The How I Met Your Mother Blog

Warning: this trailer is restricted and has naughty language and some nudity. There’s another trailer thats a bit cleaner (and, to me, better) here.

What do we think? I’ve actually never seen the first one. It looks like Neil Patrick Harris is a riot in the movies though. I’m a big John Cho fan so I might have to check this out.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay comes out on April 25, 2008.

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I started this blog in September and there have already been 10,000 page views. That’s just organic traffic, the site hasn’t been on the front page of Digg or had any major endorsements or anything.

I can’t believe the success so far. I hoped for high page views when I started the site but I figured it’d take a long time, a year maybe, since the content was so specific. I’m not in the Technorati Top 100 or anything, but I think 10,000 views is something to be excited about.

The site averages about 150 visits a day, closer to 300 on Tuesdays. Episode recaps get between 4 and 12 comments. To get geekier, my bounce rate is good (around 50%) and the average time on the site is 3 minutes, which is impressive when you factor out all the people who hit a page and leave, which means that people that stay usually stay for at least 8 minutes.

The most popular posts to date are the discussion of Slapsgiving, the post to download the Slapsgiving song as an mp3, and the music page.

I want to thank all the readers who make this site so great. I am always amazed by the quality of the comments. I’ve been around the Internet and blogs for a long time and the level of participation here is astounding.

I don’t want to blow my own horn too much, but I was so excited by the fast growth of the site I felt moved to thank you all for the time you’ve spent here.

Moving forward, expect to see all kinds of Web 2.0 craziness like Facebook groups and MySpace content, all that community crap. I’ll probably add a Digg badge to posts as well so you all can help drive traffic to the site. Until then, keep telling your friends.

PS. The image above is a metaphor for the people who have rushed to this site. I don’t see my (entire) world in How I Met Your Mother screen shots…

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This movie is going to be awesome. It looks like Sad Marshall from last year but without the moral hangups of eventually going back to Lily. There’s a few great quotes even from the trailer.

“Sarah, I swear to God, I’ll jump in the lake like a merman.”
“Would you like to pick the outfit you break up with me in?”

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Which HIMYM guest star would make a good permanent or semi-permanent fixture? Victoria proved in Season One that a sixth person wouldn’t ruin the flow of the show, and there’ve been some good guest stars that could turn in legendary performances if they became full time. Who would you most like to see expand their roll?

For the sake of equality, I’ve separated the votes into boy/girl. It’s not fair to poor Marshall Manesh that he isn’t as cute as Danica McKellar.

Guys:

• Marshall Manesh…Ranjit the cab driver (it’s been awhile)
• Joe Nieves…Carl the bartender (where’s Carl been? more to come)
• Matt Boren…Stuart (of the “Stuart and Claudia” wedding)
• Alexis Denisof… Sandy Rivers (almost guaranteed to return, he’s married to Alyson Hannigan)
• Nate Torrence… Clark Butterfield (Barney’s arch-nemesis in an inter-office war)
• Michael Gross… Alfred Mosby (Ted’s dad)
• Joe Manganiello… Brad (one half of the World’s Greatest Couple)
• Bryan Cranston… Hammond Druthers
• Wayne Brady… James Stinson
• Enrique Iglesias… Gael
• John Cho… (Marshall’s boss)

Girls:

• Jayma Mays…Coat Check Girl (maybe?)
• Danica McKellar…Trudy (always welcome as far as I’m concerned)
• Virginia Williams…Claudia (of the “Stuart and Claudia” wedding)
• Ashley Williams…Victoria (fan favorite and pro-baker)
• Erinn Bartlett… Mary (the paralegal)
• Charlene Amoia… Wendy the Waitress (reader Michael makes a good case for her in the comments)
• Cristine Rose… Virginia Mosby (Ted’s mom)
• Lucy Hale… Katie Scherbatsky (Robin’s little sister)
• Mandy Moore… Amy
• Busy Philipps… Rachel (one wheel of the tricycle, also from Freaks and Geeks)

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All over the news this week was the casting of Paul Rudd and (potentially) Jason Segel (Marshall, duh) in a new movie called I Love You, Man. It looks like another movie in the vein of 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Old School.

Paul Rudd is set to star in the comedy “I Love You, Man,” directed and written by John Hamburg for DreamWorks.

Jason Segel is in final negotiations to also star in the film, which centers on a man who seeks out a male friend to serve as the best man at his wedding. Rudd will play the soon-to-be betrothed, with Segel as his best man.

