… HIMYM brings their A-game.  You all know how I’ve been making excuses for not watching the last two episodes and not posting about them? I’ve gotta come clean. While I have been truthful in that I’m busy and have been movin, I’ve also have been kinda bored with How I Met Your Mother lately.  I still really like the show, but I’ve been more entertained by some other shows.  So when it came down to watching HIMYM for you guys or watching something I was enjoying more…. I’m sorry but I was a bad friend. I was selfish.  While I won’t promise this won’t happen again, I will promise I will always apologize afterwards.

I finally sat down last night and watched the last two episodes and was blown away.   “The Bracket” is one of the best episodes ever! The Doogie Howser reference at the end was priceless. And how about Barney’s apology? Then the “Chain of Screaming” (circle, or pyramid, or whatever) was pretty good.  My favorite scene was after Marshall got threw spilling his guts, when Barney leaned over and told him about his shotgun call.  Which by the way, I totally used today.  I called shotgun for eternity today at lunch, though I don’t think it stuck.

What do you guys think?

I know I’m behind on the episode posts; My recent move has left me outta wack with my TV watching schedule. However I did find a gem today, there is a report that the FCC has okayed nudity on TV as long as it’s Alyson Hannigan. See the video below for the whole report.

FCC Okays Nudity On TV If It�s Alyson Hannigan

CBS has launched the How I Met Your Mother official message boards.

Welcome to the official message boards for How I Met Your Mother. This is the place to share your thoughts and opinions about How I Met Your Mother on CBS. Please obey the rules of this community (no spam, ads, rudeness, profanity, adult content or irrelevant posts), but most of all, have fun. Please report inappropriate posts by selecting Report Violation from the Options drop-down menu at the bottom of the message. Thank you for helping keep this forum safe and fun for everyone. Most importantly, if you have what you think might be spoiler information, out of consideration for the community, please post it in the Spoilers folder only. CBS makes no claims as to the veracity of any information posted in the Spoilers section.

While I don’t want to encourage you to stop visiting the other un-official message boards and blogs, it might be a good idea to head over there and drop some comments to show CBS that we love the show.  If you happened to link to a certain HIMYM blog while you are there, I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt!

[thanks Anthony for the heads up]

I know I’ve been falling behind here.  I’ve had a crazy past week and haven’t even had a chance to watch last weeks episode.  I just wanted to say that I’m still here, just maybe a little behind.  It looks like we don’t have a new episode this week because of the NCAA Basketball tournament, but that should allow me time to catch back up with things.  I’ve been receiving some interesting emails I hope to digest and report back to you.

Sorry I’m a little late posting on this weeks episode.  I am in the middle of the first of two moves in the next month.

This weeks episode “Ten Sessions” I thought was pretty good…. except for one thing.  Can you guess it?  Yeah, Ms. Spears performance left something to be desired.  Wow.  That was bad.  Sarah Chalke on the other hand I thought was fantastic, and the difference between them was major!

All-in-all I really liked this episode.  Especially the two minute date. Oh and we had the taxi driver back (what’s his name again?)

Our “Marshall” is quite the busy man.  Jason Segel has a new moving coming out “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and apparently is in lined up to write Disney’s new Muppet Movie.  MSN has all the details and even a clue on his next movie (before Muppets).

My favorite part:

“I did a weird, ballsy move,” Segel says. “My first move, now that I’m successful, was to call Disney and tell them I wanted to write the new Muppet movie. People thought I was nuts. It was met with silence and a weird spattering of laughter. And I was like, ‘No, I’m serious, guys.’”

Well How I Met Your Mother returned with a bang last night.  I thought the episode was great and I really loved Barney’s green suit.  I have a green sports coat that I am known for wearing on St. Patrick’s Day and I can tell you first hand; The ladies love it!

What I thought was interesting about this episode was, we continue the idea that the mother carries a yellow umbrella around NYC.  However, at the end Ted ends up taking the yellow umbrella indicating to me that we will no longer be seeing that clue anymore.  I also was glad we got some more information about the ‘Dowisetrepla’ apartment and why we won’t be seeing Marshall and Lily there anytime soon.

Finally, I noticed the time slot was swapped with Big Bang Theory.  Do you think that means it is doing better than HIMYM? Either way, I’m glad we are back on the air.  It’s been too long.

I know things have been kinda quiet around here lately, but I will break the silence with two new news items.

First, How I Met Your Mother is returning next week!  It will return next Monday (March 17th) with a new episode “No Tomorrow” and their MySpace page has a sneak peak.

Secondly, We will be having a range of guest stars this season including Britney Spears and Sarah Chalke (from Scrubs).  For all the low down head over to Have-You-Met-Ted.com

I can’t wait!

It looks like we may have some new How I Met Your Mother episodes in our near future. The New York Times is reporting that the writers strike has ended and does a good job of running through the various shows that may or may not have new episodes coming up soon. As you can see from the image above we are on the list of shows that are scheduled for more episodes. It’s about time if you ask me!

As we are still waiting for this writer’s strike to end it can get hard to get your fix of HIMYM characters new content. Well user “trudyspineapple” sent me the following video with our very own Josh Radnor in a skit about the negotiations the writers are dealing with. Beware it does have some foul language, but does show our man sporting a pretty hefty beard. You can view the video here.