How I Met Your Mother

By Joel Keller Filed under: OpEd, How I Met Your Mother, Celebrities, Awards, Reality-Free So, it's not a big surprise to hear that NPH is near a deal to host the Emmys as well, according to Variety.Continue reading Neil Patrick Harris to host the Emmys?

By theTVaddict No, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences did not finally coming around to recognizing BATTLESTAR GALACTICA with a much deserved best drama nod just yet. Rather, Variety is reporting that HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER star and serial award show host Neil Patrick Harris (see: this year’s T...

By dennis In what should not come as a surprise to anyone, Neil Patrick Harris is in final negotiations to host this year's Emmys telecast, which is scheduled for Sunday, September 20, 2009. After the break, some suggestions for other events Neil Patrick Harris might host...

Marshall's visit to Lily's classroom doesn't go over well and Ted and Barney are served legal papers for assault

By CBS News This season on "How I Met Your Mother" the romantic focus is on the budding relationship between Ted and Robin. Rene Syler chats with the actors behind the characters, Josh Radner and Cobie Smulders. This season on "How I Met Your Mother" the romantic focus is on the budding relationship bet...

By Rob Eng Things really picked up towards the end of this 20-episode season when Robin Sparkles makes another appearance in “Sandcastles in the Sand.”  The episode comes to a stunning conclusion that leads into the next episode, “The Goat.”  Barney sleeps with Robin and actually feels guilty abou...

By Danny Gallagher Oh sure, the old man may seem like the worst father of all time sometimes. He yells and screams. He gets on you for growing your hair too long because he knows he couldn't grow hair if he had a Chia Scalp. He constantly walks around the house in his underwear and then scolds you for not eating the sau...

 CA Ryan points to "How I Met Your Mother" supporting player Neil Patrick Harris: "Even if people are not into that show, they know who Barney is." NBC's Ingold takes another tack. "Nowadays with the clutter, it really helps when you have characters that ...

By Rob Eng Two, because of the witty writing and all of the memorable gags.  For instance, the Slap Bet episode where Barney and Marshall bet on Robin’s secret.  The loser of the bet gets slapped in the face.  At the end of the episode, Barney lost and Lily (slap bet commissioner) ruled that he could eithe...

 CA It won't do any good to scream, 'Robin, nooooo!' at your TV. . . she's hooking up with the resident cad of 'How I Met Your Mother.' Funny how love is. By Gina McIntyre Actress Cobie Smulders admits she was apprehensive when she first learned that her ...

Neil Patrick Harris rocked the Tony Awards, and now he has a double-feature in the works. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the How I Met Your Mother star will spend his TV hiatus starring in The Best and the Brightest, a comedy about parents' ...

By Allison Waldman At a few minutes after 11 o'clock, Tony host Neil Patrick Harris wrapped up the broadcast, but instead of just saying goodnight and urging viewers to go see a Broadway show, Neil did a musical number and it was the high point of the night. In true Barney Stinson style, the How I Met Your Mother s...

By Myles But, in the end, I’ve really missed the little things that Lily brings to the show: her anger at the idea of Marshall thinking she was pregnant, her inability to keep a secret finally solved with the Barney/Robin secret only to be shattered when she feels bad and has to tell Barney the secret...

 - Michael Ausiello How I Met Your Mother' = off-the-charts awesome Entertainment Weekly How I Met Your Mother' inches toward a mother of a reveal Los Angeles Times Blogs How I Met Your Mother: ''Right Place Right Time'' Review IGN TV Squad - BuddyTV

Go the distance with Barney from How I Met Your Mother as he teaches you how to run a marathon. Follow his advice at your own peril. www.imdb.com

Disclaimer: Carter Bays and Craig Thomas own How I Met Your Mother. I don't. Please don't sue. Pairing: Barney/Robin (sorta), Barney's POV Word Count: 975 Spoilers: Season 4 “Mosbius Designs” Summary: Barney gets a package with a surprise inside.

By theTVaddict Bob Saget may not know who the mother is on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, the hit CBS show in which he narrates, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have one helluva theory. One that we’ll get to immediately after a brief trip down memory lane (oh yes, this adorable TV Addict in training loved [...]

Go the distance with Barney from How I Met Your Mother as he teaches you how to run a marathon. Follow his advice at your own peril. fr.truveo.com

Disclaimer: Carter Bays and Craig Thomas own How I Met Your Mother. Duncan Sheik and Steven Slater own the lyrics to “My Junk” from Spring Awakening. I don’t. Please don’t sue. Pairing: Barney/Robin Summary: Robin gets theater tickets and makes Barney go with her. They get drunk. Fun ensues.

