The How I Met Your Mother Blog

“Why do you think I call her Chewbacca?”, “I assumed because she’s loyal, wears shiny belts, and I resemble a young Harrison Ford.”

Over the weekend I watched a bunch of episodes from season 2 with my family. At one point my aunt asked “do people ever actually this close a group of friends?”. That led to a discussion of how idealized sitcom friendships are. Lo and behold, here comes How I Met Your Mother to prove this stereotype wrong. This episode saw Ted with yet another flawed girlfriend, but additionally pointed out the flaws of everyone else. Hilarity ensued and a great episode was had by all.

What Was Good

• I loved the dual-montage of Ted and his girl. The first time is was all romantic love, the second showed Ted shoving the spoon into the girl’s mouth and trying to run away.
• Marshall’s wispy mustache once he was done taking the bar.
• Robin in general. Her quips are excellent.
• Wow, Barney’s childhood sucked.
• The appearance of Lindsay Price who I first saw on Kitchen Confidential. John Cho was on that show too. Each week we’re getting more and more into the six degrees of How I Met Your Mother. I still think Nicolas Brendon is due for a guest role.
• Ted is a correcter! He’s even more like me now.
• Barney got me too. I didn’t see it coming with the Ka-ka-spaniel video he duped Marshall into watching.
• I love Marshall’s singing. He’s done this occasionally since season 1. They are surprisingly catchy.
• They called Barney out on his catch phrases!

What Was Bad

• This episode was funny, but didn’t do anything to move along the plot. Are Marshall and Lily still living with Ted? Their apartment was never mentioned.
• I’m still a little weirded out whenever Ted is just suddenly dating someone. I know we can’t meet them all in real time, but I’m not used to it yet.
• They’re starting to figure out how to handle Robin but she still needs more to do than just make quips.

Favorite Moments

This was a very quotable episode.

“You guys will love her. Lily, she knows all about art. Marshall, she’s open to the possibility of UFOs, Barney, she’s hot. Robin, she’s not hotter than you.”
“It’s a shopping list.”, “For who? A witch building a house in the forest?”
Ted’s “what if” scenarios:

• “One time, in 10th grade, as a joke, I told everyone that my English teacher had sex with me. He’s still in jail.”
• “So I volunteer at the pound. You can’t imagine the rush you get killing an unwanted puppy. I make bracelets out of their collars.”
• “He’s probably going to the urinal. I remember when I had a penis.”

“I was scared for her, I didn’t want her to choke. At first.”
“I’m surprised she didn’t tell you herself at some point. There’s only a finite combination of words in the English language.”
All the loud chewing metaphors:

• “Why do you think I call her Chewbacca?”
• “We had ribs and it sounded like Jurassic Park”
• “What’s in that cereal besides dry twigs and small animal bones?”
• “like a garbage disposal full of dry wall screws.”
• “like someone put a screwdriver in a pencil sharpener.”
• “where are those pretzels from, Ace Hardware?”
• “it sounds like cuff links going up a vacuum cleaner.”

“No, no, sometimes you just sing nonsense sentences like a stroke victim. And what’s worse, they’re catchy.”
“Apple orchard banana cat dance 8-6-6-3.”
“Lawsuit Up!”

Also, Maud, if you’re reading this, was that Miranda Kerr in the Victoria Secret Angel’s “Air Pushup” commercial?

Thanks for reading. If you enjoyed this post subscribe to Have You Met Ted. You can also have new posts delivered to your email. Subscribe in the sidebar.