tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post2000017883864704303..comments2024-03-28T18:01:28.997-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: HIMYM, "Right Place Right Time": Hey glad girlsAlan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-60618880787859042422012-03-21T17:25:18.358-04:002012-03-21T17:25:18.358-04:00It's quite funny to come back to this article ...It's quite funny to come back to this article and read the phrase "it looks like the show is finally going for it." Oh, 2009 HIMYM Viewers, you were so naive...MrBilliamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-22711747984616388712009-05-06T07:15:00.000-04:002009-05-06T07:15:00.000-04:00Surprised no one has mentioned this but its hard t...Surprised no one has mentioned this but its hard to believe stella is the mother. she already has a kid, and unless ted's new kids are total idiots they would pick up on the fact that they have an older stepsister which would ruin his whole story. this is not how i became your stepfather or how she became your stepsister. Just seems weird that if she was the mother the kids would not pick up on this. God we watch this show too much.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18141769693734708734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-13239676727124109712009-05-06T05:34:00.000-04:002009-05-06T05:34:00.000-04:00Just thought I'd add: Mason Raymond ("What's the o...Just thought I'd add: Mason Raymond ("What's the opposite of name-dropping") scored a goal for Vancouver in last night's NHL playoff game.Rich Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-83612293124864783912009-05-06T01:17:00.000-04:002009-05-06T01:17:00.000-04:00Gotta love Milt the hobo listening to a grape frui...Gotta love Milt the hobo listening to a grape fruit during the chart sale.Eric Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-68620511287596475142009-05-05T22:32:00.000-04:002009-05-05T22:32:00.000-04:00@ Anonymous: I could get onboard with an end date ...@ Anonymous: I could get onboard with an end date like "LOST" got, just so they can plot out the big story more coherently. <br /><br />But, then, it kind of bums me out, because I'm not sure I'd want the show to end any earlier than it has to just for the sake of tightening up the weakest aspect of the show. If giving us a flimsier reveal of the mother (with more holes in the story) gives us an extra season or two of hilarious non-Ted content, I'd take that tradeoff. And we could just chalk it up to the Unreliable Narrator, and be happy we got dozens of extra episodes.<br /><br />Frankly, I wouldn't mind if they eventually changed the whole premise of the show. Wrap up the mother story, but somehow keep it going by having him transition into a new story.<br /><br />It would probably take really creative editing/writing, since Ted's kids have already gotten too old to come back and film new stuff, but who knows what footage they filmed of them already waiting to be used?<br /><br />For all we know, they have enough different bits with the kids reacting or asking questions, maybe they have some trap-door built in where, once he's told the story how he met the mom, he then gets to transition into another story somehow. Something focusing on Barney, maybe.<br /><br />Maybe when he reveals the mother, he accidentally reveals something else, which shocks the kids, and then he gets to go into a new phase of the story.J.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11999053649820732449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-12637324655851024332009-05-05T22:18:00.000-04:002009-05-05T22:18:00.000-04:00Steve said:Is there an end date of the series? Wil...Steve said:<BR><I>Is there an end date of the series? Will there be another season?</I><BR>The series was renewed for two more seasons a little while back, for syndication.<br /><BR><I>I don't think Stella is the mother (the writers must know fans didn't receive her very well)</I><BR>Just because some people here don't like Stella, it doesn't necessarily follow that people who aren't on the internet feel the same way. Some fans, sure, but not the majority that you imply.<br /><BR>MMM wrote:<BR><I>While this might be expected of him, in The Bracket he claimed he would never demean the women he slept with by putting them on "some tawdry list". He then followed this up by pulling out a scrapbook.</I><BR>OK, so he changed his mind and went through the scrapbook and made a list. No biggie.<br /><br />Besides, we already know that Stella isn't THE ONE because the hypothetical kids of Ted and Stella were not the ones he's been talking to in flashback.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15001530336692435773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-41725142354771586762009-05-05T21:42:00.000-04:002009-05-05T21:42:00.000-04:00Hey the Cowboy Hat Restaurant shouldn't be a big c...Hey the Cowboy Hat Restaurant shouldn't be a big challenge for an architect. Ted could just remodel <A HREF="http://www.johnmariani.com/archive/2006/061105/Brown_Derby.jpg" REL="nofollow">this one.</A>flem snopesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-64597103698041827962009-05-05T21:36:00.000-04:002009-05-05T21:36:00.000-04:00The Marshall charts montage had me rolling, especi...<I>The Marshall charts montage had me rolling, especially the one about the Presidents... it really is a long list (Johnson, Bush, Harding, Polk, Filmore... wow dirty names)</I><BR><BR>One Bush was 2nd dirtiest, and one was 9th!Mark Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-70490486662404341232009-05-05T20:37:00.000-04:002009-05-05T20:37:00.000-04:00I only had one real problem with this episode.
