This has been one of my favorite shows since it started. It’s been consistently well written and acted and is one of the few I make it a point to watch every week. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I really hated tonight’s episode. Not only has the wacky antics of stoned people not been a funny premise in years, but the continued need to refer to smoking pot as “eating a sandwich” is really kind of stupid in light of all the other inappropriate things Ted tells his kids about. Robin and Kevin have zero chemisty, nor for that matter do Robin and Barney (and on a superficial note I hate Robin’s hairstyle!)and I’ve really started to dislike Lily. I don’t know if it’s the mommy to be character or Allyson Hannigan herself but I’m startiong to really find her irritating. Is it just me or was something off tonight?
I agree that I don’t see Robin and Kevin as a couple. I really don’t like Kal Penn in this role.
I really didn’t like this episode at all. It tried to capture elements of better episodes and did not succeed. The “tick tick tick” would have been better as an allusion to The Tell-Tale Heart rather than the whole long-second thing at the end. I’m not giving up on the show and it’s not awful, but the last season and this one have had a lot more dramedy than comedy.
I thought this was a pretty mediocre episode, up until the last five minutes. I thought those were gut wrenching. This season has been a lot about Barney’s evolution, and NPH really sold those last scenes.
That’s sort of true and sort of not true. From the POV that everything we see are things he’s telling the kids, yeah, he’s telling them a lot of things he shouldn’t be. But when the Ted as the narrator (Bob Saget) is directly telling them something, he’ll slightly change it to make it more kid friendly. Eating a sandwich for smoking pot. The Christmas episode where Ted called Lily a bitch (I think) but he called it something else instead. It’s just sort of a running, yet inconsistent, gag. The only time they led it slide was in the episode where they were all smoking cigarettes.
I think he called her a cunt and Ted substituted it with “Grinch”.
“We never smoked pot, kids, but let me tell you about all the women I banged before I met your mother.”
My wife just said, and I quote: “Robin and Barney better get together or I’m gonna start killing people. That and Lost will have pushed me over the edge.”
Also the episode where he tells his kids about once having a three-way.:eek:
I thought it was a fun episode. I laughed at “whats that saying about to wrongs?” and “dude, its a sign”.
Do agree Kal Penn is kinda weak though.
Well, one of those things is illegal (I guess the “legalize it” movement is still struggling in 2030), so I can see a dad trying to cover that up even if he’s open about having had a lot of gfs back in the day. And presumably even the kids are in on the joke, since the whole story doesn’t really doesn’t make sense unless you know Ted and Marshall were high.
But in any case, I don’t think I’d get too hung up on whether the whole “telling the kids a story” makes perfect sense, any narrative device is going to get a bit frayed after seven seasons.
Robin totally lost me in this episode. At this point, I consider her unredeemable. Boo hiss, HIMYM.
I find Kevin (Kal Penn) as not fitting in with the group. He’s too “adult” and acts more like a group therapist than one of the gang. Yes, I do agree that the show’s kind of weak right now. NPH is the only reason to watch in its current state.
He didn’t.He told them that somethings were off limits at the start and the whole episode was sans narration. What we see is not necessarily what he tells them.
BTW is the mother dead? I ask as she obviously has not killed him yet.
Agreed!
I used to love the idea of Barney and Robin together … they have great chemistry. But they have become the new Ross and Rachel with all the “Will they get together? Should they get together?”. At some point, it becomes ridiculous. And some point, for me, was last night’s episode.
That said, NPH’s last few minutes were gut wrenching. Love him. Hate Robin’s hair this season.
I agree with you on all points.
NPH is a very gifted actor.
Out of curiosity, could Kevin lose his license if someone complained that he was involved with a past patient? I know sleeping with a current patient is a big no-no for psychiatrists, but what about hooking up with them right when their therapy ends?
NPH FTW. *
*What? that just really is all I have to say about it. . .
The stoned humor wasn’t funny but I did like the payoff of it all having been two minutes long.
I never find it realistic wen people only realize they’re doing something bad right AFTER they’ve had sex and am not enjoying the two-season long tease as to who Barney marries. Especially since the way he went after getting the other girl to like him again was supposed to be a sign of how maturing.
But now that the drama is increasing and the comedy is decreasing maybe they can just use the next season to convert this into thirtysomething: the next generation.
Yea, especially since they started in a cab at the end of last episode. Its not like they just locked lips on the couch and lust carried them away. They presumably had to take the cab home, took the elevator to Barney’s apartment, got in his bed, had sex and went to bed, and the only the next morning did second thoughts start to creep in.
I thought the stoner humor was alright. It would be kind of lazy if the show went to it more then every once and awhile, but I think this is only the second episode in seven seasons where they relied on it for more then one or two jokes.
When Robin said something like “I just cheated on Kevin!” I actually thought to myself, “Who the hell is Kevin?? …Oh yeah, Kumar!”
Even though he had just been sitting with the gang at McLaren’s, I forgot he was dating Robin 5 minutes later! That’s how much of an impact his character has made on me.
And I agree with silenus’s wife and atlantic. At this point, we all know Barney and Robin are ending up together. Just do it already!
We didn’t care for this episode either. Not funny and not really much of anything. It was mostly Robin-Barney angst, and I’m not really into angst.
Kevin is dumb. His initial meeting with Robin is entirely about her feelings for Barney, and her aborted attempt to sabotage his relationship with whats-her-face. It really should not be a surprise to him that she has feelings for Barney.