I haven’t watched it yet so I don’t know if it’s on this blooper reel (but I have watched others). I just wanted to point out one of my favorites. A scene between Marshall and Lily. Marshall accidentally swears and quickly looks at the camera and says “Sorry NBC.” Lily says “Ummm, we’re on CBS, should I even keep going or just wait for the new Marshall to get here”.
That’s exactly the reason that The Big Bang Theory is my favorite sitcom since *Taxi *went off the air. A lot of the conversations, particularly from the first two seasons, they could have gotten from planting a bug on me.
No kidding - “I’m just going to watch a few and then go do something…” 
SITCOM: I don’t care about realism, I want funny. I especially don’t want it to be like my life, that’s what I’m looking for distraction from.
DRAMA: It has to be realistic or it takes me out of it. If it is set in an area I know, get it right (in a book but you can’t drive out of DC on I-66 for 100 miles, its not that long). If it is a locale or culture I don’t know, I want to at least feel like I’m getting some insight.
I’m torn about these “comedies” that are showing up that aren’t all that funny, and seem to be aiming more for light drama. I feel like, “Pick a genre already!”
Until the last season or so, the drama bits of HIMYM were pretty much just there as something to hang the comedy on. Ted dates a series of woman that the audience knows he won’t end up with, Lily and Marshall have various job/relationship troubles that the audience knows they’ll resolve and Barney shows the occasional sensitive side but basically just makes sex-jokes.
They’ve started trying to up the drama, and the shows suffered as a result. 30-something relationship drama and daddy issues worked in small doses in earlier seasons, but its pretty boring when it becomes the focus of the show. Hopefully they’ll ratchet it back a little.
Good point, Simplicio. Marshall’s dad dying has been quite the downer for the show. I really enjoy the show, but I think it’s almost done - I think it’s had a good run, and it’s lived the natural life-cycle of a sitcom.
I’ve made it to Season 3 so far on Netflix, and I think it’s a wonderful show. There’s a certain sort of innocence about it. I feel like the heart of the show is storytelling, and it does that beautifully. Since you know right from the beginning that Ted ends up with someone else, there’s a sense of immediacy and nostalgia and living-in-the-moment to the show.
Also, I went to college with a Barney, right down to the giant wrestling belt and the secret heart of gold. There are so many similarities it’s uncanny.
I think Lilly is a raving bitch though. She doesn’t demean Marshall like a lot of sitcom women, but she’s horrible in every other way. I hate that Marshall and Lily are supposed to be this paragon of good relationships.
So you’re complaining about HIMYM typecasting gays as gays but also about them making gays play heterosexual douchebags? They can’t get a break, can they?
I thought that at first, too (and Barney confirms it at one point - “She’s pure evil. You’ve got a good one there, Marshall.”), but I’ve kind of come around to her. She’s written in the modern, “The woman is always right, and if she’s wrong, see Rule #1” fashion, but she does truly love Marshall.
I watch this show too much.
I’m totally with olives. I can’t stand Lilly. I was hoping Marshall wouldn’t take her back when she left in the earlier seasons.
Plus, Allison Hannigan (sp?) always sounds like she has the worlds worst cold. “Oh, Barshall, you’re so fuddy!”
The premise of the story is that this is what the narrator tells his children had ;);)happened.