Tuesday 6 November 2012

HIMYM - 'The Autumn of Breakups'

This episode was originally slated to air last week but didn’t, and I only just today realised why – it was because of Hurricane Sandy! Again, hoping everyone is safe and secure (obviously if you’re reading this, you have power – yay!) and if you can, please donate to those who are not safe and secure and having power, through the Red Cross. Now, on with the show!
This title (and all previous mentions to this 'autumn') are such spoilers!! And they make me sad!! I really like Victoria, I don't want her to leave!!! Humph. OK, hissy fit over.
I’m sure that by now, Bob Saget is really tired of saying ‘kids’ lol… In fact, he sounds almost the same every time, I wonder if that’s just a standard recording they use…  So anyway, we open with Barney finding a dog-version of himself, and narrator-Ted saying that since he (Barney) was a bit of a dog, he wanted a dog-wingman… TADAAH!! Except this dog-Barney is kind of too scruffly – I’m sure he’d never wear suits!
And uh-oh I think this is the episode where Victoria and Ted break up L OMG Marshall just said ‘Oohh honeysweetiebaby’ and ‘bitch please’ both in one monologue (I’m totally stealing that first line, btw haha) and then he and Lily high-fived while he made some very funny facial expressions teehee XD but apparently Victoria would not be fine with just taking things slow, which is true, I mean I don’t see why Ted is all being stupid, the two of them have known each other for a long time, it’s not like they just met, and HE was always the one wanting to settle down, so what’s his deal??
Barney named the dog Bro-ver, and made some very weird dog/sex puns, and Robin’s worried about him (she should be, he just borderline made-out with the dog! Ew..) so she decides she and Nick should invite Barney over for dinner.
Is it just me, or is Jason Segal looking way skinnier in this episode? And Lily’s training him to be a slightly-more-feminine her XD They’re so sassy! And oh thank god, Lily pointed out that they dated before so the clock doesn’t start over at zero, it re-starts from where they left off.
Victoria agrees on the clock-thing, she brings out her wedding dress and VERY POINTEDLY asks Ted if he thinks she will EVER NEED IT AGAIN lol I’m going to miss her, she’s priceless!
And apparently I was wrong about Brover wearing suits haha Barney got him one! And a bunch of ties too lol
Ted brings up The Moseby Boys lol and Victoria’s like ‘dude, I’ve heard that one before’.
Ouch, Nick called Barney’s use of a dog-wingman ‘pathetic’ and then Barney lists all the way’s he’s reciprocated for Bro-ver lol
And Marshall has a posession-like experience when trying to give Ted advice, because he’s found his ‘inner goddess’ (I’m praying that’s not a 50 Shades of Gray reference) and she’s Southern! And Ted is mad lol so he leaves
Aww poor Barney has to return Brover to his owner (who else saw that coming, as soon as his phone rang at dinner?) but I want to know HOW THE HELL SHE KNEW BARNEY HAD HIM??!!!
And of course, his natural reaction is to go jump off the balcony?? (Robin grabbed him and pulled him back, don’t worry!)
AWWW Ted proposed to Victoria and she said yes but there’s still 10 minutes to go, so I know this is going downhill… OMG and then she says ‘there’s just one thing.. You can’t be friends with Robin.’ OH NO SHE DIDN’T!!!! (5 bucks says that’s Marshall’s reaction when Ted tells him..) SHIIT that’s like Emily and Ross from Friends (altho Ted didn’t say Robin’s name when he shouldn’t have!) this is bad, other than the valid point about Robin being the reason for their first breakup, I didn’t think Victoria had a problem with her!! And so suddenly after the proposal, WHO DOES THAT??!!! Damn I love Victoria, but this makes sense that they’d break up over that. (I would like to point out that Quin didn’t issue that ultimatim to Barney!) But she also says Robin’s super-nice lol . And they’re talking about Nick’s lame catchphrase attempts on his cooking show haha – uh-oh and here comes the beginning of the end for those two, Nick’s jealous that Robin wants to look after Barney when he’s so sad about the dog, who he then proceeds to cry and hug. AWW!
Marshall does a snap-point thing which Lily does not return, she sides with Victoria :O (and I lost my bet with the Internet, Marshall did not ‘oh-no-she-didn’t’ anything) but poor Ted is sad because Robin will never be in love with him so he’d rather pick Victoria. WHAT IS THIS MADNESS, SIR MOSEBY??
OK Internet, double or nothing, 10 bucks says Barney sleeps with the owner of the dog. And he accidentally ‘outs’ Robin’s aunt who she gave her dogs to back in the day (and she’s hilariously shocked) The owner hugs Barney and the dog and apparently his real name is ‘Mr. Sprinkles’ which Barney finds ridiculous, and then she assumes that Barney and Robin are a couple and they stammer akwardly lol Robin pretends to be her lesbian aunt (which apparently involves having a very deep voice) and leaves, so Barney realises that Robin is actually the best wingman ever (aww that’d so be me lol although I’d make fun of my friends for being such huge manwhores). So he goes in to the owner’s apartment (Pay up Internet!) and then Robin goes back to Nick and he says it’s fine that she has really close guy friends, he only gets kinda jealous of them stealing her away in the middle of the night, and then of course she gets a text from Ted asking her to come see him lol.. And he tells Victoria that he’s not in love with Robin but she’s like family to him, and he can’t end that... So she says ‘I hope you get her someday’ and cries and walks out. And I become really sad too L
That was a very long paragraph.
That was a very short paragraph, to make up for the preceding long one.. And then things get confusing, Robin arrives at Ted’s apartment and says that he called her to the bar to tell her that he wanted to write a series of books about the Moseby Boys, wtf? And then they NOW tell her that he and Victoria broke up, she feels bad but doesn’t know why, then there’s a flashback to Ted telling Lily and Barney that they can’t ever tell Robin she was the reason for the breakup, then flash forward to them sitting in his apartment and his voiceover saying ‘of course, she did eventually find out, but we’ll get to that.’ Aww… OMG WEIRD I just saw the ending credit, apparently the name of the girl who plays Victoria was Ashley Williams – I went to highschool with a girl with the same name O.o That’s weird.
Night everyone! Until next week (when Robin and Nick break up… yay..)

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