No Pressure

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I was really awaiting this week's episode.  Many things started to unveil themselves in the last episode.  As an avid How I Met Your Mother fan I was really interested to see what was going to happen with Ted and Barney's love lives.  In many respects, I was happy if Ted and Robin got together again after five years because they were so great together, but I feel Robin's life is far to messed up at the moment.  As for Barney I was disappointed when they didn't expand on his feelings for Quinn in this episode and I'm still waiting to see the outcome of that potential relationship.  In this episode, it is unveiled by Future Ted that the last person that he said the words, "I love you" to before he met his future wife were Robin.  I feel this is going to be important later in the series because they showed an explicit scene with Ted and the back of the head of his future wife.  I feel that same scene may come up later towards the end of the series.  Before I go any further on my comments, I noticed that the last couple weeks, I have been tending to give synopses of the episodes in order to convey important life lessons or advice that can be useful to viewers.  I do want to apologize, so this week there no in depth summaries.  Instead I will leave it up to you to see this week's episode and to make those conclusions for yourself.  As for any critics of the show out there that feel the show is no longer as funny as it used to be, I will have to say the last couple of episodes are showing that writers have seen that.  The last couple of episodes including this one have been exceptional, but do not take my word for it.  You can see for yourselves.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/how_i_met_your_mother/video/

The Drunk Train

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This week's episode was a special Valentine’s Day episode.  I have seen every episode to date and never once in the series have they done a Valentine’s Day episode.  It is probably because Ted is never in a relationship long enough to have an episode with him and one of his significant others’ on Valentine’s Day.  Aside from noting how funny and pathetic Ted's love life has been recently, Future Ted recalls to his kids about his experience with the “Drunk Train.”  This episode starts off with the gang at the bar; Marshall and Lilly have to leave to go back to Long Island because they do not want to catch the last train back.  This train is known as the “Drunk Train.”  In desperation of trying something new, Ted and Barney tryout the drunk train to help their chances of meeting women.  After a couple of attempts at it on the train, they have the chance to score but Barney is unsure of himself because he likes this girl he recently met, named Quinn (guest Star, Becki Newton).  Meanwhile, couples, Marshall and Lilly, and Robin and Kevin (reoccurring guest star, Kal Penn) go on a couple’s weekend.  Marshall and Lilly contemplate about keeping score as a couple.  Ultimately, when they return home they decide as impending parents that they should work together as a team and no longer keep score.  While, Marshall and Lilly deal with their own issues in their relationship, Kevin wants to go further in his with Robin.  Kevin decides to pop the question, which forces Robin to tell the secret she has been hiding from everyone the last couple of months.  At the end of the episode, Future Ted tells his kids, “Sometimes you realize the journey you have been taking has reached its final stop.  So the question becomes, where do you go next?”  That is the best way to say the life lesson in this week’s episode.  I believe there really is no better way to put it.  Relating to this episode, I know from the experiences in my life that sometimes we never know where to go next really, but we always have choices of where or how to move forward despite how unpromising the future looks.  I do not know about you all, but I am really looking forward to next week’s episode because it will be interesting to see how this turning point unfolds. Till’ next week.

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The Burning Bee Keeper

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This week's episode is called "The Burning Bee Keeper."  It is the fifteenth episode of season seven.  The scene opens with Marshall and Lilly at the dinner table talking with Lilly's dad, Mickey (guest star, Chris Elliot).  Lilly and Marshall are discussing with Mickey about the house warming party that they are planning on having in two weeks time.  They have a conversion with him regarding the party because they are afraid he will ruin the night for everyone when the party comes around.  On the night of the party, Tell recalls to his kids the story from different angles or in this case from different perspectives.  He breaks each perspective into about five minutes with saying what happened in each room.  He starts with what happened in the living room, then with happened in the dinning room and finally with what happened in the kitchen over the course of the episode.  Throughout each different perspective you can see that a lot of emphasis is placed on Lilly because "Every 30 seconds there is a new crisis" that arises.  Other than the emphasis on Lilly in this episode, each perspective of the episode share the similarity of ending with Marshall's boss running through the house on fire in a beekeeper suit.  The only song that plays throughout the episode is "Burnin' for You" by Blue Öyster Cult (Who coincidentally are also from Long Island).  I watched this episode about six times trying to find the lesson from this story and the only thing I can ask is this.  Who in their right mind decides to have a bee farm in their own basement? Actually, just kidding.  The real moral of the story is even though parenthood may have its testing times such one crisis preceding another, everything ends up being okay because at the end of the day you are surrounded by the ones you love and the ones that love you.  I hope you all enjoy this week's episode, courtesy of CBS.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/how_i_met_your_mother/video/

46 Minutes

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Recently, I got up to date with the show and I wanted to start to give overviews of the more current episodes of the series.  The episode I chose for this week is from season seven, episode fourteen, "46 Minutes".  The episode starts with Ted, Robin, and Barney receiving the news that Lilly and Marshall are moving permanently to Long Island.  Each member of the gang falls into their own version of how they cope with not having the whole "gang" around.  Barney convinces Ted, Robin, and her boyfriend, Kevin (guest star, Kal Penn) into going to a Strip Club.  Robin and her boyfriend are in the stage of saying yes to everything to make them feel open to everything.  As they try to cope with Marshall and Lilly being gone, they go to the strip club and find Lilly's doppelganger, who is a Russian stripper.  Barney convinces the gang to hang out with Lilly's doppelganger and her boyfriend.  Ted gets really drunk and leads the gang into danger.  Meanwhile, Lilly and Marshall have to put up with Lilly's Dad in Long Island.  However, Lilly's dad, Mickey (guest star, Chris Elliot) tries to make their home his because it was the same house he grew up in.  Lilly and Marshall can't stand him anymore and come into conflict with him, but eventually make up and he becomes helpful in trying to get the power back on after the light goes out.  The lesson that comes from this story is that close friends or in this case people that are close in our lives are not replaceable.  Those that are close or important in our lives are never far no matter how far they may live.  This is the lesson that Ted comes to conclude with to his kids at the end of the episode.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/how_i_met_your_mother/video/2187217205/how-i-met-your-mother-46-minutes

We do not pick love. It picks us.

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Recently over the holidays, I started watching the popular T.V. sitcom, How I Met Your Mother.  The show is about the main character, Ted Mosby recounting to his kids in the year 2030 of the events and stories that led up to how he met their mother.  He gives a long and extensive account.  The show is currently in its seventh season and has won several Grammys.  Over the next 15 weeks, I plan to bring to you memorable clips from funny episodes and important life lessons that people can come away with from the show.  This show gives important lessons on relationships and interactions amongst friends.  This week I would like to talk about the beginning of season four.  Unfortunately, I do not have a clip for this week, but I have a video of the opening title card for you to see. In the first episode of the season, Ted opens the scene talking his kids about how the longest pause that they will ever experience in their lives is after they ask someone to marry them.  The episode goes into depth and gives the lesson that we do not pick and choose who we fall in love with. Sometimes it just happens on its own and it is out of our control.  Ted and his friends are worried about him marrying someone he met a few months ago because his friends feel that he barely knows the girl, Stella.  Meanwhile, Barney falls in love with Robin after one night with her and Lily tries to help Barney decide on choosing his love for Robin over his love for sleeping with a different girl every night.