Shut Up It's On

What do you see there? Is it a rabbit or a duck? It’s all in how you look at it.

Same goes for love. Is being in a relationship with one human being the key to being happy? Or just jumping off from one person to the next? On How I Met Your Mother we’ve always seen those two sides of that argument represented by Ted Mosby’s friends Marshall and Barney: Marshall is perfectly content married to his wife and Barney is perfectly content with sleeping with a different woman every week. Which one of them is right? It’s all in how you look at it.

There are three kinds of episodes of HIMYM: Ted is looking for or is currently in a relationship, Ted is a swinging bachelor who plays it cool, or he does neither. In “Rabbit Or Duck” however we saw Teddy Westside swing back and forth from relationship Ted to bachelor Ted. When Barney acquires a “magic phone” that women never stop calling thanks to a Super Bowl advertisement, he literally becomes weak at the knees, because as Lily sagely put it, “There’s always a hotter girl.” Barney can’t help himself and is never satisfied with the woman of the right now, always answering the phone and trying to get with the next one, and the next one, and the next one. Ted sees all of this and decides he wants companionship, and tells Marshall and Lily to arrange marriage him. After Barney insists Lily hides his magic phone and Ted finds it, Ted can’t help himself and bails on his Valentine’s Day date to be with “the next one”. Relationship shmalationship. Barney shows up demanding the magic phone. The two argue and Lily puts them out of their misery and dumps the phone in a beer pitcher. Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!

While this was going on Robin was dealing with Don, her unprofessional co-host on ‘Come on, Get Up”. He asked her out on the air (another television proposal) and she had to say yes because of you know, the one viewer. Robin hates Don but really she loooves him. Robin shows up to the party and it turns out it’s Don naked. It’s the naked man, he read it on someone’s blog. Robin sees him as a rabbit, with CGI’d rabbit ears and everything. Later Don explains that he got married in college and divorced three months ago; he doesn’t know how to be single. He apologizes to Robin and promises to be a professional for channel 1…something. He even wears pants. Suddenly, Robin sees him with a duck’s beak. Uh oh, she’s going to love him hard.

Overheard at Robin and Don’s wedding reception

“You’re going to marry this guy so freakin hard. In the butt.”
“Does she text her mother with those fingers?”
‘It’s rare that two people just meet and fall in love…like Robin and Don.”
“Teddy West Side.”
“I love that blazer…almost as much as Robin loves Don.”
“Permission to say lawyered?” “I’ll allow it.” “Lawyered.”
“If her text is any indication, she’s dirty, dyslexic, and wants to 96 me! Semicolon end parentheses!”

And Another Thing

Oh that public domain ringtone!
Ranjit!
Blahblah is committed in the loony bin. Hah.
Considering that the rabbit cheerleaders seemed really disinterested in the Puppy Bowl yesterday, I’ll go with duck.