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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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The show goes off new episodes for a couple weeks and I fall apart as a blogger. It was released recently that CBS has ordered a pilot for a new sitcom called Livin’ on a Prayer. The show follows a dating couple taking the next step in their lives. Sound familiar? That’d be because it comes from Kourtney Kang and Joe Kelly who write for How I Met Your Mother. Bays and Thomas are also involved.

It would seem that Manganiello impressed the creators with his time playing Brad, Marshall’s law school buddy/man-date partner as he’s just been cast as one of the leads for the Livin’ on a Prayer pilot. Manganiello will play “Doug, a former high-school football star turned ‘good-guy’ husband and father” says The Hollywood Reporter.

I’d be remiss not to mention Manganiello’s other recent casting. He’ll be appearing on HBO’s True Blood as werewolf Alcide Herveaux. The internet is quite a twitter about this. Most headlines for the Livin’ on a Prayer news cite him as “True Blood’s Joe Manganiello”. I’m almost more excited about this. I love me some True Blood in a very guilty-pleasure way and I’ll be interested to see this character though I’m a little disappointed now that werewolves seem intrinsically tied in with vampires at this point. Also of note, werewolves.com has some amazing header design.

I’m excited for the new show. What do you guys think? Manganiello is pretty great, I’ve enjoyed him wherever he pops up.

PS. The photo is for all the lady-readers who pleasantly put up with my unending love for Rachel Bilson and all her photos.

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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