Eh, we'll give them an associate producer credit.

Agree 100%. S5 is legitimately great. S6 has some very high points ("The Doctor's Wife," "The Girl Who Waited") mixed in with quite a few clunkers. S7 I found to be kind of a morass, although the two recent specials were good.

I'm so glad I quit How I Met Your Mother a few years ago. It just got so lazy, stale, and tedious to watch. Around season six (whichever one was the Zoey season) I stopped paying attention and would just dick around on the internet while my wife watched. One or two episodes into the 2012-13 season, I convinced my wife…