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Episode 9 - Glitter


Another episode of How I Met Your Mother ... another twenty minutes of my life flushed down the drain. How this show has gotten to a sixth season is beyond me.

This week's episode centers around friendship and BFF's. Robin is annoyed by Lilly "reading what to expect, when you're expecting to expect". Barney finds a video of 'Space Teens' ("Solving crimes in space using math") - i.e. teenage Robin, or shall we call her Robin Sparkles?
Ted hooks up with an old BFF - Punchy, and Robin gets closure with her BFF - Jessica Glitter.


What I liked:

• Bringing back poetic Ted ("When Glitter's womb a fruit did bear ... to hell with this, I'm outta hare"). Reminiscent of the shows better days (The Sexless Inkeeper, anyone?).
  

What I didn't like:

• Pretty much everything else. Especially story-lines like this. Super lame.
  

Ideas for the show to rebound:

• Perhaps an increased role for Bob Saget? Voice-overs alone are far from enough ...
• Some kind of major plot twist (and actually going through with it) - Lilly and Marshall separating; Ted actually finding a serious girlfriend; Barney getting a new job. Anything. But something!
• Getting rid of Lilly - never was a fan of that character. Super annoying and rarely funny.
  

Episode Rating:
3 (Bad TV) - Seriously, why do I still watch this show? For the occasional chuckle?

Episode's Best Line:
"Two Dudes watching a kids show might be worse." - Barney (on how Space Teens must be porn)

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I have to admit I really dislike this show. I dislike it even more since it seems to be becoming increasingly popular. It is somewhat cute but not funny, and its cuteness borders on obnoxious. It is a failed experiment in humor and a decade or so out of style with its reliance on a laugh track.

In this weeks episode there were a few things stick out in my mind: Every joke they make, they make at least twice. They revealed the identity of Barney's father to distract the audience from the frustrating lack of progress on the HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER front. The producers also stubbornly cling to the outdated entertainment fashion of jamming a moral into each episode and down the viewer's throat. Leave it to Leave it to Beaver. As it is, I found this episode's moral of acceptance of ideological concessions annoying.  In general, this show annoys me, and in particular this episode stinks.

Episode Rate:
2 (Not worth watching)

Episode's Best Line:
"Wait. I'm half Jewish, will that be a problem?" - Ted Mosby