ORIGINAL EPISODES, MONDAYS @ 8PM ON CBSGreat all around episode tonight. It wasn't the funniest, it wasn't the craziest, but it was a great all around start-to-finish episode. I laughed throughout and thoroughly enjoyed the ridiculousness of there being a porn star named Ted Mosby. This is the strength of "How I Met Your Mother," when there's nothing huge going on, the writer's throw out some crazy plot with flashforwards and flashbacks and results in hilarity that you totally didn't expect. Tonight's a perfect example of that; nothing really major occurred but we had Ted track down a famous up and coming porn star using his name and Marshall deciding between working for the NRDC (his dream job where he could save the environment) and a large New York City law firm that represents everything he hates. And yet, I was laughing the entire episode. This is why HIMYM is so great and why you should be watching if you haven't been.
As I said above, Ted had a little adventure tonight. Barney found a porn video starring none other than "Ted Mosby." Unfortunately, it wasn't actually Ted, which would have been hilarious, but instead it turned out to be a friend of Ted's from way back in school. Ted had saved him from some bullies one day and he decided to honor him by making Ted's name famous one day. Seems he thought the best way to do this would be to use "Ted Mosby" as the name of his porn star alter ego. The porn convention was too funny and I thoroughly enjoyed watching Ted try to save his good name. And I don't know about you but I thought the porn puns about Ted were hilarious!
Marshall, meanwhile, was torn between his dream job with the NRDC saving the environment or taking a boat load of money to work for a mega-law firm. Little did he know that Lilly was quietly pushing him into the law firm job because she has an overly outrageous credit card/shopping addiction. Honestly, how could you possibly take out 100 credit cards and use them all?! That's insanity! It was definitely honorable for her tell Marshall to stick with his dream job despite the debt she racked up. In the end, it turned out to be alright for everyone because Marshall accepted the job with the law firm. The last offer was just too much for him to turn down - his only client would be "Tuckabee Funland" a place Marshall described as "the dream factory where magic is made." This is the old Marshall that was missing at the beginning of the season and I'm glad to see him back.
I wanted to point out a couple things that were great tonight: When Marshall left the law partner's house after the night out and he said "I'll call you tonight" the raggedy woman on the street says to Marshall "he's not going to call you." Also, Marshall decided to take the invitation to dinner with the partner because he was told the lobster was fed with Kobe beef at this restaurant. But the best line of the night, "You can really taste that he beef in lobster." Very subtle joke but extremely effective.
Lastly, Lilly needs to stop texted Marshall on the can. That's just disturbing. Until next week, enjoy the review! And I'll have some nice screen shots up once CBS posts tonight's episode on their site.
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