B...I only had one real problem with this episode. <br /><br />Barney has apparently been keeping a list of all the woman he has slept with. <br /><br />While this might be expected of him, in <I>The Bracket</I> he claimed he would never demean the women he slept with by putting them on "some tawdry list". He then followed this up by pulling out a scrapbook. <br /><br />This just seems like yet another continuity error for this episode and takes some wind out the previous joke. (I totally lost it at "...and Helouise. She helped me do the decoupage")<br /><br />Overall though, it was definitely a step up from the rest of this season and I thoroughly enjoyed it.<br /> <br />@Anonymous If you hadn't mentioned the "bump-in" at the bar I was going to. Here's a picture of the woman in question from the St. Patrick's Day party. <br /><br />http://tiny.cc/bz6JY<br /><br />She definitely has my vote for The Mother.MMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-38011848332666384762009-05-05T19:46:00.000-04:002009-05-05T19:46:00.000-04:00GREAT episode. I loved it from start to finish.
...GREAT episode. I loved it from start to finish.<br /><br />The Marshall charts montage had me rolling, especially the one about the Presidents... it really is a long list (Johnson, Bush, Harding, Polk, Filmore... wow dirty names) to Celia... awesome.<br /><br />The intervention callback was a nice tip to the fans.<br /><br />The seXXY joke was one of the more clever jokes I've seen on television.<br /><br />Plus I love the sliding-doors angle... it's fun.<br /><br />I don't think Stella is the mother (the writers must know fans didn't receive her very well), but I liked her cameo... I did not expect them to show anyone, let alone her.<br /><br />Is there an end date of the series? Will there be another season?<br /><br />The only thing I didn't like was the coda.Steve.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-79502815242544784542009-05-05T17:25:00.000-04:002009-05-05T17:25:00.000-04:00James took Barney to the Man Maker *after* Shannon...James took Barney to the Man Maker *after* Shannon dumped him for the suit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-11520707584361364462009-05-05T14:58:00.000-04:002009-05-05T14:58:00.000-04:00Remind me: Are we certain Barney lost his virginit...Remind me: Are we certain Barney lost his virginity at 23? I know he and his hippie girlfriend were saving themselves for each other, but wasn't he supposed to be a teenager when his brother brought him to the "Man Maker" back in "The Yips"? He may have taken some time off from gettin' some, but if he is 32 or so, then 16 years is correct. It is just not entirely fair. It's like counting the years he was retired to determine Michael Jordan's lifetime stats.<br /><br />That said, even counting from 23 (assuming Barney is 32), his batting average is .021, which is still worse than a quarter of Jim Abbott's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-59519756378910080622009-05-05T14:26:00.000-04:002009-05-05T14:26:00.000-04:00This show needs an end date like "LOST". Let the ...This show needs an end date like "LOST". Let the writer plot a path to an actual ending.<br /><br />Right now, the producers remember the show's title and feel the need to do episodes about finding the mom. They go nowhere and aren't the best part of the show anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-28752290297246003902009-05-05T13:34:00.000-04:002009-05-05T13:34:00.000-04:00She's not the mother, folks, so don't freak. She's...<I>She's not the mother, folks, so don't freak. She's just another link in the chain of "we're still not finding out until the show ends, so don't get worked up about this episode</I>.....................I don't sense anybody really "freaking out" over this episode, what I sense- and what I personally feel is complete apathy at this point-and if there is any anger it that they wasted 10 minutes of a 22 minute show trying to be clever.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06336003200003462670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-6029231445246600352009-05-05T13:17:00.001-04:002009-05-05T13:17:00.001-04:00I'm a recently new viewer of HIMYM, I just got cau...I'm a recently new viewer of HIMYM, I just got caught up on the last seasons right before we started watching this one... so I apologize if this has been talked to death... but does anyone think the mother is the girl that Ted "randomly" bumped into in the bar on St. Patty's Day? There was a moment where he bumped into a girl and they paused and said "I'm sorry" and it just seemed to me to be such an awkward random moment that I feel like there is something to it. Maybe she and Stella were friends at that bar that night or something? Just a thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-83897630350396652062009-05-05T13:17:00.000-04:002009-05-05T13:17:00.000-04:00Just another highlight: the fact that of the two "...Just another highlight: the fact that of the two "Bush" entries on the Presidents-with-dirty-names list, one is at #2 and the other is at #9. Or something like that.DonBoynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-72918802623795932272009-05-05T12:54:00.000-04:002009-05-05T12:54:00.000-04:00I don't ever expect them to reveal the mother unti...I don't ever expect them to reveal the mother until the show ends. So I saw no point in getting worked up about OMG THERE'S THE MOTHER, and I didn't. I didn't expect them to show anyone at all and leave it as a lame cliffhanger, so when Stella showed up I was all, "Well, hey, I wasn't expecting that." She's not the mother, folks, so don't freak. She's just another link in the chain of "we're still not finding out until the show ends, so don't get worked up about this episode."