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'How I Met Your Mother's Final Season Is Taking Place Over One Weekend

by | May 15th, 2013

The President of CBS revealed some surprising information about how the ninth and final season of How I Met Your Mother will play out this, so, needless to say, if you don't want recent/future stuff spoiled, stop reading this now. Last week's Season 8 finale featured the audience finally catching a glimpse of the titular mother, played by Cristin Milioti (Sleepwalk with Me), but she didn't end up actually meeting Ted. Co-creator Carter Bays previously said the final season will tell "the epic story of the longest wedding weekend ever," and CBS boss Nina Tassler confirmed to TV Line today that the entire 24-episode season will take [...]

End Times

'How I Met Your Mother' Creator Says the Final Season Will "Be A New Way to Tell the Story"

by | February 5th, 2013

CBS's How I Met Your Mother was renewed for a ninth and final season last week, and co-creator Craig Thomas talked to TVGuide yesterday about the direction of the show's ultimate season. Thomas said, "It's going to be a new way to tell the story. You're never going to mistake a Season 9 episode from one of the previous eight." This statement has lead folks on the internet to predict the titular mother would be introduced at the top of the season or that she would even be narrating the entire final run of episodes. Carter didn't specify when the mother character would be brought in, but he [...]

Recaps

'How I Met Your Mother' Recap: "Splitsville"

by | November 13th, 2012

"Spoiler Alert" was a season three episode of How I Met Your Mother in which Ted Mosby's Girl of the Week was revealed to Ted by Marshall to have a defective character trait that Ted had never noticed before. The fact that she talked too much turned Cathy instantly into someone completely repulsive to our protagonist, and she was never to be heard from again, forced to live her days on whatever island where discarded fictitious boyfriends and girlfriends who got in the way go (Julie from Friends would be Mayor probably). A boyfriend or girlfriend out of nowhere being revealed to have a disturbing flaw like talking too much or having man [...]

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'How I Met Your Mother' Recap: "Nannies"

by | October 9th, 2012

The last time walking STD Barney Stinson had to deal with the end of a long term relationship, the man went HAM in "The Playbook", a season five episode in which the writing staff of How I Met Your Mother took all of the ideas that they came up with on how to hook up with naive, twentysomething ladiez but couldn't use while Barney was with Robin and jammed them in one 22 minute container that reeked of herpes. (The DVD of said episode is locked in a glass case and guarded by the finest of lasers in the lobby of Maxim HQ through the end of time.) In "Nannies", after his engagement [...]

Ratings

Relax, NBC Comedy Fans, CBS’s Monday Night Sitcom Block’s Ratings Are Down Too

by | September 25th, 2012

Just a few days after NBC’s Thursday night comedy block returned to less-than-stellar ratings, CBS’s Monday night sitcom bunch came back to a cold reception too. This was the first time the Monday block hasn’t included Two and a Half Men, which scored sky-high Nielsens in the 9pm timeslot for nearly a decade before CBS moved it to Thursdays for this season, so that may have something to do with the dip.

The season premiere of How I Met Your Mother received a 3.4, down significantly from the previous season’s 4.7 rating with adults 18-49, followed by new series Partners, which got a 2.4. 2 Broke Girls, [...]

Pilots

Watch the First Episode of Fox's New Comedy 'The Goodwin Games'

by | May 15th, 2013

Hulu just added the pilot episode to Fox's new sitcom The Goodwin Games, which is set to premiere on May 20th. From the How I Met Your Mother team of Carter Bay, Craig Thomas, and Chris Harris, the show stars Becki Newton, Scott Foley, and T.J. Miller as a trio of siblings competing for their father's $23 million inheritance. Fox holding Goodwin Games until the summer means it's pretty much pre-canceled, but it's still a decent show that's worth checking out and one that Fox should have definitely aired during the regular broadcast season.

End Times

'How I Met Your Mother' Renewed for a Ninth and Final Season

by | January 30th, 2013

It looks like long-running CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother is finally coming to a close… a year and a half from now. The network announced today that they've worked out a deal to bring all of the cast and crew back for a final ninth season that'll run from 2013-14, during which CBS confirms that audiences will finally learn of the titular mother's identity. This current season will still include Robin and Barney's wedding in May – the event where Ted meets his mystery wife – but viewers will not see all of the wedding. The press release implies that viewers won't get to see Ted [...]

