How I Met Your Mother: OMG Is Ted's Sister The Mother?
No, of course not, that's a very inside HIMYM joke about how we're supposed to wonder that every time a new female character is introduced. So this was the Christmas episode, and Ted's sister came to visit and Barney was really Two And A Half Men-gross about her. Here's his holiday song, which is such a Two And A Half Men-gross thing that I actually yelled "It's only 8:30!" at the TV in honor of the former innocence of all the poor children who were watching, but then the end part was moderately amusing, so whatever:
It was actually a pretty good episode, going back, as it did throughout, to the well of making fun of Robin for being Canadian (this time we learned Canadians are afraid of the dark.) Somehow this show is the only show that can get away with the cliche jokes about Canadians. On every other show, movie, or, especially, comedy act, anyone would be embarrassed to still be doing jokes about Canadians. We get it: "Canadian" stands for "Anyone Slightly Different", because there's nothing actually wrong with Canadians pretty much ever except for that guy on that bus, and so Canadians are the last people we're all universally allowed to gently mock, including child molesters, for whom the world, or at least Law And Order: SVU, is gaining a degree of cautious pity. Anyway, the important thing is: HIMYM makes mocking Canada still funny, and also here are some three-years-late and probably already done ideas for other sitcoms with the built-in-mystery that keeps (some of) us watching HIMYM:
How I Got Crabs
How Puke Got On Your Pants (like Lost, this one would have a planned run of only five years.)
How I Met Your Mother (but addressing the viewers, not a character's future children)
The possibilities are endless. Also, crabs are the go-to STD when you want to make an STD joke but you don't want to be too offensive or ruin someone's day, so you choose crabs because they're basically harmless and easy to get rid of (or so Gabe says). That's right, this entire blog post has just been coming around to this point: when it comes to Americans and cliche jokes, crabs are the Canada of STDs. And vice versa.
Posted by Lindsay at 4:50 PM in Sitcoms
Tags: Alyson Hannigan | Cobie Smulders | How I Met Your Mother | Jason Segel | Josh Radnor | Neal Patrick Harris
We Canadians love it when American TV shows make fun of us, because it shows you're interested.
Oh shit, I just outed myself.
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i bet you pronounced it "oated" too!! HAHA! those silly Canadians!!!
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I know nothing aboot that.
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As a Canadian living in the States on a student visa I'd like to know what kind of super magic visa Robin has. She's unemployed yet she's still living in the US? They totally need to do an episode where she gets a letter from Homeland Security telling her that she needs to go back home - and then she has to marry Ted or Barney to stay in the country. I may be over-thinking this or it's my own aggression coming out knowing that if I ever drop out of my program, I'll probably get a letter the next day from Homeland Security telling me to get the hell out of the US. Seriously, how is she still in the country? And how can I get that visa?
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i think they are going to address that in an upcoming episode. but if they make her marry anyone, i hope its barney, going back to the robin/ted plotline would be a mistake.
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