How he finally met the mother (Season 9)

I actually liked that episode.

 

Well, that's a shock. :

 

Fair. I didn't laugh much, but I thought it was creative and smoothly executed. It was a very How I Met Your Mother episode.

 

Oh, it definitely fit in with the show's sensibilities. Unfortunately, it didn't hold my interest.

 

I didn't hate it, but it wouldn't go on my list of "to watch again" or anything. It was meh.

Barney declaring himself "Player King of New York City" could have been an awesome concept that could have carried half an episode outside of the rhyming gimmick.

 

Just one and the writers have said that we will see the final slap.

Count me in the bunch (which might be just me) who thought it was hilarious.

 

Much better this week, although it seems like we're just killing time until Marshall finally gets there.

 

Hated last week's episode and was hating the first half or so of this one. Thought it was shaping up as another filler episode, but they really tied it all together nicely and I thought it was pretty well done. Alan Thicke singing a Canadian "anthem" was pretty solid.

 

They are just killing time until the final episode, but this week wasn't bad.

 

The last five minutes were the best part of that episode. The rest was really meh. I feel like the show is officially out of Canada jokes. Wayne Brady singing half as Robin Sparkles was perfection.

 

The whole setup of the show was well done, and though I was mad that it was a filler (and it sort of was) until the payoff, but it shows Barney is head-over-heels in love with her and will do anything to make her happy.

 

The episode was either filler or a solid setup for a great payoff. The payoff doesn't deliver without the build that it had. I don't see how you can like the end and then say the rest was worthless. The end is worthless without the rest of it to set it up.