The season premiere of How I Met Your Mother focused on Barney and Robin and their relationship. They kept it a secret for months, but Lily finally found out and made them promise to definite what they were. Then the next episode Ted goes on a blind date, and realizes he’s been on the same date with that same girl seven years ago. The frustrating things about this season is that they’re not getting any closer to Ted’s future wife reveal. Still the show is awesome, and I love it. The show has kept its quality even in its fifth season. It’s funny, but still with its serious moments. I’m just anxious to see who Ted is going to end up with.

I can’t wait for the new season of my favorite shows. It feels like it’s taking forever! Don’t get me wrong, I love my summers. But why does the programming have to be so terrible? On the weeknights after a long day of work, I like to come home and unwind for an hour or two with a little TV. Sadly in the summertime, it’s nothing but reruns or bad reality shows, like Tool Academy. Do these idiots really need their own television show??
So here’s a list of all the shows I can’t wait to see, as well as some new ones that look interesting.

• How I Met Your Mother
• The Office
• 30 Rock
• Parks and Recreation
• Better off  Ted (if those jerks at ABC renew it!)
• Grey’s Anatomy
• Brothers & Sisters
• Desperate Housewives
• Private Practice
• Mad Men
• Family Guy

And for the new shows out, these look like they have potential:

• Cougar Town



• Community

• Parenthood



• Accidentally on Purpose

New shows are always hard to like, because networks are so quick to cancel them. So hopefully if any of these new shows are good, the networks will recognize that, and stop playing back to back episodes of So You Think You Can Dance.  Also, thank you to all the networks for putting TV Shows online. If they didn’t, there’s no way I’d be able to keep up with all these shows.

This episode of HIMYM we see Ted’s kids again, something the writers haven’t done in a long time. He tells them a story of how seemingly unimportant events lead him on the path to finding their mother. All of these events he retells lead him to standing on a street corner in the rain, and getting tapped on the shoulder by a woman. All through the episode we think maybe, just maybe it’s going to be the future mother. It turns out to be Stella, his ex that left him at the alter. Everyone’s got their theories on how Stella leads Ted to his future wife. I can’t really even begin to guess how she’s connected. We know it’s not her sister, because we’ve already met her. Maybe one of her friends? A coworker?
Either way, I’m just happy they’re back on track to telling us who in the hell this mother is.
Oh yeah, and Barney reaches his 200th sexual conquest. GROSS!

This week’s episode starts out with the guys laughing about a joke. Lily sits down and asks what the joke is. Ted and Marshall insists that Lily won’t like the joke, because it’s guy funny, not girl funny. He tells it anyway, but because it’s the “dirtiest joke ever” Ted won’t repeat it. So of course I’m compelled to search the internet for the punchline to “What’s the difference between jam and peanut butter?” I googled it, and well, yeah it is definitely guy funny, and I’m not repeating it on my blog! The punchline results in Lily storming off while Future Ted narrates, “And we didn’t see Lily again for 4 weeks”.

The rest of this episode follows Ted on his journey to starting his own architecture company. He’s nervous so he’s procrastinating. He’s also set up his home office in his apartment with Robin. He even hired an assistant, PJ, who ends up in bed with Robin.

Elsewhere, Marshall is trying to come up with a “thing that makes him a guy”. He decides on becoming Sports Guy and everyone in the office places their bets with him for his fantasy baseball league. He ends up carrying a lot of money, and panicking, typical Marshall style.

Back at Mosbius Designs, Ted fires PJ because he stops being a good worker, and becomes obsessed with Robin (seriously don’t know what he sees in her). Then he becomes all needy, and Robin dumps him, so Ted hires him back. This of course creates a creepy tug of war between Robin and PJ.

Meanwhile, Barney confesses his love for Robin to Marshall, who of course already knew. He agrees to help break PJ and Robin up, because it’s killing Barney to hear that she’s sleeping with him. Watching Barney struggle with his inner player as he confesses his love is pretty funny. “No I don’t love her, I just miss her when she’s not here, I think about her all the time, and one day I dream of us running towards each other in slow motion”. Marshall ends up hiring PJ as his assistant to help him with his fantasy baseball league and helping him stay the sports guy without all the stress.

I thought this was an interesting episode, the way Lily wasn’t in it, and they excuse it away because she’s offended by the joke in the beginning credits. My theory is that she wasn’t in the episode due to her pregnancy, but I’m not sure. I thought it lacked that special dynamic that Marshall and Lily share. I still thought it was a funny episode, especially the wackiness that goes on at Marshall and Barney’s work ( I really want to work there!) but it wasn’t the best of the season.

I keep wondering what they’re going to do the for the season finale this year. I’m thinking maybe they will announce that Lily is pregnant-it seems only fitting since the actress Alyson Hannigan actually is in real life (or at least was during this season’s filming).
I think a pregnancy would just add to the growth of the show, and maybe anchor down the plotline a little. I’m sick of seeing loser Ted, I’m ready for the Ted that’s going to find his future wife.

I’m also ready to see this love story between Barney and Robin go somewhere. Robin has been just as big a loser as Ted, and it’d be good to see her back on her feet. I don’t like her character that much, but I think she works with Barney, and without her, I think the show would be lacking.

First of all, I love how all the friends are so honest with each other. That’s exactly what good friends mean to me, and I think it makes the show feel that much more real.

So the opening of the show the group is showing open disgust for Ted’s new girlfriend Karen, whom I also despise.

In this episode, Karen dumps Ted for finding Robin’s earring in his bed. Then Ted finds the other earring in Lily’s bedroom, and finds out she’s been breaking up Ted’s dead end relationships to try to protect him. She tells him about how she pictures them all growing old together, sitting on their front porch playing bridge, and she wants Ted’s wife to fit in. It’s her “Front Porch Theory” and I love it.

