How I Met Your Mother: No Tomorrow
By fred | March 18, 2008
(S03E12) This is it, this show we all love and know to be a great one, but that for some reason CBS seem not to like so much, and as still to renew for another season. This show everyone’s been talking about these days, not because it’s great, not because it was coming back last night, but because a singer named Britney will guest in a coming episode, and the whole mess that came with it…
But for those of us who actually do watch the show, and enjoy it, that wasn’t why we were excited about. No, we were excited to see Lily, Marshall, Robin, Ted and of course Barney himself back ! I couldn’t have been happier to find them all back, still there, still the same, like nothing has changed.
Sadly, though, if you were waiting for something legendary, you’re still waiting. It’s not that this episode was bad, or that it wasn’t funny, it’s just that it wasn’t that good. So maybe during the strike they really never thought about the show, and completely forget about it. Maybe they really were confused as to whether or not their show was the one was Pam & Jim, and after they finally got their minds back to the cutest married couple of all time and their friends, they didn’t had so much time to write the script.
No, this episode wasn’t all for the better. For starter, the whole new angle on the new apartment recently bought felt to me like a good excuse to have Lily and Marshall to stay with Ted for a bit longer without having to explain it any more : they need time to fix it. We were wondering why they still hadn’t moved, now we got a reason.
It may be a little odd that no one noticed the problem before, it may be even more odd that - unlike previous owner – Marshall & Lily decide to have it fix, despite already having some financial problems, but I guess the only thing that mattered here was to give us a reason why they didn’t leave there (yet). Too bad that this whole plot felt a little weak at times, like it would have been better if shorter.
Meanwhile, Ted went out with Barney and acted like another Barney. I wasn’t such a fan of this, and I didn’t get why Ted acted the way he really did, as he found out when listening the messages he left Marshall. By the way, how convenient was this ? I mean, don’t every phone now comes with a feature to lock the pad and prevent such a thing ?
So, didn’t Ted looked like he acted in a very non-Ted way ? Ted isn’t a jerk, and doesn’t behave like that, not unless he’s drunk, and I doubt he got drunk somewhere between leave his flat and meeting Barney, unless he’s an alcoholic now, too. I don’t know, but while his rendition of the events of the night sounded to me like Ted, like something he could have done, the way we saw him really behaving did not seem to suit Ted, not even wild-Ted.
And of course there was the mother. Sometimes it’s easy to forget, and I’ll admit that I personally don’t really care about the mother that much, but as the title of the show constantly remind us : this is about how Ted met his future wife, the one with the yellow umbrella. Early on we knew she was at the party, which is why when Ted briefly encountered a girl passing by, exchanging no more than a “I’m sorry”, I rushed into conclusion : that was the mother!
Later we found out that while she was there, they didn’t met that night, but it was still extremely important for Ted to go to the party, because after he came back looking for his phone, the one stuck in his pocket all night that kept calling Marshall, Ted left and, since it as raining, picked up an umbrella someone had left here. A yellow one.
So maybe it was her, but probably not. This was just a first step : Ted gets the umbrella. Later on, Ted or one of his friend uses the umbrella, and the true owner of said umbrella comes to demand it back, leading eventually to Ted meeting his future wife. As you realize this, you start to get scared : I sure hope we’re not heading that way this soon because CBS could really not renew the show, and they are already thinking of writing the very last episode, of the entire series, with the infamous meeting under a yellow umbrella.
We need more seasons of this show, a lot of them ! Because if this episode wasn’t a laugh fest, it as still a good one, and more importantly we were all so happy to see everyone back ! Going weeks and weeks away from them was a nightmare, and now that they’re back, they have to stay with us, if not forever then at least for a few more years !
“She’s 516 ! She might dress like she’s 718, act like she’s 212, but trust me she’s 516. Oh, and her husband, letting her out, alone, on St Patty day, if that dude’s not 973 I’m 307 ! Wyoming.”
Yes, Barney and his theories were still awesome, there’s no question there. Although it might be the first time I’ve seen him so insecure, not able to decide which of the girls they would eventually just leave alone was hotter, because of course he had to had her. It’s as if he feared Ted could actually do better than him ! Don’t worry Barney, as you said yourself, waking up in the middle of the trash: “I’m awesome!“
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Shows: How I Met Your Mother
