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“Dopplegangers” ended Season 5 with a win. Hooray! Read more…

Romantic comedies are total garbage. A good example of this would be Just Like Heaven, a 2005 film where Mark Ruffalo has to help Reese Witherspoon out of her coma with the help of an out-of-body Reese Witherspoon, who he naturally falls in love with in the process. There was no attempt at building any actual chemistry between the two characters, it didn’t bother straying from formula at all and didn’t even secure the rights to The Cure song “Just Like Heaven.” Just like awful is more like it. How do I know this? Because I watched most of it the other night when it was on television. Read more…

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. Read more…

We’re down to the final four episodes of this uneven, probably weakest season of How I Met Your Mother. Will the show pick it up? It’s looking like the answer is no. Read more…

Tonight had some definite tonal issues: It was clearly meant to be a sweet “Ted Mosby just wants to be a family man gosh darn it” episode but didn’t quite earn the emotional high marks of episodes from previous seasons. Then again, no episode before “Home Wreckers” featured a game I hope sweeps this Party Nation: Drunk or Kid? Read more…

“A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.” – Barney
“Is this really happening?” – Ted

I guess it was only a matter of time before the validity of Ted Evelyn Mosby’s storytelling would be addressed on the show. But I didn’t like the way they did it. Read more…

I sometimes have wondered if I enjoy this show more than I actually should because of my age and geographical location. As a 27 year old male living in New York (Brooklyn, same thing), I’m exactly where Ted Mosby and Marshall Eriksen were when the show began. Well, without the very good job.

Five seasons later it’s still easy to relate to the characters for me. Even the ladies! Just two nights earlier I was invited to an acquaintance’s black tie birthday party, and what does Lily Aldrin have tonight? A fucking black tie birthday party. Are we sure this isn’t Law and Order? Because tonight’s story was ripped straight from the headlines of my friggin life! Bem bem. Read more…

Tonight we discover that Robin Scherbatsky is a real human being who gets upset when an ex-boyfriend flaunts his whorish ways, Jennifer Lopez is a spiteful author and songs can be very catchy even if it only features one word. Read more…

Tonight joining the How I Met Your Mother prime-time players was Carrie Underwood. I knew three things about Ms. Underwood going in: 1) She once sang an above-average neo-country song about getting revenge on a cheatin’ man by getting all smashy with his beloved car. 2) She is engaged to a professional hockey player whose name escapes me. He isn’t a Ranger or the insufferable Sidney Crosby, so it doesn’t really matter. 3) She is on the attractive side.

How did she do? She did fine. It wasn’t Britney Spears in her second appearance on the show bad and it wasn’t Jamie Foxx in Ray good. It was just nice and ordinary. So let’s focus on the episode. Read more…

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. Read more…