Whether or not you liked tonight’s episode of How I Met Your Mother, you’ve got to appreciate the cleverness that went into sustaining the Lethal Weapon metaphor throughout the Barney storyline. McKracken, laser tag owner, played Murtaugh to Barney’s Riggs. Barney’s erratic behavior caused him to lose his badge and get another chance. Barney screws […]
“I’ve got to figure out a way to introduce some wood into Bilson’s dark atrium … I think you know what I meant.” — Ted I agree, that’s a pretty lame quote, but what can I write about an episode of How I Met Your Mother that doesn’t even include a decent Barneyism? Sigh … […]
This episode was… wait for it… completely hilarious. Yep, you heard it here first: I thought How I Met Your Mother was funny tonight. Funnier than tickets to Wrestlemania, funnier than a monkey in two tuxedos; yes, even funnier than a public dry hump. Sometimes this show really comes together for me, like a perfectly […]
“Call me crazy, but child actors were way better back in the ’80s.” — Barney The theme of acting ran throughout the episode tonight on How I Met Your Mother. I’ve got a couple of observations, and a couple of questions. Lily has been acting for 12 years, pretending she likes Marshall’s mother; then, she […]
I’ve never been much of a sitcom watcher; for me, the one-hour scripted shows have it, but a few throughout the years have caught my attention: Cheers, Frasier, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, even some seasons of Friends. Right now, the only sitcom I watch is How I Met Your […]
(Season 4, Episode 13 – “Three Days of Snow” ) [Editor’s note: This is CliqueClack TV’s 1,000th published post!] This episode is the reason that I don’t watch sitcoms. Yeah, I suppose you could argue that I watch How I Met Your Mother and that it is technically a sitcom, but you know and I […]
(Season 4, Episode 12 – “Benefits” ) Ah, friends with benefits … roommates with benefits … the ol’ college days are coming back to me now. This was the hot topic when you were in your early 20s, but I was a little nervous that this episode would be a bit too immature for the […]
