How I Met Your Mother: The Chain Of Screaming
By fred | April 15, 2008
(S03E15) In a galaxy far far away from all the talks about whether or not Britney Spears should come back (she should not) and whether or not Sarah Chalke will (oh yeah, she will) come back to the show, How I Met Your Mother evolved in the way it has for years now, needing no one but its cast over a table, drinking beer and telling stories.
We all know they needed nothing else than that to be great & hilarious, and despite a brief mention of Stella this episode was all about what the show really is, and what was best about this episode is that, while being funny quite obviously, it also attacked back on to one of its mysteries we’ve been dying to find out more about ever since they’ve been introduced into the show. And no, I’m not talking about who the mother is…
No, this time I’m talking about the future of Marshall & Lilly. We all know they have to pay for an apartment they still don’t live in, because they need to invest even more money before, and to be able to pay for all of that while Marshal had to walk away from his dreams of defending the environment and instead go back for the bad guys, because they need the money.
And we all know that in a few years, he will be pretty successful and while he and Lilly have no financial problems anymore, Marshall will be lacking in the hair department. We’ve all assumed that it was due to seeing his dreams fading away as he had to defend the bad guys, in fact, I was pretty sure we were told so, that Marshall took the job thinking it wouldn’t be so bad, since he would only be representing Tuckahoe Funland, “the least evil place in the world“, or so he thought… (S03E06)
But it is true that we were actually only told that he thought it was a dream place, while a real mess would fall on the lawyers in charge of defending that place, but never that he would actually be that lawyer, or that this was the cause of his future baldness.
Either way, those two have always been in a difficult place financially and things aren’t looking up for now. Ted was kind of to give them some money, but Marshall will want to pay him back, and before that he’ll need to pay for the rest of it. So he will have to find a new job, and I can’t wait to see how it will work out and where he’ll end up. After all, we all know he is a good lawyer, he’s been approached in the past, so he shouldn’t have any real problems finding a new job. Yet, he ends up loosing hair…
This was a really good episode, focusing on the main characters, moving on the main plot forward, and of course it was pretty darn funny. Here’s a few other thoughts & some of the things that made me laugh :
- Marshall being a lawyer, for real :
“
- Dude, we’re lawyers now!
- Totally!
- We got briefcases & everything!
- Freaking briefcases!
- You have anything in yours?
- Totally empty, you?
- Candy bars!
*briefcase high-five*
”
- Okay, so we all know she’s terribly cute of course, but especially in that lovely little dress she was wearing in the bar, Robin was really gorgeous, like a candy, I wanted to eat her up…
- Lilly was pretty horny, and it was a recurring thing all the time, and every time it was funny. When she found it Ted was not only still dating Stella, but they were apparently even saying the L word to each other, all she had to say about it was… “You hitting that?” Aw, Lilly…
- For a moment it looked like Marshall was going to be violent, but of course he ended up breaking in tears! So Marchall… “Suddenly I was a little boy! – Is ‘boy’ the right word?”
- Robin’s story was fun. Not to mention everyone suited up there, even the girls, but if her obsession for guns is fun, I think I laughed even more at Ted’s remarks afterwards. “Gun’s violence might be the answer to everything in Canada Robin, but here in America we solve our problems with words.”
- Speaking of which, Ted correcting himself while trying to give a great speech, and meanwhile Marshall’s boss kept encouraging him, “You are nailing this!” Awesome stuff.
- For a second, I thought Barney’s ex-co-worker and now legend did something quite different than just peeing on the conference table… And I’m sure that scary thought didn’t pop up in my mind only.
- “You made our friends, the North-Korean, look bad!” I wonder who Barney really works for… But apparently, all the way down to The Chain Circle Pyramid Of Screaming comes the President of France! Yes, we say pyramid, the name is now official !
- Lilly ending her story by letting her horniness all over the place again, she even grabbed her crotch! “Mama needs it bad!” Aw, Lilly…
- So Ted’s still dating Stella. Yep, she definitely is coming back…
- Poor Marshall, he even got yelled at by the waiter! Though I remember a time he gave a black eye to a waitress (opening a giant bottle of Champagne…), so that’s only Karma making things even I guess.
- I liked how everyone ended up in Ted’s new car with loads of food, cigars, … That said, what was the point of the car, really ? Felt like it was only there for this, Barney calling “shotgun for eternity!” and a few other jokes like Marshall asking him to just drive, and Ted not really willing to do so (”This is a really good parking place!“).
But really, not that useful, plus I’m sure he could have given the money to his best friend (sorry Barney!) without having to sell the car he bought the day before. Of course, would he have kept the car anyway, knowing that Marshall & Lilly totally did it there…?
- The Ninja Report. “Ninjas are cool!“
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