Shut Up It's On

This episode was one of the better ones of the season, if only because it made me learn a lot about myself. I may be revealing too much here, but here at SUIO the person who does a write-up of an episode also picksout and posts the screencap. So tonight I had to choose between an image of New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz, or an image of Josh Radnor with Arianna Huffington, director Peter Bogdanovich and master thespian Michael York. Or of a robot fighting a wrestler. Well, you can see what I picked.

Barney procures five tickets for Robots vs. Wrestlers, which according to the internet is exactly what it sounds like. He thinks Robin will take the fifth ticket even though she said last week she isn’t hanging out with them anymore. Despite the draw of such a thing as Robots vs. Wrestlers, Robin isn’t going. Barney freaks out because everyone is moving on with their lives, with Robin living with her boyfriend, Marshall and Lily having a baby within a year maybe probably, and Ted will be found alone dead by way of cats. His overreaction is quelled when he finds out more about one Marisa Heller, the woman that lived in the apartment before Ted and Marshall moved in. Teddy has been getting her mail sporadically by accident over the last ten years, which has included golf and bird magazines. She gets an invitation to a fancy shmancy dinner which is right up Ted’s alley.

When they get there Ms. Heller appears herself, and is impressed with Ted’s architecture yapping and invites the gang upstairs. Barney refers to it as a “douchepocalypse”, but Ted is having a grand time. Barney doesn’t seem to notice that Michael York, Arianna Huffington, Peter Bogdanovich and Will Shortz are there. When he tries his usual pick-up lines that work on dumb women, he gets hilariously taken down several pegs. He also confuses Huffington for Zsa Zsa Gabor. Stinson is a republican probably. Anyway when Barney, Marshall and Lily want to leave for R vs. W Ted wants to stay because unlike the group, they don’t make fart noises when he does silly high society things like speak Italian. Barney freaks out again, rings Michael York’s gong (hiyo) and leaves with Lily and Marshall.

Thankfully we get to see what Robots vs. Wrestlers look like. You know, it looks exactly what I thought it would: one robot wrestles one wrestler. While watching the traditional sport, the wrestler is unmasked, and he looks like a Mexican Ted. We have found the Ted doppleganger! Ted sees the proof via picture mail in the middle of his Italian rendition of “The Divine Comedy”. Realizing he kind of sounds like a douche, he runs out of there. At Maclaren’s, Marshall and Lily decide that when they find the fifth and final doppleganger, Barney’s, they’ll know it is time to have a child. One more doppleganger and one more slap remain. Coincidence? Of course not. Barney is so overjoyed that Ted ended up at the bar that he promises not to interrupt him with fart noises ever again. Ted gets through a couple of lines of poetry before a fart noise is heard off-camera. It’s Robin! The gang’s all here again. Saget Ted tells his children that he’d love to say the group didn’t splinter off and kept hanging out with each other every day, but that simply wasn’t the case. They do still always find time once in awhile to hang out, particularly for Robots vs. Wrestlers.

Solid episode. This show still does an above-average job of handling episodes that feature guest stars and they mercifully dropped the Ted and Barney are in luvvvvv with Robin storyline.

Things To Say To The News Anchor So She Can Get Off The Phone To Continue Reading The News

“Miss Lily in the living room with the candlestick.”
“But Ted you’ve never missed Robots vs. Wrestlers!”
“You are out of our group forever. You can reapply in two years.”
“Thank you Will Shortz.”
“Funny thing about Willem Dafoe: His name kinda sounds like a toad talking to a parrot. Willem…DAFOEEEE!”

P.S.

In Mosby’s defense, it’s virtually impossible not to sound a little pretentious when reciting poetry. Something about the cadence.

“Friendship” by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs,
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
I fancied he was fled,
And, after many a year,
Glowed unexhausted kindliness
Like daily sunrise there.
My careful heart was free again, —
O friend, my bosom said,
Through thee alone the sky is arched,
Through thee the rose is red,
All things through thee take nobler form,
And look beyond the earth,
And is the mill-round of our fate
A sun-path in thy worth.
Me too thy nobleness has taught
To master my despair;
The fountains of my hidden life
Are through thy friendship fair.