How I Met Your Mother: “The Fortress”
Posted: March 20, 2013 Filed under: How I Met Your Mother | Tags: Barney's apartment, Downton Abbey, Robin and Barney, The Fortress Leave a comment
Grade: B-
Airdate: 3/18/13
I was pleasantly surprised by this episode of How I Met Your Mother. It started with a witty joke, followed by an over-the-top Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) antic and then what seemed like a shameless pop culture reference. When Older Ted (Bob Saget) started explaining the widely popular television show “Woolworhty Manor” by probably reading the first paragraph of Downton Abbey‘s Wikipedia page verbatim, I groaned thinking back to The Hobbit references in “Ring Up.”
But the episode surprised me. I am still glad that Downton Abbey did not allow the show to use it name — it’s far too dignified for that. Marshall (Jason Segel) and Ted (Josh Radnor) keep watching the rip-off Downton without Lily (Alyson Hannigan) because she is spending so much at her new job of being The Captain”s (Kyle MacLachlan) art consultant.
At first it seemed like another weak pop culture reference because Marshall and Ted aren’t two guys who would typically watch Downton together. But, as Lily spends more time away from them and starts becoming a billionaire snob like The Captain, Marshal and Ted are mistaken for a gay couple; two guys that would watch Downton together.
HIMYM, is that a theme? I’m impressed. Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Barney’s plot line didn’t have much of a theme, except crazy Barney features in his apartment. Robin is trying to get him to sell it and holds on open house. Barney goes through every ridiculous feature to try to turn off potential buyers. Like most jokes on this show, if they had done it three times it would have been funny but seven was a little much.
Marshall and Ted bring Marvin to the open house and get mistaken for his dads. Ted is already speaking in a posh British accent and Marshall decides to act sassy — it was a little much — and go along with it. Lily then comes and everyone mistakes her for being homophobic when she tries to get Masrhall to listen to her. With Neil Patrick Harris being the star of this show, you’d think they would have had a couple gay themes before but I think this was a first.
One of the girls at the open house is incredibly attracted to Ted, who she thinks is a posh, gay Brit, but of course she can get him to make an exception for her. That joke bumped the episode up a letter grade. Barney gives Ted a hug at the end of the episode for using the play and sleeping with her.
In the end, Robin turned down potential buyers because she took them insulting Barney’s apartment as insulting Barney. Lily told The Captain she needs to work less and spend more time with Marshall.
My feelings on the episode were continuously up and down. The bad Downton rips got on my nerves, but the show’s themes were used well. The gay jokes were funny, but Marshall’s gay impression was a little too much. Overall, it might have been the best episode in a while. That only means next week is going to be terrible. I will try not to be too disappointed.
How I Met Your Mother: “The Ashtray”
Posted: February 24, 2013 Filed under: How I Met Your Mother | Tags: Lily, The Ashtary, The Captain, Zoey Leave a comment
Grade: C
Airdate: 2/19/13
How I Met Your Mother confuses me most of the time. Last week’s episode was terribly written and not funny, but did a least had a point. Ted (Josh Radnor) needs to date one last crazy girl before he meets the mother. This episode on the other hand was slightly better written but lacked a plot and for some reason brought back my last favorite story line: Zoey.
Thank god, Jennifer Morrison is on a good show now and Zoey did not actually make an appearance in this episode. But her story line was brought back when Ted got a message from her ex-husband The Captain, played by Kyle MacLachlan. HIMYM used a common later season format of telling a story within a story about the last time the Ted, Lily (Alyson Hannigan) and Robin (Cobie Smulders) saw The Captain. The present story only had one funny joke of Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) trying to insert himself into the past story, because he was convinced he was there. If the joke had stopped at three times instead of six or seven it might have been funnier.
Ted, Lily and Robin saw The Captain at the opening of an art gallery a year and a half ago. The story is told three times. In the first, Ted realizes The Captain was dating his current girlfriend at the time. Robin then says that wasn’t true because Ted was high at the gallery opening and The Captain was hitting on Robin the whole time. Lily then tells us that neither of those were true because Robin was drunk. It turns out Lily really liked a painting down in the gallery by The Captain and his art consultant laughed her because apparently it was a terrible painting. He was calling to get Lily’s number because he wanted to offer her a job as his new art consultant because the painting was now worth a fortune.
