I think she was a little too drunk to be hot at that moment.  Lily was watching her very warily, clearly waiting for her to try climbing out the window or, you know, hurling on Lily.  There's really nothing like seeing someone sloppy drunk to make you question why you were into them in the first place.

It's really not.

Yeah, that's how I read the interview quote linked above, where Carter and/or Bays says that the interesting thing to them was that Ted meets the perfect woman, and that's not his love story.  Ted's genuine care and respect for Robin, combined with her general coolness, looks to him what True Love *should* look like —…

So she was notable to you for her ability to smile and move her eyes in multiple directions sequentially?  Okay.

I'm not going to lie, I think that would be awesome.   Seems unlikely, though.

Cristin Milioti.  Don't ask me how I know.  A magician never reveals.

I can't believe that's possible.  They've told us straight up that she's the lady with the yellow umbrella who plays at Robin and Barney's wedding in Farhampton.  Any attempt to introduce a second lady with a yellow umbrella who goes to Farhampton on the weekend of Robin and Barney's wedding—

Eh.  I think it's pretty hard for you to judge the appropriateness of people's emotional responses to the show.  None of us are taking to the belltower with our assault rifles; we're just typing in a harsher tone than you think we should be typing.  Which is actually okay — we don't *need* to calm down.  You be calm;…

Eh, fair enough.  I feel like the review had plenty of actual reasoning to back up the "kill it with fire" emotionalism, and a massive amount of detail as to what Todd felt like it lacked, which is all that I really expect from a critic.  There's no particular reason that all criticism has to be of the academic…

You're the only person I know other than myself who says "the year of our Lord 20XX."  Will you be my friend?

I read your comment, though I didn't totally understand it.  Why is nerdrage not an appropriate response when fans who have campaigned hard to keep this show on the air are served substandard bullshit in return?  We wanted something that was competent and we got a confused, hacky mess, and the only reason you wouldn't…

Yeah, it was a pretty ugly place to go just for the thirty-seven billionth "Britta sure is a dumbfuck!" gag.

Yeah, I'm surprised to see that getting scootched out of a lot of Top 5s.  It's probably my 2nd or 3rd.

I think "the bottle episode" is Cooperative Calligraphy.  Which >>>>>>> everything, as opined.

Well, now you've made me like it.

It's also a little on the rapey side, isn't it?  I mean, they throw in "oh, Pepper was mad" as a secondary reason, but the first one was Irresistible Sex Technomagic, which isn't super distinct from good ol' fashioned roofies.  And it was going to be there basically to make *Tony* feel bad about the state of his life,…

What?  people merely suggested, civilly, that the new reviewer was incompetent and unqualified for his job.  Dialogue!

Your third paragraph is adorable.  "Don't talk about The Avengers so much, guys!  Tony wouldn't want us to!"

Exactly.  It is no big deal to him that she flirts, because it's so completely inconceivable that anything would ever come of it.  "First Time In New York" is probably the best example of how much Lily and Marshall's lifelong fidelity means to both of them.  In my wildest dreams I can't imagine either of them…

I think they did it just to see you so happy, Vicki.