How I Met Your Mother is quite the ironic title of a TV show as the show never delves into how the narrator actually met his children’s mother. I guess that’s something they’ll get to eventually once they’ve made enough money of rave TV ratings. But I’m getting ahead of myself. The narrator is a middle-aged Caucasian male named Ted telling the story (or not telling the story) of how he met his wife to his two children. But Ted doesn’t exactly like to get to the point so he instead tells fairly amusing and often insane and hilarious stories about the shenanigans he and his best friends pull while they were in their thirties. His best friends Lily and Marshall are a happily married couple since their gooey romantic days in college as Ted’s roommates and they provide the sane yet sexual aspect of the group. Robin, the independent and strong, career-oriented female of the group, struggles with balancing her infinitely mercurial love-life and her bipolar career path. And Barney, the ever-loveable black hearted smooth-talker has only one agenda: sleep with as many insecure women as possible while maintaining the utmost level of awesome-ness. These five compose the partners in crime that the show revolves around. What happens in this episode is as predictable as any other. Barney makes vague comments about how being clad in a suit makes him superior to his peers while trying to get laid at every possible moment by chatting up a girl in the gang’s favorite bar, Mclaren’s. In the mean time, Marshall and Lily discuss various serious relationship phenomena (in this case, having a baby) while jokingly hinting at how they are extremely sexually active and Robin continuously whines about either how she doesn’t need a man to be happy or how her job is or isn’t approaching a dead-end. And all the while, Ted discusses various stories from his point of view involving the various women he dated, the ways his heart was broken, and the lead-up to how he actually met his wife. Predictable and gushy may not be the primary words to describe an top-class show but in it’s defense, perhaps predictable and gushy are exactly what this show needs. The texture of each show is secondary and the content itself is quite trivial when put in context too. But perhaps therein lies the rub. Ted, Barney, Marshall, Robin, and Lily don’t have to come up with outlandish tales because all of their stories are about life, and the ecstasy and hardships that accompany it. Even if these characters don’t exist in real life, versions of the gang does, trying to battle it out in the badlands of New York City. So if you ever get a chance, sit back and catch an episode of How I Met Your Mother and laugh and cry at the events that occur to five normal yet oddly unique people while not caring that the plot meanders and the characters never seem to really develop as age should have them do from episode to episode. When it comes to How I Met Your Mother, details take a backseat to the intricate and heartwarming group chemistry that we all can relate to.
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