Not a lot that was either spoiler-worthy or comment-worthy in last night’s How I Met Your Mother, except to say that it may have been as close as possible to being a statistically average episode of HIMYM: ’80s movies references (check), Canadian jokes (check), a challenge (check) and a lesson about growing up (check). For [...]

HIMYM and Spears continue their marriage of convenience. / Cliff Lipson/CBS In a bit of good upfront-week news, How I Met Your Mother was picked up for another season on CBS. That’s something to keep in mind when sitting through an episode like last night’s, with Britney Spears, who probably had at least a little [...]

If How I Met Your Mother is the Lost of sitcoms, and it is, then there must sometimes be storylines in which the main characters are separated by circumstances. If How I Met Your Mother is the Lost of sitcoms, and it is, then there must sometimes be episodes that mainly serve to set the [...]

Just an OK episode of How I Met Your Mother last night—for me, dawg—but I’m glad they made it. Last season, I was concerned that HIMYM was copping out on the question of Marshall selling out to the big firm for money to support himself and kindergarten teacher Lily. (You’ll recall, there was a jokey [...]