Archive for October, 2008
How I Met Your Mother: Happily Ever After
Written by admin on October 30, 2008 – 2:16 pm -Season: 4
Episode: 6
First Aired: 11/3/2008
The gang contemplate ways in which they’d handle an unwanted encounter with a person from their past.
Writers:
Jamie Rhonheimer
Director:
Pamela Fryman
Stars:
Josh Radnor (Ted Mosby)
Jason Segel (Marshall Eriksen)
Neil Patrick Harris (Barney Stinson)
Alyson Hannigan (Lily Aldrin)
Cobie Smulders (Robin Scherbatsky)
Recurring Role:
Jason Jones (Tony)
Darcy Rose Byrnes (Lucy)
Sarah Chalke (Stella Zinman)
Bob Saget (Voice of Ted, 2030)
Guest Star:
Michael Bolten (Kyle)
Eric Braeden (Robin, Sr.)
Meegan Godfrey (Becca)
Max Prado (Michael Sasser)
Chris Dotson (Waiter)
How I Met Your Mother: Episode 4.4, Intervention - Recap
Written by admin on October 15, 2008 – 8:18 am -
Is there anything worse than finding out that your friends hate something about you while you remained oblivious to the whole thing? Good thing on How I Met Your Mother, there’s interventions. Their first intervention came when they attended their friend Stuart’s birthday party, which actually ended up being a meeting to get him to quit drinking. Ted and his friends took it from there, staging interventions every time they didn’t like something someone in the group did from Marshall wearing a tall hat to Lily’s fake British accent to Robin’s spray tan obsession. None were ever too serious though, until the day that Ted came across an intervention banner and letter addressed to him, regarding his friends’ strong feelings that he shouldn’t rush into marriage with Stella.
I should mention, before continuing tonight’s recap, that once again Neil Patrick Harris stole the episode. His intervention, in which his friends wanted him to stop using magic tricks involving fire, was laugh out loud funny. He also spent most of the episode in an old many costume, in an attempt to prove to his friends that he could sleep with a 22 year old, even though he looked 83.
Moving on…
So one might think that this anti-marriage intervention would make Ted angry but instead, it validates all the fears he’s been having and he decides that he doesn’t want to leave Manhattan after all. He literally begins unpacking his boxes and putting things away. This prompts Marshall and Lily to unpack THEIR things, feeling that their best times have been in this apartment. Who would want to live in a place with crooked floors near a sewage plant anyway? Just when you think that Robin won’t crack, she does and decides that she can’t go to Japan after all for her news anchor job.
The four head down to the bar to celebrate when they witness a disturbing site: old Barney making out with a hot young French woman. Ted delivers an inspirational speech telling everyone that they SHOULD move on with their lives and one year from tonight, meet up again and celebrate with a $2500 bottle of scotch, the most expensive item on the shelf. They do reconvene one year later but it seems that even though their lives have changed, the friends are still in Manhattan and in each other’s lives full time.
How I Met Your Mother: Stella!
Written by admin on October 10, 2008 – 7:37 am -Season: 4
Episode: 4
First Aired: 10/13/2008
Stella’s sister Nora stops by and she does not love Ted. Lucky for Ted, Nora’s fiancé does not love Nora either, and he practically leaves her at the altar. And there is an empty altar waiting around for a bride and groom to stand in front of it…
Stars:
Alyson Hannigan (Lily Aldrin)
Bob Saget (Voice of Ted, 2030)
Josh Radnor (Ted Mosby)
Cobie Smulders (Robin Scherbatsky)
Neil Patrick Harris (Barney Stinson)
Jason Segel (Marshall Eriksen)
Guest Star:
Danneel Harris (Nora)
How I Met Your Mother: I Heart NJ
Written by admin on October 7, 2008 – 5:55 pm -
(S04E03) As a native and resident of New Jersey, I was very offended by this episode.
Actually, that’s not true. As most Jerseyans will tell you, we have a sense of humor about our state and make fun of it all the time. But when outsiders make fun of it, boy… watch out.
Ted Mosby’s the worst kind of New Yorker; he moves there from some other part of the country, rides a subway or two, has a dog at Papaya King and thinks he has the right to make fun of the B&Ts (Bridge & Tunnelers) who love visiting New York but would rather live in their (slightly) cheaper and quieter homes in the suburbs. We’ve seen Ted unleash his wrath on the Garden State in the past, but now his dislike of my home state came back to bite him in the ass… in the form of a pretty blond doctor.
I know Stella’s not supposed to completely fit in with the gang, but you’d think she’d have slid into the group’s groove a lot better by now. And it’s weird, because we all know how good Sarah Chalke can be in a comedic setting.
Stella was a little more animated tonight, but it seems like every time we see her, she becomes more staid and dull. Maybe Bays and Thomas are doing this on purpose to not make longtime viewers think she’s the mother; after all, she’s making Ted move out to a place he hates so much that he goes to the bathroom to drop a “huge New Jersey.” Yes, Teddy came around after he realized that being with Stella and her daughter Lucy was the important part. But I don’t buy it. Ted was his usual selfish self just five minutes before that, only compromising enough to suggest moving to Brooklyn; I can see this being a big issue as we go along.
My favorite moment was Marshall’s speech about being “too big for New York.” “I’m a huge monster that came out of the ocean to destroy bodegas!” Given his Minnesota background, it’s refreshing that Marshall hasn’t bought into the NYC mystique as much as Ted has. But those withering looks from Lily will keep him in New York forever.
We just knew that Robin was going to get that foreign correspondent’s job, wasn’t she? Two weeks ago, I wrote: “And will that job (Barney) encouraged Robin to go for will take her away from Barney in one of those cruel twists of fate? Can this show be that melodramatic?” I guess it is. It’s interesting that the entire time Barney was keeping his fist up for hours looking for a cheap bump, he was sincerely encouraging Robin the entire time to believe in herself and not call her old boss back. The look on his face when she mentioned the new job is why NPH is the MVP of HIMYM (whew, a lot of initials there).
More fun stuff:
- Despite the fist hold and the “awesome manly pain tears” associated with it, Barney’s speech that described the regretful look women get when they go back to him a second time was the Best Barneyism of the week. It worked on about three different levels. Close second: his attempt to seduce a lesbian.
- Never saw dog shirts at my Costco (or Price Co., as they called it), but those recliners with cupholders were all over the place.
- Robin’s 24-esque adventure to get back to her old job on time seemed to be a bit underdeveloped and out of place, but worth it to hear “Molar bear” and “the shocking de-rails… after this.”
- Stella said that NJ is a place where you know your neighbors. Maybe in her neighborhood, it is. I have no idea who everyone is on my floor, and I’ve lived next to some of them for years.
How I Met Your Mother: Intervention
Written by admin on October 3, 2008 – 5:15 pm -