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Oh, that’s right Jennifer Lopez is on the show tonight. I forgot. Boy oh boy was this a musical episode.

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It’s been awhile hasn’t it? How are you? Winter treating you OK? Good to hear. Let’s talk about tonight’s episode shall we?

Being ‘on the hook’ is a very real thing. I know plenty of guys who get hooked early, sometimes in junior high, sometimes earlier, and they sometimes stay hooked for years, well past college even. It’s a problem. They build up a shell of lies and false self-encouragement waiting for that late night call where, in tears, the girl they pine for cries to them about the latest douchebag she’s dating and how she just wishes she could find a guy like him. Granted, that’s an extreme case but being on the hook is something we’ve all been through on one end or the other.

It’s also on the sitcom Road Less Traveled proving yet again that How I Met Your Mother takes a sitcom trope of discussing milestone cultural norms and makes it new by forging into hitherto unclaimed lands. Bravo!

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This season so far has been full of rabbits and ducks. There were times tonight when I wasn’t sure which one this episode would turn out to be. Overall, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…

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Here we go, I decided to squeeze this in tonight both because I love you all and also so I can spend all of tomorrow dedicated to Lost’s return.

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I didn’t realize until after the episode that tonight marked Neil Patrick Harris’s directing debut. Well done sir! That explains why Barney was barely in the episode. For a show who has had only one director, more or less, tonight didn’t feel like a huge departure. If anything, it felt more like a return to form than some other recent episodes including last week.
That feeling, I think, was more due to the writing. The biggest impact NPH seemed to have was a general feeling of fun that ran throughout the cast. It seemed like somebody was playing his get psyched mix before each take. I’m going to follow the same format as last week since it seemed to be popular.

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