I'm like a lot of you. It's really gone down hill in the last couple of seasons.

Quite disappointing really as it was an enjoyable show.

If they had decided to make this show exactly one season, it would have been just epic (and we still kinda cared about the whole mother thing). S2,3..maybe 4 were still great but not the same level (more hit/miss) and lately it's pretty much just bad at times.

I've always love the intro tune btw, puts me in a good mood kinda.

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Honestly Im not looking forward to Monday night lineps on CBS anymore after having soo for like 5 yrs now. The only one I dont wanna miss is the show with David Spade. I think Ima start drinking so everything is funny again.

barney saving the show once again

Awful. Again. I'll just watch the finale.

i quit.

Wow, take THAT "who's your daddy?"!!!

This is EDGY comedy here people, next week "You go girl" finally gets lampooned!

Also, baby/pregnancy humour sucks. Always. It's basically hubris to even attempt it - like they're sitting in the writers' room saying: "Every sitcom that has taken the pregnancy/baby humour route for 60 years has totally failed, let's give it a shot!"

Any news if this show is done after this season or are they going to do 1 more season of torturous BS? It's actually worse then last season which I didn't think was possible.

I actually liked it all right. Not sure if the brutal terror of the first several eps of this season numbed me into some kind of coma from which any hint of laughter causes me to think positively, but for some reason I came away being okay with this one because it didn't foster violent thoughts in my head or turn my stomach ill from the pain of horrible comedy.

I thought the makeup on Barney in Marshall's fantasy was pretty awesome, as were pretty much all of his one-liners. I'm also buying the progression of what I said earlier, which is that they're clearly building towards a Barney-Robin wedding. I guess the show has become such a pile of dog vomit that a mediocre 22 minutes of forgettable entertainment passes for something of note compared to the dentist-chair horrors of the rest of this godforsaken season.

it sucked and I was probably one of the biggest positivos regarding the last season or two (because I dont hate Ted as much as you guys I guess).. quit it already.. give us the best Barney lines they have lying around and finish this Mother business in a couple of episodes and call it a series.

Almost made me wish they didn't recover from the writing strike (they were about to be cancelled from what I've heard and the whole Britney Spears cammeo thing was one of the compromises they had to make to stay on the air)

Im with PJ. I laughed a fair few times, that seems like the best measure of a comedy program. It wasnt close to awesome, but it wasnt close to terrible either. HIMYM when it is average is better than the average show at its best.

I laughed and enjoyed it but I was also drunk so was easy to please.

Tobias: You know, Lindsay, as a therapist, I have advised... a number of couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains emotionally committed but free to explore extramarital encounters.

Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?

Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... but it might work for us.

not really fair to compare HIMYM to Arrested Development, that might be the best comedy of all time.

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it's not a comparison between shows, it was a joke about how the HIMYM writers probably realised that all pregnancy humour is awful but they did it anyway.

This episode was all over the place quality wise. Best cold open they've had in quite awhile. The alarm and Boats! Boats! Boats! things were ******ed. SNL alumni guy borderline killed it again. Robin's plot was doomed to fail unless she hooked up with Becky, which I thought might end happening. I'd have loved that. And for some reason, "Fork Napkin!" made me spit out my water.

Horrible ep -- "where's the poop?" has become a running gag!! -- really stupid, especially the car alarm stuff, but basically the whole ep was that bad except the Halloween walk of shame bit.

The car alarm stuff was straight up ******ed.

Ya I cant believe they sat there and done the full car alarm noise when asked about it. Then Robin doing the diaper commercial. Really ur just gonna ruin the hot girl on the show now CBS??? Show ****ing sucks now!

That was a great episode.

Have to say they need to keep that up.

Rob at the end was superb!

Thought it was a reasonably funny episode. They should have made Will Forte a recurring character though instead of writing him out of the show. He was the funniest part of the episode. Lilly and Robin storylines are going nowhere. Ted stuff is still ok and Barney/Marshall at work is usually the comedic highlight.

Robin looked ridiculously hot in the nurse outfit.

i'm hoping somehow forte finds his way back in (maybe thru the beer?) cuz while the ep as a whole was pretty meh...the scenes in marshall's office were some of the most enjoyable himym in a while and that was due entirely to forte

that scene made the entire episode.

Seriously, HIMYM? A urine pun?