This was easily the creepiest How I Met Your Mother I’ve ever seen. However, it was pretty entertaining. It definitely wasn’t my favorite episode this season, but it wasn’t my least favorite either.
Creepy-ful-ness…ish. I understand the premise that their significant other reminds them of one of their parents. But the visuals of that were a bit much at moments. The initial moments between Lily & here dad, Mickey, were pretty irry to watch. Maybe it’s the way I feel about Chris Elliot though. The bleed over of seeing Barney’s mom, Loretta, Kevin’s mom, Marshall’s dad Marvin, & Ted’s mom Virginia was quite humorous too. The high point for me was seeing Mickey & Marvin on the bed…I about lost it.
The Mother. No I don’t think the girl met at the end was the mother… sure he saw his mother’s resemblance in the chick at the end but it’s just coincidence. If we see her for another episode I’ll be surprised. I bring this up only because of some tweets I saw. The problem is that while we no little in the long run about who the mother is, we have seen enough cards to pretty easily recognize who it isn’t. I step off my soap box on this one.
Nora. Wow. Poor Nora tonight. Busted tooth. A rat. That is all.
Cameos. I touched on it above but how cool was it to see Bill Fagerbakke and Wayne Brady tonight. Thought I wish we could have seem more of both it was nice to see them, especially since we’ve killed off Marshall’s dad at this point. And talk about James for a second, he doesn’t like Nora! Will that have some long term consequences? Plus, need I mention… Weird Al.
Barney. It’s an odd change of events when Barney has more insight and sense about him than everyone else. While his plan was sexually motivated…you have to admit it wasn’t typical Barney overall.
Kevin & Robin. While I don’t see it working long term, the more I see of Kevin, the more I like the dude. His sacrifice to pretend to be a Weird Al fan to make Ted happier, with the benefit of him backing off od Robin was nice. I feel like long term Kevin’s phych tendencies will be playing into some realizations for Ted & Robin…maybe even Barney.
How I Met Your Mother Music
- Weird Al – Like A Surgeon (not played but referenced, and potentially inspired by Ted…and Al)
- My Favorite Things – (Nora/ Loretta sings to Barney)..on a side note the Coltrane version is awesome.
Moment of Awesomeness
- James! Anytime we see Wayne Brady is good. Barney could not have a cooler brother. Loved his way of “twisting his arm” to get his take on Nora…something tells me we will see him again soon.
- Marvin & Mickey. The parent/child moments…very creepy. The moments with Marvin & Mickey together… oh so funny.
- Ted’s phone calls for a Weird Al concert partner. Did you catch all those names? There were a couple that seemed notable… Natalie? Trudy?
- Games. “Chutes & Lilly’s” is an awesome game…btw, did I ever mention I made my own version of Marshgammon. Maybe it’ time to release my instruction set.
Legendary Lines
Barney: We decided to wait until she decides to let me have sex with her.
James: Barney has slept with log of other people’s moms.
Barney: I can turn this around.
Marshall: My mother is 6’3”, she buys her clothes at a drug store and prefers to trap her own dinner.
Barney: I’ve been waiting 2 months for that bowl of ice cream and tonight, I’m going to have sex with it!
Kevin: Ted’s nuts….no I mean Ted’s nuts…
Kevin: And now he’s got some tickets to some romantic concert…
Ted:...It’s Weird Al Yankovic.
Ted: No! I’m the biggest Weird Al fan.
Kevin: I know, I’m agreeing with you.
The-Return
Weird Al reads a letter from a young fan, Ted Mosby and gets “inspiration” for a new song, “Like a Surgeon”.
Lingering Questions
- Seriously, who isn’t a Weird Al fan.
- Was I the one creeped out?
- Do you feel like the tension is growing for the Ted/Robin/Barney to not “work out” like Victoria warned in the Ducky Tie.?
- What did you think? I’d love to know in the comments.
This was an okay, but not amazing episode. Filler-all around, which is fine, but still not very satisfying. It had a few funny moments, but the highlight has to be Barney doing “We’re going ice skating!” in the cold open.
Two mediocre episodes in a row. Boo. I still can’t stand Kevin/Kumar (Though I am looking forward to seeing Kevin and Barney in Harold and Kumar’s 3D Christmas movie or whatever it’s called.). UGH! The whole show felt weird and forced…bleh.
I loved it! So many hilarious moments, that’s what counts to me!