Earlier in the episode, Lily started crying during a fight with Marshall (Jason Segel) over her using Aldrin Justice to steal The Captain’s ashtray about how she never got to be an artist. It was a good emotional scene, but seemed out-of-place in this episode. It was like the episode was trying to have a dramatic element but it just randomly through in one scene in the midst of comedy and drunk/high jokes. In the last scene of the episode, Lily tells everyone she took the job and Robin and Ted make up another version of the story including Barney doing a play from “The Playbook.”
Apart from my inital horror that Zoey might be in the episode, it was rather fun and okay. Still not as funny as earlier episodes, there wasn’t another that contributed to the story arch and the one attempt at drama failed. But whatever, I don’t expect too much from this show anymore.
How I Met Your Mother: “Bad Crazy”
Posted: February 21, 2013 Filed under: How I Met Your Mother | Tags: Bad crazy, Jeanette, Mike Tyson Leave a comment
Grade: C
Airdate: 2/11/13
This episode was pretty average for How I Met Your Mother these days, but some of the jokes were even more overdone than usual.
The show is keeping alive the idea that Jeanette (Abby Elliott) is the last mistake and the crazy girl who Ted (Josh Radnor) dates before meeting the mother. I like that it keeps bringing that up because I’m certain the show will not forget and bring in a thousand other terrible girls.
There is an overdone montage of Marshall (Jason Segel) and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) buying stupid stuff and then storing it at Ted’s. But, that leads into a witty jokes of Ted trying to convince the gang that Jeanette isn’t crazy and Barney happens to by fixing a cuckoo clock.
Later on, Ted says that he broke up with Jeanette but she doesn’t seem to think so. Barney and Marshall let her into Ted’s apartment and she locks herself in his room. Ted tries to get her to come out and leave but he ends up sleeping with her. Lily (Alyson Hannigan) tells ted that Jeanette is crazy but maybe crazy is what he needs. She predicts that it will end badly and in something being set on fire. Older Ted (Bob Saget) tells us she is right.
Robin (Cobie Smulders) has her own story line that she has never held Marvin before. That fact somehow lands her in a strip club with Marvin and Mike Tyson. It was kind of funny but the future scene of her telling Lily about what happened was a little over done. And the two of them seemed to not age for 16 years. The show did make Mike Tyson a senator in the future; that was a good joke.
Average episode overall. The show slowly seems to be following a story line again by setting up Ted’s last relationship and telling us it is going to end. I hope it is soon.
How I Met Your Mother: “P.S. I Love You”
Posted: February 7, 2013 Filed under: How I Met Your Mother | Tags: Robin Sparkles, Ted Leave a comment
Grade: C-
Airdate: 2/4/13
Even with bringing back Robin (Cobie Smulders) Sparkles and the story of how Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) met, this episode of How I Met Your Mother was exceeding average. And a later season level of average, so it had a lot of not funny, overdone jokes and a pointless story line.
Because this show is supposed to be about Ted’s (Josh Radnor) love life, the episode starts with Ted having a brief connection with a girl on the subway. He starts to become a little stalker-ish and Marshall and Lily tell him to stop. Ted ends up meeting the girl, Jeanette, played by Abby Elliott, and finds out that she was a little stalker-ish too.
So, that created the stalker theme for the episode. Ted tries to convince the gang that Jeanette isn’t crazy. Ted says you can’t force destiny and the rest the story line is about debunking that. It turns out Jeanette is really a stalker, who has been stalking Ted for almost a year. But, he gets with her anyway because Older Ted (Bob Saget) tells us you have to make one horrible mistake before you meet the one. One horrible mistake, really? You’re trying too hard, HIMYM. Every girl since Stella has been a mistake.
Anyway, when they were having the stalker conversation Robin admitted that she become obsessed with someone when she was a teenager in Canada. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) goes on a journey through overdone and forced Canada jokes as he finds the Canadian version of Behind the Music on Robin Sparkles. The episode seemed to forget that Robin Sparkles was a one-hit wonder in season two and three because suddenly she was popular enough to have played at the Canadian version of the Super Bowl.
The gang finds out about her lost grudge music video “P.S. I love you,” which she wrote because she was obsessed with some famous Canadian. It turned out to be Paul Shaffer, so that was mostly a wasted plot line to set up one lame joke.
Barney realized he became obsessed and confirmed Robin’s earlier point that it could happen to anyone.
