Well I hope you all are enjoying rewatching Season 1 of HIMYM this summer. I’ll try to keep these better paced. I’m still struggling with the new format of including video reviews, but I’ll try things out and hopefully it will come together. I usually spend some time commenting up front…just general thoughts but I feel like that part will be replaced by the video, but I’ll still be keeping Legendary Lines, HIMYM Music section, Moments of Awesomeness and Lingering questions.
I really want to encourage you all to comment or leave video replies on the How I Met Your Mother Site Youtube Channel, which you can find at: youtube.com/thehimymsite. I know I’m a big dork but I’m a fan like all of you and enjoy talking about the show, so I look forward to what you have to say.
With that said, what did you thing of Purple Giraffe (from the first time watching even till the 87th)?
How I Met Your Mother Music
- Haven’t We Met instrumental version by Stephen Lang (Ted imagines Robin at his party) DVD replaces with John Swihart jazz piece
- Music cue for the show by Swihart (plays during Ted’s keep playing the game scenes)
- Everybody Have Fun Tonight by Wang Chung
(while not played Marshall references it in Legendary fashion)
Moments of Awesomeness
- Awkward moments with Marshall, Lily…. and Ted. it’s always classic when those two go at it and there is Ted. “Guys. Boundaries”
- Gatsby. Loved the party scenes… Ted seems slightly different in these…but he is truly more Gatsby. Plus, I’ve always had a fondness for the Fitzgerald story.
- Barney’s Statistics… despite the lack of 83% it’s still golden.
- First off, I love Lily really, but this Season is definitely when she was way more hot than annoying.
- “The Mosby” truly the fastest way to get rid of a woman…or is it?
- In true Bro Code fashion, Barney works so well as a wing man for Ted, example…pushing Carlos over to cover his Bro’s story.
- The Kid. Even if it is self assigned, what a great nickname for Marshall.
- Ted & Robin. Despite knowing (yes I said knowing) that they don’t end up together, one must admit they do work so well together.
- The roof. plus the writing for this ep…especially up there. Btw, I personally wish there was on off switch too.
Legendary Lines
Robin: Hello Sailor
Barney: As your sponsor, I will not let you relapse. You blew it. It’s over. move on.
Marshall: We threw two parties. Everybody had fun. Everybody wanged, everybody chunged.
Ted: So that was Robin…
Robin: It’s a great look but you’re looking at the wrong girl…
Ted: My friends are gonna love you…like you…as a friend.
Barney: Solid plan my little friend.
Ted: We’re the same height.
Barney: Unbelievable. That is just a recipe for disaster, they work together
Ted: I mean maybe New York’s just too big a town, you know? There’s millions of people in this city. How in all this mess is a guy supposed to find the love of his life? I mean, where do you even begin?
(Robin taps a random woman at the bar)
Robin: Hi, Have you met Ted?
Lingering Questions:
- Why do you think the interactions with and of the kids faded more in later episodes? Just the age of the actor/actress? Or was there more to how they tell the story?
- We seem to get birthday parties in the future but, parties like this in the apartment seem a rarity in the future? Why do you think that is?
- Do you play the “Have you met …” game with your friends?
- Robin and Ted were clearly great together, why do you think we start the whole series with finding out she isn’t the mom and then continue with their relationship anyways?
- Despite my EXTREMELY firm belief that Robin isn’t the mother (ref. Who is the mother part 2) many still believe it’s Robin, if that’s you then state your case. You’ll get no hate from me, I’d just love to hear it.
I love flirty Ted and Robin. They’re so much fun. The little smiles and glances…so good together. I also really enjoyed the whole “I don’t want her to know, casual…” thing – certainly a familiar feeling that you want to hide your feelings but at the same time make sure something works out!
More early appearance of themes in this episode – Lily’s inability to keep things secret, Lily/Marshall/Ted boundaries, more have you met Ted…
Ted showing the architecture tools off is possibly one of my favourite things about this episode, it just cracks me up for some reason!
Like you I really enjoyed Marshall’s rant and reaction to seeing Robin. Brilliant writing, and Jason’s great in this scene – as is Barney’s being a good bro.
The scene you point out with Ted & Robin on the roof is just wonderful…I feel like it really shows why they’re so right and so wrong. They interact beautifully, get along so easily. But then they both want opposite things. But there’s no off switch – which I love about Ted, I wouldn’t want there to be an off switch, he’s great (if a little insane!) as he is. Romantic Ted is brilliant. “You’re right, there’s no off switch.”
“Just shopping…for dip…I love dip…like dip. As friends.”
“I ate like four whole cans of dip.”
“You always know what to say old friend.”
In response to some of your questions…I’d not noticed about the kids until you mentioned that, actually! I think it may well have a lot to do with their ages, sadly…but also you kinda feel that at the beginning they’re on edge to find out, so we maybe see a lot of them, but later on they’re just fed up of him going on and on!
The Ted/Robin question is an interesting one…as I said in the Pilot review, I quite like how they did it, it makes for a very interesting dynamic. Somehow there’s still tension and drama in the relationship, despite the fact we know how it ends. I think starting with Ted falling head over heels for someone shows us just what he’s like in love – gives us a picture of what things will be like with The Mother. I’m of the opinion that we may meet The Mother right at the end (although I’ve been changing my mind a little about that recently…but that’s a whole other discussion!) so we won’t see a lot of the romantic Ted – but watching him with Robin, we have an idea of what he’ll be like. As a big, big Ted/Robin fan though, I can’t help but feel they’ve created themselves a problem…I enjoyed Ted/Robin so much together, and thought they were so adorable. Not only that, but because she’s a main character we saw so much of them together, so had a real insight into the relationship – and because of all these things, they’re going to have to do something really special to make me think The Mother is a better match for Ted than Robin is. Which clearly she is, because she’s The Mother and the love of his life. I’m just struggling to see how they will portray this and make me believe it…but this show is SO well thought through and put together, I guess I have to just trust the writers. (Just to be clear, I absolutely 100% agree that Robin is NOT the mother, but am a huge fan of Ted/Robin)
Oh, and never played have you met. Maybe that’s where I’m going wrong…!
(This response may not make much sense…come home from a horrible and long shift, and very sleepy but thought I’d write this as a bit of chill out time before bed!)
I love season 1 Ted. I can identify with him a lot which is what got me hooked on the show.
The kids disappeared bc of aging issues. They kept getting older and you couldn’t sell the “this is all one sitting” premise.
You missed one of Ted’s greatest quotes “ain’t no thing but a chicken wing, mamacita” followed by Ted asking “who am i?”
IT was a great quote… it was the “mamacita” that I didn’t like…though like you said. “Who Am I” redeems it
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These were great, I hope you get some more free time to review some more shows from season 1!