This week I think I’ll try moving my thoughts to the end and starting out with lines, moments and such… spoilers follow, but if you’re here you know that… btw, I’m trying out a new blog editor tonight, be gentle.

Legendary Lines

Barney: Shall I walk you through the history?
Ted: I’m going to explicitly say no…

Robin: Move past it guys. I’ve been a little bit loose, but money never changed hands.

Barney:…and so hot girls rolled into doctors offices, rendering the very erection pills they peddled ironically redundant.

Barney: What IN THE WORLD is up?!

Ted (to Robin): You are Captain Hook.

Marshall: Hang in there Scoots, I’m not gonna live forever.

Barney: Am I right people?
Robin: yea, there’s no people. Just the girl you most recently dated.

Ted: I seriously considered marrying her out of sheer awkwardness…

Moments of Awesomeness

• Remember Bait…, trampoline too dangerous. slot machine too fun. In fact, Note to single friends/readers: Buy a teacup pig.
• Old Ted breaking into Younger Ted’s conversation for clarification and insults
• Ted & Henrietta’s Engagement. Especially, the parental reaction.
• the return of Marshall’s Vintage Auburn Shirt … War Eagle anyone?
• I loved, Alyson Hannigan’s work with the pig…NO, not Barney. Lilly and the teacup pig…seriously funny. Add Marshall eventually caving to Scooter and it makes it even better.
• Although teenage Marshall looked pretty old compared to his hook, I still love those scenes.

Music

• Wish You Were Mine by Light FM – (Marshall waits in the snow to tell Lisa how he feels in song)

the Re-Return

Barney seems to very upbeat about the end of the hot pharma-girl profession, thanks to some purple pills that someone left in his couch.

Have you been the hookee or the hooker before? Before married life snagged me from the clutches of phrased activities and clutch phrases, I was familiar with the hooked phenomenon. I’ll leave out how often I was on each side, but much like everyone on the show I was on both. Tonight’s episode was great. We got to see a lot of Barney being Barney, Ted being naive, Robin being the female Barney in a lot of ways, some Carrie Underwood, and Lily and Marshall doing the couples things in a way that makes us all happy.

Carrie Underwood, while being gorgeous all night, really wasn’t as important as Barney’s teacup pig. I do love the way that the writers kept her as part of the story bit in the background. I mean after Brittany’s second appearance and flop on the show, I guess something had to happen. The pig caused me to laugh a lot more. And even though my wife kept telling me how not cute the pig was, when Lily and Marshall had it I couldn’t help but laugh. Add the pig bit with the return of Scooter, now “lunch lady Scooter” and you see a pretty strong story.

Let’s talk Robin for a second. I loved the fact she kept being the hooker, as she called it, long enough to get her laundry done despite everyone else’s change of heart. What I don’t get is why haven’t we seen more of Don? Maybe the Olympics are just fooling with my timeline but I expected more from that story already. Past her relationship status, I feel like HIMYM struggles at times with what to do with Robin. Anyone else feel that way? I mean I love everything she does but it all feels like it adds but in more of a space filling and not necessary way. Then again, maybe I’m still feeling jilted because the Robin/Barney relationship was cast aside so quickly.

Barney’s wink at the camera never gets old. I felt that Barney’s history of hot-girl employment was one of the stronger points of the show but I had seen it so many times in the promo stuff it lost a bit of the edge. What didn’t fall flat was the end of the Ted and Henrietta story. Even though you knew what was going to happen once he accidentally dropped the ring, it was still one of the best moments of the night. When her parent’s ran out to congratulate Ted, I nearly lost it. SON! I will admit though, the reaction was vaguely reminiscent of another proposal that happened between Barney and another guest appearance.

So overall I thought it was a strong episode, not a ton of substance but a lot of laughs for sure. Enough about me, what did everyone else think?

    I’ll run down my regular music moments and quotes below but I’m pretty sick so I’ll just hope the discussion gets the rest. Just don’t jinx it.

What did everyone think of the episode?

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MUSIC

• Pennant Fever from the Major League Soundtrack (Ted helps Barney check the scouting report. Thanks Skip) (youtube link)
• Baseball Charge (night 5 intro and a beer for Ted)

LEGENDARY LINES

Robin: He couldn’t keep his good eye off of me.

