This is 100% Barney’s episode.  After Daddy Eriksen’s sudden heart attack everyone decides to get checked out.  Barney’s appointment leads to a trip though his last 24 hours.  It just so happens to include his second date with Nora.  Barney shares in Nora’s white picket fence dreams.  The gang thinks he’s lying, and threaten to tell Nora.  He has the ultimate blackmail on everyone.  Lily and the guinea pig, Marshall and the calzone, Robin and the Mr. T dream, and Ted and the thermos.  They lie about Barney’s level of nice guy-ness.  When Nora finally invites Barney upstairs he tells her he was lying.  Lily knows that the real lie was at that moment.  We all know that the Barney of old would have tapped that ass then told her he was lying.  He obviously really likes her.  Barney goes to meet Nora and her parents.  We get a fake out of Barney being honest and sappy.  In reality he leaves without going into the restaurant.  Oh, the rest of the gang is having fun with Scooby, Robin’s new human/dog boyfriend.  It led to few good lines, but was secondary to Barney’s story.

“We’re all adults, I’ll just say it, behind Nora.”

“Yeah, penis feelings.”

Loved all of “I only have one rule” rules.

“Legend-wait for it-kachoo!”

“Robin, if you weren’t so much stronger than me, I’d slap you.”

My favorite of the dog puns: “You should be properly vet-ted.”

“We’re in our 30′s, we don’t smoke sandwiches anymore.”

“Sandwiches make me hungry.”

“Those twins won’t even be born for another … 32 years.”

What was your favorite dog pun?  Barney’s sick sounds were great and totally real.  Were you as skeeved out as I was that he wasn’t covering her mouth/nose?  ICK!!  Talk back in the comments!

Hong Kong 2021, Ted is met by the waitress (even I can’t remember her name) and it of course leads to a story.  Ted finds out he’s the bad guy who broke up a marriage.  Barney, with the help of Robin, finally admits he likes Nora.  Lily is sexually frustrated and Marshall, once again, wants to quit his job and save the environment.  My favorite thing from the whole episode was finding out Ted and Zoey end very badly.  That should be fun to watch.  Oh, and I really want a hologram phone though it might make it hard for my husband to talk to people while on the toilet.

“She had a nice face, her booty was in place, but Barney don’t chase.”

“…a real man’s man”  “Like Prince!”

“Wow, that was a joke.  You just got here.”

“With great penis, comes great responsibility”

“Fast ball right down the middle, actually if I recall correctly a slight curve.”

As you can see not a whole lot of laughs.  Anything I missed?  What wouldn’t you be able to do if hologram phone materialized? Comments!

It’s Valentine’s on HIMYM.  No one’s really excited.  Marshall is in Minnesota because he doesn’t want to face the reality of his Dad’s death.  Lily is loving up on a body pillow cause she misses Marshall.  Ted and Zoey are moving too slow and then too serious.  Robin puts together the Single Girls, we are Queens, Dammit! Sisterhood.  Barney’s celebrating yet another made up holiday.  My favorite part…Barney meets an AWESOME girl!  Nora sweeps in with her love of Valentine’s Day and British accent and I’m in total like.

• Private Booty Calling for duty

• …she invents a respectable excuse to mask the fact that she wants to get stuck real good.  It’s called class, Ted.

• February 13th, Desperation Day.

<Flash back to the birth of St. Valentine’s Day….>

• Her body is a perfect X.
• …high V.
• And I thought Pompeii was burning.

• I call him Marsh-pillow and he calls me…nothing because he’s a pillow.

• Hey Mom, I hate to be that guy but I’m pretty sure it was Hot Pocket o’clock like ten minutes ago.

• It is like being a hunter and having the deer walk up, tie it’s self to the hood of your car, and beg to get mounted.

• This is Barney a high functioning sociopath and also my ex.

• Gerard is real!

• Um?  Is it getting crowded in here cause I think there are two peas in this pod!

• A couple of white Urkels offer you sausages and you’re gone?

• You have neither gone nor come.

So, do you like Nora?  Ever belonged to a Sisterhood?  (In college I was one of those that got a group of friends together, went out to dinner, got a hotel room for a massive slumber party, and talked about how much we hated V-Day.  We called it Anti-Valentine’s Day…HA!)  How did you spend Desperation Day?

Guys, I really, really liked this episode.  I’m on record as being a Zoe hater mainly because they didn’t do a very good job of making us like her in the beginning.  She’s like a whole different person now.  I’ve decided to pretend we met her the Thanksgiving episode.  She’s not the Mother, but hopefully we can get some good laughs out of her.  But, I digress.   I enjoyed watching everyone call Marshall and his inability to not answer the phone and always being polite.  Loved the quotability this week.  Feast your eyes on these.

-I thought the oven was Celsius. (Can our Canadian friends commiserate?)

-Cute, means fat*cough*, not fat, means ugly*cough*, I take back everything I said.  That girl is extremely attractive *cough* *cough* *cough*

-… he even installed a security camera in my shower!  Oh, Honey!

-He’s GAY!  -Loved the delivery of Marshall’s mom

I immediately yelled INTERVENTION TIME!  (one of my favorite running gags.)

-Lily thought coffee breath, Robin thought shoulder hair, and Barney thought Ted’s lady watch.

-Blah, blah, something about a bridge.   –Ted to Honey in Barney’s version.

-erh, ee, erh, ee, erh, ee, erh, ee, erh, ee, erh, ee, erh, ee, erh, ee, erh, ee, erh, ee

-He fell on his sword, so she could fall on mine.

-Hurts don’t it. (In a Minnesotan accent.)

-We hate Ted now.  Get on board or the sexting stops.

-I hate you … biitchh.

What did you guys think?  Any other good ones?  Share in the comments!

Here at OCTV, we like to make things easier, not on you guys, but on ourselves. Ha! We’ve come to realize (Nicole a while ago with the Thursday night line up) that comedy is hard to recap. So from now on I’ll be doing more of a quote/short burst of amazing insight, or something like that. So without further ado…

Even with the seriousness of the episode there were laughs to be found. Though I have to admit I shed a few tears at the end of the pocket dial.

-Yeah, it’s positive racism.-Lily

-I’m peeing my pants!-Nathan Hale aka Barney

My lol moment was Barney hitting Ted in the crotch. Yes I’m a 13 boy inside.

With me writing less you need to write more in the comments! Your assignment-Which friend would you be; laugh maker, whipping bitch, or drug carrying Mary Poppins?