How I Met Your Mother

By KT HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: 5.09 “Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap” Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!  May your turkey be un-splattered and your faces un-slapped! KT will bring the cranberries if you bring the pumpkin pie. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: 5.09 “Slapsgiving

By KT Well, that’s Barney back to his usual self.  I like Barney, and I like Robin, and I like their rapport at the best of times, but they hadn’t really seemed like themselves in the last few episodes, ya know?  And how long has it been since we saw Robin at work — since “The Front Porch,” right?  We’r...

By KT HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER:  5.06 “Bagpipes” On the other hand:  “Marshall, dinner’s ready!”  “Is there any for me?”  “No, but it’s your favorite!”  Wow, Lily fights dirty.  Still, given the absurd way Marshall stumbled into the fight, though, I’d say he deserved it.

By KT What’s more, Ted’s complaints about Marshall-and-Lily as a single entity made no sense — to varying degrees, they’ve been that way since the show started.  If anything, we usually see Marshall trying to stay included in Ted and Barney’s “bro” outings.  I think we’ve seen less of that since...

By KT Eventually, of course, Marshall and Lily and Barney and Robin are hugging in the rain and spouting more romcom cliches like their lives depend on it.  Aww.  But really, Barney and Robin just need to help Lily and Marshall loosen up and have some fun.  I loved the egg timer trail, though.

By KT But you know what really bugged me?  The lighting.  Why are Lily, Robin, and Marshall home during the day while Barney is supposedly at work without his briefcase?  And we know it’s a Tuesday because eventually it’s conveniently Tuesday night and Robin drags the others down to see this cla...

By KT HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: 5.02 “Double Date” Speaking of hair: Alyson Hannigan really does seem to change her hair about once a year, and this year it looks great. But doesn’t it look like Jason Segal is growing his out again? Don’t do it, Jason! Please?

By Raked What do these two episodes tell you? Don’t trust Ruby. But let’s backtrack. In the first of these two episodes, Ruby’s aunt and uncle leave for the weekend and leave Ruby in charge of the boys. Why? Well, because last time the boys were left by themselves, they gave someone a mohawk.

By Raked HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: 4.24 “The Leap” Speaking of whom, wasn’t it great that Lily got an “I’m pregnant” fake-out, like Robin had a couple of weeks ago?  A great little nod to the real life pregnancies of Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders.

By Raked HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER:  4.23 “As Fast As She Can” I don’t resent the reappearance of Stella and Tony, because Sarah Chalke and Jason Jones are always good fun, but I do hope to eventually see how the big Stella arc plays into the show’s main goal of finding the mother.

By Raked HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: 4.19 “Murtaugh” Classic. Also, loved that Robin joined in. And that we got everyone out of the bar at 2 am, by the way! And the goat? HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: 4.19 “Murtaugh” It appears that KT is busy doing wonderfully exci

By Raked Yes, I enjoyed this episode. Very much so. Though I was much more interested in the story of Ted than the pursuit of Lily and Barney to find out who Robin almost slept with (though I did find this website hilarious; how did they get Alan Thicke to do this??). But this episode did show one thing abou...

By Raked Both these episodes had some great work with wigs and ageing makeup, with “Sorry, Bro” looking backward and “The Front Porch” mostly flashing forward to hypothetical scenes in the gang’s retirement.  I’m impressed by how well Alyson Hannigan pulls off College Lily even while hiding her...

By Raked Barney, of course, never does anything halfway.  You might think that any other guy, after his mom recovers from her near-fatal illness (another classic plot twist), might just say that the fake fiancée dumped him.  That she turned out to not be pregnant after all.  Something.  But this is Ba...