HIMYM - 'The Over-Correction'

Ted refuses to lend things to people because they never return them, which is the reason he's no longer friends with Stewart. Haha I love how they have that guy randomly pop up in the weirdest places.
Robin is all (surprise surprise) unhappy about Barney dating Patrice, and Ted says it's an over-correction ('How dare you! And what is that?!') apparently it's when someone dates someone and it didn't end well, so next they date someone who is the total opposite of the first person (Barney is dating Patrice to get over Quinn.) 

Nobody asked you to date Barney!!

Also Marshall and Lily are having issues about where Marshall's mom will stay while she's in town, because apparently there isn't enough room in their apartment with Mickey there all the time.
Robin decides she's going to steal the Playbook because Patrice doesn't believe it exists. Right, that sounds sane... She finds a hidden compartment, but the Bro Code is in there, and another one, with the autobiography of David Lee Roth haha. Then Barney comes into his apartment and Robin is trapped!
And then Marshall walks in on his mom and Mickey sleeping together!!! Ewww...
Barney stole and then broke Ted's ornaments and Ted gets him to leave by telling him that Hugh Hefner is in the lobby of his building, and Robin finds the Playbook by tripping over his Storm Trooper figurine! Aaand she gets traped back in the closet. Where Ted's red cowboy boots are hidden. So he tries to get back into the apartment and ends up being trapped himself in the living room closet. So Robin calls Lily and it turns out Lily is in Barney's other bedroom closet LMAO because she was there pumping milk for Marvin to get away from her father. Robin leaves the Playbook out in plain sight where she knows Patrice will see it, and they realise who has most of Ted's stuff (Robin and Barney both have random things, Lily has his cooler, and Mickey the 'Vote for Ted' sweater) and then Patrice is all upset about the Playbook so Barney burns it!! OMG!!

Don't worry, there are millions of copies left around the world!!

Lily is all freaked out when she finds out about Mickey and Marshall's mom, OF COURSE!! I mean who wouldn't be!! And technically, they're kinda-sorta related!! In the in-law sense!! Plus, Mickey is just gross >.<
Robin freaks out about how happy Barney is with Patrice, and says they need to have an intervention for him, but the gang has one for her instead haha with the return of the Intervention banner!! I missed that thing!!

HIMYM - 'Lobster Crawl'

Aaaand I hate making myself go on hiatus after the Barney-Robin kiss, but it was necessary!!! Stupid school...
They have Marvin at the bar... What wonderful parents they are haha.. And they agree to let Ted watch Marvin because 'Any moron can look after a baby!'

Except this moron.

Barney's tie Cornelius 'died' because he spilled ketchup on it lol and Robin keeps complimenting him in a really weird giggly-cheerleader voice haha. Then Lily realises that Robin is trying to go after Barney because she's been toldshe can't have him - just like the time she was told she was allergic to lobster and she got all obsessed with eating lobster and her face blew up. Interesting enough, I thought the lobster thing was a reference to the Friends episode where Phoebe says that Rachel and Ross are lobsters because lobsters mate for life and every human has a lobster, the one person they're meant to be with (Barney and Robin!!) and then she did this adorable hand thing:

'He's her lobster!'

Berney comes up with the idea of 'Bro bibs' to prevent the death of ties... And Lily loves it haha she won't even listen to Robin's problems.
Then Ted manages to see Marvin crawl, but Lily and Marshall keep missing it (another ripoff of Friends, Ross kept missing Ben's firsts - words, steps, etc.)
Robin has a 'genius plan' of sleeping with Barney one last time to get him out of her system AND OMG PATRICE AND BRANDY ARE BACK AHHAHAHAH so she concocts her own version of the Playbook which doesn't work lol and then he ends up going off with Brandy haha I saw that coming!!

'Bro Bibs is in no way inspired by, affiliated with, or
associated with Dude Aprons'

Lily is so pissed at Ted because he's stolen all of Marvin's 'firsts' so they decide to fire him because they find his scrapbook of Marvin's 'firsts' and it reminds them of his scrapbook of the GNB building's book of 'firsts' and they realise he's sad and just needs a new job.
Barney decides not to sleep with Brandy and that he needs to fix something in his life because he doesn't really know what he wants - so then she shows up to his house in lingerie and Patrice is there!! O.O HOLY WTF?!! Apparently when he went to the studio to sleep with Brandy he ended up talking to Patrice for a couple hours and then they're on a date when she got there! Holy weirdness...
Lily and Marshall swear they forgive Ted for stealing all of Marshall's firsts but then in a flash-forward they try to steal his kid's firsts hahaha typical.

