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The Hollywood Reporter recently hypothesized about many of the current “bubble” shows and their chances at renewal. The good news? How I Met Your Mother is an almost-guaranteed pick up:

With CBS’ Monday night comedy block continuing to perform strong while other returning shows crash, the network is considering opening up another night of comedy. If so, the net is going to need “[The New Adventures of Old] Christine.” As for “How I Met Your Mother,” a pickup is considered a given.

I’m not sure what kind of world it is where CBS has two nights of comedies but I’m very glad to hear that the Monday block has been performing well. If you ask me, they could bring back The Class and it’d do well too. Check out the full article for news on Reaper, Moonlight, Shark, and more shows that we may or may not see return.

Update: Ratings are in from this week. All shows on all networks suffered but CBS still did well:

CBS won the evening overall in the key demographic while most of its comedies fell slightly.

On CBS, “The Big Bang Theory” fell 10% (7.6 million viewers, 2.8 preliminary adults 18-49 rating and a 9 share) and “How I Met Your Mother” dropped 8% (8.3 million, 3.5/10).

via The Hollywood Reporter

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Ted and Barney are yesterdays news. Barney’s on the rebound, Lily still loves sex, and Ted and Stella (who we finally see again) take it to the next level. All this and more tonight in Rebound Bro. Continue reading…

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First, thank you to all the people who said such lovely things about the site in the comments last week, I appreciate all of it. You guys are the best readers.

Now, onto business. Tonight’s episode is “Rebound Bro” and it looks like a good one:

• When Ted tells the gang Stella’s intimate secret, he must face the consequences of breaking her trust.
• Guest Cast:
  Stella: Sarah Chalke
  Randy: Will Forte (Barney’s new wingman)
  Pete: Blair Hickey
  Stapleton: Dean West
  Crazy Willie: Bill Parks
  Haley: Floriana Lima
  Kate: Rome Shadanloo
  Sadie: Sonia Rockwell
  Lucy: Darcy Rose Byrnes (that’d be this young lady not this super-hot woman. I was disappointed although I bet Darcy makes a better eight-year-old daughter.)
• Barney goes on a quest to find his next bro. It will be a challenging task as most of Barney’s old friends are now married and have children or already have a bro. He eventually teams up with nerdy Randy who delivers the mail in Barney’s office and actually offered to be Barney’s new wingman. Barney has a lot of work to do to make Randy bro material.

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Have-You-Met-Ted.com turns eight months old today. I posted Barney and Marshall have a Confrontation on September 1st last year. I didn’t know what the site would become, if anyone would read it, or if there were even that many other fans of the show out there. I just wanted to have some intelligent discussion about the show and couldn’t find a good place for it.Since then I’ve had 130,000 page views, 965 comments, 332 subscribers, and 162 posts (it feels like I’ve written 10x that). I’ve gotten a chance to get to know a number of intelligent, hilarious, and all around legendary fellow fans; launched a Facebook group, and helped a soldier in Iraq publicize his love for the show.

The show has also come a long way. When I started it had a cult following, and now it’s gone a lot more mainstream and gaining viewers every week. The world is starting to realize what we’ve known all along.

I want to thank you guys for all the comments and support for both the site and the show that you’ve shown over the past eight months. I hope you stick around, I’ve got more great stuff to come in the future.

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So that’s what happened with the goat. Sort of. We did see the fallout from the BRo hook up last week. In fact, we picked up right where we left off. An odd episode with an emotional moment, a guest star, and a brand new mystery, The Goat had it all. Continue reading…

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Better watch your step and I hope you aren’t wearing open-toed shoes because TVGuide.com just dropped some info. Britney Spears is now officially set to return to How I Met Your Mother for a May sweeps episode entitled “Everything Must Go”. But wait, there’s more. It’s a spoiler, so proceed at your own risk. Continue reading…

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Hey guys, I finally got on board with the web 2.0 revolution and started a Facebook page for the site. Go become a fan and tell all your friends! Start discussions or share links! Get to know each other! I promise you (yes you) that I can vouch for the superb quality of all my other readers. They’re all people that you want to meet. So get to it!

Forward this link onto your friends too, it’s always good to spread the love!

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The following information contains spoilers for the next two episodes of How I Met Your Mother. If you’re into that kind of thing, read on. Continue reading…

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Wow. So Robin is a sensitive girl after all. Who knew? Certainly not Simon. After Robin played second fiddle for the majority of this season we get to see an episode dedicated to her and her pop-star past. And we’re one step closer to the “major life changing event”, at least for Barney. If you haven’t seen the episode, there be spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned. Continue reading…

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I may or may not chose to update this later with a more well thought out retrospective of the film. Until then, allow me to prattle on after three or four margaritas and one or two hours of the best movie I’ve seen in a long time.

I loved the movie. It was wonderful. And not just because I love to see Segel (albeit I never expected to see THAT much Segel) but because it was smart, funny, moving, and real. This took the romantic comedy genre, which has reduced itself to a meta cluster-fuck of in jokes thanks to Richard Curtis, and proved why that type of movie became so popular in the first place. It followed the same formula, but rather than the meet cutes feeling trite and the late-second-act conflict feeling forced, it played out like we were watching the lives of real people.

The supporting cast was great. The dude who played Aldous Snow (I’ll look him up later) was genius. He embodied that guy who is such a slimey d-bag that you want nothing to do with him yet, as Peter Bretter put it on the surf board “Damn, you’re cool”. Paul Rudd is also either the best actor of our time or he ad-libs every single line he speaks. His delivery is that good.

Kristen Bell is a gem. I love her. I couldn’t help feeling like her speech about not wanting to be forgotten since she won’t show her hoo-ha after her show was untimely canceled was a little true to life. Less evil villain and more realistic ex girlfriend, I actually felt bad for her even though I was totally on Peter’s side.

Mila Kunis was also fabulous. She balanced just on the brink of both emotionless tough girl and sensitive romantic. Her and Segel had great chemistry. The dinner scene between the four of them could’ve been a short film in and of itself.

At the base of it all is a story built on a metaphor. That metaphor being that every man needs a muse. That even if there is love in the home, a man can feel castrated being the purse holder while his famous girlfriend is in the spotlight. It would’ve been easy to make her vapid and self-obsessed, but she didn’t have to be. The nature of the beast is what broke Bretter in the first place. Then he meets that geek dream boat—the girl who’s pretty and confident and challenging. And with this new muse, the hero finds redemption. Puppet redemption, but a catharsis nonetheless.

That about does it. What did you guys think? Did you see it? I want you guys to go nuts so don’t worry about spoilers. That being said, if you haven’t seen the movie and don’t want to know the details, avoid these comments. In fact, why haven’t you seen it? Go now, then come back!

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