The How I Met Your Mother Blog

So I’m a bad person, I know. I never wrote about Say Cheese. In short, I didn’t love it. Robin and Lily were funny but there’s something about the episodes that take place primarily in Dowesetrepla that leave me wanting more. That and some crazy IRL stuff kept me from getting it done.

This week, I won’t be so absent. There’s a good chance the recap won’t be posted tonight, but it’ll be up soon. Until then, talk amongst yourselves!

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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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