Glee - 'Swan Song'

We're back from cliffhanger!! And my self-imposed hiatus!!!
So everyone's freaking out, since Marley fainted, (Santana rigthfully points the finger at Kitty), and that means the Glee club is disqualified (total BS, I might add, considering they were concerned about the health of a team member) and the Warblers have won. So Finn is all freaked out and Sue is all happy, of course.
Rachel thinks Finn losing her is an even bigger loss than losing Sectionals for the club (get over yourself girl!) and she and Kurt are talking about the 'golden tickets' that Carmen Thibideau (not sure of the spelling of her weird name) gived out to 10 students every year to perform in the Winter Showcase, and of course Rachel gets one, because she's oh-so-special, la-di-dah. 

Rachel, this is your high horse. Get off of it.

Now Sue is doing what Sue does best, being a bitch, and she and her Cheerios take over and DESTROY the choir room because it's her new practise space now, and she threatens to run over their Nationals trophy with her LeCar (I still laugh every time she says that) and Finn says 'over my dead body' and grabs it and they do one of those things where they're going to hold onto it forever and march, both holding it, into Figgins' office.
Finn has to symbolically hand over the keys to the choir room and tell the kids that Glee club is over for the year - and she thinks that all the kids are going to go crazy and get into trouble. Then Brad the piano guy marches into her office and yells that he's so happy Glee club is over because the kids always just point to him and go 'hit it' hahah that guy never talks!!!

The kids are unhappy, but don't even want to do a Christmas concert because they aren't motivated anymore.
Britney finds a line of Cheerios on the floor and decides eating it is a good idea... She follows them into a room where Sam is waiting because apparently she forgets to eat breakfast on Tuesdays because the first few days of the week confuse her hahahah... But then he tells her that he really likes her and wants to do a love song with her she she goes:

'Is that why the band's here?'

and then they sing (I don't really like the way she was singing, it was really low and weird) and he wants to kiss her but she says that 'all the lesbians of the world will attack you so I can't do it' -.- Right.

Back to NYC, Rachel is in dance class and asks if she can get a sip of water, but of course Cassie gets all pissy over it, asking if Rachel thinks she can keep up with one of the other girls in the Showcase, and Rachel is all 'I've kept up with you' SHUT YOUR MOUTH GIRLY OMG SHE'S GONNA SLAP YOU!!! Unfortunately, Cassie didn't, but then they decide to have a dance-off to 'All that Jazz' from Chicago. And Cassie calls her a 'platypus'. HA!

Yea, I see the resemblance.

Plus Rachel's dancing routine seemed way easier than the stuff Cassie was doing, but who can blame her when she spends so much time on her hair in the morning, rather than practising dance. And she says she's a better singer than Cassie and Cassie says 'there's a big difference between self-confidence and delusion'. POW! She's full of good zingers today...
Kurt goes to visit Carmen and asks her what she thought of his submission, and she said he was talented but lacking in depth and such... Then she says that she rarely gives anyone a second chance and I say 'LIES!!' because she gave Rachel like 4 chances and then rewarded her for being a pain in the ass!!
The club has split up and joined other clubs - Artie the marching band, Tina and Blaine the Cheerios, Ryder and Jake the basketball team, Unique the floor-hockey-on-rollerskates team, and Joe the interfaith paintball team - 'where Christians, Jews and Muslims can shoot at each other safely' AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Then Finn guilt-trips them about ditching glee, the auditorium schedule is divided up into 6-minute blocks, and Tina blames Marley for their loss, and Britney decides to give Sam (who has an entire rack of lip balm in his locker, of course!) a second chance at a date - and a kiss :)

Speaking of kisses, Rachel is about to perform, and Brodie comes up to her and tells her good luck and she tells him that she's so ugly but she sings better than everyone else in the world

