By Matthew Wood

Don’t you hate it when your friends point out that annoying quirk from your new lady friend, so that you can’t stop thinking about it and it drives you crazy for the rest of the short time you continue dating her? Like she always chews gum with her mouth open. Or she always wears leggings with any outfit. Or she weighs about 250 pounds. … Um, not that I’m speaking from personal experience or anything.

Anyway, that’s what happens to poor Ted (Josh Radner) when the gang meets his new hot item. The problem is, she’s quite the talker, and Ted doesn’t realize it until everyone tells him. This sets off a chain reaction of revealing everyone’s quirks that threatens to drive everyone crazy.

But then Marshall (Jason Segel) finds out he passed the bar, and everyone forgets their underlying hatred for each other. Oh, and they watch Barney’s video of a dog pooping on a baby (I just had to throw that in).


Overall, it was a pretty ho-hum episode of HIMYM. Not much going on. A coupla funny jokes from Barney (Neil Patrick Harris). And call it a day. In fact, it got so bad that halfway through, my roommate remarked, “Man, that writers strike is already taking a toll.” Ouch. But I have to admit, I was thinking the same thing. (Of course, I would’ve made it sound much funnier, like, “Looks like Letterman needs to get those writers another box of doughnuts, cuz they’ve got some picketing to do.” OK, I guess mine wasn’t that much better.)

You know what I want. I want Barney, pure and unadulterated. I would love a half-hour of just Barney out picking up chicks. And much less of the girls. I know I’ve been harping on this all season, but really, the whole Ted-Robin dynamic is terrible. They just all of a sudden have become good friends after breaking up a multi-year relationship? Get outta here. They’ve even mentioned it in the past few episodes, but it doesn’t make it right.


You know, that’s all I got for this episode. It looks like they didn’t make much of an effort to be funny with me, so I’m not going to make an effort being funny while making fun of them. … But if you got a video of a dog pooping on a kid, I’ll totally watch that.