenous zones

really liked marshall's elaborate fantasy sequence from last week's episode

Barack Obama Jr.?

that whole fantasy thing was a king of queens episode, although it was way funnier on himym of course.

I want a full version of the cat funeral song.

i couldn't watch this tonight! will have to watch tomorrow on the interweb.

that cat funeral song was indeed tops

http://www.itwasthebestnightever.com/

Don't usually like or regularly watch this show, but cat funeral song won me over truly, madly, deeply. Meow meow backups FTW.

ridic dope episode imo

seemed like a burlesque of itself last night, with lots of screaming and out-of-character plot-required mood swings. some decent set pieces but when old-timey barney avoided the hand of a woman with a beard i saw a shark in the water. but that's season 5 of anything for you.

enjoying the post-natal breast display, though

This us still as good as ever imo, it's always skirted with lameness and had runs of poor episodes but besides the season opener (which always seem to be weak with this show, remarkably), it's all been pretty strong and think this was the best so far this series

I want a full version of the cat funeral song.

^^^ this

Loved that Barney and Ted have switched personalities to Barney's horror. I don't see any shark jumping; the poems follow on from things like the Bro Code origins, Marshall and Lily have always been that way, Marshall has previously got addicted to stupid things (charts!) although I wished they could fit in an intervention, Barney certainly has previous experience of wanting his friends around (going to go get Lilly in SF)... all adds up to a 'normal' How I Met Your Mother episode.

A great one at that. Cat Funeral song was the best.

let's never say "shark" on any thread about a current TV show ever again please please please

except like Shark Week or something, that would make things quite difficult

Nuno Bettencourt!

this was a good one, except my digital reception kept cutting out on punchlines

didn't love this one

i think it was a zero on the LOL meter

i guess it was more O_O than lol

i know humor's a very subjective thing and all but...i l'd my ao last night the same way i have w/ most other episodes of the show

my lol meter must be broken

because i thought curb your enthusiasm was pretty atrocious on sunday as well

i know what you mean, sometimes i'm just in a weird mood and can't laugh at anything, not that i'm feeling mad or humorless just nothing hits me like that for a while

too many sardines

let's never say "shark" on any thread about a current TV show ever again please please please

dude it was barney in old-timey clothes speaking in rhyme about an ugly woman played by a man in a dress. don't blame the effect for the cause.

dude what fucking show are you watching that's never involved goofy costumes and/or fantasy sequences involving Barney.

it was a particularly "STFU TV show!" type moment

well, YMMV, it wasn't the greatest gag or anything, but i feel you'd only be able to strenuously object to it if you've conveniently missed every episode where Barney dresses like a lesbian or elderly Barney from the future, floats over NYC in a nightshirt, has long hair and a soul patch in a flashback, etc.?

It's not like it was a scene bizarrely out of keeping with the rest of the series.