This episode was everything I expect a later season episode to be: bad, not funny, plot-less, not having anything to do with how Ted become the person he needed to be to meet the mother.
How I Met Your Mother: “Ring Up”
Posted: January 22, 2013 Filed under: How I Met Your Mother | Tags: Barney's sister, Lord of the Rings, Ring Up, Robin and Barney Leave a comment
Grade: D-
Airdate: 1/21/13
This episode of How I Met Your Mother opened with Ted (Josh Radnor) telling the group he was dating a 20-year-old. And all my hope created by last week’s episode was lost. If the show was consistently bad, I don’t think I would be so disappointed each time a terrible episode comes along. But, knowing that the show can be good and then having an episode like this one just makes me sad.
So, Ted goes on his date with 20-year-old Carly, we weren’t even told her name until the episode was almost over. You know, names aren’t important for character development or anything. Ted tells us that the date was terrible and Carly is an overly weird and stupid version of New York hipsters that probably only exist in movies. That would have been okay if the show didn’t use that model for all 20-year-olds. Also, the “kids” as Ted puts it turn into actual kids at one point.
After that part I was left in a position I commonly find myself in while watching HIMYM: trying to find a reason not to give the episode an F. A musical number about how awesome Robin (Cobie Smulders) is and a bad Lord of the Rings/Hobbit reference is not one of the reasons I was looking for. Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) had there own story line about Lily being attracted to bad boys or in their terms Marshall wearing a leather cuff. Most of that was okay, but it was mixed in with all the terrible and had a slapstick comp out.
Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) is claiming that he is going through one-night-stand withdraw and needs Ted to bang the 20-year-old for him. Barney says he just needs to find something they have in common. Ted realizes Carly likes Star Wars too. The joke about her only liking the new ones did help the grade a bit. Ted said that was close enough and bangs her for Barney.
Ted then shows Barney a picture of Carly and she is his half-sister. Barney has a half-sister? Ted said now of them knew she existed until two years ago, so maybe it was in an episode I can’t remember. Barney realizes that he finds the whole thing immoral and Ted tells him his one-night-stand withdraw is over.
Robin spends most of the episode in her LOTR/Hobbit reference with her engagement ring making her invisible to men. It was a very superficial reference. The show referenced The Hobbit the whole time and has never said anything about the cast liking Lord of the Rings before. So, it was just picking a popular fab and trying to run with not. If LOTR really fit into the show, it would have been like The Big Bang Theory Lord of the Rings episode.
Robin’s problem is pretty much solved by Lily telling her Barney is the only men she needs.
And to think I thought the show had writing ability again. Can it just be over already? D-.
How I Met Your Mother: “Band or DJ?”
Posted: January 16, 2013 Filed under: How I Met Your Mother | Tags: band or dj, cindy, Robin and Barney, ted and robin, the mother Leave a comment
Grade: B
Airdate: 1/14/13
After much debate with myself, I decided to give this episode of How I Met Your Mother a B. And — as much as I hate to admit it — I liked this episode, for the most part. It had some moments that had me thinking it was the old HIMYM. It even did something serious and took it seriously!
The episode picks up with Older Ted (Bob Saget) reminding us that Robin (Cobie Smulders, who was clearly sick during the filming of this episode) and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) are engaged. The gang minus Barney are at the bar and joining through a strain of childish, not funny poop jokes — one reason the episode got a B. The poop is to confetti as weed is to sandwich analogy almost made up for it.
Ted (Josh Radnor) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) then square off for who gets to be Robin and Barney’s wedding planner. Their first disagreement: Lily wants a band, Ted wants a D.J. That turned into the theme of the episode and HIMYM, I applauded your sudden ability to write television again.
Robin tells them to hold off the planning because Barney has to ask her dad, Robin Sr., played by Ray Wise, permission to marry her. They go to a tacky NYC restaurant to meet Robin’s dad, who claims he is cool and fun now. But, he doesn’t give Barney permission and says he isn’t a real man because he has blonde hair.
Barney tries to prove he is a man to Robin Sr., which leads to lots and lots of Canada jokes. Robin tells the rest of the gang her dad keeps friend requesting her on Facebook. They warn her not to accept for all the regular, but always funny reasons. She eventually does and finds out her dad got married without telling her. She confronts her dad about it, tells him she is marrying Barney without his permission and he isn’t invited to the wedding. A black-haired Barney was standing behind Robin holding a bunny in that scene, but other than that is was serious. Old HIMYM, have you returned?
