Episode 100: Girls Vs Suits – Season 5 Episode 12
January 11, 2010
It nice to have some hype around an episode and the Legendary 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother definitely had a lot of hype. Girls versus…wait for it…suits was an extremely funny episode. I wasn’t one of the lucky one’s who got to watch it early and in a way it’s nice to be surprised along with everyone else. If you visit here I’m sure you know it, but don’t venture further unless you want some spoilers…
The amazing thing is how one of my favorite and least favorite things (as well as the focal point of the show) is the pursuit of the mother. I mean it’s a continual teaser and honestly despite all we “know” about the future mom, none of it really matters without a face to put it with. I mean sure we got a lot of clues tonight, the bus, the room mate, the yellow umbrella return, the tastes, she plays bass…she even has ankles evidentially, but does any of that actually bring us closer to the mother? Not only that, but I get sick of every headline I see about the show having something to do with is bla bla the mother, she has been cast for an episode…seriously Carrie Underwood? To me the whole show has gone past just meeting the mother despite the title. I digress.
So the whole episode revolves around two plots. Ted and Cindy with mother teasers and Barney and Suits…with that hot bartender lady. The whole Ted story was intriguing. Despite my small rant above it is still nice to feel like we’re moving towards meeting the mother, even if we aren’t any closer than the first episode. Old Ted (Bob Saget) got more voice time in tehi episode than the previous seasons combined it seemed. And his narrations points were excellent. I especially loved, “Your mother’s rendition of Memories preformed by an English muffin is to this day one of the most hauntingly beautiful things I have ever heard”
As for the Barney story. Just wow. Neil Patrick Harris is amazing. His delivery of the list of women he has landed (a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker…yes we are to the rhyming section now) was quite funny. And you do have to love how much he cares for his suits. The organ donor suit (with appearance from Tim Gunn as Barney’s taylor… continuity?), the suit cremation and the suit angel in the sky really drove the point home.
And to top it all off, the musical number, Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit was awesome! I suppose if you’ve got a cast that can do that (esp. NPH) then why not use it.
So as you can tell, I loved episode 100. definitely my favorite of the season.
What did everyone else think?
Mother Music
- Cherry Pie by Warrant (Robin tends bar to prove her circumstantial hotness theory)
- Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit by the HIMYM Cast
Legendary Lines
Ted: So, do you ever date cute idiots?
Cindy: Almost exclusively.
Barney: For those, I mean for that, I mean for her I would stop wearing, wait for it…
Robin: Come on Barney we know your gonna say suits.
Barney: Suits.
Ted: I promise you I will not fall in love with your room mate
Old Ted: Oops
Barney: Like an organ donor for suits?
Lily: How do you not wanna hit that? I wanna hit that!
Lily: And that ass, I would wear that thing for a hat.
New Super Hot Bartender: I don’t know how to make an um, is that equal parts vodka and get the hell out of my face?
Moments of Awesomeness
- Barney… water skiiing in a suit, running for help from his taylor, music number… you name it.
- How quickly Ted got kicked to the curb by Cindy when he was too interested in her room mate.
- Lily being overly into the bartender
- More so than Lily, is just how cool Marshall is about loving his wife.
- Situational Hotness and bartender Robin… “I was somebody back there!”…and not to be critical but where was Carl? or Wendy?
- Saving a suit’s life… be a suit donor.
- Ted’s triplet schnauzers, Frank, Lloyd and Wright… I love architecture jokes like that.
- Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit.
Great 100! Congrats to everyone involved with HIMYM… Here’s to 100 more!What did you like?
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January 11th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Okay who owns the yellow umbrella? In the season finale last year did it show who owned the yellow umbrella when Ted was out in the rain? I just can’t remember if it said who owned it, or just implied again about the mother belonged to the yellow umbrella?????
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aaron Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 1:31 am
that’s a good point, it in fact may have been implied. Sort of like the umbrella would be hers…thought I initially thought that she left it at the St. Patrick’s day party, Ted picked it up and now left it at her apartment… Maybe I need to rewatch the St. Patty’s day ep because it may not have been hers to begin with…it just became hers… probably won’t know for sure till we meet the mom.
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January 12th, 2010 at 9:16 am
I loved the return of the phrase “hauntingly beautiful”… last heard describing “empty orchestra” (aka karaoke) in The Pineapple Incident.
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research9 Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
I noticed that too! Loved this episode in general. The song and dance routine was phenomenal…I was so excited when Marshall entered, but they they all joined in and I couldn’t stop laughing!
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January 12th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
btw… for those who want to know Barney’s t-shirts came from EVER they look cool but are insanely expensive!
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January 13th, 2010 at 3:05 am
I have got a question.
why does barney wear a “die neue wohnung” shirt?
what does it stand for?
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aaron Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 10:36 am
It means “The New Apartment”
Not completely sure what it’s a reference too but I think it’s a shirt from EVER
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February 9th, 2010 at 5:42 am
does any1 know the suit up song that plays when he’s in the toilet wearing the suit…..?
that was damn awesome….. but i cant find it…. zz
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March 6th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Can please anyone tell me the name of the amazing song (mostly soul resting) that plays when Ted enters Cindy’s apartment (same song plays both in Ted coming for the first time and the second time to Cindy’s apartment)??
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