Rudd and Segel worked together on Knocked Up (Segel slammed the door in Rudd’s face).

Jason Segel is a busy man. I wonder if he’s finished Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which he wrote and stars in. With that, his work on How I Met Your Mother, and now this, that won’t leave much time for doing the robot.

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Last night we saw a repeat of Bachelor Party from last season. I like this episode, although I prefer the B story (Robin’s inappropriate wedding shower present) to the A plot (Barney messing up Marshall’s bachelor party). That long description from Lily’s grandmother who thought Lily was about to open an antique sewing machine when in fact she was opening…something else was an inspired piece of writing.

Lastly, this episode was important because it showed us what made Lily finally come home. Barney flying out there with a ticket for her was a rare compassionate moment for him. He’s always shown a need for Marshall and Lily’s relationship to succeed (the ying to his bachelor yang it would seem) and it finally explained why Barney was so mean to Marshall during The Scorpion and the Toad.

Thoughts?

PS. Again, sorry for the limited posts. I’ve got a list of blog drafts a mile long and once I get situated you guys are in for some great content. Look forward to polls about returning guest stars, recaps from old episodes, legacy season vs. season talks, and maybe even a contest where we give away a DVD. Hang in there folks, it’s going to be a legendary new year.

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Via DVD review:

On 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s release of ‘How I Met Your Mother: Season 2′ the studio has also included a hidden feature for you to discover.
Insert the first disc of the DVD set and from the Main Menu go to the ‘Special Features’ section. Now highlight the ‘On’ menu entry for the first Commentary Track and then press the ‘Left’ arrow key on your remote control. Now press the ‘Up’ arrow key and an icon will be highlighted on the screen. Now press the ‘Enter’ key and you will get to see a sketch of one of Hammond Druthers’ designs in the show.

I haven’t confirmed this yet, but it sounds awesome. Anyone have the DVD? Can you confirm?    Update: Reader RFRY (of milesdavisforpresident.net) sent in a screen shot. It’s the new hero image above. Pretty legendary.

“You’ve got to get me into that building. And don’t give me the shaft.”
“Yeah you did.”
“Had to.”

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This week’s recap was written by Have You Met Ted long-time fan Jason “The Mix”. Jason offered to take over this week since I’m in such a flux with the move. I’m super excited to share his thoughts with you. As Broda would say, the Force is strong with this one. Without further adieu I present Jason’s recap:

With this episode was the last new one we’ll see for a fair amount of time, however, if were we’re going to go out on any episode, I’m glad it was this one. It left us with a sense of mystery, and a cliffhanger of sorts with more than one person in Ted and Barney.

This was, as older Ted put it, the story of making decisions that we aren’t prepared to live with, “and the consequences that follow”. This episode in particular is one I found to be fairly iconically Ted, in that there are several episodes where the focus is upon Ted making a bad decision, or simply unwise, even though he knew before hand it was a bad decision to be making. In fact, that’s generally been the overlaying theme of the entire season so far. Old Ted at the beginning of the season puts it as going through what he needed to go through before he meets the mother. In the end, this episode is sort of a more hilarious stepbrother to “Nothing Good Happens After 2 AM”. Continue reading…

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Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, creators of How I Met Your Mother (the show is semi-autobiographical for them) have posted a letter to fans on the HIMYM MySpace page. It looks like The Platinum Rule will be the last new episode until the TV Writers Strike is sorted out. It’s all very sad. Read their letter below: Continue reading…

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Sorry guys, I just moved to NYC and started a new job this week so I’m all out of whack for HIMYM. I don’t have time for a proper recap of last night’s episode yet. We can discuss it here and hopefully you won’t have to wait too much longer for a full wrap-up.

A couple things that stood out as good:

• I loved all the crazy time shifting. It’s nice when an episode covers just 30 minutes of the characters time as well as ours and is filled in with flashbacks.
• Lily’s hair was crazy. I like that they play around with the characters like that. There’s so much coverage about Hannigan’s hairstyles each season, then they throw it in as a gag
• Barney was in near-overacting stage. In a good way.
• That door-slam-slide was awesome. I boo-booped Tivo back over and over to watch it again
• Did anyone notice that dramatic turn as Barney and Robin suddenly were very close?
• Why does Robin only find these wussy guys?
• It was good to see more of Wendy the Waitress

Worth noting: At the end of the episode future-Ted tells his kids (and us in narration) that this is “the end of [his doctor] Stella’s story, at least for now.” Foreshadowing?

Sorry for the short post. Hopefully I’ll be back to speed next week.

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