How I Met Your Mother: Aw, hell yeah!

First: Someone NEEDS to record the audio of Barney saying, "Michelle? She sounds hot!" and send it to me. Please.

Now then: James Van der Beek shows up all the previous guest stars. Dang, he was funny. Even if his Canadian accent was overblown and bordering on brogue.

 

Lily and her homegirl friend were hilarious. Alyson Hannigan, I love you.

The second Robin Sparkles video: not an instant classic as "Let's Go to the Mall" is, but there are some excellent 80s music video touches in it--the cuts between color and artsy B&W, the supreme close-ups, the whole "telling a story" aspect of it, and of course, the classic scoop neck striped shirt + acid-washed jeans skirt outfit.

But really, there's only one thing to talk about in this episode--Barney and Robin hooking up. You saw it coming, right? I mean, from way before this episode. I can't speak for everyone, but I think this has been on the docket since the episode they first hang out at the laser tag place and the club and that's what, first season? And there have been little hints about it since then, and they really ramped it up with the March Madness episode (Robin letting Barney "pretend" to hit on her, and then getting turned on by what he tells her? Yeah). I think this pairing makes sense, but it's hard to say where it's going.

I see many possibilities, starting with the Harry/Sally or Monica/Chandler approach. It's possible that these two approaches will be combined. It's possible that there will be a very special episode of HIMYM involving telling Ted. It's possible that we'll find out next week that Uncle Barney and Aunt Robin are married...but I'm thinking that we won't. I think that's a little too easy.

Finally, whoever came up with the term "revertigo" is a genius.

Comments

[nipper jenn]

Yep. I always saw Robin and Barney getting together. I think they will make it so they get married in the future.

[Cassie]

I guess I always figured that at some point we'd hear "and that was how Aunt Robin and Uncle Barney" ...awkward silence while we cut to a scene of them fooling around on a couch... "discovered they were meant to be together."