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How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 7 - “Canning Randy” Originally aired Monday November 1st, 2010 Here we are seven episodes into season six of HIMYM and we get our first real dud of the season. It’s not that it didn’t move major plot archs forward (it did - for Ted, kind of) or feature good guest stars (Will Forte and Bob Odenkirk - golden) or the right characters (we got a Marshall story!) - the episode just wasn’t very funny.  Sure I laughed. Mostly at character and physical humor but where were the wordy puns? Where were the astute observations at modern life? Where was Barney!? All squandered away for plots that didn’t really go anywhere nor develop. The ending was touching in that Randy got to fulfill his dreams and Marshall got to stick to his guns but it wasn’t earned. Instead of cutting to Marshall’s office destroyed and their resolution, show Randy trying to get fired more. Do something. But no, just Randy’s bloody nose joke which instead of feeling like a callback just felt tired. As did “Where’s the poop, Robin?” Just let it die HIMYM. Jennifer Morrison was enjoyable in this episode but there wasn’t much to get out of Ted’s story line. Robin’s commercial was also completely throw away and didn’t feel like it held the gravity it could have comedically. Her career ineptitude is beginning to get frustrating. The most redeeming quality of “Canning Randy” can bee seen above. The real Halloween Parade - aka the Costumed Walk of Shame the day after. This was a clever, typical HIMYM invention that should have been given more time to play. Also squandered. As was any intention of a Halloween episode. Oh well. Stray note: Jennifer Morrison yells “Key his car!” Umm, what car? Correct me if I’m wrong but Ted doesn’t have a car. Would he really drive uptown to Columbia? Come on HIMYM, your NYC verite was so good.  -Alex (popculturebrain)

How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 7 - “Canning Randy”

Originally aired Monday November 1st, 2010

Here we are seven episodes into season six of HIMYM and we get our first real dud of the season. It’s not that it didn’t move major plot archs forward (it did - for Ted, kind of) or feature good guest stars (Will Forte and Bob Odenkirk - golden) or the right characters (we got a Marshall story!) - the episode just wasn’t very funny. 

Sure I laughed. Mostly at character and physical humor but where were the wordy puns? Where were the astute observations at modern life? Where was Barney!? All squandered away for plots that didn’t really go anywhere nor develop. The ending was touching in that Randy got to fulfill his dreams and Marshall got to stick to his guns but it wasn’t earned. Instead of cutting to Marshall’s office destroyed and their resolution, show Randy trying to get fired more. Do something. But no, just Randy’s bloody nose joke which instead of feeling like a callback just felt tired.

As did “Where’s the poop, Robin?” Just let it die HIMYM. Jennifer Morrison was enjoyable in this episode but there wasn’t much to get out of Ted’s story line. Robin’s commercial was also completely throw away and didn’t feel like it held the gravity it could have comedically. Her career ineptitude is beginning to get frustrating.

The most redeeming quality of “Canning Randy” can bee seen above. The real Halloween Parade - aka the Costumed Walk of Shame the day after. This was a clever, typical HIMYM invention that should have been given more time to play. Also squandered. As was any intention of a Halloween episode. Oh well.

Stray note: Jennifer Morrison yells “Key his car!” Umm, what car? Correct me if I’m wrong but Ted doesn’t have a car. Would he really drive uptown to Columbia? Come on HIMYM, your NYC verite was so good. 

-Alex (popculturebrain)

