It could be Ted who's dead in the finale and Bob Saget is reading the kids a very long letter from their dead father.

I get the impression it wasn't strictly contractual. It almost sounds like someone may have a restraining order. I also get the impression Harmon may be on better terms with him than the people who worked with him in the off year.

Yeah. He's the Creed of the show. Maybe a Ted Baxter at most. You don't do Creed/Pam plots or have Mary seriously lean on Ted for support as a rule.

I'm now picturing them replacing her with an anti-Shirley the way Buzz is the anti-Pierce. I'm picturing a late 30s African American woman from a metal band, Devil worshipper, harsh goth exterior, heart of gold underneath. I think network TV needs this the more I think about it.

That ring bear's name is Trevor Hudson and I bet he's non-alcoholic as well.

It was never confirmed that Ted was trying to irritate Lily. That was Lily's theory.

NO! I need The Captain and Robin's dad to meet!

I read an interview where he seemed to indicate that he just liked working, constantly. From Aint-It-Cool:

I've been thinking about this and I think maybe the appropriate answer is to go from 5 star/5 letter grades (which real criticism didn't use until bourgeois studio reviews came along) and, if you need instant feedback for audiences, well…

Well, the deeper point is that reviewers online are constantly told not to reconcile reviews.

I've been a reviewer on other sites and I understand where you're coming from but I didn't like reviewing video games or movies "against themselves" either because it always ends up being about hype/expectation. Also, while a show like Community plays with longform arcs and gags, it also plays heavily with standalone…

Also, Julie Newmarr came onto him once in a boat but gentleman don't discuss the particulars of these things.

This is Hickey, again, being the Anti-Pierce.

I Have No Mouth and Yet I Must Bark? Repent, Harrier? Pomeranian of the Lost Hour?

I'd say it's the truest if you think the point of an adaptation is to honor the source. And I find it unjustly maligned.

As wacky as it seems, I think she spends six years increasingly sick and the pineapple saves her… only after Ted is done telling the kids the story. (Because as he's telling it, he doesn't know the pineapple.)

Yeah. I think at its best, Community is more like Pete and Pete at its best than a straight up sitcom.

I assume this will lead to a grinding/twerking country line dancing craze.

"Well, duh. It's full of blood and stuff. Where would they even have room to put the logic?"

The How I Met Your Mother checklist: