"I LOVE that you seem to push the "everyone else thinks it's become ridiculous" (paraphrasing obviously, I should hope)"
Wow the concept of quotes is really foreign to you. I never wrote anything of the sort but hey if that's what you have to resort to, knock yourself out.

I don't want to pile on but man your comments are hard to follow. Were you attempting to say that the show realism hasn't changed at all in the last few years by writing something that stated the exact opposite? Do you really think that the show hasn't become less realistic in the last few seasons? I doubt anyone…

Why should anyone be interested in a subject that didn't really matter to the beatles and was largely irrelevant and orthogonal to their work? Ho my gosh they made one song that had some political meaning, clearly that's where their minds were at….
Revolution was a great pop rock song, that's what it was intended to…

"Either way, I've been watching the show since the beginning, and am totally bewildered that it's suddenly more unrealistic than ever"
So you're basically arguing about what at this stage?

"And it’s that professionalism—however detached, however uninspired—that I think made Jay Leno such a success." That probably explains Duck Dynasty's success as well, that or really low standards of the american audience.

Let me dumb it down for you: I never said the show was 100% realistic before, now it is MORE unrealistic than ever. Sure there was over the top stuff before but it wasn't the whole show. Can you differentiate between having eggs with a bit of salt and having a plate of salt? It would seem not.

Agreed, to be honest it was never made clear what Ted saw in her that he couldn't find with other women he dated. Her relationship with Barney seems completely fake too. For some reason Marshall and Lilly have always appeared the more realistic couple.

Sure but at this point there is virtually zero realistic elements so for my taste the balance is messed up.

You mean the girl that looks a bit like Lilly, has exactly the same tastes as Ted and almost everyone other than Ted has already met? Sure, they've made her into a female version of Ted so the old adage of opposites attracting will probably be proven wrong in the end.

I had forgotten about that Frazier episode, I am vaguely recollecting it… It probably made more sense in the context of a psychologist trying to figure things out then this Marshall thing that kind of makes no sense… like most of what has been going on for this season and some of the last. HIMYM started out fairly…

I've been watching this show since the first season and I have been forcing myself to watch this season just to get to the end of it. The things that made me like this show in previous seasons have steadily disappeared and at this point I really don't enjoy most of it. In a sense this show has overstayed it's welcome…

Well the quote has sort of evolved since the previous post but who cares. People who work in that field probably start off with some lovely notion of how things are going to go and how people will be. Doing the actual work might disillusion them overtime. Yes they probably should reconsider their career when they've…

You would have accepted it but they would have never done it in previous seasons where the shows link to reality was still present. It has become goofier and goofier. The trope you mention might be common but that's not what happened in this episode, Marshall imagined his current wife talking to a younger version of…

Sometimes being a good friend can be burden. Doesn't mean you should do it but it can take it's toll. Ted should just accept that this weekend is not all about him. I hope the show is truly done with this Ted/Robin thread.

It might be easier to hold on to these lofty feelings when you don't work 40 hours a week or more taking care of addicts. Just a theory.

If anyone wants to know, capote is French for condom.

Who said it was?

Insightful comment coming from a lower case stunted keyboard?

I wish that show in it's current state could elicit a single emotion other than being baffled by how bad it has become.

Aren't cheesy and awful registered trademarks of this final season of himym? Maybe the season before that too.