Ted and Lily have a huge fight, where he says he doesn’t want to be friends anymore. Then he realizes that she was really helping him, and he forgives her.

Sprinkled into the serious stuff is a funny little dialogue between Barney and Marshall regarding nightshirts. It really is just better to watch it than to write about it. All I will say is there is a Scrooge reference that cracked me up.

It was a great episode but I hated the underlying sexual tension between Robin and Ted. I really hate them as a couple, and it’s such a dead end. I definitely don’t see wedding invitations in their future, so why waste our time by revisiting that flawed relationship?

I was pretty disappointed in last night’s HIMYM episode. Ted’s choices lately have been ridiculous, and he’s no closer to finding his future wife than he was in the first episode. While I still love Lily, Marshal, and Barney, Robin is really starting to get to me. She was always a little bit annoying, but now she’s just gross. Having her sleep eat ribs, and basically be a gigantic slob is just nasty. Plus her ditziness and losing her gun everywhere wasn’t even funny, just stupid.

This episode focused on Ted running into his old girlfriend from college, who Marshal and Lily hated. She was pretentious , the type of girl who would point out your Cheap Blinds that weren’t designer quality. She’s also cheated on him countless times. Not only does Ted hook up with her, he’s actually dating her again, and she’s still that same pretentious cheat. I’m hoping that this little plot line fizzles out quick because it’s not much fun to watch.

Still, I love this show, and I won’t judge it too harshly based on one episode. Plus it was great to see the flashbacks of Ted with the horrible curly hair.

Once again How I Met Your Mother writers strike comedic gold. Prepare for spoilers!

Barney is a show stealer, and this episode is no exception. The gang notices that Barney has been acting really strange, and they think maybe he has a girlfriend. They follow him when he leaves mysteriously, and even up at a house with an elderly woman. “You really don’t have a type do you?” Lily says. Turns out the woman is Barney’s mom. But that’s not the biggest shock-Barney’s “wife” makes an entrance, followed by their “son”.

Barney has hired paid actors to play his wife and son so that his mom will think he’s got a happy family. It’s pretty classic watching the expressions of the group when they discover this sham.

It gets better when Marshall and Lily listen to Barney’s mom relive tales of her youth. “I was a whore, dear.” Meanwhile, Ted is clicking with Barney’s fake wife, and they end up making out, which everyone, including Barney’s mom walk in on. This forces the truth out of Barney, and his mom isn’t mad, in fact she confesses to how much she couldn’t stand his wife and kid.

It was a great show full of one liners, and now a new love interest for Ted. I’m not sure if she’ll be the mother, but at least he met someone again. I’m looking forward to them developing that storyline further.

I’m here at the office the day after Christmas, on a Friday, which means absolutely no one is calling into the helpdesk. Today is similar to Black Friday or Cyber Monday, and everyone that is out on the road is probably on their way to the mall to get the discounts for the day after Christmas sales.
So with all this free time, I was once again able to watch TV at work. I about fell out of my chair with this last week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother. I love his Christmas jingles about Ted’s sister. Oh Barney, you sleigh me! Get it? HA!

Last week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother was hilarious. The Naked Man theory was basically this: a theory that when things weren’t going well on a date, and there wasn’t hope of a future, you try this “hail mary” move. When the woman steps out of the room, the man strips down to his birthday suit and waits for her return. He basically shows her his compact flash if you know what I mean. The theory is that she will be charmed by how brave he is, or take pity on the poor naked vulnerable man and give him a pity lay. Either way, Robin’s date swears it works 2 out of 3 times.
So of course the gang sets forth to test the theory, with even Lily participating. Ted and Lily both successfully pull of the naked man. Lily nudes up for Marshall and Ted nudes up for the rude girl he met in the elevator. Barney attempts naked man but is kicked out of the girl’s apartment and completely horrified. She kicks him out without giving him his clothes back, which I found a little unnecessary. Why spring that on the rest of the world? So it’s true-the naked man works, two out of three times.
My favorite part of this episode was where Ted and Barney practice the different poses they’ll try to unveil the naked man. If you didn’t catch last week’s episode, I suggest you do. SUIT DOWN!

I love love love How I Met Your Mother, and last night’s episode was no exception.

*SPOILER ALERT*

The show starts with Ted reflecting on being left at the alter by Stella-one of the sadder moments in HIMYM history. I loved it because he talks about moving on and how he’s doing fine, and all his friends look at him and go, “um, Ted, the wedding was yesterday!” I love his denial because it is so something I would do. I’ve had my share of heartbreaks, and my solution is to just move on and pretend it doesn’t bother me.

Then Ted busts out the line, “Why confront something when you can avoid it?”So classic! So true! But the episode had such a good moral, and it’s another reason I love the show so much. They touch on key topics that really matter in life, but they crack you up along the way. Barney always makes the show with his super creeper stints too.

So the whole episode is about people that each friend wants to avoid, and how they would freak out if they ran into that person from their past. For Ted, it was Stella, who actually shows up at the restaurant where they all are. The gang decides to hide under the table, where they tell the stories of who they would avoid. At one point Barney gets up and hides under the other table, where there are pretty girls in skirts-the little creepster! Of course his story is about a girl he dates in prison for conjugal visits, ha.

At the end of the episode, Ted is about to confront Stella and tell her dumping him at the alter, and about leaving him for her ex, when he sees the family outside their apartment. He sees how happy they are, and how Stella made the right choice by leaving him. Ted realized it was the perfect end to a love story, but the story just wasn’t his. It was a great episode, but of course it leaves us wondering, who is Ted going to end up with?! It is the stuff that keeps us watching, and I can’t wait for next week’s episode.