The episode had a ton of comedy. You just didn't like it because all the jokes were at Barney's expense.

Yes, we all know she's not the mother. The show makes no pretensions about that fact. The question for us is to find out what prevents her from being the mother.

What in the world does it being fun have to do with anything? Fixing your mistakes is almost never fun. Does that mean that everyone should just continue to make mistakes forever?

That's what people say when they can't think of a counterargument.

You haven't even been consistent with that. You constantly go on about crap you don't like in these reviews that don't get a C.

Which is why they didn't do the same thing. Duh.

Got to love the pretension of all the people who don't like pretentious Ted.

As she revealed in her talk to Lily, she's just not going to hang out with them all the time. She's moved out, and is going to not be around nearly so often.

And that's what you need to remember. It's been five years since she lived there. There's no reason she has to be the same person.

You see all these people getting offended unnecessarily, but nothing about using the word "skank" to define just any random girl? Not that I care, but I'd think it would be right up the offenderatti's alley.

That's what so many don't seem to get. The settler is always a bit bratty. The reacher can't afford to be.

You're right, of course, but it could have just as easily meant that Ted grew up a bit and gave Lily what she wanted. So all it means is that, whoever Ted was with, he hadn't been with them very long. Or he'd gotten back together with Robin—it wouldn't surprise me.

That wasn't set during the same time period as the story being told. Marshall didn't look old at all.

Because it is a sitcom, not a drama, and thus rule of funny beats characterizations. When the storyline is focused on them, they have depth, and when it isn't, they don't.

I totally missed that, and I definitely got that they were referencing Daffy and Bugs.

And Donna didn't mention any of them. She's slacking.

There's absolutely no way you can tell that. Because one space is so much the rules, that HTML deliberately condenses all spaces down to only one. If it looks like two spaces, it's only because new fonts automatically handle it properly.

I find it odd that you always give the same score I would, but for completely different reasons. You give it a B+, yet go on about how this moment right now is the best the show has ever been. Yet you've given better scores to earlier seasons.

She almost certainly was not topless. It would be really weird for an established actress to go topless in a scene when she didn't have to. Most actors only want to do nudity when it is artistic.

Yeah, me too. But it was more disappointing to me, since it, like most of the episode, seemed so fake. She had stage-like mannerisms, way over-the-top. This is the first episode I watched that actually felt like a traditional sitcom.