By Mike Frey

Synopsis: Since Barney hasn’t exactly been a boyfriend in a while, it’s no surprise that he’s bad at it. He’s unsupportive and he’s so used to not sleeping over that he tries sleepwalking his way down the fire escape to get away from Robin. Luckily, Ted knows everything there is to know about Robin — or at least he thinks he does — and he needs to practice his teaching. So Barney enrolls in Robin 101: How to Date Robin Scherbatsky, taught by none other than Professor Mosby.

Unfortunately for Barney, the study sessions are about as successful as Marshall’s attempts to find a taker for his beloved barrel, Mabel, and Robin finds out about the whole thing. [Read more →]

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Tags: Barney Stinson, himym, How I Met Your Mother, Robin 101

By Mike Frey

Synopsis: This episode tells the story of two blind dates taken by Ted seven years apart. Although it might as well have been one, since the dates were the same in every way: same restaurant, same conversation, same girl. Despite the familiarity, neither Ted nor his date Jen (played by guest star Lindsay Sloane, who we love) realize what’s going on until halfway through the evening. Once they realize that they’ve lapped the whole dating field, they decided to give each other insight that might help them avoid the dating mistakes that have kept them single since 2002. For instance, Ted makes bad jokes, points out spelling errors on menus and has a wandering eye (even if it only wants to sneak a peek at Mustache Marshall). Jen talks too much about her cats, doesn’t offer to pay the check and shares every detail about her ex-boyfriend except for the fact that he has a shockingly small wiener. Also, Ted doesn’t always call when he says he will. That’s only because he believes it’s worth waiting for a person who loves his quirks rather that trying to tolerate them. Jen agrees and, seven years later, they decide to part ways for the second time. [Read more →]

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Tags: Double Date, himym, How I Met Your Mother, Recap

By Mike Frey

Synopsis: Two big events are taking place as we catch up with the HIMYM gang: Ted’s first day of school and “the talk.” Well, the first one’s happening. After dating all summer, Barney and Robin tried to have the talk but the talk sucks. While they’re fine with putting it off, Lily isn’t. She tries everything she can to force them into defining their relationship.

When even a date between Robin and Brad — and a Kiss Cam punch by a jealous and very overmatched Barney — fails to do the trick, she locks them in a room together. In the end, they decide to lie about being boyfriend and girlfriend in exchange for their freedom, but Lily gets the last laugh when it becomes obvious that they’re only lying to themselves. It looks like Barnman and Robin are officially a couple. [Read more →]

Categories: Comedy, Fall Preview 2009 by Mike
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Tags: Definitions, himym, How I Met Your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris, Season Premiere

By Mike Frey

Synopsis: Remember the episode from last season titled “The Goat”? Well, this week’s season finale tells the story of Ted’s 31st birthday party — the one he kept confusing with his previous birthday party in that episode. It would be easy to mix them up, since Marshall decided to throw him two consecutive surprise parties. At this one, the biggest surprise is that Barney loves Robin. OK, so nobody is actually surprised to hear that, except Robin who overhears Barney describing her to Ted as a Canadian suit in a deliberately delivered metaphor.

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Tags: Barney Stinson, himym, How I Met Your Mother, season finale, The Goat, The Leap

By Mike Frey

Synopsis: When we last saw Ted, he was standing on a street corner in the rain, and he had just been tapped on the shoulder by Stella. That’s where we pick things up in this episode, where we find out that Stella’s former and current boyfriend, Tony, is on the corner, too. Ted plays it cool. On the spectrum of ways he could have handled things, he’s much closer to having a French girlfriend who looks exactly like Stella but with enormous cans than he is to being a blubbering mess. Or so he thinks. Later, at his apartment, while he’s fantasizing about Stella showing up and saying, “Let’s get back together and have way more sex than before,” Ted gets a visit from Tony — who is, for some reason, wearing his kung fu pajamas. It seems Tony has mistaken Ted’s “jovial nonchalance” for sadness. The type of sadness that reminds him of a dachshund puppy with a bad back that’s got to pull itself around on a cart, in fact. And Tony simply can’t live with the guilt that he has reduced Ted to that state by stealing Stella from him.

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Tags: As Fast As She Can, CBS, himym, How I Met Your Mother, Stella, The Wedding Bride, Tony

By Mike Frey

Synopsis: Ted has landed his first big gig as an independent architect: designing Rib Town, a restaurant shaped like a cowboy hat — because nothing says delicious like the inside of a cowboy hat. Depressed that he’s not designing concert halls or museums, he takes a break and heads out for some fresh air and a bagel. Thanks to fate (and Galoshes the Weather Clown from Robin’s show Come On, Get Up New York!) he takes a yellow umbrella. Check that … the yellow umbrella.

