How he finally met the mother (Season 9)

Agreed. I want to see the unedited show...cause they went for laughs in this one it seemed. Hell, at least give Doogie a little mention!

 

It could be bad, but there is a LOT worse out there. Most sitcoms these days are worse. Mom, Dads, Two Broke Girls, Raising Hope, The Goldbergs, Mike and Molly, The Millers, Two and a Half Men since Sheen left, Sean Saves the World... and that's not even counting ones that weren't from this season. There have been a crapton of horrible sitcoms in the last few years. I'd rather watch bad HIMYM than most of the other shows that the networks were throwing out there.

 

YOU HOLD YOUR TONGUE ABOUT THE GOLDBERGS!

 

I think that even when HIMYM wasn't making you laugh, it still gave you some reason to watch. I never grew to loathe the characters the way I did with some sitcoms. After The New Girl stopped being funny (and it was really funny in S2), I bailed completely. I just didn't care at all whether the characters lived or found happiness or not. HIMYM grew stale, sure, but I still cared about these people.

 

The show really wouldn't work as an R-rated comedy because the whole concept is Ted telling his kids the story of how he met their mother. Ted's not going to tell them about smoking a joint. He's going to tell them he ate a sandwich.

That's part of the charm of the show.

 

I hope we finally learn the pineapple story tonight.

 

Nice piece from Donna Bowman at the AV Club on the show.

I wish her and Noel were my friends so I could hang out them — execute sad blue french horn sound now — but I can still read them. She's an unabashed super fan of the show and I think she nails it.

http://www.avclub.com/article/eve-its-finale-its-time-compare-how-i-met-your-mot-202733

 

An interesting take and one that makes a lot of sense unless you believe the story that Victoria would have been the mother if they had to cut the series short by a season.

 

Rolling Stone counts down its favorite HIMYM moments.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/pictures/himymania-the-30-best-how-i-met-your-mother-moments-20140326

 

I can now happily add this to the roster of shows of which I have never ever watched a single complete episode:

Leave It to Beaver
Bonanza
Cosby
Family Ties
Taxi
Too Close for Comfort
Night Court
Hotel
Battlestar Galactica (any version)
Golden Girls
Miami Vice
Highway to Heaven
Moonlighting
Who's the Boss?
Growing Pains
A Different World
ALF
Valerie's Family/Hogan Family, etc
Newhart v. 2
Empty Nest
21 Jump Street
Ab Fab
Baywatch
Buffy (although I think i did see the movie)
Dawson's Creek
Family Matters
Fresh Prince
Head of the Class
MacGyver
Mad About You
Boy Meets World
Mr. Belvedere
Grace Under Fire
Caroline In the City
The Single Guy
My Two Dads
Suddenly Susan
Perfect Strangers
The Practice
Star Trek: DS9
ST: Voyageer
Seinfeld (*- until the final episode)

Pretty much any of the FOX shitburger cartoons: I have watched a couple of 'Simpsons' episodes, but that's it.

I don't even feel like looking up shows post-2000.


Fuck 'em all.

 

Ummm, OK.

 

Like Inky, I have no idea what the point of Starman's post was or why we should care.

I do know that he missed some crap, but he also missed some damn entertaining television.