How he finally met the mother (Season 9)

That was one of the best lines.

 

Anyway ...

I wonder if Marshall being in a car was done so he could do other projects during the season. He and Shepherd (and baby Marvin and some extras) could film half the season in a week or two and he'd be free to work on whatever else he's got going.

 

That probably was the reasoning, but I think it opens up a lot of good angles for the show to use during the first half of this season. Lily and Marshall, like almost all couples in real life, are more fun when separated.

 

I thought it was a good opener that laid the foundation for the season to come. It wasn't the best episode, but it had it's laughs. I liked Lily turning evil when the cookies were gone and Mom bopped her on the nose with a magazine. For this opener to be of any worth, the subsequent episodes need to get stronger building on what these first two laid out.

I liked how they are starting to throw in little nuggets to hint that this is the final season.

There is also a lot of potential for next week's show playing on the zombie theme. Can't wait.

 

Apparently, CBS offered Segel and Hannigan (sp?) a Lily and Marshall spinoff and Hannigan desperately wants to do it, but Segel turned it down.

 

This does not appear to be accurate at all. From Alyson Hannigan:

 

So are you guys saying the episode set up the rest of the season nicely?

 

I feel about this show the same way I did when I decided to watch every episode of the old Hawaii Five-0 on Netflix. I made it this far, I might as well go to the end.

The cousin storyline was interesting, but I see a season's worth of second-string jokes about plots explored earlier. There can't be that many wedding jokes to last a whole season when there already was one wedding on the show years ago.

 

Speaking of, last night was the only time I can remember a half-hour sitcom promoing next week's show as the coda. You see it on most hour-long dramas, but not sitcoms.

 

A couple laughs, but nothing totally memorable.

The "Monstrosity" bit was okay, but laughed harder when I saw Ranier Wolfcastle talk about his Hummer's gas mileage ("One highway, zero city.") on The Simpsons...like 12 years ago.

How I Met Your Mother, the Final Season: Can you say "Ordi - wait for it - 'nary?"

Ordinary.

 

Time will tell.

 

Meh. The last scene at the end of the second episode was ok, but the rest was C-