Lily and Ted are still going at it about the band or D.J. choice. Marshall (Jason Segel) thinks they are both being ridiculous, but Lily realizes there is a bigger issue and takes Ted up to the roof. Lily know he isn’t really happy about Robin getting engaged to Barney. Lily tells him he has to say it out loud, but she will say something worse first and admits that sometimes she wishes she wasn’t a mom. Ted then admits Robin should be with him and not Barney because he is the D.J., which is saver and more reliable than a band. I like that it was Lily, not Marshall, who took Ted to the roof. Lily has almost been a purely comic character for a while and she cried in this episode. There was a montage of all of Ted’s injuries in that scene, which was the second reason for the B.
Back in the tacky restaurant, Barney gets Robin Sr. to sort of apologize to Robin. Robin tells Ted that her dad has never apologized to her before and she decided to go with a band. But, Older Ted tells us he made a strong case for a D.J. that night.
The show then jumps four months into the future with Ted running into his ex-girlfriend Cindy, from season four, on the subway. Wow, the show remembered her and got the same actress. Cindy is there with her girlfriend, because she’s a lesbian, and they just had lunch with her former roommate, aka The Mother. Ted tells her the band just cancelled for the wedding and Cindy says her roommate’s band — she’s the bass player — could do it. Ted accepts. Older Ted tells us that if Robin hadn’t married Barney and they hadn’t gone with a band, he never would have met the mother.
That was a pretty good plot point, but clearly not how that originally was intended to happen. Cindy was dating Ted back in season four, when the show was still set on its five season course. The detail about her being gay and Ted’s chance encounter with her on the subway made it seem like there was a planned story arch for Cindy but the show let its popularity get the better of its storytelling.
Overall, this was a good episode. Does that mean anything about the next episode? No, I have learned from the past. It might seem that HIMYM is on a clear path with good writing that is finally getting us to a moment that should have happened three seasons ago, but it could return next week with terrible classic later seasons episode. But, I hope it doesn’t.
How I Met Your Mother: “The Over-Correction”
Posted: December 12, 2012 Filed under: How I Met Your Mother | Tags: Barney and Patrice, Barney and Robin, Judy and Mickey, Marshall and Lily's parents, The Playbook Leave a comment
Grade: D
Airdate: 12/10/12
About half way through watching this episode of How I Met Your Mother I come to the realization that I might be giving HIMYM its first F. I spent the rest of the episode trying to find something to help its grade. In-law sex and the intervention banner were this episodes only redeeming qualities.
The episode starts with a 4-way split screen of the gang minus Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) all trapped in closets somewhere. Basic HIMYM story format: Older Ted (Bob Saget) says he needs to explain and we jump to a week earlier with everyone minus Barney at the bar. The show has recently become a huge fan of Cleveland jokes. As I have said before, its funny for Ohioans but I don’t know about the rest of the world.
Robin (Cobie Smulders) says that Barney dating her annoying co-worker and not funny comic relief character Patrice, played by Ellen D. Williams, must be a cry for help. Ted (Josh Radnor) says Patrice is just an over-correction because of his failed relationship with Quinn. Still with Quinn? Come on, it took Ted less time to get over Stella after she left him at the alter and that was Ted. Anyway, Robin decides she needs to steal The Playbook and show it to Patrice so she knows that Barney is really a womanizing scumbag. Everything with Robin and Patrice is awkward and not a funny kind of awkward just a plain-old please stop type of awkward.
The only part of the episode that was OK was Marshall’s (Jason Segel) mom Judy, played by Suzie Plakson, coming to stay with him and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) for a few days. Judy tells Lily that she is ready to start dating again and asks Lily for help. Lily tells her she thinks her dating is a good idea, but that backfires when Marshall catches Judy sleeping with Lily’s dad Mickey, played by Chris Elliott. Marshall and Lily tell them they are OK with it if they want to date. But, then their parents tell them it is just for the sex. It was actually a little funny.
