So… this is going to be a disaster, right?

So mad that they killed off Richard.

All I can say is holy shit.

Lauren Tom's laugh was really annoying on the pre-show though.

"Like a samurai!"

Loved the "Spaced" cameos.

I want a new season of Curb badly, but this was a pretty funny stop-gap.

I haven't seen if it was mentioned in the comments yet, but Walt's car is a Chrysler 300. The Challenger is Walt Jr's car.

I did not see that confrontation happening this early in the batch of episodes and now I am all the more intrigued (if that is even possible) as to how this season with progress.

I've been saying for years that Breaking Bad was a black comedy in the first season and that as the second season progressed it shifted into being a flat-out, hard-hitting drama.

I agree. I've said it numerous times that we need to really know why she's the one that Ted ends up with other than just being told that that is the case. So hopefully the wedding plays out as an hour long season premiere and Ted meets her at the end of the episode and we get to know her during the rest of the season.

Seconded.

Although they said they filmed the finale out of sequence, so Chevy Chase is in the season finale, but there are two other episodes he doesn't appear in, but that they had a back up plan for.

Maybe that would have made more sense.

Leaving myself time to think about it, I'm increasingly believing that opening the episode with the laugh-track was a mistake. I'm fine with the Abed TV framing device, but the season should not have started that way.

The thing that would make sense though is she would be invited to the wedding as part of Barney's side's guest list.

It feels to me as if Bays and Thomas caught wind of the fact that many of us had figured it out and decided to change the mother into just being a random girl. It felt like a cop out and the Rachael Bilson scene seemed shoehorned in saying "See, we remember that they were roommates!"

Walter's introspective come-down was amazing.

Walter's introspective come-down was amazing.

My favorite episode as well.