HIMYM -- Season 4

He got the hat building job because he ran into Stella.

 

I was fine with no reveal or even moving the plot forward very much. I just didn't think that the episode was that funny or had that much of an emotional impact. As good as chemistry as NPH and Cobie have, their scenes felt flat to me.

 

Sometimes this show is very smart and funny. Sometimes it stumbles into plain silliness. Last night's episode definitely fit in the silly category.

I think they overdid the part with Robin pulling a "Moseby" on Barney, but I really liked their last scene together. Barney managed a little sincerity, but they couldn't quite end up on the same page with words, so that part was expressed physically. The characterization seemed to be right on target.

 

So that had to have been filmed early, right? No huge purses covering Smulders' baby belly like last week.

 

The story was that Ted needs to give up his "plan" and let life come to him.
Lily summed it up at the bar for him with the goat and the washcloth.
Last night wasn't my favorite episode, but it was still pretty good.
And it was a pretty good callback to the five words every man says — I can make that jump. We should buy a bar, etc...

 

That was my first thought as well. Of course, my girlfriend is 12 years younger than me, but she was 27 when we met. Not nearly as creepy as 18 and 31.

 

I thought the "making the leap" thing was pretty corny, to the point where I thought it had to have been the set-up for a gag about not being able to get back, and being locked out on the porch overnight or something. I kept waiting for them to look back longingly over the chasm as the goat came out and started eating all their stuff.

Still waiting for the laugh.

 

They filmed it just before/just after the peanut butter/jam joke episode so that AH could be in the final episode.

 

They're saying they're planning on three more seasons.

 

Or for them to get arrested for trespassing. Anything.

 

I haven't gone online to see the episode yet, but is it clear he is teaching undergrads as opposed to first-year architecture students, who would be at least 22-23 after 4 years of undergrad. And how do we know he isn't going to be dating an older student, even if it is in undergrad?

 

Nobody said it had to be a freshman.
Nobody said this couldn't be a graduate course.
Nobody said the future mom couldn't be the teaching assistant.
Nobody said they start dating immediately (what about 10 years down the road?)
Hell, nobody said the future mom couldn't be some 40-year-old cougar who went back to school after her first marriage collapsed.

We're reading an awful lot into a show that has proven, time and time again, to throw a head fake here and there. I'm just sayin'