Back in the other story line, Robin breaks into Barney apartment to try to find The Playbook, but he comes home with Patrice. Robin finds it but has to hide in his closet. Lily was already hiding in one of the closet because she has secretly been using Barney’s apartment to pump breast milk. I’m not even going to common on that strangely random aspect of the episode. Robin had called Ted for help and he also ends up in one of Barney’s closet
Robin puts The Playbook on Barney’s bed so Patrice finds it. Just like Barney did with Nora and Quinn, he tells Patrice he is trying to be a better man. He throws the book into a trash can and lights it on fire. Ted, Lily and Robin see all this. Ted and Lily agree that Barney is serious about Patrice. Robin still thinks it is all crazy. Ted, Lily and Marshall start an intervention for Robin but the episode ends about 30 seconds into it. I’m not really sure why. I’m guess we will find out how it went next episode.
This whole Patrice thing is terrible. Trying to make a purely comedic character an actual character has never worked for the show before. The show is going to end up writing itself into a hole and having to write-off Patrice. Just like they did with Wendy the waitress. But unlike Wendy the Waitress, I will not be disappointed when Patrice is gone. She might be the Arcadian building of this season.
How I Met Your Mother: “Lobster Crawl”
Posted: December 5, 2012 Filed under: How I Met Your Mother | Tags: Barney and Robin, Lobster crawl, Marvin Leave a comment
Grade: C
Airdate: 12/2/12
For the last few episodes of How I Met Your Mother, I have said the first 25 minutes have been a waste and the only actually story has been about Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin’s (Cobie Smulders) relationship and left in the last five minutes. This episode changed that around and made half the episode about their relationship and half a story line with the other characters. It was better but not by very much.
The episode starts will the gang plus Marvin at the bar. Lily (Alyson Hannigan) and Marshall (Jason Segel) explains they only brought their baby to the bar because her dad is sick and couldn’t babysit him. So, they also need a babysitter for the next week or so. Ted (Josh Radnor) volunteers because he doesn’t have any work for a while. This story line was actually OK.
Ted becomes overly involved in Marvin’s life and starts to do a lot of firsts with him–the most important being witnessing the first time he crawled–which causes overly dramatic crying from Lily and Marshall desperately trying to control the situation. A couple of the jokes go on for a little too long, but the show ended Ted’s time as the babysitter by having Lily decide to fire him because he took Marvin to meet Santa and Marshall decide because he put Marvin in a Browns shirt.
They decide that Ted needs something to focus on and tells him to focus on designing a new building.
For Barney and Robin’s story line, Robin is acting all strange and trying everything possible to get Barney’s attention. Lily points out she is wants him so badly because now she can’t have him. Last episode they agreed they weren’t going to try to get together anymore. Robin is convinced she just needs to sleep with him one more time and everything will be fine. There is a not funny montage of all of Robin ridiculous attempts to get his attention. One was laser tag, so I have to give the show some credit for at least acknowledging its roots.
Robin’s last attempt is Lily’s idea of pretending to get with a girl right in front of Barney. Apparently that worked for Lily when she first meet Marshall and the show keeps failing back on making jokes about Lily’s crush on Robin. Robin ends up pulling the attempt with a work friend, but it fails because Barney leaves the bar with the friend.
The last scene is Robin making one last attempt to get Barney by going to his apartment, but that also failed. Barney rejected Robin’s work friend and ended up with her annoying co-worker. And for a moment I thought this show could take anything seriously. Nope instead it makes Barney date a failed comic relief character. The show has lost all its wit and has resorted to slapstick and bad storytelling. It could at least cover up Alyson Hannigan’s pregnancy in a comedic way like it did last time, but I don’t even know if it is witty enough anymore to do that much.
How I Met Your Mother: “Twelve Horny Women”
Posted: November 30, 2012 Filed under: How I Met Your Mother | Tags: Barney and Robin, Marshall, trial, Twelve Horny Women Leave a comment
Grade: C-
Airdate: 11/26/12
Each week I try to keep an open mind as I sit down to watch How I Met Your Mother, but recently seeing the episode titles ends any hope I had for the episode.
So let’s start the post for “Twelve Horny Women.” The episode opens with Marshall (Jason Segel) talking to the New York State Judiciary Board about the hearing his law firm had against a pharmacological company that was represented by earlier season recurring character and recent lawyer-strategy stealing con man Brad (Joe Manganiello). The scene switches to the courtroom during the first day of the trial. For a moment I was looking forward to a witty trial like the ones they have on Bones but with even more comedy. Then Brad started seducing the all women jury and all hope was lost. Can this show take anything just a little seriously?