GTFO THAT HORSE

She says she's gonna sing like she'll never get the chance again, and then she kisses him and says (basically) 'YOLO!' making me dislike her even more -.-
And Kurt interrupts them by saying 'as sympathetic as I am to this particular moment in the rom-com, you're on next!' and she goes and sings a song about 'I am gonna be the best of nothing at all' and I want to use that horse picture again but I might be overdoing it... And then she gets a standing ovation, because, well, she's Rachel and the world revolves around her. And then, in a completely cliche moment for a girl who likes to show off her voice, she sings 'O Holy Night' (shown to a heartbreaking montage of Finn clearing out the choir room) and everyone in the audience makes this face :O and gives her another standing ovation. And then I guess Carmen decided to give another second chance, because she says she's going to let Kurt perform at the Showcase - if he thinks he's ready.
He clearly doesn't think he's ready, he's pacing, red-faced, and freaking out. Then Rachel tells him he's the best (which I didn't think was possible, because she's the best!) and he decides to do it anyway, and looks super-tense and I don't know the song, but he looks sad and I think he's thinking about Blaine... Uh-oh I hope he doesn't start crying!! I can't handle those two when they cry!! And then Brody and Rachel decide to make the moment about them and start holding hands in the audience. And when he's done, everyone applauds and Carmen looks approving and there's a tear on his cheek.
Rachel decides she's gonna call Finn, cos that's EXACTLY what he needs right now, and she brags about winning the Showcase and tells him that he shouldn't let the kids give up on their dreams, and that they respect him, which isn't really true - they respected Mr Schue WAY more, which might be part of the reason they quit. Then Finn goes to the 9:54 rehearsal time he booked, and Marley's the only one who showed up, but she found a place they can rehearse!
Finn mass-emails everyone and the place she found is outside the school. In the snow, and I'm already freezing, so watching them shiver is making me more cold!!! Only Finn and Marley show up, but they start singing 'Don't Dream It's Over' and everyone else shows up singing along!! And Kurt got into NYADA!! So happy times for everyone!!!

NCIS:LA - 'Free Ride'

IT'S CHRISTMAS!!! And some soldiers are fighting onboard an aircraft carrier. Lovely.

Also, I want to point out something HILARIOUS that I noticed while the video was frozen and loading. See the guy on the right, wearing the red shirt? Look at his facial expression. Isn't that ridiculous? It's like during his audition, they told him to make his eyes and mouth as wide as possible, at the same time. And he did. So he got the part. Priceless.

There was supposed to be an NCIS agent onboard the ship, but he's dead...
Eric and Nell are in a room giggling, and when Hetty opens the door, she finds them trying to jam an elf hat on Eric's head. Awww! Apparent'y he's agreed to help her volunteer with a Toys for Tots drive with the Marine corps, and as they're leaving, Hetty informs Eric he has 'elf head' meaning it's all flattened, so he messes it back up. Makes sense.
Sam can't find the gift he got for his daughter. So Callen uses this to make fun of Sam calling him old because his 'memory is the first to go'.
DEEKS IS BAAACK!!!! And awkwardly flirting with Kensi. But they're not going to get their Christmas plans, because they have to go on the ship, undercover, to investigate the death of the NCIS agent. Also the two guys who were brawling had traces of cocaine in their systems.
Deeks is all mad at first because he can't go undercover as a Marine, he gets assigned to be a geek, but then Hetty threatens to cut his hair so he agrees. 

Come on Deeks, don't you know that pride is a deadly sin?

Eric walks in on Nell leaning on the table leaning on her hand and from her position and the way she was talking, I thought she was talking on the phone, but she's just sad because she can't be with her family at Christmas, and now her 'surrogate' family (the rest of the team) is gone too. Poor girl! But Eric promises to make it up to her. Awwe!!

They get onto the ship, and Deeks makes it evident that he doesn't belong there lol he knows almost nothing about a ship or miliraty protocol. Attaboy. He and his escort (a word he enjoys using), Agent Smalls, form a weird sort of bond, she's overly formal, and he makes fun of her. But when some soldiers hassle him, he holds his own, then Sam jumps in to rescue him, and punches him in the gut. Also, Deeks finds spinach. Which is significant because if means the body was dragged from where he was killed, to where they actually found him.

Kensi's escort is of the male variety; Deeks is jealous of his tallness and manliness (envy now? You're 2 for 2 there on the sins, Deeks!) but I am extremely excited to see him, because HE'S PLAYED BY THIS GUY!!! 

That's right, Beaver's in the Navy now!!

