How I Met Your Mother Running Diary

7:58 - You are looking live at the Poop living room where Diesel is lying down in the middle of the room and Mrs. Poop is feeding Chase. For the first time in a long time we're going to watch a show live (not on DVR) and since it's the best show on TV, I thought it deserved a running diary. Probably a lot of this will involve commericials that are 6 months old but I've never seen.

8:00 - Here we go!

8:01 - Barney just used my favorite word "doppelganger," or should I say doppel-banger?

8:02 - Chase has milk in his eye.

8:03 - You can't just pull out at the last second. Exactly the kind of sexual innuendo joke I love about this show.

8:04 - The show's theme song. It's about 10 seconds long and has no lyrics, except ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Shows used to have awesome theme songs, now most shows don't have any, and if they do they usually don't have lyrics. As much as I love "All in the Family" ("Boy the way Glen Miller played") and "The Jeffersons" ("fish don't fry in the kitchen, beans don't burn on the grill") I guess you could get tired of a theme song after a while.

8:07 - It's Harold Lee!

8:07 - Diesel just barked, really loudly.

8:10 - There's no such thing as Kobe lobster. But I kind of wish there were.

8:11 - Crazy Swayze. Thanks for the wine.

8:12 - Mrs. Poop was just telling me about an episode of Oprah in which people like Lily overspend and get deep in debt. I bet Oprah watches this show too and enjoys this angle.

8:17 - In the commercial I just filled up Diesel's water bowl, got Mrs. Poop a drink (she's still feeding Chase) and got myself a handful of orange and black Kissables. Maybe commercials aren't so bad.

8:18 - Ad for "Big Bang Theory" which is actually a pretty good show, and it has a theme song with lyrics ("Neandrathals developed tools, they built a wall, they built a pyramid") and also an ad for "The Amazing Race" which starts Sunday because "Viva Laughlin" was such a disaster.

8:21 - Great walk of shame scene. They really nailed it with those girls.

8:22 - Now Diesel is sitting on Mrs. Poop's feet.

8:26 - I'm in awe of John Cho. What a brilliant actor. He nailed the passive insecurity of Harold Lee but also the smooth, cool confidence of this lawyer. What an actor.



8:29 - I'm definitely going to search pornotube for Lance Hardwood Sex Architect, starring Ted Mosby.

8:30 - While it wasn't classic HIMYM I did enjoy this episode due to the frequent references to porn, and the guest appearance by John Cho.