Also, I think some time passed in this episode. So it may have been five weeks at the beginning, but by the end when she actually went into labor it might only have been three or four (or less, I guess). They had a baby shower and were supposed to go to the "baby bootcamp" on a different weekend, so I assumed that at…

Same. I thought that was the best storyline in the episode. I don't know why they didn't give it more screentime than Lily's dumb sex dreams or Barney whining about dating a stripper.

I totally agree with your first paragraph. Barney was pretty hurt by Robin's rejection, and he's made it clear that he's ready to settle down, so it makes sense that he's throwing himself into this relationship with Quinn. He wants to be in love and he wants to settle down so he's trying really hard to make it…

Eh, I assume that's what they want us to think. They're being way too obvious with all the hints that Barney is going to have to marry Quinn so she'll stop stripping. I say they get engaged, but not married.

I liked this episode pretty well. Even though Ted obviously had to have a daughter by 2015 at the latest, it was still sweet to see him holding her. And I liked how they played with what is really the theme of the show, that reality doesn't usually match up to our expectations for the future, but sometimes, reality…

Ah, I'm sorry, I misinterpreted what you were saying. I see the word finale and my mind jumps to "series finale" for some reason. It's always possible that the wedding is in this season's finale. I think I was assuming that this season would end with Lily having the baby, but that could always happen in the episode…

I agree with you mostly, except I don't think this all ends with Barney getting married to Quinn and realizing he made a mistake and ending the series miserable. This show is all about how bad things sometimes happen, and people make mistakes, but in the end it all turns out okay. So even if Barney did have a quickie…

There was episode in Season 4 (I think it was "The Front Porch", I'm too lazy to check) where Lily sabotages Ted's relationship with Karen, and he finds out that Lily has sabotaged all of his relationships where she thought there was no future for him and the woman he was dating. He gets really mad at her when she…

Yeah, both the skirt she was wearing earlier in the episode, and then her entire outfit in the bathroom was hideous. It's like someone in the wardrobe department has a grudge against Cobie or something.

They said Barney had a rough couple of weeks, which implies that several weeks had passed between the last episode, with his breakup with Nora/rejection by Robin and tonight's Thanksgiving episode. The last two episodes happened over a two day period, so shorter than normal.

I can understand why Robin chose Kevin over Barney in tonight's episode, based on what they both said, yeah. Barney's answer probably played to Robin's worries that they're both going to end up messes together like they were the last time, while Kevin's answer makes Robin hope that she can change enough to like…

Yeah, up until now Kevin has sort of seemed almost disdainful at times of Robin, which made me wonder why he even wanted to risk his career to date her in the first place. Now he loves her? I guess he figures she's pretty and thinks he can "fix" her.

The narrator has referred to himself as "I" when referring to Ted in the story, and the kids have called him "Dad". Plus, he's referred to Aunt Lily, Uncle Marshall, Aunt Robin, and Uncle Barney, so if this was actually Ted talking to Barney's kids, or Marshall/Lily's kids, he would've had to refer to them in the…

I liked both episodes. I liked the premiere more, but that's just because it had a sense of inevitability, even though nothing really big happened to the characters in the present. Barney and Robin dancing was fun, and I can assume Future Ted was exaggerating their dancing abilities, so it's less weird that they had a…

No, I care about Robin's career, too. I hope they go back to that this season. At least last season she got out of the dead-end job she had, but I'd like to hear more about how she's doing there.

Now I'm expected to climb back on top of Kitty and do my thing again. I mean, this family runs into problems and it's 'Oh, let's have Gob *beep* our way out of it.'

"You just can't deal with the fact that I have a super-thin wife with huge cans."

The scene with Robin crying in the front row was in Season 1 when 2006 Ted imagined what his wedding might look like if he and Robin never dated and always wondered "what if?". So, that didn't really happen in the future.