Also the command master cheif started acting crazy and attacking people with a wrench, and they take him down but they find out that he had - I guessed it - cocaine in his system. When they search the ship for cocaine, they don't find anything - yet, it's 'like searching Cleveland' says Deeks haha - and Beaver-man and Kensi have an interesting moment which causes a passing Deeks to walk into a pole and Smalls to say 'watch your head, sir!' to which he shoots back 'that's why it's calles FOREwarning there, Smalls!'
The Nellric cuteness continues, when she gives him an elf costume, including some green leggings (he calls them 'pantyhose' hahaha) and he gets all awkward and says no he won't wear them. So she mocks him on his pyjama choices (anyone remember the polar bears? And Spiderman?) She looks all disappointed and like she thinks he's a pansy, but leaves it alone.
Deeks finds the murder weapon, which is a pipe valve, and then gets attacked and strangled by someone. There was a faulty refrigeration container too. Which was being repaired but the same 2 guys who tried to beat up Deeks earlier. And when the rest of the team converge on the spot where Deeks last was, they find those same 2 guys and their boss, who is pushing a garbage container, with Deeks in it. And he shoots. So they shoot back and kill him.
They find out that the paint in one of the containers of food is part-cocaine, which is how random people ingested it, because it contaminated the food.
They're going to track the container when it leaves the ship, to see where the cocaine is headed, but the team is still stuck on the ship until December 27th (how depressing!) because Eric couldn't get anything better.
Then as they're sitting around looking glum, someone shows up - and it's Hetty!! She has a plane and lets Sam take it back to LA to be with his family, so he picks her up and hugs her! Aww haha so cute!
But on to more important things:

 She's got her priorities right.

Back at Ops, Eric walks out into the empty downstairs looking all sad, it's decorated SO lavishly, and then Nell walks out in her elf outfit, and it's perfectly adorable, she's got the ears and everything, and then - SHE KISSES HIM! Because - I KNEW IT! They were standing under the mistletoe Callen and Sam glared at earlier! HAHAHA but he's so smitten, she walks off and he goes 'wait I'm gonna go get my leggings and come with you!' Attaboy!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME!!! And all the other Nellric shippers out there who thought this day would never come!

NCIS: LA - 'The Gold Standard'

Hey I'm baaack!!! I'm now home for Christmas break, and since exams are over and I'm not at all tired, I've decided to catch up on some TV before going to bed. I decided to start with NCIS: LA because today is Tuesday and I heard tonight's episode was really good (especially for my favourite nerds!) so I am just dying to watch it, but I'll catch up my other shows in the next few days as well.
As for this one, it starts off at some kind of outdoor fair (with a Dragonette song playing, I approve!) and some people in insane costumes rob and bomb an armoured truck and kill all the security guards, with semiautomatic weapons (which really isn't fair, or at all necessary, I mean the poor guys were just doing their jobs!) One of the robbers looks like a pirate, another looks like a clown, and one has a gorilla mask on (reminding me of 30 Minutes or Less).

Yes, it's kind of a dumb movie, and the masks are creepy, but I LOVE Jesse Eisenberg, so...

The other two have random shirts (one Hawaiian, one plaid) and ski masks. How cliche.
Everyone owes Sam a favour, because he did all their paperwork, and Deeks is MIA, appearing in court, unfortunately, so poor, reluctant Kensi is getting partnered with Granger.
Eric's learned a new whistle hahaha that's my boy! Apparently the robbers stole 700 million dollars on gold bars destined to partially repay a loan to the government from China. Fortunately, one of the guards survived the attack, and a whole bunch of bystanders also videotaped the robbery.
Sam and Callen go to the crime scene, and after some witty banter about the difference between monkeys and gorillas, they find a blood trail leading to a dumpster containing the body of the clown-robber. Eric diagnoses Sam with coulrophobia, fear of clowns hahah and he himself is afraid of hand puppets (and ventriloquist dummies)


Seriously? They're so cute!

