“The Stinsons” March 2nd, 2009 Listen to any fan of How I Met Your Mother talk about why they think other people should watch the show and, chances are, they are likely going to eventually say something along the lines of “this is not a traditional sitcom.” This is something ...

Monday: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid As part of their "31 Days of Oscar," Turner Classic Movies is pulling out all of your dusty old favorites this month. So here's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, one of those movies where everything clicks into place like a tumbler in a lock. Wi...

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Filed under: OpEd, Web, How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S04E14) This week we got a bit of a stealthy episode. There were two overt storylines -- Robin's efforts to get a job and stay in the country and why three of the gang still have "weak-ass crap" on their resumes -- but the...

Filed under: OpEd, How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S04E13) Something that's been missing for most of this season of HIMYM is the unique Bays-Thomas method of storytelling. If you're a fan of the show, you know what I'm talking about: you think the story is going one way, you ev...

“Benefits” January 12th, 2009 Ted Mosby is a jerk. This is a fact that, when How I Met Your Mother addresses it, is one of the character’s most entertaining qualities. When Ted is held on a pedestal like the last great defender of romance in today’s young people, though, the ...

Most of the time when Saturday Night Live decides to go the gay humor route, it's by way of embarrassing frat boy cliches. So it was surprisingly awesome to see when last week's episode offered up some homo humor that laughed with us, not at us. It's too soon to know if The Ambiguousl...

Monday: How I Met Your Mother We were a little disappointed by Saturday Night Live this weekend when Neil Patrick Harris hosted. Not because he wasn't hilarious-he was!-but because they did too much Doogie and not enough Barney, Mr. Harris' slimy, yet weirdly charming womanizer on HIMYM. Over the la...

SNL this week was excruciating; Neil Patrick Harris as a host didn't help, but it was really the  fault of the writing and an ungifted cast. But for trivia buffs, Joe.My.God. posts the show's history with gay hosts ...and it's fascinating how few gay people have hosted, and how mos...

Neil Patrick Harris hosted Saturday Night Live last night. Most of it was unfunny, except for a marginally amusing bit about Broadway falling on hard times. I was wondering about SNL's history with gay hosts and went off to Wikipedia to research. Here's what I found. 1976: Lily Tomlin. Not out at th...