On the way to his second favorite bagel place, Ted stops at a newspaper stand, (we assume) to check out the current issue of Bro’s Life magazine, in which one can read such stunning exposés as “What Your Paintball Gun Says About Your Personality” and “That Last Five Pounds — How To Get Her To Lose Them.” Also featured this month is Petra Petrova, Bro’s Life’s Girl of the Year for May and soon to be Barney’s 200th. It sounds impressive, but Barney’s batting average is actually worse than one-armed former Major League pitcher Jim Abbott. Due to a miscalculation, though, Barney’s 200th actually ends up being a musclebound woman from his gym named Pauline, whom Ted gets a glimpse of while perusing Muscle Sexxy magazine.

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Tags: Barney Stinson, Bro's Life Magazine, Galoshes the Weather Clown, himym, How I Met Your Mother, Jim Abbott, Matthew Panning, Mental Block, pet Ewok, Petra Petrova, Stella

By Mike Frey

Synopsis: Ted has just met a girl named Holli and he wants to call her just moments after she leaves MacLaren’s. He thinks it would be cute, but Barney and Marshall — and apparently Jesus — want him to wait the appropriate three days before calling. It’s the Three Days Rule, which, according to Barney, Christ created right before inventing the high five. Ted tries to establish his own “I Like Her, I Call Her” rule, but let’s just say that Ted is no Jesus. Barney and Marshall make him promise that he won’t call Holli until three days have passed. They didn’t, however, say anything about sending a “texty text,” so Ted lets his thumbs do the talking.

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Los Angeles, CA – April 14, 2009 — TV Land announced today that legendary producers Sid and Marty Krofft will receive the Pop Culture Award at the 2009 TV Land Awards, and Will Ferrell, star of the upcoming film Land of the Lost, Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives), Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation), comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, Jamie Lee Curtis and TV talk show host and psychologist Dr. Phil will be among the presenters at the evening’s celebration. Additionally, music stars Cyndi Lauper and David Cassidy will perform in the tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft. The two-hour show, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), will tape on Sunday, April 19 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City and will air on TV Land during a special presentation of TV Land PRIME on Sunday, April 26 at 8PM ET/PT.

TV Land previously announced additional honorees for this year’s show including Don Rickles (Legend Award), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Legacy of Laughter Award), Married With Children (Innovator Award), ER, (Icon Award), M*A*S*H (Impact Award), Home Improvement (Fan Favorite Award), Magnum P.I. (Hero Award), Two and a Half Men (Future Classic Award) and Knots Landing (30th Anniversary Award). [Read more →]

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Tags: H.R. Pufnstuf, himym, How I Met Your Mother, Land of the Lost, Neil Patrick Harris, Sid and Marty Krofft, Stacey Harrison, TV Land, TV Land Awards, Will Ferrell

By Mike Frey

Synopsis: Some jokes are not meant to be told in mixed company. Ted understands that difference between “boy funny” and “girl funny,” but apparently Barney and Marshall do not — which is why they insist on telling Lily a dirty joke that results in her disappearing for four weeks. Of course, given the recent developments in Alyson Hannigan’s real life, that’s not the real reason we won’t be seeing much of Lily for a while. In either case, her absence proves a shame for Barney, who could really use her help this week. But more on that later …

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Tags: Barney Stinson, CBS, himym, How I Met Your Mother, Mosbius Designs, Recap, Ted Mosby

Los Angeles, CA - March 31, 2009 — Multitalented Don Rickles, the world’s most beloved “outrageous comic,” actor and author will be bestowed the Legend Award at “The 2009 TV Land Awards,” it was announced today by Larry W. Jones, president, TV Land. The Legend Award is presented to an entertainer or a television show that has stood the test of time and ranks among the most memorable and celebrated in television and movie history. The 2009 TV Land Awards will be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) and will tape on Sunday, April 19, at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City to air on TV Land during a special presentation of TV Land PRIME on Sunday, April 26 at 8pm ET/PT. Previous recipients of the Legend Award include The Carol Burnett Show, Cheers, Garry Marshall, The Andy Griffith Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show.

“I feel honored that TV Land has finally woken up and decided to make me this year’s recipient of the Legend Award,” says Don Rickles. “Throughout my career, I have loved entertaining people and to be recognized for my achievements is truly extraordinary.” [Read more →]

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Tags: Don Rickles, himym, How I Met Your Mother, Legend Award, Neil Patrick Harris, Stacey Harrison, TV Land, TV Land Awards