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“How I Met Your Mother” Recap: As Fast As She Can

May 12, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By Mike Frey Synopsis: When we last saw Ted, he was standing on a street corner in the rain, and he had just been tapped on the shoulder by Stella. That’s where we pick things up in this episode, where we find out that Stella’s former and current boyfriend, Tony, is on the corner, too. Ted plays it cool. On the spectrum of ways he could have handled things, he’s much closer to having a French girlfriend who looks exactly like Stella but with enormous cans than he is to being a blubbering mess. Or so he thinks. Later, at […]

“How I Met Your Mother” Recap: Right Place Right Time

May 5, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By Mike Frey Synopsis: Ted has landed his first big gig as an independent architect: designing Rib Town, a restaurant shaped like a cowboy hat — because nothing says delicious like the inside of a cowboy hat. Depressed that he’s not designing concert halls or museums, he takes a break and heads out for some fresh air and a bagel. Thanks to fate (and Galoshes the Weather Clown from Robin’s show Come On, Get Up New York!) he takes a yellow umbrella. Check that … the yellow umbrella. On the way to his second favorite bagel place, Ted stops at […]

“How I Met Your Mother” Recap: The Three Days Rule

April 28, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By Mike Frey Synopsis: Ted has just met a girl named Holli and he wants to call her just moments after she leaves MacLaren’s. He thinks it would be cute, but Barney and Marshall — and apparently Jesus — want him to wait the appropriate three days before calling. It’s the Three Days Rule, which, according to Barney, Christ created right before inventing the high five. Ted tries to establish his own “I Like Her, I Call Her” rule, but let’s just say that Ted is no Jesus. Barney and Marshall make him promise that he won’t call Holli until […]

“How I Met Your Mother” Review: Mosbius Designs

April 14, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By Mike Frey Synopsis: Some jokes are not meant to be told in mixed company. Ted understands that difference between “boy funny” and “girl funny,” but apparently Barney and Marshall do not — which is why they insist on telling Lily a dirty joke that results in her disappearing for four weeks. Of course, given the recent developments in Alyson Hannigan’s real life, that’s not the real reason we won’t be seeing much of Lily for a while. In either case, her absence proves a shame for Barney, who could really use her help this week. But more on that […]

“How I Met Your Mother” Recap: Murtaugh

March 31, 2009 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan (Mike, who usually does these recaps, is vacationing in Hawaii. I’m taking over this week, planning to kill any momentum he may have created with suitjamas.) Barney raised a ruckus at Laser Tag and has been banned for disorderly game play and three counts of shoving. Ted doesn’t see what the problem is — Barney’s too old for that sh*t stuff anyway. Which leads to a new addition to the “Murtaugh List,” named for Danny Glover’s character in the Lethal Weapon movies, which indicates things that they are now too old to do. Barney defies the Murtaugh List, […]

“How I Met Your Mother”: Old King Clancy Recap

March 24, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By Mike Frey Synopsis: Things have been rough for Ted at work, as he develops a design for the new Goliath National Bank headquarters. The guy in charge of the project, Bilson, doesn’t like any of Ted’s ideas and it makes for a hostile work environment. Everything changes, though, when Bilson is taken off the project and replaced with a task force who loves all of Ted’s ideas. They should, since the force is made up of a Ray the janitor; Louisa the lunch lady; 15th Street’s own one-man band, Crazy Artie, and his assistant, Reginald the squirrel; and some […]

“How I Met Your Mother”: The Front Porch Recap

March 17, 2009 StayTuned Staff

Synopsis: To the dismay of everyone but Ted, Karen (Laura Prepon) is back this week. Marshall doesn’t sugarcoat things when he tells Ted that Karen is a complete douche. Oh, wait — that was sugarcoating. Of course, Marshall realizes what Ted sees in her. Since they met in high school, Karen was “the first person to touch his wiener besides himself, his mom and his pediatrician.” She won’t be touching it again, though, because while she and Ted are teasing each other about which one of them likes 2002 chianti — which is apparently a put-down of epic proportions in […]

“How I Met Your Mother”: Sorry, Bro Recap

March 10, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By Mike Synopsis: Robin has been on an insane sleep schedule ever since she took a job hosting a 4am morning show. As such, she meets up with the gang at McLaren’s on her way to work to catch up on the previous day’s events. The main topic of conversation is Ted’s ex-girlfriend Karen (Laura Prepon). To paraphrase Marshall and Lily, Karen is a pretentious douche who dated Ted in college and repeatedly broke his heart by sleeping with other guys — in his dorm room. Each time, the story ended with the other guy saying, “Sorry, bro.” Well, Karen […]

“How I Met Your Mother”: The Stinsons Recap

March 4, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By Mike Synopsis: Barney Stinson been acting normal — which, for Barney, is totally weird. His actions suggest that he’s in a committed relationship, and when the gang tracks him from McLaren’s to his mother’s house, they find out he is. Sort of. Seven years go, Barney’s mom Loretta (played by four-time Emmy nominee Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under) got really sick and looked like she wouldn’t pull through, so Barney decided to fulfill her wish that he wouldn’t end up alone by hiring an actress to play his fiancé, Betty. Problem is, he hired an actress who liked to […]

How I Met Your Mother: “Three Days of Snow” Recap

January 20, 2009 StayTuned Staff

[We are sorry we didn’t recap last week’s episode. As an apology, here’s Neil Patrick Harris’ monologue from Saturday Night Live. And say hi to the cast of How I Met Your Mother for me.] Synopsis: Over the years, Marshall and Lily have kept up with a number of traditions, from the always popular kissing on New Year’s Eve to lunchtime phone calls. One of their more elaborate habits is that whenever one of them comes home from a trip, they bring back a six-pack of local beer for the other, who is there to greet them at the airport […]