not a bad opener. I actually found Ted’s first day as professor more interesting than Barney and Robin’s relationship.
But I loved the whip!
I’ve gone through all four prior seasons in the space of the last month and a half so I’m really hyped to see this back. One of my favourite shows on Television at the moment and this season opener really hit why I loved the show. It’s frequently hilarious and has a great cast. Segel, Harris and Hannigan are possibly the greatest trio of support characters I’ve ever seen and Radnor and Smulders are often genuinely great as the ‘leads’. Radnor is still perhaps the straight guy a little too often, and his storylines can be kind of dull, but Smulders has become legitimately hilarious as the shows gone on.
GOOD ENOUGH!!!(CRACK!)
Tuxedo night sounds like fun.
It’s hilarious. I like the Big Bang Theory a little bit better but you can’t deny this show is awesome and very pop-culturey.
Favorite part? Every scene with the whip!
Special mentions to Tuxedo Night’s Gremlin \ Girlfriend Barnyism.
I had started to type it up.. but better yet, I found it on youtube. I want to know how to pick a tie!!! I need to hear that Barneyism!
Is it just me or did Segel look extremely fat?
Continuing the whip-love. “NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!”
I wasn’t into it and then the montage happened with Ted in the wrong classroom and Marshall cracking the whip at Barney and Robin and I was hooked all over again. I just couldn’t stop laughing, so glad to have this show back.
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| Originally Posted by Ryan Bean View Post Is it just me or did Segel look extremely fat? Continuing the whip-love. “NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!” |
I read in another forum where people are saying how skinny he looks now.
Cloud-Barney and the Gremlins/Girlfriend comparison were aces. But now I gotta know the Predator/picking tie thing
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| Originally Posted by neaux View Post I read in another forum where people are saying how skinny he looks now. |
lol weird. maybe it’s because I just watched an old forgetting sarah marshall dvd extra (filmed after the release of the movie) where he was pretty slim.
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| Originally Posted by Paul Allen View Post Cloud-Barney and the Gremlins/Girlfriend comparison were aces. But now I gotta know the Predator/picking tie thing |
knowing this show I wouldn’t be surprised if they revisit it and explain that. fingers crossed, because I too need to know.
Segel’s weight does tend to fluctuate quite a bit. It’s always different depending on the Season (But not as bad as Matthew Perry’s ‘The Machinist’ like transformation on ‘Friends’).
As for this episode I liked it a lot, though Ted in class did seem like an identical retread of Ross teaching Class on ‘Friends’, right down to the uber-smug student.
The only real mis-step is having Lilly explain the end to us. We can see how Robin and Barney really feel about eachother, it was like they were pointing it out to the stupid people.
or explaining it to Ted.
he’s a little slow on the uptake sometimes. haha
Marshall with the whip = priceless. “whip that habit!”
So very happy the show is back.
Hannigan’s momboobs for the win.
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| Originally Posted by Snaieke View Post It’s hilarious. I like the Big Bang Theory a little bit better but you can’t deny this show is awesome and very pop-culturey. Favorite part? Every scene with the whip! Special mentions to Tuxedo Night’s Gremlin \ Girlfriend Barnyism. |
I really tried watching The Big Bang Theory, but while it’s cute, it’s really not on the same level as HIMYM. But it tries. Hard. What makes HIMYM so great is that the cast has no weakness. None.
Also loved the whip. And that Predator line was so WTF I nearly cried. Great episode. Gotta love T-Dog!
I think people like to rag on Ted but he really has a thankless, Mary Sue-ish, straight man role. I think the stuff with him and Stella (and how that ended) was him at his best.
This episode was so-so, but I think the Ted stuff is actually better than the rest of the show.
Best gag of the night: Strip Club DJ’s shout out to Barney.
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NPH is just so perfect as Barney. The way he reacts to the AC/DC thing is just perfect on one hand he acts surprised but then he just sneaks in this little happy look that nobody else on TV can really pull off the way he does.
The Doppelgangers gag is hilarious I can’t wait to see Ted and Barney’s.
I loved that narrator-Ted dropped that he’ll be getting back to the doppelgangers.
Is it weird for anyone else that the Robin and Barney stuff ended so kind of abruptly? Not really a cliffhanger, but…
Very impressive FX in the double-date scenes, particularly the sidewalk shot.
P.S. Fantasy photo-op with Mustache Marshall. Also, hiccup death and “You kill me off?”
Unfortunately, the Kill off fantasy was already done in an episode of King of Queens. I wish I didn’t know that.
cute episode last night.. but not great by any means. The secondary storylines are usually funnier than the main storyline. But last night, the barrel stuff was a very weak subplot to the Robin 101 story.