Fortunately, it in no way affected her appearance or lustrous hair.

Yeah, NPH did what he could with the baby scene, but the rest was awful. It's great that he still never actually learned the kid's mom's name, I guess. Hilarious!

The lack of the parental Hecks in Sue's prom plotline seemed weird even for them, but I guess it did help set up the big brother plotline, which will kill me in about any show.

At my school, you could only buy couples tickets, and they were, I think, $120. I scrounged up a tenth-grade kid I knew from Quiz Bowl (I was THAT awesome).

The beginning of Lisa's karoake proposal was the first time this show hit my embarrassment squick so hard I had to cover my eyes and peek through my fingers.

The Secret Life show was by the 7th Heaven lady—I don't think even Meryl Streep could do much with a Brenda Hampton vehicle.

I read the first two books. The concept gets worse, not better.

YES. This has been driving me mad since I first heard about it.
I read the first two books over Christmas, and not only were they dull, I thought they were really badly edited, so maybe no one involved could grok parallel structure.

I kind of feel like going into the finale they keep giving me reasons to be annoyed with everyone, and I'm not sure if there's a point, or if I just no longer get them. I found Marshall and Lily in their opening with Barney (the suicide note jokes) to be at their least charming selves, and it seems really late in the…

On the other hand, I'd hate to inflict that pink dress on anyone else. I think it's awful, especially since it isn't a punchline.

I would totally watch the ongoing adventures of Holt and his husband. Failing that, I would like Andre Braugher to say "hula hoop" more often.

Shallowly, not liking Lily's pink dress. Also "accidental curly" sounds really dirty to me. I kind of hope Billy Zabka gets to read a poem dedicated to Barney and Robin at the wedding. I wouldn't have minded more Gary Blauman, though, especially if he could have just yelled "TIME ISN'T LINEAR FOR ME EITHER, TED." …

I like that the fake news show is called "Update America." It is the perfectly bland, tonally off, vaguely condescending fake title to fit into the narrative.

I was cringing right along with Leslie when "you're" became "your."

The scene with Phillip and Paige was amazing. Definitely in the first season it seemed like Elizabeth was more often the heavy/disciplinary parent, and there was something incredibly chilling about Phillip's icily controlled reprimand. And it felt like it was so typically The Americans in a big knot of truth and…

Reverend Tammy looked so much like my Midwestern youth minister circa 1996 I did a double take to confirm it was Casey Wilson. Savior s'mores!

I honestly don't feel like the show has ever really dealt with the huge amount of secret debt Lilly accrued, to be honest. I feel in a lot of ways Lily has had the least amount of growth and/or analysis of her character flaws over the series—Marshall has matured, Ted has in a lot of zig-zagging at least acknowledged…

women be crazy, right? hilarity!

Also, has Lily ever been particularly an "environmentalist"? Marshall is supposed to be, I guess, from his legal interests, but I don't remember that ever being attributed to Lily. It kind of conflicts with her shopping addiction, tbh.

I really disliked this episode at this point, to be honest. Partly because I just conceptually hate the whole trope of guy going to beat up other guy based on flimsy idea of cheating. It's gross and retrograde and a real waste of dynamics at this point. Also, devoting that much time to Ted being particularly…