The writers of How I Met Your Mother have done it with notafathersday.com. Barney(Neil Patrick Harris) was excellent in the episode “Not a Father’s Day” (it reminded me a lot of Scrubs, when Jordon told Dr. Cox that she was not pregnant and he went running through the streets screaming with excitement). The Who’s Not Your Daddy shirt’s and other merchandise was priceless. And the cheerleader effect was well thought out and so very true… I’m still pretty confused about the actually date we need to celebrate, is it November 10th?

Still… it’s an excellent use of off t.v. show marketing, you gotta love when shows do that. Check out the site, notafathersday.com; buy a who’s NOT Your Daddy shirt; or just re-watch the show..quite legendary. To encourage you to visit the site here is my favorite not a father’s day postcard from there:

1. Basil Fawlty, John Cleese, Fawlty Towers

Sybil: “Don’t shout at me, I’ve had a difficult morning.”

Basil: “Oh dear, what happened? Did you get entangled in the eiderdown again? Not enough cream in your éclair? Hmm? Or did you have to talk to all your friends for so long that you didn’t have time to perm your ears?”

2. Mrs Merton, Caroline Aherne, The Mrs Merton Show

To Debbie McGee: “So, what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?”

3. Edmund Blackadder, Rowan Atkinson, Blackadder II

To the unremittingly dim Lord Percy: “The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed, hasn’t he, Perce?”

4. Roseanne Conner, Roseanne Barr, Roseanne

To screen husband Dan (John Goodman): “Your idea of romance is popping the can away from my face.”

5. Patsy Stone, Joanna Lumley, Absolutely Fabulous

“One more facelift on this one and she’ll have a beard”

6. Father Jack Hackett, Frank Kelly, Father Ted

“Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!”

7. Carla Tortelli Lebec, Rhea Perlman, Cheers

Barfly Cliff: “I’m ashamed God made me a man.”

Carla: “I don’t think God’s doing a lot of bragging about it, either.”

8. Jim Royle, Ricky Tomlinson, The Royle Family

His mother-in-law Norma: “Is this hat too far forward?”

Jim: “No. We can still see your face.”

9. Malcolm Tucker, Peter Capaldi, The Thick of It

To a junior minister after his inept, blinking confrontation with Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight: “All these hands all over the place! You were like a sweaty octopus trying to unhook a bra! It was like watching John Leslie at work!”

10. Statler and Waldorf, The old men, The Muppet Show

Statler: “Wake up you old fool, you slept through the show.”

Waldorf: “Who’s a fool? You watched it.”

11. Inspector Monkfish, John Actor/Simon Day, The Fast Show

To a recently bereaved woman:

“I realise this must be a very difficult time for you, so put your knickers on and go and make me a cup of tea!”

12. No Offence, Arabella Weir, The Fast Show

To WPC: “I notice you’re not wearing a wedding ring, which given your age means you’re divorced or a lesbian”.

13. Rupert Rigsby, Leonard Rossiter, Rising Damp

To Alan, his lazy student lodger, who complains his room is too cold for him to study in:

“The only thing you study is your navel. You even shave lying down.”

14. Gran, Catherine Tate, The Catherine Tate Show

In hospital, describing to her grandson an encounter with an overweight volunteer:

“She said to me last time, ‘You look bored, Mrs Taylor. I’ve got three words for you: Barbara Taylor Bradford.’ So I said, ‘Yeah? I’ve got three words for you, too: calorie-controlled diet.’”

15. The Professors, Rob Newman and David Baddiel, The Mary Whitehouse Experience

“I have here a copy of your book, Origins of the Crimean War. It smells of poo.”

“That’s because it’s been inside your mum’s bra.”

16. Alf Garnett, Warren Mitchell, Till Death Us Do Part

“You Scouse git!”

17. Alexis Carrington, Joan Collins, Dynasty

“I’m glad to see your father had your teeth fixed – if not your mouth.”

18. JR Ewing, Larry Hagman, Dallas

About his half-brother, Ray Krebbs:

“Ray never was comfortable eating with the family; we do use knives and forks.”

19. Arnold Rimmer, Chris Barrie, Red Dwarf

“Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence”

20. Dr Cox, John C McGinley, Scrubs

Dr Elliot Reid: “I don’t think you understand the severity of the situation here. I am dangerously close to giving up men altogether!”

Dr Perry Cox: “Then on behalf of men everywhere – and I do mean everywhere, including the ones in the little mud huts – let me be the first to say thanks and hallelujah!”

21. Dr Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, House

“You can think I’m wrong, but that’s no reason to stop thinking.”

22. Gary Strang, Martin Clunes, Men Behaving Badly

Laddish knockabout as Gary rates flatmate Tony’s chances with upstairs tenant Deborah:

“Let’s face it, Tony, the only way you’re gonna be in there is if you’re both marooned on a desert island and she eats a poisonous berry or a nut which makes her temporarily deaf, dumb, stupid, forgetful and desperate for sex.”

23. Larry David, Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm

“Switzerland is a place where they don’t like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.”

24. Sam Tyler, John Simm, Life on Mars

In an exchange with DCI Gene Hunt:

Gene: “I think you’ve forgotten who you’re talking to.”

Sam: “An overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline-alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding?”

Gene: “You make that sound like a bad thing.”

25. Captain Mainwaring, Arthur Lowe, Dad’s Army

“You stupid boy”

I seem to have very…well let’s call them “particular” taste in Television Shows. I always have..don’t know why, then again maybe I’m just unique…like everyone else.

Scrubs and How I Met Your Mother… I am aware that is not a sentence but work with me here. Scrubs has been one of my favorite shows since Season 1. And it’s not just because of the style of the show of the fact that often I think of myself as Dr. Cox…well except that I didn’t do that whole Medical School thing. It’s the music, the soundtrack of the show. Some of my current favorite songs/artist I have found because of Scrubs or HIMYM.

I have posted countless comments on sites and forums asking about songs I didn’t know from a show. Well. At least for these two shows this isn’t really necessary anymore…why? Because someone else is doing it for you. How nice of them eh?

For Scrubs my choice is here. MOPNT does a great job of breaking up the songs and describing the moment that they happened in the show.

For How I Met Your Mother my choice is have you met ted? (HYMT). His music page can be found here. Now while it is not quite as comprehensive or up to date (hint, hint) as MOPNT, HYMT is a great resource for finding the name of that song you just can’t seem to get out of your head after watching the show.

Cheers and Thanks to “My Own Personal ‘Net Thing” and “have you met ted?” for helping me fill up my iPod on a weekly basis.

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