Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray my friends a watch to keep.
If I should die before I wake,
I pray of my friends no meal I make.

She seemed to still have the handcuffs on at the end…

I agree with your point 2, am interested in point 3, would prefer more optimism than point 5, and disagree with point 1 (she was freaked out). But what I really, really can't agree enough with is the sheer awesomeness that is your point 4.
Is it a commentary on the show's nihilism?

What disturbs me so much about the Ted-loves-Robin plotline is that I don't accept it. All this time he keeps insisting he's in love with her. But he's not - he's in love with the idea of love so much that he's projecting it onto his emotionally incompatible close friend. From Seasons 3 and 6 Ted seemed to have the…

I was explaining the joke. A pommelhorse is a piece of gymnastics equipment. If indeed the character's name is 'Pommelhorst', it was merely a Germanicisation to make it a relatively realistic sounding name and yet at the same time have the joke of a gym teacher named after a piece of gym equipment.

Look up 'pommelhorse'.

I've never heard of 'The 10 O'Clock People', so it's definitely not in Everything's Eventual. I think you're confusing the story with 'Quitters, Inc.', a story in a different King collection (I forget which) wherein a man signs up to a quit-smoking initiative only to find it has very draconian but surprisingly…

Maybe she was less threatened because she was gay.

It has the satisfying ring of fulfilled prophecy to see this comment with '2 years ago' next to it, while the AV Club has only just started reviewing Season 7. The ironing will be doubly delicious for all you 2016-ers rereading this review and seeing this comment while complaining about how the AV Club is reviewing…

And that, son, is how your mother is also your sister.

I misread that as 'an alternate show where the world ends in 2011'.

Seasons 6 through 9 have been made retroactively better by how they tied in many arc events from that time to the HIMYM story, such as Lily bonding with TM over being angry at certain men, which wouldn't have happened if the Captain hadn't have given her an art job, which wouldn't have happened if Ted never met Zoe.

Marshall got an unexpected appearance of his wife in person on the street, but yes.

That just means it will only work on 1 of the next 2, or 2/3 on average.

He didn't invent it; he at most used it (which may have in fact been only because he misread a situation and expected sex, rather than doing it in the hopes of it getting him sex), and didn't have a name for it. HIMYM may well have taken (taken, not ripped off) the 'person turns round to find date unexpectedly naked'…

Pre-emptive apology to fans of Kill Bill.
Yes, but Kill Bill sucked.

Not sure if I've mentioned this here already, but what if around 2025 Ted got in an accident that permanently scarred his larynx and deepened the pitch of his voice, a la Fry/Lars from Futurama?

You wouldn't be a perfect match for her either.

Perhaps because it confuses people when she's described as a WILF? People might think she was Donna's grandfather.

This 'Girls' show may be good. I don't know. But I'd be more inclined to find out if they were better at choosing titles that aren't generic and arguably applicable to at least 51% of the population. Titles need to be more indicative, such as being about unconventionally-named vampire slayers or being lost or heroes…