Lackluster. The last two episodes of American Idol have been dreadfully boring. There’s no zip … no action … little to write home about. Oh, they tried to make things interesting. They tried to brew up a bit of a storm between Katy Perry and Kara DioGuardi in Hollywood. (Seriously: Listening to Kara anymore is […]
Ladies and gentlemen, you have just witnessed How I Met Your Mother: the catch-phrase episode. There were four — count ‘em, four — catch phrases permeating “Jenkins,” for better or for worse. And tonight, we definitely got a little bit of both. Let’s start with the “but um,” a bad habit of Robin’s that become […]
Dear Bays and Thomas, First off, I’d like to thank you for giving Neil Patrick Harris yet another opportunity to shine, by giving him a musical number in your 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother. It’s not like he doesn’t outshine every member of the cast on a weekly basis, but we all […]
I’ve been pretty vocal about episodes of How I Met Your Mother sucking in the past, but one thing I’ve never accused it of is stealing. Whether or not I enjoy an episode, I’ll admit that they are pretty original. Tonight, though, they blatantly stole right from the pages of Friends. Remember the episode when […]
“I hate Barney Stinson.” – Ted, to no one, as he ran through the streets trying to get to Maggie before Barney wooed her. “Me too!” – off-camera female voice The chanting in my head began early this evening: HIMYM, please don’t suck tonight … HIMYM, please don’t suck tonight…. Well, the jury was still […]
“Life is short, I figured slap-é diem.” – Marshall, to Ted and Robin, on bequeathing them the fourth slap When I saw the title of this episode, “Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap,” the very last thing I expected was a Lily-centric episode. One guess how I felt about that … yeah, you’d be right. […]
“If you fall for that one, my heart breaks for you, but I’m sorry, you’re a Smoron.” – Robin about Barney’s SNASA playbook entry Last weeks episode of How I met Your Mother ended with a simple, two-word promise: “Daddy’s home.” And home he is, because tonight, Barney’s back. I won’t say he’s better than […]