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How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 6 - “Baby Talk” Originally aired October 25th, 2010 How I Met Your Mother has given itself a lot of stories to tell this season. In no particular order they are: Ted designing the new GNB building, Robin being frustrated at her job, Barney searching for his father, Marshall and Lilly attempting to have a baby. That’s excluding the search for the mother and the mystery wedding alluded to during the premiere (of which Ted is the best man). It’s a tad frustrating then that they can practically only deal with one at a time. Baby Talk was mostly Marshall and Lilly, which is fine. They’re a strong emotional core for the show and while this episode didn’t bring as many guffaws as recent ones have it satisfied on a personal level. Long time fans of the show had a lot to relish in with this one, especially how it fulfilled a long brewing issue between Marshall and Lilly. You see, long ago, when the show’s enduring couple moved into their own apartment it was revealed through a seemingly throwaway fantasy sequence that Marshall envisioned them with three sons while Lilly wished for three girls. Something so minute, that could have gone and went without meaning anything, comes to fruition in its own conflict at the exact right time. There was no need for it to be nothing more than a joke then, but now that they’re older and seriously considering children it’s only natural that it would come up. Spectacular. One a similar note, this episode did another long call back to an early episode (the pilot, I think) with Lilly’s student feeling her up and leaving a purple hand print on her chest.  (Someone should make a chronological master cut of this show, not unlike the one that was done with Lost). The other plots were more forgettable, but still resonant. All of them wisely tied back to children, being childish, and gender roles. While Marshall and Lilly dealt with gender preference, Barney, Ted and Robin struggled with gender roles in relationships. Barney’s story was nothing special but he got to give a nice moment to Robin claiming she was the “least needy chick he’s ever banged.” Somehow he made that touching. I don’t know how he did it. And Robin learned that she can be emasculating sometimes but that’s okay because not everyone has to fit into the mold. Ted was barely in this one. Laura Bell Bundy as the childish Becky was funny, but inevitably unremarkable. Stray notes: This episode was super racy (the stripper stuff, pedophilia) especially for CBS at 8 pm. Barney all botoxed up was fantastic. Marhsall’s flashbacks to high school and the strip club had excellent follow through. Maybe it’s because I’m a male but I felt Marhsall’s argument for a boy was better than Lilly’s against one. No Halloween stuff this year I guess, we’ve come a long way since the Slutty Pumpkin. -Alex (popculturebrain)

How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 6 - “Baby Talk”

Originally aired October 25th, 2010

How I Met Your Mother has given itself a lot of stories to tell this season. In no particular order they are: Ted designing the new GNB building, Robin being frustrated at her job, Barney searching for his father, Marshall and Lilly attempting to have a baby. That’s excluding the search for the mother and the mystery wedding alluded to during the premiere (of which Ted is the best man). It’s a tad frustrating then that they can practically only deal with one at a time.

Baby Talk was mostly Marshall and Lilly, which is fine. They’re a strong emotional core for the show and while this episode didn’t bring as many guffaws as recent ones have it satisfied on a personal level. Long time fans of the show had a lot to relish in with this one, especially how it fulfilled a long brewing issue between Marshall and Lilly. You see, long ago, when the show’s enduring couple moved into their own apartment it was revealed through a seemingly throwaway fantasy sequence that Marshall envisioned them with three sons while Lilly wished for three girls. Something so minute, that could have gone and went without meaning anything, comes to fruition in its own conflict at the exact right time. There was no need for it to be nothing more than a joke then, but now that they’re older and seriously considering children it’s only natural that it would come up. Spectacular. One a similar note, this episode did another long call back to an early episode (the pilot, I think) with Lilly’s student feeling her up and leaving a purple hand print on her chest. 

(Someone should make a chronological master cut of this show, not unlike the one that was done with Lost).

The other plots were more forgettable, but still resonant. All of them wisely tied back to children, being childish, and gender roles. While Marshall and Lilly dealt with gender preference, Barney, Ted and Robin struggled with gender roles in relationships. Barney’s story was nothing special but he got to give a nice moment to Robin claiming she was the “least needy chick he’s ever banged.” Somehow he made that touching. I don’t know how he did it. And Robin learned that she can be emasculating sometimes but that’s okay because not everyone has to fit into the mold. Ted was barely in this one. Laura Bell Bundy as the childish Becky was funny, but inevitably unremarkable.

Stray notes:

  • This episode was super racy (the stripper stuff, pedophilia) especially for CBS at 8 pm.
  • Barney all botoxed up was fantastic.
  • Marhsall’s flashbacks to high school and the strip club had excellent follow through.
  • Maybe it’s because I’m a male but I felt Marhsall’s argument for a boy was better than Lilly’s against one.
  • No Halloween stuff this year I guess, we’ve come a long way since the Slutty Pumpkin.

-Alex (popculturebrain)