How I Met Your Mother (discussion/spoilers)

DIrishB said:
There's a reason the show reignited the career of Jason Bateman and started Michael Cera's.
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Yeah, but I don't really like either of their stuff.



But you really should. Is it because you're Canadian? ;)
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Nah, tons of my friends up here love it. They all think I'm crazy too. I just have a very particular sense of humour

E said:
I bet that's it. I've heard that most of their humor revolves around maple syrup.
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Don't forget bacon, free health care, hockey, and how dumb Americans are.
 
Captain Canuck said:
how dumb Americans are.
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Canadians also apparently don't take jokes very well.
 
Analyzing the Canadian sense of humor sounds like a premise from this TV show.

I have one question: since this show has been going on for 8 years, are the kids who play Ted's teenage children aging at an equal pace as well, or are the bookend segments still set in 2030 with actors now presumably in their mid 20's playing 16 year olds? Just wondering, I am admittedly curious about that.

I'm being a trooper and sticking it out till at least the end of Season 1.
 
DIrishB said:
Analyzing the Canadian sense of humor sounds like a premise from this TV show.

I have one question: since this show has been going on for 8 years, are the kids who play Ted's teenage children aging at an equal pace as well, or are the bookend segments still set in 2030 with actors now presumably in their mid 20's playing 16 year olds? Just wondering, I am admittedly curious about that.

I'm being a trooper and sticking it out till at least the end of Season 1.
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The part in 2030 is all in the same year. Also, they used to have the actors come back for those parts every time, but since they got other work (the boy went on to be on a Disney show, the girl movies and I think Nikita on CW) the show just uses the clip they last appeared on every time they are shown for the rest of the series.
 
Ice said:
The part in 2030 is all in the same year. Also, they used to have the actors come back for those parts every time, but since they got other work (the boy went on to be on a Disney show, the girl movies and I think Nikita on CW) the show just uses the clip they last appeared on every time they are shown for the rest of the series.
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Really? So I assume they no longer talk and just appear while Bob Saget's voice over sets up the episode.
 
I did read that they recorded the final episode reactions from the kids a while ago so that the ages are about right.
 
Finished Season 1 last night, think I'll keep going to see where this show goes. I must admit I think it's more than a bit of a cop out that the show relies more on soap operatic elements than humor, but I'm interested enough to keep watching. I'll see how Season 2 compares to Season 1.
 
So I'm about halfway through Season 2. The whole Marshall/Lilly thing has been predictably resolved. Barney has gotten progressively funnier as a character. Ted is still the least interesting of them all--and coincidentally the main character. Robin has had her moments.

But the Robin Sparkles episode was pretty hilarious. If the whole Canada being 10 years behind America thing were true, does that mean Captain Canuck was exposed to Hypercolor T-shirts in only the past decade, and likely missing out completely since they stopped working after just a few washes? I'm sorry, Cap, that's truly a national tragedy.
 
E said:
So laughing at how dumb Americans are only started within the last 9 years, 364 days or so?
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before that i laughed about how sensitive they are.

It's valentine's day E, I love you. Lets be friends.:heart::heart:
 
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So I'm now into the first few episodes of Season 3. The show has gotten funnier over the second season. The episode with Lilly's wedding shower and Robin's "gift" intentionally being mixed up with her grandmother's was pretty hilarious, specifically since I have a very immature sense of humor (I'm sorry but if you're too "mature" to find dick and fart jokes funny, you're essentially dead inside).

I'm glad I kept watching despite the lackluster Season 1.
 
Hey, they showed her! Too bad they also spent half the episode harping on the fact that Ted still loves Robin. I really don't enjoy this show any more, at this point I only watch it b/c I need the satisfaction of finally meeting my mother... his mother? The mother.
 
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Ted's always going to love Robin, she was a big deal in his life and for some people it's hard to ever let that truly go, but he will once he's with the mother. I look at it like Robin as Gwen Stacy (except she doesn't die) and Ted as Peter. She was his first true love.
 
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