Hetty catches him and Nell chatting and gets annoyed, then threatens to seperate them - no, not the dynamic duo of tungsten and ununoctium!!!
Sam and Callen go to the home of the dead clown-robber, and find a tank that used to hold a snake - and is now empty. Sam pulls his gun - he probably has ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) too ahahaha.
Kensi goes to the hospital to talk to the injured guard; he has a head wound and can't remember anything, not just from the robbery, but about his life. His wife and kids are sitting in the waiting room but he doesn't recognize them. How sad. :(
Nell found the shop where the costumes were purchased, and when Kensi and Granger go to talk to the owner, we learn a) that Granger has a sense of humour, and b) the pirate-man, named Duncan Walsh, was the one who paid for the costumes.
Then Eric acts out a debate between the robbers (making them sound like whiny school kids) over which costume they each would wear, and made me LAUGH haha love him! And he asks Nell 'if I were to rob a bank, I'd be a cowboy. You?' and she gives him a look like:

Whatchu talkin' bout, Eric??

and informs him that she wouldn't rob a bank to begin with, but clearly he has given this too much thought. HA!
So Callen and Sam go to pirate-man's house (I am just gonna refer to them by their costumes, there are waaay too many names to keep straight lol) and find Hawiian-shirt, plaid-shirt, and another guy who I don't remember seeing in costume, dead on the ground, bound up and shot execution-style, with no sign of the pirate - or the gold. They realise Gorilla-man is also still missing. And they re-enact the monkey/gorilla debate from earlier, this time with Kensi.
Apparently someone was sending Duncan a lot of money, which was probably to fund the heist, and Kensi figures out, based on his credit card and phone records, that he has a girlfriend.
Kensi goes to interview the girlfriend, who doesn't know where he is, yadda yadda, and then runs out the back door (where of course Kensi catches her).
Then we see Granger and Hetty tensely staring at each other over a desk (the latter drinking tea, naturally) and talking about Deeks. Granger says 'He's not NCIS, so he's none of your concern' and Hetty replies with 'He's still one of my team' and then drops this beautiful line:

"If anything should happen to him, I would take it most personally."

Something tells me Deeks isn't just at court.
Kensi, Callen and Sam find a truck with the dead pirate in it, and then all the gold in the back of it! Wow!


That was easy.

Side note: My mom has one of those buttons haha.. It's so awesome.
Then, of course, Callen thinks 'there's no way gorilla-man would just leave it all to be found' so they test it, and just by drilling into it, Sam is able to use his magic powers to look at it and go 'it's tungsten' (shout out to Eric!) so it's all fake.
SERIOUSLY ROBBERS?! You have room to take an entire stash of gold and hide it somewhere, but you have to make it look like you don't have it anymore?! OBVIOUSLY the Chinese or American government would figure it out eventually, WHY go to all the trouble to make THAT much fake gold?! Some people... End rant.
Suddenly Nell is educating everyone on Eric's favourite element haha and they start talking about the favourite elements again and Sam goes 'ah, young geek love' he's so cute, then he starts laughing at the word 'smelting'. Evidently the gold might have been fake when it was stolen, which means the American gold reserves could have been compromised, which means THE END OF THE WORLD!!
Nell makes yet another throwback to another episode and mentions everybody's favourite word 'frelting' so then they begin talking about snakes and snake shows (Nell wonders if they're like dog shows, and Eric knows too much about both!).
Then Kensi and Granger have a 'strange encounter', which I didn't really pay attention to, because it sounded like stupid political stuff, and I'm tired. They uncover a company called Carlisle Industries (typical sketchy name) that purchased a smelting furnace a crapload of tungsten, so they go to visit this place, Kensi goes in undercover and gets patronised by a goliath of a receptionist, so she knocks him out and they all sneak in. I'm finding it odd that Granger's not accompanying them in the feild anymore, now it's just a partnership of three. Also there's a gorilla mask lying IN PLAIN sight on a counter. Seriously? And why is the smelting room so dark?! Is that so they can be nominated for some kind of creative lighting award?
And one of the bad guys tried to throw a bunch of molten metal at Sam and they take him out.
OMG hahaha Callen ran a clever scheme where he threatens to send one of the 2 guys they arrested to China for questioning, and they obviously turn on one another.
Kensi finds out that the security guard is getting his memory back and they learn the gorilla-man was an Iranian terrorist trying to threaten the American infrastructure. Really?! THAT was their plan?!
Also Eric and Nell are leaving simultaneously, which causes the others to be uber-suspicious and Nellric to flounder for an acceptable response. HMMM what are those two up to?!!
We'll find out next week... (or, in my case, right now!)
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