The rest of the gang called in sick to work so they could attend Marshall’s trial and support him. Being in the courthouse makes them all tell their “bad-ass teenager” stories of how they got arrested. Scooter, played by David Burtka, made an appearance in Lily’s (Alyson Hannigan) and Robin’s (Cobie Smulders) was during her Robin Sparkles phase. So it wasn’t all bad. And in the end all the stories ended up being false and were really lame stories about their teenage years.
I did laugh at Ted’s (Josh Radnor) really being him getting his “mugshot” taken at the Shaker Heights Renaissance Festival. There have been a lot of Ohio references lately, which being from Ohio I have thought were funny but will most likely be lost on the majority of the audience.
So that part wasn’t that bad and knocks on Cleveland always get me but the trial part was so bad I couldn’t bring myself to actually enjoying the episode. Brad spends the whole trial flirting with the jury full of women and the gay judge and showing a ridiculously not funny video. Marshall realizes that Brad got some terrible rash from swimming in the contaminated Frog Lake, which is what this whole trial is actually about. So, he ends up winning the case. He makes up with Brad and they decide to go to brunch at The Popover Pantry. It turns out Marshall was at the judiciary board because he is applying to be a judge, but he will not find out if he is for a couple of months. I would have more hope for that but when the show tries to bring the characters’ work into the story it always goes badly. I’m sure I don’t need to remind you about the Arcadian building.
Again the first 25 minutes seemed to be an unnecessary prologue to the five minutes of actual story about Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin’s relationship. They have been acting weird around each other since drunkenly kissing on the street. Barney decides that they need things to go back normal — no drunk kissing or trying to be a couple — and he explains to Robin, while they are in the bar, what he is going to do and how she is going to react to it. Of course, it is what always happens and Robin is smiling through the whole time. Barney then walks over to the bar and the episode ends with Robin seemingly realizing that even though their relationship is weird she might love Barney.
The five minutes of cute and five minutes of Cleveland jokes was not enough to make up for the 20 minutes of suck. C-.
How I Met Your Mother: “The Stamp Tramp”
Posted: November 27, 2012 Filed under: How I Met Your Mother | Tags: Brad, Robin and Barney, strip clubs, The Stamp Tramp Leave a comment
Grade: C-
Airdate: 11/19/12
This episode of How I Met Your Mother reminded me a lot of last week’s episode; 25 minutes of it was a wasted, not funny story line and five minutes was actually good and progressed the story.
The episode starts with Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) deciding he needs to find a new strip club. He can’t go to The Lusty Leopard anymore because Quinn works there. He is pretty much recruited like a free-agent athlete by all the other strip clubs for the rest of the episode. About halfway through he hires on Robin (Cobie Smulders) to be his agent. Robin ends up taking the bribes from all the strip clubs for herself and tells Barney to go with the worst one. He ignores her request and choices a new one on his own.
He goes to that strip club for the first time with Robin. Apparently, they were kicked out for being wasted and Robin being too handsy. Barney tells he she has glad she come because he always has fun with her. Then he kisses her. Robin kisses back for a second, but then pushes him away, says she it can’t happen and walks away.
Now that story line was more than the last five minutes but all the stuff before them drunkenly kissing on the street was supposed to be comical and it wasn’t. This is the kind of stuff that makes me annoyed with this show. Why not have Lily (Alyson Hannigan) ask Robin why she agreed to help Barney find a strip club? Or have Ted (Josh Radnor) point out to Barney that this is all ridiculous because he has feelings for Robin. The last five minutes made me think that the show can still have good writing, but it hardly uses it.
The other story line involving Marshall (Jason Segel) and Brad, played by Joe Manganiello, from the earlier seasons, was bad because the show made the same mistake it did in “The Slutty Pumpkin Returns.” Marshall runs into Brad, who seems to be fat, disgusting and unemployed. Marshall is nice to him and gets him an interview at his law firm, which almost gets him fired. At the end of the episode we find out that Brad is actually working for a company that has a case against Marshall’s law firm. He was playing Marshall so he could see their strategy and win the case. If the show had told us that at the beginning it might have been funny, but without telling us it was just awkward and stupid.
Barney and Robin’s relationship slowly coming together is the only reason the last two episodes have not gotten F’s. I just want this show to be over, it’s just frustrating and sad now.
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