“Yes, totally. Only thing, I like my testicles attached to my body rather than rolling around next to some eyeliner in Robin’s purse.” – Barney to Ted, about changing to be a better boyfriend to Robin
I said a few weeks ago in my post about the premiere that I loved the way they were handling the Robin / Barney pairing. Yeah, they blew that tonight. After Robin becoming the typical girlfriend last week, jealous over Barney frequenting a strip club, “Robin 101″ gave us a run-of-the-mill typical relationship angst episode. All that we love about Barney and Robin has died, withered like the plant on my mantle.
Sure, we got the Bays-Thomas non-linear storytelling, we got some funny quotes and we even got some catch-phrases, but the overarching problem of this episode just kept nagging at me. Man, I think I sound like Aryeh, don’t I? I don’t mean to be negative, really I don’t, but I didn’t laugh out loud tonight, and I really, really want that from How I Met Your Mother.
Can we talk about the gags? They were a little bit entertaining, so I’m going to list them, but an inaudible chuckle was a sad replacement for the obnoxious guffaws in my living room the night of the premiere.
Did this episode fall a bit flat for you tonight?
Really? I am loving the way they are handling Barney and Robin. This episode was really great. Much better than last week’s if you ask me. And Cobie Smulders was great tonight.
Dude, you’re supposed to make me want to come back to this show. :(
Swarkles was my favorite part…
I LOVED tonight’s episode and laughed out loud several times. I guess we weren’t watching the same show.
Bowl.
I missed enough of the beginning that I missed the origin of the bowl joke :(
As per usual, if Deb didn’t like an episode, I did. Sure, it did drift into sitcom cliche, but I don’t mind that as often (Mainly because I don’t watch any other sitcoms (save Scrubs, and now BBT), so I’m immune to burnout). But the HIMYM twist on things was funny.
I loved most of the gags that barely made you giggle…
Whoa. Just whoa.
Let’s just say, keep your eyes peeled for my rejoinder. Oh yes, my rejoinder. ;)
anyone who didn’t laugh out loud at “Oh captain my captain” is clearly broken.
I thinking your worrying too much about what’s gonna happen with barney and robin that you can’t enjoy the show. just let and trust in HIMYM to make it work.
I laughed out loud numerous times. Especially when Robin used the sledgehammer to open the briefcase the minute that Lily turned around. And Alyson Hannigan had me cracking up with her facial expressions even when she wasn’t actively part of a scene.
I’m actually enjoying the progression of Robin & Barney’s relationship cause it seems realistic to their characters. They’re struggling between how they want to act towards each other cause they’re in love and how they think they should act towards each other cause they think they should be “too cool” to fall in love.
You really suck my friend. This episode were acctually really good, but how on earth did you miss Robins penguinmonolog. Superb