I like it too - it's a funny sitcom. But the way people rave about it you'd think it was golden-era The Simpsons or something. I guess the love is amplified by the show's underdog status.

I like it too - it's a funny sitcom. But the way people rave about it you'd think it was golden-era The Simpsons or something. I guess the love is amplified by the show's underdog status.

I think we're meant to forget about that. Although the mother might introduce herself at the wedding all like "Hey, I just had to come up and say hello, because I remember you from that time you taught my economics class" - BOOM.

Nah, it doesn't make any sense. Why would Ted be all excited about telling the story of how he saw her ankle at Rachel Bilson's place if he already knew her at that point?

For me it's sort of an accumulation of moments where the show has played something up to be hugely important, and then backpedaled a few episodes later. Like say Jason Jones getting Ted the teaching gig, Barney and Robin entering a relationship, Robin meeting Don (something about the way Ted introduced him in the…

*crawls backwards out of the room in shame*

Wasn't the boy band episode with the attack on the MAD building the Simpsons' take on 9/11?

And the umbilical cord isn't cut before dream fetus Homer exits the womb.

Did the brunette in the top picture keep her voice? I recall her barely being able to say her lines.

*Ahem* I believe proper grammar would be "Stan and Francine don't manage to succeed".

It wouldn't surprise me if Barney does marry Quinn, but then the marriage falls apart three episodes into the next season and everything goes back to status quo. That seems to be the writers MO these days.

Yes, writers need to understand that you can't just keep throwing a bunch of drama in between your characters and expect the audience to keep rooting for them to pair up and live happily ever after in the end.

Ah, sure, Ted meets the mother at Barney's wedding - technically. Just like he met her when Jason Jones got him that gig as a professor. But she will probably sit opposite an elaborate table piece so he never actually sees her face, and then she turns into a pumpkin at midnight.

I remember thinking that the characters on the show often made little digs at what they perceived to be unworthy careers in a sort of condescending way, but unfortunately I can't come up with any more specific examples other than this episode.

Now THAT'S sarcasm!

What did happpen to her? That episode where Nate finds the photo in the book that Lisa's nice or whatever lent him… it makes no sense and kind of seems like a dream. I guess it's supposed to represent the chaoticness and uncertainties of death or something but…

Kate's "accidental serial-killer with a heart of gold"-schtick didn't make much sense, but that was unimportant most of the time and I don't think that's where all of the vitriol stems from.

I don't get the Kate-hate either. If one didn't know better, one might suspect it's just a plain' ol' case of misogyny…

ROCK BOTTOM!

Yes, how is reverting to status quo "moving forward", exactly? Now, I haven't actually seen this episode yet but for Marshall and Lily to move back into a smaller apartment, after what - only a few months? - with a baby coming in weeks makes very little sense. It's takes a science fiction-level suspension of…