Barney:  I’m just assuming that’s what they say when I’m not around.

Marshall: You know how Lily & I have been looking for couple friends ever since we lost Robin & Barney and Ted & Stella, and Ted & Robin, and Ted & Victoria…geeze Ted, when are you gonna get your live together?
Ted: How did we end up here?

Ted: Marshall, 4 out of 5 dentist just threw up in their mouths.

Robin: My panties would drop so hard there would be a hole below me halfway to China.

Barney: Giddy-what-up

Jim Nantz: Unbelievable. You know. There’s two things you don’t do. One, you don’t open an email from Phil Simms in from of your kids…

Ted: Yea…I’m totally gonna site my kids down one day and tell them about the time Uncle Barney nailed 7 chicks in a row…
(lingering shot of the kids)
Old Ted:  Am I a bad dad?

MOMENTS OF AWESOMENESS

• Barney calls his shot.
• Marshall’s Sasquatch fixation “Sasquatch isn’t fictional”
• Barney might get fired? While Barney losing his job isn’t really awesome at all, it was very cool how he handles his stress. This bring me to my next moment:
• Jim Nantz. High fiving, making sports analogies about sex, kicking his chair, calling Barney a ‘playa’…the dude was great tonight.
• The reference to “performance enhancing drugs”. Espically when Marshall asks for the time, counts on his fingers to 4 then get’s up with the pillow and ask to go to the hospital…YOU CAN TEST ME IF YOU WANT JIM NANTS!!!
• Wendy. I love it when Wendy (Charlene) is on the show, I wish Carl would show back up but I’m still happy with the Wendy appearance.
• How many people will start talking about Victoria possibly being the mother again because of the reference? Even though we know she is not.
• Marshall’s “Seven Up, Seven Down” hats tribute to Barney’s week.
• Mustache Pete Drexel
• Ted helps Barney check the scouting report in a Major League tribute.
• IS it just another coincidence that Nick Swisher (who happens to be dating Ted’s dream girl, JoAnna Garcia) was on tonight?

THE RE-RETURN

(FYI: “re-return” is the epilogue scene…a reference to something Ted does in s01e15, Game Night)

Wendy the Waitress (Hooray Windy!!!) has a to go order for Cook Poo…

Ted, believing it’s a joke by his friends makes fun of what a stupid name it is…then Cook Poo says “Here” from the bar and leaves.

And now the full lyrics to “Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit”. Enjoy:

I know what you’re thinking

What’s Barney been drinking?
That girl was smoking hot

Yes I coulda nailed her
But no it’s not a failure
‘Cuz there’s one thing she is not

To score a ten would be just fine
But I’d rather be dressed to the nines
It’s a truth you can’t refute
Nothing suits me like a suit

Picture a world where all the girls and boys
Are impeccably well dressed
That delivery guy in the jacket and tie
That puppy in the double-breast

That ’80s dude in mutton chops
That baby with a lollipop
That lady cop who’s kinda cute
Nothing suits ‘em like a suit

Wingman I can wear
They’re oh so debonair
The perfect way to snare
a girl with daddy issues

In navy blue or black
Check out this perfect rack
I want to give them a squeeze

Oh really? Then answer these questions
If you please

What would you do if you had to choose
Between your suits and a pot of gold? Suits.

What would you say
If you gave your suits away
In return you’d never grow old? Suits.

What would you pick
One million chicks
Or a single three-piece suit? It’s moot.

What if world peace
Were within your reach … Abbadabada I’m gonna stop you right there. It’s suits. Come on, Lily. Get your head outta your ass.

Two! Three! Four!

Girls will go and girls will come
But there’s only one absolute
Every bro on the go needs to know
That there’s no accepted substitute

I’m sorry suits, let’s make amends
My Sunday best are my best friends
Send casual Friday down the laundry chute

‘Cuz nothing suits the undisputed oft-saluted suitor of repute
Like a …. wait for it …
Suit!

Then again, she is pretty hot.

   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…

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    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?

Check back soon for the 100th episode discussion!