By Myles Cultural Observations Of Barney’s nightgown jokes, I enjoyed “Something about Scrooge!” the most, just because it wasn’t even a joke at all.I’m fairly certain that most viewers awake at 4am would still choose Kim Jong Il riding a horse over Robin’s show, fire or no fire.Interesting to see...

Title: The Legendary E-Mail Fandom: How I Met Your Mother Pairings: Robin/Barney Rating: PG Warnings/Spoilers: Season 4. Language. Summary: Thanks to Bob's unexpected announcement about a meeting being moved up... Barney gets startled and he hits send.

By marcusandstevi Seeing Barney make up with his mother, Lily decides to try to make up with Marshall’s mom, but the cutaway reveals that the person she’s calling is actually Betty, who, with Ted, is telling her what to say to make it sound like she’s trying to make amends and appease Marshall. (Yet another sim...

Rating: Adult for EVERYTHING Summary:  Five stories. Five alternative universes. Catch up with various versions of Barney and Robin as they celebrate Valentine's day.  Guess the universe! The answers are at the very bottom of this post. Fandom: HIMYM, Barney/Robin, Barney/Robin/Ted

Title: Textual Rating: Adult for smut Written for: Prompt by hypnotist78 : An entire story done in text messages and because roland44  wanted me to. Summary: Barney texts Robin when he's bored. Obviously. Fandom: HIMYM, Barney/Robin Spoilers for: AU season 4 ish, nothing specific

Title: Five Things Robin Will Never Ever Tell Ted Author: oso_intricate Pairing/Character: Robin Character Study, small Robin/Barney, Robin/Ted (Wait.  Whut?) Word Count: 802 Rating: PG Warning: Unbeta'd.  And alot of Ted.

Summary: As Robin continues without a job, she gets more and more depressed and she developed damaging behavior that she doesn't even bother to hide from her friends. When Barney tries to help her, Ted steps in to rescue them both. Fandom: HIMYM, Barney/Ted/Robin

By dan@duckyxdale.com (Duckyxdale & GiveMeMyRemote) returns with a ton of chatter about our favorite shows.  Chuck scored with a 3-D Superbowl episode, Gossip Girl sends Blair over the deep end, Heroes returns with some promise and the double punch of Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother once again make us laugh our asses off.  Privileged s...

By Tanis Was it just me or did How I Met Your Mother make a couple of miss -steps during an otherwise fantastic episode? Four: This scene betwen Robin and Barney. Robin: I can’t break 15 bricks with my forehead! Barney: Robin! It’s not 1950 anymore! Yes you can!

Title: Wait For It... Rating: PG-13 Characters: Barney Stinson/Robin Scherbatsky; Marshall Erickson/Lily Aldrin, Ted Mosby Summary: Visits to Canadian expatriate bars or not, Robin is down in the dumps at Christmastime, and Barney has something to say about it.

He isn't sure how the betting game starts -- maybe it's a way for Ted and Robin to solve their arguing without giving into sex again, maybe it's to give Lily and Marshall a taste of the wild life, maybe it's because Barney is feeling so lost in this sea of emotions and needs an anchor point. So Bar...

By Tempo Submitted for your approval: The first "Saturday Night Live" host of 2009 will be Neil Patrick Harris, known and loved by millions as Barney on "How I Met Your Mother" and Dr. Horrible on "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." Harris hosts Jan. 10; the musical guest is Taylor Swift. Speaking of one o...

Title: Four Things That Happened to Barney and Robin on New Year's Eve (and Some That Didn't) Author: bredalot Fandom: How I Met Your Mother/Sports Night Rating: PG Word Count: 2360 Summary: Barney and Robin celebrate New Year's Eve at Robin's black-tie office party.

Title: Why Robin fell in love with him Fandom/Pairing: HIMYM, Barney/Robin Word Count: 3,276 Rating: Adult Spoilers: Set a little while after 4.05, "Shelter Island." but not that spoilery Summary: Robin has a casual thing going on with Barney but what does it really mean?

Fandom/Pairing: HIMYM, Barney/Robin Spoilers: up through ep405, although this is a futurefic Rating: PG-13? Summary: In my mind, Barney & Robin get together in this season's finale.  (Not sure how, but they do.)  This story is the B/R parts from the Season 5 premiere.