Recaps

'How I Met Your Mother' Recap: "The Autumn of Break-Ups"

by | November 6th, 2012

In "The Autumn of Break-Ups," we said goodbye to Victoria and to whatever dignity Barney Stinson and the show had left.

Sorry about being melodramatic up there in the lede, but one day after writing in an Animal Practice post-mortem that having a live monkey get involved in storylines never worked because its 2012, Barney Stinson befriended a dog to be his wingman, and even though the world does not revolve around me and this episode was delayed a week because of Hurricane Sandy, this show is completely trolling me.

Recaps

'How I Met Your Mother' Recap: "The Pre-Nup"

by | October 2nd, 2012

I was talking to a friend yesterday about spoilers. I had explained that my attempt to marathon season one of Homeland before the second season premiere would have been a lot more enjoyable if I hadn't read about how it had ended a few months before. She countered that she always reads the last page of a book before starting to read it, because of a fear of dropping dead before finding out what happens. I thought this was absolutely insane, and told her as much. Thankfully I quickly remembered – and I sincerely apologize that I keep bringing this show up in these recaps – that before virtually every episode [...]

Recaps

'How I Met Your Mother' Recap: "Farhampton"

by | September 25th, 2012

Here's my How I Met Your Mother defense: I know it's on CBS and it's a senior citizen in sitcom years, but it’s still really innovative in how it tells stories. And it’s still funny most of the time. And it has never stopped being afraid to be weird. And sometimes the overtures and bleeding heart plots are earned and make you feel a fair amount of the feelings. And it’s the last season probably; at least the writing staff is treating it as such. Besides, in a flashforward to 2015 we saw Ted with his infant child and he was wearing a wedding ring and there are no [...]

Reviews

'How I Met Your Mother': Still Occasionally Funny, Frustrating as Hell

by | May 14th, 2013

I…

Well…

Huh…

So…we didn't meet the mother last night in "Something New", so much as we got a look at her cute, possibly too young for Ted visage. Cristin Milioti's face, to be more specific. I thought after watching the show on a week-to-week basis for over five years that when the moment finally came when the titular mother would be shown, it would be a bigger deal to me emotionally. But I think I had assumed that when I first saw what this supposedly amazing woman would look like, I would then hear and see how she would respond to her future husband, what kind [...]

Recaps

'How I Met Your Mother' Recap: "The Stamp Tramp"

by | November 20th, 2012

The men of How I Met Your Mother are all nice, law abiding people, but they are definitely all flawed: Ted knows a lot of things about a lot of high brow subjects, but whenever he exhibits his knowledge he is an alienating, insufferable prick about it; Barney's childhood abandonment issues have led to a lifetime of overindulging on female flesh and crude, groan inducing sexual punnery; Marshall gives every human being the benefit of the doubt, even though he is a New York City resident, where it's a minor miracle that he doesn't get mugged every time he leaves the apartment.

Ted and Barney's issues are broader, and [...]

Recaps

'How I Met Your Mother' Recap: "Who Wants to Be a Godparent?"

by | October 16th, 2012

Aren't we still in the promised Autumn of Break-Ups on How I Met Your Mother? The month of broken hearts, despair, endless tears, poor dietary choices, looking out the window through the raindrops, Mumford and Sons and more poor dietary choices? Why, with one more episode to go in October did we witness "Who Wants to Be a Godparent?", an episode with a story that could have been told at any time this season? Where is my promised misery?

Instead, we had Marshall and Lily waltzing into MacLaren's, content that for the first time in five months they can hang out with their friends and away from their newborn son [...]

Books n Stuff

Neil Patrick Harris Announces New Memoir, Jokes about Plagiarism

by | September 25th, 2012

“I’m excited to be writing a book of the observations and stories of my life. I read with great fondness Tina Fey’s Bossypants, so my plan is just to reprint those exact stories but change the names to people that I knew. What editor would take issue with that?”

–Neil Patrick Harris, as quoted in The New York Times about his upcoming memoir, which is set for release in spring of 2014.

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