This Week's How I Met Your Mother Was Absolutely Hilarious
Now that How I Met Your Mother doesn't need Britney Spears cameos to be a certified hit, it seems CBS is letting them just do whatever they want or something, because Monday's episode was one of the funniest of the entire show, including Robin Sparkles/Slap Bet. If you've never seen the show, or if you've seen one crappy, hug-and-learn episode and wrote it off as a typical sitcom, this episode, "The Three Day Rule," is your perfect entry point. It has everything: a hilarious hoax, a counter-hoax, a risky but funny incest joke, Neal Patrick Harris/Jason Segel cuddling, and a bouncer quoting Pablo Neruda poetry. HIMYM isn't nearly as quotable, but this episode was almost as good as a so-so episode of 30 Rock. The greatest compliment!
Any other clips would give too much away, but here's the opener, in which Barney explains the origin of the "Three Day Rule" of calling girls. It's not Swingers:
Just watch the whole thing here. By the time NPH and Jason Segel are fighting over who Ted most wants to have sex with, you'll forget you're even watching a traditional sitcom. Except the laugh track will remind you. Still!
And here's a teaser for next week -- Robin's pregnant!:
Robin is totally not going to turn out to be pregnant, but if she is, I really hope the father is the Pablo Neruda bouncer.
Posted by Lindsay at 1:15 PM in Sitcoms
Tags: Alyson Hannigan | Cobie Smulders | How I Met Your Mother | Jason Segel | Josh Radnor | Neil Patrick Harris
I will never watch this.
Score = -19
Barney had some great lines in this episode. I think I laughed (loudly) multiple times! Better than it's been in weeks.
Score = 3
Marshall Erikson: Star of Ted's gay dreams.
Score = 8
I wish they'd come up with some stupid story to explain Robin's size instead of trying to cover it up, which is obviously not working.
Score = -2
They've been making jokes about the pregnancies of both of the lead actresses the entire time, instead of trying to force some plot point to explain it.
Thus, why Lilly would stand behind giant globes and things.
Everyone knows they're pregnant, so they're just trying to have a bit of fun with it, instead of pretending they can hide it.
Score = 2
There are still people under 50 who watch network television? Even the Food Network and Travel Channel have more creative programming in one evening than an entire week's worth of sitcoms on the major networks. Lame.
Score = -11
You're the person this post is for, then! For real! Let us know which parts were more for the over-50 set than the travel channel after you watch.
Score = 6
kinda loved this
maybe I should watch HIMYM more often!
Score = 3
I'd like to back up Lindsay on this one. I haven't watched a television program with a laugh track and 3 camera editing since I was 10 and thought Friends was "the dream"... but How I Met Your Mother is a real Semi-Precious Stone in the Network Television Rough. I just went through the series on DVD and it's a nice time.
Score = 5
I was happy that they gave Robin the best line in this episode (incest joke). I enjoy HIMYM but very rarely LOL at it. I LOL'ed at that line. Nice job. And fuuuuccckkkkkk every other sitcom for playing it too safe and having terrible plot lines and lame jokes.
Score = 2
Man, I'm sick of everyone slobbin' on 30 Rock's knob. This episode was funnier than just about every episode of that show, if not every one. 30 Rock is funny, but it's not the absolute funniest show ever.
Score = 2
This show would be bearable if all the characters weren't total pathetic sad sack types, and if the dialogue wasn't forced-quirk, and if it had a premise that wasn't based on a creepy sad sack's quest for love. So I guess there only way to make this show not terrible is to make it a different show.
Score = -4
i've always wanted to like this show (good cast, decent concept) but the laugh track is unbearable.
Score = 2
"I'm cuddly, bitch!"
Score = 0