How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother, After Ted told Robin he loves her in last week’s episode I think we all groaned out loud in fear that How I Met Your Mother was going down that path again. But then I reminded everyone that the show needed to confront the Ted-Robin-Barney love triangle. It could have taken weeks for the writers to get around to the three of them figuring out who loves whom. Or…they could have jumped right into it.

“No Pressure” starts immediately after Ted tells Robin he loves her, but she has to head to Russia immediately, and everything seems like it’s going to work out. No one really wants to see them together anymore except a small fraction of fans and Marshall, and even we all know they won’t and can’t end up together. Luckily, the episode doesn’t go down that rabbit hole and provides a poignant closing of the Ted and Robin saga.

Even though it is such a heavy topic in HIMYM-lore, the episode surprisingly splits the saga up with the revelation that Marshall and Lily have been making bets on the rest of the gang for a decade. A lot of them are witty and allow for flashbacks to memorable episodes, and some of them even deal with the future of Ted and Robin.

I’m not a fan of all of the bets they made—particularly the most important one regarding whether or not Ted and Robin will get married. It’s beautiful to see Marshall staying by Ted’s side even though he knows in his heart of hearts that it most likely will never happen. But Lily’s bet against them made her look really bad. We know she sort of broke them up when she planted the “where do you see yourself in five years” question in their heads, but to see her adamantly against them and even trying to sabotage Ted was pathetic. Hopefully she’ll rebound and make up for her lack of compassion soon.

The weight of the subject matter, as serious as it can be in a romantic comedy, is weaved in and out of the episode and doesn’t turn into a bummerfest. It’s something the writers have done so well over the years, and it’s pleasant to see that they still have the ability to pull our emotional strings and offset them with someone, primarily Barney, doing something ridiculous enough to remind us about the humor in life.

While it would have been easy to focus on the love triangle head on, the episode’s roundabout way allowed for Barney to search for something he’s always wanted to find: Marshall and Lily’s sex tape. His obsession leads to a lot of the revelations in this episode. Regardless that he was used as a living plot device, his silliness gave the story much needed breathing room. It was also great seeing Conan O’Brien in his much-anticipated non-speaking, only in the background cameo at MacLaren’s.

How I met your mother

How I met your mother, In its latest episode, How I Met Your Mother became very critical of the way technology is used in society these days, besides being critical of comedies in general. When you go down that road can be difficult to keep the laughs come at the same time implying. However, HIMYM is not a newb when it comes to making audiences laugh and great comedic delivery was commendable self-conscious.

Our arguments revolve around the old question, what is better: to know everything or have a little mystery in life? Ted is tired of being able to use the Internet to instantly learn everything about the women who date while Marshall and Lily have decided not to know the sex of your baby. The show wasted no time in showing how much the Internet at the touch of a finger as a species we have been neutralized. Remember what it was to have a disagreement about something and it took forever to fix it? As shown HIMYM now we can only see done in our smartphones.

I can easily imagine someone like Ted have a hard time with talking points, though the scene was a bit over the top. It is ridiculous that we can learn from someone without even talking to them. And some people enjoy it, as Barney and Robin, which act as crack team of professionals Ted Google search. Those few scenes we have of them dirt digging dates Ted had me hysterical (my favorite was Nadine, who gave Annie Hall 2 stars out of 5). In a nice little twist, the current date Ted, Janet, to be one of the most surprising (and intimidating) to women in the world and ruined by Ted checking the background of it.

Lily and Marshall history, running with Ted and the rest of the group painted a baby room in the gender-neutral yellow. This is a classic comedy plot, but it bounced in History Vs. “Mystery”, the theme will help you stand a little. We all knew that Lily and Marshall came to know that they are having a child, but I was happy to see they did their best to delay the surprise. Be revealed as a complete act of the universe was a pleasant revelation that if Lily and Marshall had just cheated and read the notes themselves.

Robin’s new boyfriend, Kevin (played by Kal Penn), fits in a little better than it did in previous weeks. Each new episode is that it seems a different character. At first it was a tool rather impatient, so he was a very professional therapist with an arrow. This week was a blow job until I could not ignore the idiosyncrasies of our group lovable. As Kevin says, the band is co-dependent, socially awkward and strange denial of their relationships with others are. It is not the first time a comedy curiously noted that sitcom characters involved in each others’ lives (Community I’m looking at you), but usually plays in a way the world grows and is accepted madness. Here everyone just ignored it and acted as if nothing worked as well.

As with any episode of HIMYM, there were some gags that did not quite work, and I’m still very sold on Kevin. I have the feeling that his relationship with Robin is going to go south before it can even be the genesis of the changes announced in the dynamics of the group (first mentioned Ted’s future in “Duck Tie”). Overall, however, it was a very entertaining half hour and makes HIMYM season July 6-0 in my book. The most likely only jinx the show and next week will be a total train wreck. Yay!