Robots vs Wrestlers: Season 5 Episode 22 Discussion
May 10, 2010
His wife is a 500 year old relic that hasn’t been struck since W.S. Gilbert hit it at the London premiere of ‘The Mikado’ in 1885. ~Marshall
I don’t know if it says less of me or more of you, but it seems the less I talk the more you all use your words in the comment section. So I’ll try to keep this short so we can see if the trend continues.
Music
- Tell Me Why by From
(first bar scene) - One Spring Away by From (plays during Ted’s picture of Marissa Heller)
- Constance Fry (or Aura Lee) preformed by the Ted Mosby Quartet
- We All Belong by Dr. Dog (closing Bar Scene)
Moments of Awesomeness
- They love games don’t they. Guess what’s in my hand? Left. Wrong Game…plus the CLUE reference: Mrs. Lily in living room with a candle stick.
- Ted’s doppelganger. Only 1 more to go now, but looks like a baby may follow.
- Barney’s conditions.
- Ted gets married..or is found alone in his apartment devoured by his cats… but he is a dog person!
- Even Robin is flaking on her professionalism on the show. Loved the on air phone call.
- Robots vs. Wrestlers… did you know it’s actually real? Well Kinda: check this
- Douchepcoclypse, including Will Shortz, Peter Bogdanovich, Arianna Huffington and many more. excellent use of guest stars.
- Lily’s British Marissa Heller impression
- Ted’s skills at that party, while quite douchey and pretentious, were quite impressive. Wonder if Future Ted is embellishing a bit? Still Douch Ted is no match for drunk Ted.
Legendary Lines
Barney: Stinson Out
Robin: I have plans with Don on Saturday.
Lily: I’ll assume we’re talking about food otherwise I have some follow up questions.
Barney: 4. No breast feeding in front of me. 5. Forget #4, you can whip em out anytime you want.
Barney: You can re-apply in 2 years
Marshall: Dude, what is it with you and my wife’s boobs tonight?
Barney: Hey, I don’t make the rules!
The Re-Return
Peter Bogdanovich saying Willem Dafoe over and over in the elevator.
The Wrap-Up
Tonight was funny. A lot of Ted tonight, I like Ted, good thing becasue it’s his story. His story telling is always interesting to me. Sometimes, it’s intentionally misleading, sometimes Ted forgets, sometimes he leaves things out. One example from tonight is Ted’s party skills. While impressive do you really think he is that good with wine and Latin? More importantly though, what about what isn’t mentioned about Robin? I may be assuming but at the beginning of the episode she said if she and Don were going to work then she couldn’t be around especially with 2 of her ex’s present. Then at the end, walks in Robin. Are we to take it that they are no more or did she just compromise her earlier view? I fell it’s just set up for the season finale, but maybe not.
Secondly, when do you think we will see Barney’s doppelganger? I can’t see HIMYM having kids to deal with on the seat so I feel like there will be a lot more to it when Lily & Marshall decide to have a child but this isn’t the first time this season that having a baby has been mentioned in relation to them (the first being in Last Cigarette Ever).
So over all I liked it, I could say more but I want to let everyone else talk. So, what did you think of Robots vs. Wrestlers?
Posted in Episode Discussion, how i met your mother
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May 11th, 2010 at 7:06 am
A moment of awesomeness for me was when they flashed back to Ted & Marshall moving into the apartment the box Ted is sorting has Pot Lids written on it, a call back to the episode where Robin and Ted attempt to move in together in season 2.
It was a good episode, I liked the progression between Marshall & Lily’s steps towards a baby, its way beyond the point when they should start to think about it. I think it will be something that leads towards the series finale, so I don’t expect it to happen right away in season 6.
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aaron Reply:
May 11th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Awesome moment Rebecca! I didn’t even notice that.
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May 11th, 2010 at 8:24 am
I really liked the episode. I love Ted, especially when he gets to dork out and be all Ted-ish. Most of it was believeable, I was kind of hoping he’d forget the poem in Italian after he got past the part where they usually fart noise at him. Sidenote: roommate made that noise at me after we were watching it, it was classic.
Anywho, good show…very fun. I like Barney being a big side character and not so much the main character. He’s always brilliant, but the show is supposed to be about Ted and I think for awhile there it was all a little too Barney-centric.
I think Don and Robin will be done in the finale due to her missing the group/exes too.
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aaron Reply:
May 11th, 2010 at 9:57 am
It’s my contention that Robin coming back means she and Don didn’t make it. At least that seems logical, maybe not though.
Dork out Ted is quite funny.
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Philipp Reply:
May 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I actually thought the same about the episodes focusing too much on Barney.
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May 11th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Well the finale’s title is doppelgangers. I also saw a picture of Barney kinda hippy with red hair. So there you go. I think m&l will at least get pregnant next year and they’ll maybe show their last cigarettes.
But seriously, this episode was amazing, I loved everything about it and I wanna go to robots vs. wrestlers this instant!
Y’all ready for the wedding bride next week?
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research9 Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Forgot all about wedding bride next week! So pumped now! But then we have to wait all summer for another episode. I hate summer TV
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Philipp Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 8:31 am
Actually there’s two more episodes this year, there’s The Wedding Bride next week and then Doppelgangers the week after that.
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May 11th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I totally loved this episode. Barney having scares losing his friends like other people have scares losing their girlfriend/boyfriend was just hilarious.
Also great: Ted reciting Dantes Infermo wich is actually one of my favourites.
I have to add: I’m so sorry for the guy who had to rearrange Ted`s apartment for one single scene.
Having a date for Lily and Marshall having a baby is great, allthough it’s pretty vague.
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May 12th, 2010 at 3:37 am
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May 12th, 2010 at 3:38 am
Robin: I have plans with Don on Saturday.
Lily: I’ll assume we’re talking about food otherwise I have some follow up questions.
Robin saying “He’s making me chinese” is missing here. How is this funny without it?^^
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May 12th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Barney had so many quick zingers that were so quick they got over looked .. my personal favorite .. “What does she look like .. face .. boobs … start with boobs..”
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