I’m just happy Kevin wasn’t wearing a sweater. I thought the episode was funny. The Marvin & Mickey scene was so hilariously wrong.
The Weird Al cameo made my night.
It was fun like every time on himym. Also i just love Kal Penn. Thats also one reason why Season 7 is going to be one of the best!!!!
Was Ted talking to Trudy from “The Pineapple Incident,” why didn’t he ask about the pineapple?! That would have been so funny. Also, I think that James (Wayne Brady) should have had a larger part. I totally thought that he was going to reveal that he is a dentist of sometime and help out Nora after the ice skating episode.
Still a good episode though. Not my favorite, but it was good.
I’m excited for next weeks Halloween episode too!
A little HIMYM slip up I noticed. During the flashes of Marshall thinking of Lily as his dad, it showed her eating in bed which true HIMYM fans know that would never happen.
Did anybody else notice that Barney’s huge wall tv was missing?
yeah! I remember in “Twin Beds” they said Lily had a rule of no eating in bed.
I actually really liked this episode. But the thing with the booth being too small got me thinking that either Robin has to leave the group and be replaced by Barney’s new wife OR Robin has to marry Barney to keep the tone of the show.
yeah, I noticed when I watched the episode for the third time!
Wow, Honestly this episode was really funny and confusing! Confusing in a way on how everyone imagines their parents while doing intimate stuff, lol. And how James compares Norah to their mother. Very entertaining. Funny in a way, how this episoide reflects the love of their parents in their love life. Its a really good episode! I mean, this episode comprised of everyone which was pretty good for a change! but yet it was forced to some extents “turn it around” so yeh. Good Episode. 🙂
It was an OK episode, but Season 7 seems to be losing a little steam … Hopefully the Halloween episode will be a blast !
PS: anyone know what the French guitar melody is at the moment when Ted is calling all his friends to go to the concert ?
Well, the last episode where we were at Barney’s apartment I believe was Legendaddy at the beginning where they are trying to fix Barney’s huge TV. So, maybe that is a continuation of that minor plot point where it is at a repair shop or something. Just guessing. Nice job noticing that.
Did anyone notice after the line about Barney sleeping with peoples’ moms that Marshall patted Ted sympathetically on the shoulder and Ted looked surprised like he didn’t know Barney had slept with his mom?
Pretty amusing episode. Had some funny moments, specially with Marshall and Lily. Kevin’s “HELL NAW!” at Ted was pretty funny because I wasn’t expecting him to flip like that.
About Ted, jeez! Coin documentary, really? That’s just sad, even for him.
I kinda wish we could’ve seen James more this episode, I love his appearances and this one was awfully small. It would’ve been nicer if he showed up with his husband or kid, too.
My only problem with the last few episodes was that Kevin and Robin simply have ZERO chemistry. The writers aren’t doing anything to make them like a couple. Also, Kevin and Nora don’t integrate well with the gang so that’s not cool. But apart from that, the episode was great.
Lily even didn’t notice the TV when she was sitting right in front of it, so maybe it isn’t a real TV at all as we know them.
Got to rewatch the episode to tell more about it … 🙂
GUYS. FACE THE TRUTH. SEASON7 IS LOSING OUT. I mean, yeh there are episodes that are awewsome. Nut of you really look at it, the addition of extra characters is kinda making it lame. Theres no more steam to the episode, like all the other seasons. Especially with kevin. Nora, i understand. But kevin?! Oh well, all in al i love the episodes. but its not the same!
Is it just me or did Kevin’s mom looked similar to Ranjit’s Wife Falguni? Coincidence or possible future episode involving Ranjit’s son being Kevin.
I’ll try to go back and review… that would be a funny twist though. I love Ranjit
The coin documentary was overly douchey of Ted… I mean who is this guy now? He isn’t the Ted I remember
That was an amazing moment. How did I not include that in moments. It was truly awesome!
That’s exactly it! Lily Didn’t even notice the tv on the wall. In the first wall TV scene, Barney (Paraquote) says: “You see that wall?” *Clicks the remote and TV comes on with a footbal game*. “300” plasma screen. I had to have it specially flown in from Tokyo.” Stating the fact that the entire wall, was the TV. in s.07.E.07 you clearly see Barneys entertainment center/fireplace or something like that. making it obvious that the producers wasn’tThinking about his TV, or they did’nt have time to make the effort of making the bakground look like a TV.