On Sep 23, 1:53=A0pm, "Sarah Palin: Lie, Lie, Lie, Drill Drill Drill!"
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> wrote:
> Spoilers for the "How I Met Your Mother" season four premiere coming
> up just as soon as I force my wife to watch "Hoosiers" again...
> Ah, my beloved "HIMYM" is back, and even a B+ episode like "Do I Know
> You?" was simply de... wait for it... lightful!
>
> The Ted and Stella story had its moments, particularly anything
> involving Marshall being creepy (hiding behind the couch was a good
> gag) or Ted's various interactions with 15-Year-Old Ted (high-fiving
> himself, imagining the high school quarterback ganking his proposal
> with a "What's up, turd?"), which continued the series' motif of "Ted
> Mosby is unstuck in time." And I can certainly relate to the
> existential dilemma of wanting the woman I love to love the same stuff
> I love (see above "Hoosiers" reference, or my semi-successful attempt
> to get her to read "Astro City").
>
> Overall, though, it ran into a couple of problems. First, Josh Radnor
> is always in danger of pu****ng Ted's neediness into unpleasant
> territory, and he came right up to the line several times here.
> Second, there's that matter of whether or not Stella is The Mother. I
> like Sarah Chalke a lot, and think she and Radnor work well together,
> but the way the show is structured makes it harder and harder to play
> the Is She Or Isn't She? game with Ted's girlfriends, particularly one
> where he's in this deep. I spend too much time trying to parse Future
> Ted's narration and not enough on just engaging with the story.
>
> But any episode with Barney swooning over a woman while still
> retaining his essential Barney-ness is a keeper, regardless of the A-
> story. Every time I feared that they were making him soft, another hot
> babe would wander through his apartment while he was whining about
> feelings to Lily, culminiating in the brilliant, rom-com-spoofing
> "Bimbos make me want to be a better man" monologue. Neil Patrick
> Harris had a lot of great moments throughout, whether it was him
> swaying his legs around the kitchen like a lovestruck 12-year-old girl
> or his high-pitched, indecipherable voicemail message to Robin. ("You
> left a voice, but it wasn't male.")
>
> So here's the question: where do you want this story to go? NPH and
> Cobie Smulders have great chemistry, and I think the writers have
> shown here that they can stay true to Barney while placing him in a
> more sincere storyline, but how does this all work from Robin's end?
> How does Robin get with Barney without hating herself or looking like
> a fool?
>
> Some other thoughts on "Do I Know You?":
>
> =95 Outside of the running gags about Canada and her love of guns, the
> writers don't always know what to do to make Robin funny, but her
> increasing dismay at those awful news teases ("Stay tuned for the
> full... scoop... Really?!?") was hilarious.
>
> =95 Craig Thomas lied to me. No full frontal ****ity for Jason Segel, and
> no crotch-grabbing for Alyson Hannigan. Sigh...
>
> =95 They may have been neither **** nor gender-bending, but Segel and
> Hannigan did some good work in sup****t of the others, before getting
> the final punchline of the episode, with Lily swapping out
> "rhinoceros" for "chimichanga" for her "We must have *** right now"
> code word. And speaking of which, Barney's explanation of the time-to-
> word ratio necessary to place booty call was the most quintessentially
> "HIMYM" moment of the whole episode.
>
> =95 Is the Carter the Great poster in Barney's apartment new? I know we
> haven't been there very often, but I don't remember seeing it before.
> I'd like to think that Barney was a fan of Glen David Gold's wonderful
> novel "Carter Beats the Devil," but my guess is it's just a production
> design hat tip to Carter Bays.
>
> What did everybody else think?
It's a horrible, badly-written show. Nothing clever or new or
refre****ng about it: same old jokes, gags, situations...etc..
It's just like the rest of that awful CBS "comedy" lineup.
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