How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother, Proving once again that How I Met Your Mother can be as much a drama as it is a comedy, the episode tackled Robin’s views on pregnancy and ended up turning into a story about how life can sometimes be a kick in the face.

Just a couple of weeks back, I was griping about the overuse of surprise pregnancies and “who’s the father” mysteries in TV shows, using How I Met Your Mother as an example, as it was recently revealed that Robin was (or might be) pregnant, and there were two options for the father in the equation, Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and her boyfriend Kevin (Kal Penn). The series proved me wrong last night when it was not only revealed that Barney would have most definitely been the father, as Robin had not slept with Kevin yet, but that Robin was not actually pregnant. The news that she wasn’t carrying Barney’s child came after Robin panicked at the thought of giving up her independence in exchange for becoming a mother. And then she found out, not only was she not pregnant, but she’s unlikely to be able to have children at all.

As all of this is playing out, Robin was narrating the story to her own children, much in the way that Ted does each episode as part of the “How I Met Your Mother” format. Following the reveal of Robin’s infertility, her imaginary children disappear and the rest of the episode rides out on Robin’s quiet disappointment.

At its core, How I Met Your Mother is a show about friendship. This is why I tune in. I’m more or less indifferent over how Ted met his kids’ mother, though I expect the story will inevitably be resolved some day.

Given how close Robin is with her friends, we might have expected her to explain her situation and the resulting surprising disappointment that came with it, to Ted, Marshall, Lily and Barney, but she didn’t. Instead, she made up a story about learning she’d never be an Olympic pole-vaulter to justify her bad mood. When faced with a onesie with a red Canadian maple leaf, she could barely keep from crying. Neither could I, frankly. It’s hard enough that she’s facing the reality that bearing children is never going to be an option for her, but factor in the fact that two of her closest friends are celebrating the impending arrival of their own child and her sadness is certainly understandable.

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!