HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: “The Burning Beekeeper” – RECAP
Over the years How I Met Your Mother has been able to create a number of fun, gimmicky episodes that take advantage of it’s narrator based storytelling to play around with time and show events out of order and it usually does so with great success. Some of the shows best episodes, such as “Brunch,” [...]
“46 Minutes” of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
I want the Internet to be honest with me; was this week’s How I Met Your Mother funny, or is there something wrong with me? Aside from Barney declaring himself leader of the group (followed by a tweaked title sequence featuring way more Barney) I never so much as chuckled during “46 Minutes.” I was [...]
Tailgating with HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
Welcome to 2012 everybody! I’ve got to say, I was pretty stoked that the first new episode of television I’d be watching this year would be How I Met Your Mother. I find it fitting to start off the New Year with HIMYM for a number of reasons. For one thing, out of all the [...]
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: “Symphony of Illumination” – RECAP
“Symphony of Illumination” was one of those episodes of television that employed a different narrative tactic than usual that at first I found off putting, but by the end of the episode it had such a precise and meaningful purpose that all misgivings I had seemed silly. For the first time ever on How I [...]
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: “The Rebound Girl” – RECAP
Would you ever consider adopting a child with one of your best friends? In some ways it seems like a wonderful idea. How I Met Your Mother spells out all the positives it can think of if Ted and Barney got a kid together, but it never hides the fact that it’s a crazy idea [...]
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: “Tick Tick Tick” – RECAP
Barney and Robin’s brief relapse in “Tick Tick Tick” has been a long time coming, with the set up seeded through out Season 6 and the beginning of the current season. The way the couple were brutally mishandled the first time around gave me pause to when they started kissing last week. I wasn’t prepared [...]
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: “Disaster Averted” – RECAP
“Disaster Averted” took us back a few months,to when Hurricane Irene was bearing down on New York, as Ted told the story of how he caused a rule to be made about boogey boarding at McLaren’s. This was a tried and true How I Met Your Mother episode, containing big laughs, tender moments and someone [...]
The Slutty Pumpkin Returns to HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
The problem with revealing the identity of the Slutty Pumpkin now is we as an audience have had six years to build her up in our imaginations. No celebrity guest could live up to our own versions of the character, and even if by some twist of fate you got exactly whom you were hoping [...]
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: Sigmund Freud Would Love Noretta
I’m having trouble defining How I Met Your Mother’s latest episode. I laughed quite bit during “Noretta”, but at the end of it I felt rather disappointed. How does that work? How could I have chuckled at every other joke and felt genuinely displeased with the episode? After some serious soul searching I figured it [...]
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER and How the Internet Ruined Dating
In its newest episode, How I Met Your Mother became very critical of the way technology is used in society these days, as well as being critical of sitcoms in general. When you go that route it can be difficult to keep the laughs coming while still getting your point across. But HIMYM is hardly [...]
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: Are Ewoks Good or Bad?
How I Met Your Mother continues its streak of solid episodes with “Field Trip,” but unfortunately also continues the less than funny plot of Robin and her psychiatrist. This has been a running problem for Robin for the last few seasons. The writers just can’t nail down a good match for Robin, and it’s starting [...]
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER’s Therapy Crisis
Sometimes sitcoms make mistakes. It happens. The important thing to do is to just accept it and enjoy what it does right. How I Met Your Mother started off this season just right, and now four episodes in I’m prepared to cut it a little slack on a small misstep. This isn’t the first time [...]
