How I Met Your Mother: Spolier Alert

ORIGINAL EPISODES, MONDAYS @ 8:00PM ON CBS

Spoiler Alert! When you like someone or you have close friends you never notice their most annoying habits! Well, not all the time. It certainly holds true for people you date. You tend to put them on a pedestal and you never notice the little things that in reality would actually drive you crazy. With friends, generally someone notices it but never brings it up while most of your friends tend to disregard it as if it was never even happening. So why am I talking about this? Well, Ted's new girlfriend (not for long though, don't worry) started a firestorm of controversy among the group when she talked her way into Ted's life.

Yes, she literally (thank you Robin) talked her way in because she could not stop talking! She answered her own questions, spoke about irrelevant facts, and generally filled any small second of silence with non-stop chatter. The funny thing is that Ted had absolutely no idea. He was clueless, at least until Marshall finally told him and with a glass shattering revelation he realized exactly how much she talked throughout all their dates. A funny thing started to happen though, glass started shattering all over the place. Everyone had their own quirks and no one was aware of them. With each offering of information came glass shattering revelations by the group about each of their habits that annoyed everyone else. And it was great!!!

Ted can't stop correcting people, Lilly chews louder than a jackhammer on concrete, Robin always says the word "literally" even when she should be saying "figuratively," Marshall sings everything he does, and Barney uses ridiculous catch phrases, says things in a girly high pitched voice, and generally ignores whatever people are saying to him. Ted's nickname for Lilly, "Chewbacka," was classic! And the fact that Marshall couldn't stand her eating made it eve more hilarious. I think I speak for everyone who watches this show when I say, we love every minute of all their annoying habits. These characters are funny along many dimensions and the fact that they have weaknesses makes them that much more likable.

I should mention I was a bit disappointed about the information we got about the New York Bar Exam. I recently had the immense displeasure to take this test and while it's as horrible as we were told (and yes, people do throw up during the test and actually many worse things than that happen as well), there were a couple things completely wrong. First, if you continue to write when they call time you fail the test right there. Second, unfortunately New York is one of the only states to publish not only whether you pass or fail on the Internet but they actually put your name rather than a distinct ID number next to it. If you wait one day you don't need the password because you'll be able to check the public list. Granted, I understand that the storyline went this direction in order to suit the shows purposes (which is totally alright); I was just a bit disappointed. Chalk it up to frustrating memories on my part.

Two best lines of the night:

- The description of Lilly's chewing: "It sounds like cuflings going up a vacuum cleaner!"

- Barney congratulating Marshall: "Lawsuit up!"

I loved that during their rant they all point out the most annoying song Marshall has ever sung and in unison they sang his password. Too funny. I'm not sure how funny a dog pooping on a baby is but I'll give Barney the benefit of the doubt.

I never stopped laughing throughout the entire episode and this was classic HIMYM. If you've never watched this show, watch this episode and you might find yourself setting HIMYM on your season pass very soon. Great, great, great episode and I can't wait until next week when I believe we're getting another installment of the slap bet! Until next week, enjoy the review!