The How I Met Your Mother Blog

What a banner day for How I Met Your Mother fans. First, Marshall and Lily’s marriage is celebrated, now we’ve got the closest thing to confirmation yet concerning the strike’s end. Carter Bays, co-creator of the show, had this to say:

 ”We’re unbelievably stoked to be getting back to work. The chance to finish out the season is a dream come true in pretty much every way: getting our crew back on the payroll, getting our staff off the picket line and back in the writers room and, most of all, actually writing again. And doing eight more episodes will feel really good. And I couldn’t imagine a season-three DVD with just those first 11 episodes on it. Eleven episodes didn’t feel like a season. We’re TV, not HBO.”

That Bays, he’s a funny guy. Although we knew that already. I agree though, we’re all stoked for more episodes. If you look back, it is the final half dozen episodes that really bring it home at the end of every season.  What kind of monumental event are we going to see this year?

via E! Online

TV Guide recently ranked the top ten married television couples. Guess who came in at number five? Lily Aldrin and Marshall Ericksen. Not bad after less than a year of marriage. The rest of the ranking was as follows:

1. “Friday Night Lights” Tami and Eric Taylor, played by Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler
2. “Medium” Allison and Joe Dubois, played by Patricia Arquette and Jake Weber
3. “Desperate Housewives” Lynette and Tom Scavo, played by Felicity Huffman and Doug Savant
4. “Everybody Hates Chris” Rochelle and Julius, played by Tichina Arnold and Terry Crews
5. “How I Met Your Mother” Lily Aldrin and Marshall Eriksen, played by Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel
6. “The Unit” Mollly Blane and Sgt. Major Jonas, played by Regina Taylor and Dennis Haysbert
7. “Lost” Rose Henderson and Bernard Nadler, played by L. Scott Caldwell and Sam Anderson (editor’s note: my second favorite on the list)
8. “Ghost Whisperer” Melinda Gordon and Jim Clancy, played by Jennifer Love Hewitt and David Conrad
9. “Family Guy” Lois and Peter Griffin, voiced by Alex Borstein and Seth MacFarlane
10. “Scrubs,” Carla Espinosa and Chris Turk, played by Judy Reyes and Donald Faison

This is all speculative and, while I’m not a real journalist, I am an optimist so you’re damn sure I’m going to report it as fact. TVFodder’s Day 95 WGA Strike Recap has the prognosis for how likely many shows are to return and how many episodes they will have when and if they do so. It seems that shows like Heroes and 24, that have long story arcs, aren’t looking like they’ll return. The good news, however, is that How I Met Your Mother is listed as one of the shows likely to return with the most new episodes once the strike ends—between seven and nine most likely.

This is great news. I could care less about new episodes of Heroes since it hasn’t been good since the middle of season 1. I’m sad Scrubs is in danger but this is a How I Met Your Mother blog so no crying, only celebrating! Nine new episodes is great news, let’s hope that the strike resolution continues to advance at the currently predicted rate and we can see the rest of this season sooner rather than later.

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I haven’t watch this yet but I just found it and wanted to get it up for everyone to see. “Red Band” means the trailer is R rated so if you’re young or easily offended or at work, you’ve been warned. I’ll update once I watch it.

What do we think?

More on the movie here, here, and here.

So, it looks like the strike might be coming to an end. That means we’ll finally get some new episodes. It seems like it’s been forever since The Platinum Rule aired doesn’t it? It does to show co-creator Carter Bays who was recently quoted in EW:

”It’s been a long strike,” [Bays] admits. ”I can barely remember all our characters’ names, much less what we were planning to do with them. Is our show the one with Jim and Pam? If so, we’ll probably have them hook up. Awkward!”

I love this guy. But seriously, it’s been a long time. What do you hope the first new episode of How I Met Your Mother is going to cover? Any other thoughts about the end to the strike? Party like it’s still Fat Tuesday in the comments.