My Thoughts on How I Met Your Mother "Bad News"

Well after a long layoff for the holidays, I am back to review How I Met Your Mother. To recap, this season has been somewhat of a mixed bag. There have definitely been more good episodes then bad which is a significant achievement compared to last years mostly disappointing season. Heading into the holiday break we saw a very strong episode in False Positive. With so many reruns over the past two weeks i was very anxious to dive in to a new episode of HIMYM.

And while not as strong as False Positive on a comedy front, something happened at the end of this episode that had not happened in a long time with this show; I actually got emotional. But because that happened at the end, lets discuss the rest of the show first

We continue with the overriding theme of this season being Marshall and Lily’s pregnancy. It was nice to see an episode where Lily did not annoy the crap out of me. And while the whole sterility story is one that every sitcom dusts off when a character is inevitably going to be pregnant, It did lead us to the gang finally finding Barney’s Doppelganger. Neil Patrick Harris really got to shine here in playing his usual funny self as Barney and also getting to play the straight laced Doctor.

Robin’s story in the episode was not good at all in my opinion. It seemed really weird placed in this episode and kind of just felt like a "Best of Robin" episode interjected into a regular episode. The only good thing that her story brought us was the continuance of a drama free, helpful friend, Ted. In False Positive we saw Ted be the voice of reason for everyone in the group, and while this week his advice to Robin is not dead on, it was still nice to see him not have his own drama and to be a good friend and not focus on whatever is going on in his life. On a side note, Josh Radnor’s kicks can always make me laugh

And now we reach the best part in the episode. The emotion on Jason Siegel’s and Alyson Hannigan’s face was enough the sell the scene for me. Even though Marshall’s dad dying was very abrupt, it really allowed HIMYM to regain its emotional footing. It was a good memory that as goofy as HIMYM could be, this is a show, much like Scrubs before it, that separates itself from other comedies by being able to nail emotion so well when it needs to.
　
QUICK HITS

This is like a black cat walked through my uterus

Its like looking into a poorly dressed mirror

Leave the model of the vagina

How you doin Lily? Should i have a boner?

Gynomite!

I’d give my first born to not be able to have children

I’m here every Thursday!
　


Good way to start the year, I’ll give it a 7 out 10. Suit up!