Spoilers for tonight's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as I alert the sommelier... Wow. I've been enjoying "HIMYM" for the most part this year, but an episode like "Sorry, Bro" -- both the funniest and most uniquely "HIMYM" episode dating back to at least "The Naked Man," if not to la...

Spoilers for tonight's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as I give myself a catchphrase... "And so ended one of the strangest afternoons of our lives." -Future Ted And so ended one of the strangest "HIMYM"s of our lives -- and, I'm guessing, one of the most polarizing. The theme of half...

Spoilers for last night's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as I steal Feely the Share Bear... Given that "Seinfeld" went off the air a decade ago, and that many of today's young comedy writers grew up watching that show, you would think that a little "Seinfeld" flavor would leak into t...

Spoilers for tonight's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as I bang my fist against the table in memory of the Giants' 1997 playoff loss to the Vikings... In the spirit of the holiday season, I'm tempted to just point out that Marshall karaoke'd "Let's Go to the Mall" and call it a day. ...

Spoilers for tonight's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as I call timesies... Ain't nothin' deep going on in "The Fight," but that's okay, because I laughed harder at the revelation of what Marshall's fights with his brothers really looked like than I have at the rest of this season co...

Spoilers for last night's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as I floss... There's a running theme of "HIMYM vs. Sitcom" in these reviews, which occasionally prompts people to ask, "But isn't HIMYM a sitcom? How can calling a plot sitcom-y be an insult?" Two answers to that. First, when ...

Spoilers for tonight's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as I shoot some cans on the roof... It's weird: we complain all the time about how we'd like to see more of Marshall and Lily (especially as compared to Ted), and yet the episodes that focus on one or both of them are rarely the m...