The How I Met Your Mother Blog

News on Season 5, UK airing, and other bits from all corners of the HIMYM universe:

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Where’s the new post button? What’s my admin password? What’s the website again? Oh yeah, I remember how to do this now…

Hey guys and gals, how’s your summer vacation so far? Having fun? How much fun? As much fun as it must be for Bays, Thomas, and the cast to be nominated for BEST EFFING COMEDY SERIES? (That’s the oft-forgotten full title of the award. True Story.)

It’s true, after years of shunning, HIMYM finally gets the nomination it deserves. I’m not going to lie, it’s up against some stiff competition. Nominees:

• How I Met Your Mother – Woot!
• Entourage – I’m a big fan, though I’m still pulling for HIMYM
• The Office – Past it’s peak, IMO, still good but not as good as it used to be.
• 30 Rock - Eh, it’s good, and it’s cool to love it, but I prefer HIMYM because it’s story AND funny.
• Weeds – Who cares. OK, a lot of people, just not me.
• Flight of the Conchords – Couldn’t get through this season. Too weird for its own good.
• Family Guy – Would be historic, which is cool, but still not as good as HIMYM

What do you guys think? Does it have a chance? I think so. What do you think? Oh yeah, NPH is hosting and it airs September 20 on CBS. Tune in! Or don’t, that shit is long and you can just read the winners on twitter (where you can follow me here.)

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Reader Joel pointed me to the news that How I Met Your Mother has officially been picked up by CBS for a fifth season. I didn’t think the show was in any jeopardy but it is nice that all that “on the bubble” worry of previous season finales is gone. Congratulations to Bays, Thomas, Fryman, and the entire cast for another year!

It’s also been announced that the show will move to the 8:00pm timeslot. If memory serves, this is where the show began. I don’t particularly think it matters but I just hope there isn’t any pressure from the network to “clean up” some of the racier show elements. So long as it shares an evening bracket with the fratty humor of Two and a Half Men I think it should be OK.

We’ve hit—and passed—5,000 comments on the blog. As I type this there are 5,100 comments in total for this, the 299th post. You guys are awesome.

I said I would give out a copy of The Bro Code to the 5,000 comment and I’m happy to announce that commenter was BSMOOTH. I will be contacting you by the email you used to leave the comment for your shipping information. Congrats BSMOOTH!

And as a present for everyone else, you can download the “Let’s Go to the Mall” ringtone. It’s for iPhone only but who doesn’t have one of those these days? You should be able to open the file in iTunes and it’ll be able to sync to your phone.

Only one episode left this season! I’ll be back on Friday with the Finale preview so we can get all our hopes and suspicions and dreams out over the weekend.

I have just received word that yet another show-related web site will accompany tonight’s episode.

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