<br /><br />That said, the rest of it was still darned good even sans Lily and with addressing The Yellow Umbrella crap just to remind the audience that theoretically there's a mother. Robin flat-out saying she's pregnant and being covered in more purses and puking in 'em and Ted "stepping up" and Barney fleeing for his life? Marshall's pie charts and math and intervention? Comedy gold. <br /><br />(Though yes, I was also, "Dude, wrong math, he lost it at 23 and he's not nearing 40 yet.") <br /><br />They never did show Barney finding out Robin isn't pregnant, did they?<br /><br />I have to admit to being shocked at Barney ripping up the list, though. Kind of a "whoa" moment, even though I don't expect him to give up the womanizing forever.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16906089927390662087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-67683800763000686132009-05-05T12:21:00.000-04:002009-05-05T12:21:00.000-04:00Agree with your entire review, Alan! This show is ...Agree with your entire review, Alan! This show is so well-written and the characters so well-drawn. I love watching and enjoying its wit but have absolutely no interest in the "mother" reveal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-9972352647388120952009-05-05T12:12:00.000-04:002009-05-05T12:12:00.000-04:00I can't believe no one else fell out at Barneys co...I can't believe no one else fell out at Barneys comment about how his bodybuilder conquest was in SEXXY and like most women in that magazine was sexy spelled with an 'XXY' (chromosome disorder making her not genetically female). I apologize for butchering the joke, i don't have the episode to go back to.<br /><br />My husband and I had to pause the DVR. (not because of any gender-identity phobias, but because the joke was so damn cleverly executed)<br /><br />I had guessed that the episode would end with Robin realizing she wasn't on the list, and Barney realizing she was more than a simple conquest to him and blah blah blah. I was kind of glad not to see it go in that direction.<br /><br />I also didn't get the pie chart about bars and bar chart about pies until reading the comments here, now i can recognize it for its full genius. The Cecilia chart reminded me (happily) of Eddie Izzaed talking about growing up with Venn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBpWwC9qNpAUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15358097082236656453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-30695183686058062702009-05-05T12:02:00.000-04:002009-05-05T12:02:00.000-04:00For what it's worth -- probably not much -- whoeve...For what it's worth -- probably not much -- whoever does the Yahoo TV Recap (someone named Frank?) incorrectly "reports" that the mother was revealed last night.<br /><br />http://www.yahoo.com/s/1067476Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-88483894147990582772009-05-05T11:27:00.000-04:002009-05-05T11:27:00.000-04:00I'm glad Barney took all our advices and started t...I'm glad Barney took all our advices and started tivoing Robin's morning show. I think he's become a fan of the show.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-33537696712091696242009-05-05T10:57:00.000-04:002009-05-05T10:57:00.000-04:00that last moment with barney looking up at robin m...that last moment with barney looking up at robin made the whole show for me.<br /><br />everything else was hilarious. that moment was joy!Carolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09412645118253860411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-34839983014278646512009-05-05T09:58:00.000-04:002009-05-05T09:58:00.000-04:00Beautiful as Sarah Chalke is, there's a reason she...<I>Beautiful as Sarah Chalke is, there's a reason she's not a hand model. I could have sworn it was Death himself reaching out for Ted.</I>She has man-hands.<br /><br />I honestly thought it was a guy tapping him on the shoulder lol.<br /><br />And, count me in the camp of those NOT missing Lily. She's always been very easy on the eyes, and I do miss that a bit, but from a comedy standpoint, she doesn't bring anything to the table on this show. <br /><br />For me at least.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-89408850460347165622009-05-05T09:35:00.000-04:002009-05-05T09:35:00.000-04:00hated HATED the ending for all the reasons stated ...hated HATED the ending for all the reasons stated above (Ted's ending, not Barney's) I don't like Stella at all, and tired of all the Red Herrings. <br /><br />Also if you think about it the ending doesn't jive with the rest of the show. Ted already knows Stella so if either she is the one (which I'm sure she's not) or she points him to the one he did not have to be at that exact spot, at that exact time, for him to meet the mother. He could've been down the block, across the street, whatever - and she see's him and waits for him. (also if she hooks him up out of guilt she could've just called him on the phone anytime). the only way his destiny thing works is if he literally runs into the mother at that crosswalk.<br /><br />Maybe I'm being too literal but this ending really pissed me off. <br /><br />Everything else on the show was fine but I do miss Lilly and Marshall.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06336003200003462670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-58897668097270393762009-05-05T08:57:00.000-04:002009-05-05T08:57:00.000-04:00Also, "Robin Scherbatsky vomiting" does not bring ...<I>Also, "Robin Scherbatsky vomiting" does not bring up an appropriate clip on YouTube.</I><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBQOQy7FOM0" REL="nofollow">Someone has rectified that</A>.Lorenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10466505033314234610noreply@blogger.com