I haven't seen the movie version of Phoenix but the book, overstuffed and overlong as it is, felt really hollow to me. I just realized, having recently re-read it, that the reason is that the main characters come across as strangely 2-dimentional in this one - as though Rowling was going through a don't-give-a-shit…

Don't know if it's because I'm old or if I just have great taste in movies, but I've actually seen 35 out of the 50. Needless to say, I enthusiastically approve of this list.

Don't know if it's because I'm old or if I just have great taste in movies, but I've actually seen 35 out of the 50. Needless to say, I enthusiastically approve of this list.

Seems to be on all the boards, not just this one.

It seems to me like they're now trying to give the impression that it may  not be Carly (by having Ted meet her after the wedding, not during) in order to prevent all the Carly chatter from expanding further.

It seems to me like they're now trying to give the impression that it may  not be Carly (by having Ted meet her after the wedding, not during) in order to prevent all the Carly chatter from expanding further.

I think you're right. I noticed that when they showed the exterior of the church this time it was pouring rain; I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case all the previous times they showed it.

I've been compared to Juliette Lewis a couple of times - both times by a random stranger with a look in his eyes that makes me wish I had a can of mace in my purse.

Actually, if Barney married - and stayed married - to her, shouldn't Ted be calling her "your Aunt Quinn"?

I laughed SO hard at that. Then it was immediately followed (at least on the station I was watching) by a scene with the baby girl in Raising Hope eating her peas. It was… disconcerting.

In the Christmas episode where Lily hears the old telephone message from Ted where he calls her a "Grinch", it's established that Marshall gets insanely excited about the Christmas displays that Lily creates in their apartment every year. Apparently his fun, childlike side trumps his environmentalist side.

Yeah, I couldn't figure out if this ep was a deliberate reference to the J. Walter Weatherman eps of AD or not. Similar, but subtly so. Either way, it was awesome.

It never crossed my mind that those jokes were anything BUT a jab at Outsourced.

White Rock means never having to say you're Surrey.

Maybe I got the band wrong… but I remember the "bong" line clearly, because I still think of her as Ruth Fisher and that freaked me out a little bit.

They definitely has an episode where she admitted to being highly promiscuous and sometimes neglectful - for example, she left the boys for a few weeks to follow Grand Funk Railroad on tour and be "passed around like a bong." So, yeah, this is a little inconsistent.

I can't decide whether the all-too-obvious implication that Robin and Barney will get back together and get married is a red herring, or a sort of double fakeout - we *think* it's just a red herring, but actually…

Rowrbazzle: Exactly what I was about to post. I can't wait to see what I think of it now.

I can't imagine that he and Robin will end up together, since future Ted has never referred to him as "Uncle" Don (plus the fact that we the viewers aren't getting the chance to get to know him). Of course the writers could be just trying to keep their options open, and could come up with some excuse for the absence…

None of the King Kong stuff actually happened, it's just what Ted told the kids years later to make the story more interesting. That was the basic theme of the episode; sometimes it's OK to tell a good story without it being the true story.