So they went over to Ted’s and Barney came right out and told him, clasping Robin’s hand tightly as he did so. “Well it’s about time you two came out and said it!” he exclaimed, shocking both Barney and Robin, who looked at each other in surprise. It seemed as if their thing wasn’t as hidden as the...

By tblack@coxohio.com I must say I wasn’t impressed with the beginning of this episode. The finale ended with the standard cliffhanger-proposal ending. It was something you would expect from a finale. But the season 4 premiere of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ felt like any other mid-season episode. We could tell from las...

By herculesrob There have been a lot of comparisons from How I Met Your Mother to Friends.  Heck, that's how CBS marketed this show.  They do share some similarities:  The group of friends in a romantic-comedy genre, the New York City setting, the bar MacLaren's is their Central Perk hangout, and just the f...

By Susannah Don't expect to find out who the mysterious mother is when CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother returns for its fourth season this fall. Guest star Sarah Chalke, the center of much recent speculation, will be returning for at least four episodes at the beginning of the season, but co-creator Cra...

If Emmy voters had a message for the broadcast networks this year, it was this: No more excuses. The breakthroughs by basic cable’s AMC and FX—along with strong showings by ad-supported networks such as TNT, USA, Bravo, Sci Fi and A&E—demonstrated that you can make a creative splash e...

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By Joel Keller Filed under: Industry, Programming, How I Met Your Mother, Pickups and Renewals, Upfronts, Reality-FreeWell, it looks like fans of How I Met Your Mother (me! me!) and The Unit (maybe my parents?) have some early good news ahead of CBS's upfront, which is scheduled for tomorrow: The LA Ti...

By Jason the TVaholic BET has 20 episodes of Malcolm & Eddie. Bravo has six episodes of Top Chef tonight. Comedy Central has 10 episodes of Scrubs. MTV has 12 episodes of America’s Next Top Model. TruTV has five episodes of The Investigators. USA has 12 episodes of NCIS.

By theTVaddict No doubt hoping to generate buzz for the long-rumored album re-release, this TV Addict has just obtained a ‘leaked’ version of Robin Sparkles “Sand Castles in the Sand.” The companion hit to her Canadian chart topper “Let’s Go to the Mall.”

By Chris The series focuses on five friends in their twenties, living in New York, and dealing with their jobs and each other. Ted is dating Robin (Cobie Smulders), who is not the mother of the future, Marshall (Jason Segel) is dating Lilly (Alyson Hannigan), and then there is the womanizing Barney...

By Tempo Photo: Guest star Vanessa Minnillo, Josh Radnor and Neil Patrick Harris in the March 17 episode of "How I Met Your Mother." Anybody else need to laugh? We've had one looong winter here in Chicago (very snowy, very cold), and the strike didn't help matters. I cannot wait until my favorite TV co...

By Tempo CBS Scripted shows arriving soon: “Jericho” returns with seven episodes Tuesday. A cleaned-up version of Showtime’s “Dexter” debuts Feb. 17. Shows that will probably go back into production: “The Big Bang Theory,” all three “CSIs,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “NCIS,” “Criminal Minds” and “...

By nicholashart The last thing I expected to hear as Rosie O'Donnell was being attacked by a giant eagle while handgliding in Calgary on last Tuesday's episode of Nip/Tuck was Peter Bjorn & John's "Young Folks." Actually, I take that back. "Young Folks" was EXACTLY the song I expected. PB&J's"Youn...

By Joel Keller S03E11) As a fan of How I Met Your Mother, I bet it's tough for you to explain to non-fans why the show is a bit different from other sitcoms, isn't it? You could tell those non-fans to watch an episode, but if that person runs into a standard-grade, linearly-told episode like some of what we'v...

By Jason the TVaholic How I Met You Mother (CBS): Season Premiere. Enrique Iglesias and Mandy Moore guest star tonight. Ted sees Robin with her new man from Argentina and then thinks it is about time to find someone of his own, so he heads out with Barney. The Big Bang Theory (CBS): Series Premiere. A beautiful, but no...

By Joel Keller Best sitcom episode of 2006: The "Slap Bet" episode of How I Met Your Mother. Sure, The Office's season finale, "Casino Night," was a riot, but because of the gripping climax to the Pam-Jim story, it wasn't wall-to-wall laughter. "Slap Bet" was, from the ridiculous slaps Marhsall and Barne...