Thursday, December 15, 2005

How I Met Your Mother

The cast, Barney, Robin, Ted, Lilly and Marshall

How I Met Your Mother is a good show on CBS that I don't think very many of you are watching. You should be.
First you have Ted, the dorky hopeless romantic, star of the show. The I in How I Met Your Mother. Bob Saget voices Ted in 2030, telling his future kids the story of How I Met Your Mother.
In the first episode, Ted meets a girl, takes her out and at the end of the episode Bob Saget tells the kids, "that's how I met...your Aunt Robin."
Robin is now a valued addition to the cast as the hot brunette in the picture above.
She also provides a female cohort for Alyson Hanigan, who basically reprises her role as band camp girl. She is engaged to Ted's roommate Marshall.
They add a good dimension because the show has something for singles and couples. For instance Mike and Stacey loved the episode in which Marshall and Lily feel they should become a more mature couple so they host a wine tasting at their apartment.
But the best character on the show is Barney. Played by Neil Patrick Harris aka Doogie aka NPH. He is constantly trying to get laid and tries to rope Ted into being his wingman. He wears suits to impress girls and implores Ted to "suit up."
Barney originated the "dating lemon law" which allows you to walk away from a bad date after 5 minutes. He was ecstatic when a girl used it on him. "Its gonna be a thing."
On Thanksgiving Barney took Ted to a strip club where Ted met a stripper, then told his future kids, "That's how I met your mother." The future kids (and Kate and I) were shocked, but it was just a joke. We still don't know how he met my mother.
The Halloween episode was classic also. Barney loves Halloween because it gives girls the opportunity to dress like sluts, guilt free.
Barney wanted him and Ted to go as Iceman and Maverick from Top Gun. He told Ted to "flight suit up." Ted refused choosing to wait around hoping to meet a girl he had met years earlier dressed as the slutty pumpkin. Barney pretended to be her while wearing a penguin suit.
This isn't NPH, this is my friend Andy who --penguin suited up-- for Halloween in 2004.  He is still bitter he lost the Time Warner costume contest to some guy dressed in drag

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hate my damb mom.

D said...

That is a great show. I'm just sorry I didn't start watching it until a few weeks ago...

Ton said...

Yeah, I'm the same way. Love it, but have missed many episodes.

By the way, speaking of Alyson Hannigan, there is a straight to DVD American Pie Bandcamp movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436058/
The only recurring cast member is Eugene Levy.

Anonymous said...

Yo, can you host this picture yourself? Thanks to this post, my image is the third result on google image search, so now my bandwidth is being leeched by people linking to it from their myspace profiles....

Wouldn't be a big deal, but on principle I'm not trying to have my logs cluttered up with a bunch of myspace hotlinks.

Thanks.