en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/286279 Comments by clearwater http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/you-must-party-down/#IDComment19644523 Hard to say, since it's been getting progressively better, but probably a tie between 4 and 5. Roman's rant about how fantasy and sci fi are totally different was hilarious, as was Constance's "what's ecstasy?" and her barnyard animal thing from episode 4. I'm really glad it's on cable, they don't have to hold back. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:10:10 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/you-must-party-down/#IDComment19644523 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/you-must-party-down/#IDComment19642739 I"ve been a fan of Lizzy Caplan since Mean Girls as well. I will quote that movie for the rest of my life. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:33:40 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/you-must-party-down/#IDComment19642739 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/you-must-party-down/#IDComment19642721 Thank you for this. I fucking love Party Down. I started watching it because of all the Veronica Mars connections (season 1 of VM is the best seasons of TV I have ever seen), and it did not disappoint. Every episode has been excellent so far. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:33:07 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/you-must-party-down/#IDComment19642721 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-16-sorry-bro-discussion/#IDComment16745228 Oh, and my two favourite lines from the episode (and it was hard to choose): "Ted honey, go outside and bite the curb. I'll be out in a minute." "I love how you live in a dorm, it's SO American. It's like, let's eat baloney sandwiches and be racist!" Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:26:09 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-16-sorry-bro-discussion/#IDComment16745228 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-16-sorry-bro-discussion/#IDComment16745164 I love pretentious Ted because he's the worst kind of douche- the guy who think's he's high cultured but is quite wrong. It's not encyclopAYdia, his French accent sucks, he pronounced the Italian stuff wrong last night, etc. Everyone knows someone who is at least a little bit like that. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:24:24 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-16-sorry-bro-discussion/#IDComment16745164 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-16-sorry-bro-discussion/#IDComment16745012 Or maybe he still IS stalking her and he's so god at it she hasn't found out yet. ;) Then again, I think Scooer lacks the finesse necessary to pull that off. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:20:53 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-16-sorry-bro-discussion/#IDComment16745012 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-16-sorry-bro-discussion/#IDComment16744961 I thought the globe was funny-- most big fans know she's pregnant so finding funny ways to hide her belly is kind of like a game. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:19:50 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-16-sorry-bro-discussion/#IDComment16744961 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-16-sorry-bro-discussion/#IDComment16744889 I'm guesing he just pretended Blauman was dead and made up that story to make sure Marshall wouldm't scream at his boss. Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:17:35 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-16-sorry-bro-discussion/#IDComment16744889 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/the-end-of-season-4-and-beyond-whats-to-come-on-how-i-met-your-mother/#IDComment16426155 Thanks for the info, JD! Although I have to say, I don't know whether I even want 8 years of this show, even though I love it. I cannot think of a single TV show that lasted that long which didn't have a decline in quality towards the end. Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:33:30 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/the-end-of-season-4-and-beyond-whats-to-come-on-how-i-met-your-mother/#IDComment16426155 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/the-end-of-season-4-and-beyond-whats-to-come-on-how-i-met-your-mother/#IDComment16425972 It's also true. Much as I love HIMYM, 30 Rock is much funnier. :) Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:31:11 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/the-end-of-season-4-and-beyond-whats-to-come-on-how-i-met-your-mother/#IDComment16425972 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/preview-of-laura-prepon-on-how-i-met-your-mother/#IDComment15922708 "That shirt is perfect but the jeans seem a little dark, no? Where’s the acid-wash?" Weren't acid-wash jeans from the 80s, not the late 90s? But yeah, those don't look like 90s jeans either. Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:36:22 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/preview-of-laura-prepon-on-how-i-met-your-mother/#IDComment15922708 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/so-thats-how-theyre-going-to-handle-hannigans-pregnancy/#IDComment14671639 I'm pretty sure they're just riffing on the idea of a food baby, which I personally think is hilarious. Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:11:56 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/so-thats-how-theyre-going-to-handle-hannigans-pregnancy/#IDComment14671639 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/so-thats-how-theyre-going-to-handle-hannigans-pregnancy/#IDComment14671441 2.5 Men gets good ratings because it is completely mindless entertainment and since it hasn't changed at all in the past 6-7 years, you can tune in and understand what's happening. Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:09:48 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/so-thats-how-theyre-going-to-handle-hannigans-pregnancy/#IDComment14671441 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/new-episode-preview-barney-stinson-that-guys-awesome/#IDComment14401601 I thought it was a hybrid of "possible" and "simple". Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:46:57 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/new-episode-preview-barney-stinson-that-guys-awesome/#IDComment14401601 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/site-maintenance-warning/#IDComment14316499 I like the new layout. Hope you're making buckets of cash through more ads, JD (sadly unlikely, unless they are miniature buckets)! BTW, I clicked on the "new to the site" thing which I'd never noticed before and stumbled upon those Season vs. Season evaluations, which are pretty cool. I don't fault you for stopping them, though, that must've been really time consuming. Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:14:50 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/site-maintenance-warning/#IDComment14316499 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-13-three-days-of-snow-discussion/#IDComment14200971 I think the clothing changes are really just about the HIMYM wardrobe dept having a bigger budget. When you rewatch season 1 both Lily and Robin wear pretty casual, everyday stuff that most people would wear. It was only in mid-S2 to season 3 that they started wearing really pretty clothes (Lily in particular-- which they explained with the credit card debt thing, thankfully). Lately I think Robin's been wearing more casual stuff just because she has a job-- although I know I madly heart that brown leather (?) jacket she's been wearing all season. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:35:46 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-13-three-days-of-snow-discussion/#IDComment14200971 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-13-three-days-of-snow-discussion/#IDComment14200878 The thermostat/intercom thing was stupid, but I think that when she was arguing with Marshall she was just on a rant and wasn't listening to his repeated warnings about the snow plow. She seemed genuinely shocked/freaked out when it went by. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:24:42 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-13-three-days-of-snow-discussion/#IDComment14200878 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-13-three-days-of-snow-discussion/#IDComment14200864 I agree with pretty much everything you say, but here's my question: did people really find things in this show (pre-S4) so hard to follow? I watched the pilot, then only watched the show sporadically till season 3, but I never found the episodes I managed to catch hard to understand. The serialised aspect isn't really that complex seeing as SagetTed gives us a little exposition anyway. Whenever my friends talk about not liking this show, they don't talk about how the storylines are complicated-- most people just hate the laugh track (and so do I, when I notice it), which doesn't appeal to as many viewers in the post-Friends era. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:23:13 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-13-three-days-of-snow-discussion/#IDComment14200864 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-13-three-days-of-snow-discussion/#IDComment14200808 I agree completely. The whole "HIMYM" concept only really lends itself to a couple of seasons, but given its current ratings it looks like it'll go for at least six (barring a precipitous ratings drop next year, I guess), and to make the concept last that long the writers will have to be careful. I personally don't care about who the mother is, but I know that a lot of people do, and up till this year the show had a wonderful flow to it: Robin --> Tattoo Girl/Mandy Moore --> Stella And now that Ted and Stella have severed ties completely it's hard to see where they'll go next. I completely agree that this season feels like it's going nowhere, and my theory is that it's because it doesn't have an overarching theme so far. S1 was about Ted's unrequited love for Robin, S2 was their relationship, S3 was about Ted getting over Robin and dealing with just being friends with her. So far the first third or so of S4 dealt with Stella, but the next third has been quite patchy- you'd expect it to deal with him trying to move on, but Ted moved on really, really fast and ever since 4.06 I completely agree that the show has been directionless. I know that Bays and Thomas decided to go about this season differently-- with more standalones, less serialised plots, etc-- but it still needs an overall theme to tie them together. Rewatching all 4 seasons to date will be really strange once one hits the post-Shelter Island episodes. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:16:47 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-13-three-days-of-snow-discussion/#IDComment14200808 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-12-benefits-discussion/#IDComment13963674 JD, great recap! I laughed out loud at both the Willy Wonka comment (so true) and the whole "girls secretly all hate each other anyway" thing at the end (not true at all! but as a girl I guess I'm biased). Also laughed at you spelling "weird" as "wierd" considering Robin's line this week. If that was intentional, huge pat on the back to you, dude. :) Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:57:48 +0000 http://have-you-met-ted.com/2009/season-4-episode-12-benefits-discussion/#IDComment13963674