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"Awwww, Man!"

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under TV Reviews | Comments (18)

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Now in its sixth season, no sitcom has had a comedic resurrection like “How I Met Your Mother,” since the last season of “Scrubs” (not including “Scrubs 2.0”). The last month has seen the show’s best episodes since seasons two and three, as its brought back some old “HIMYM” mythology and introduced some new mythology, like last week’s “Two Beavers are Better than One” and this week’s “The Blitz,” a curse that afflicts those who leave gatherings early, causing them to miss out on all the good stuff. Like skateboarding bulldogs and Brando first appearing in “Apocalypse Now,” synced perfectly with Weird Al’s “Eat it.”

Last night’s episode, which featured Jorge Garcia and a several “Lost” references, was one of the best of the season. Here are the 12 best moments — the only thing missing was a Garcia casually dropping a “Dude!” You won’t understand any of these moments unless you saw the episode, and if you didn’t, perhaps you have been afflicted with The Blitz.


  • Bringing back the “sandwich” metaphor to introduce The Blitz mythology.

  • The Gentleman!

  • Robin in full-on KISS makeup for no apparent reason.

  • A bulldog riding a skateboard!

  • “You sent a wang out, and you got a wang back.” “It’s a Boomewang!”

  • Jorge Garcia (Hurley!) shouting out random numbers, which happened to be the numbers from “Lost.”

  • The “Lost” music coinciding with the passing on of The Blitz.

  • First ever look at the kitchens of Barney, Lily and Marshall

  • The transformation of Ted from The Blitz to The Bueller.

  • Hurley on exorcising The Blitz: “But I was on that island for what seems like an eternity; I’m going to enjoy things on the other side.”

  • Wang Guy quoting Ghandi.

  • 12 “Awww, mans”









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    Comments

    Fantastic episode. I'd watch Jorge "Hugo" Garcia in anything, although no "dude..." was a little disappointing.

    I do believe I'll attempt a Tuturkeykey on Thursday. I think mine would look better than that black, plastic looking prop they used. They key is to pre or par-cook the smaller bird.

    Posted by: logar at November 23, 2010 12:02 PM

    • Make that **the** key.

    Posted by: logar at November 23, 2010 12:02 PM

    We've seen Barney's kitchen before (in "World's Greatest Couple" for instance, one of my favorite episodes). And we've seen Marshall & Lily's kitchen before (in the episode where she keeps asking Marshall to please wash his dishes immediately, for one). So those "first ever" kitchen sightings you mention aren't terribly accurate.

    Posted by: astrid at November 23, 2010 12:24 PM

    meh, it was ok, still felt like yet another bullshit mythology masturbation episode

    Posted by: arrrghzi at November 23, 2010 12:42 PM

    It was so good! Except that Zoey REALLY annoys me. She's officious without any redeeming humor. Seriously, making us feel bad for her? Not working. Make her funny. Because right now she's just detracting from the plot.

    Posted by: esme at November 23, 2010 1:25 PM

    esme - Imagine how annoyed you'll be when she turns out to be the titular Mother.

    Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 23, 2010 1:49 PM

    Since what astrid said is correct, your list now only has eleven points. You may want to be careful because that's kinda the "11 points" guy's thing.

    As such, may I offer up the blitz when Jorge left and the beer tap broke?

    Posted by: EJ at November 23, 2010 2:07 PM

    Mrs. Julien, I've been telling my girlfriend that exact theory, and she goes ballistic at the very thought.

    Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 23, 2010 2:58 PM

    i liked that barney's stove was made of cardboard.

    Posted by: maxpurr9 at November 23, 2010 3:24 PM

    Great! Now I'm talking to myself.

    Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 23, 2010 3:32 PM

    Typical Mrs. Ringtail-Hyphenate. Typical

    Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 23, 2010 3:45 PM

    One of you Mrs. Juliens needs to Blitz.

    Oh, and Zoey isn't the Mother. I don't have scripts or a crystal ball, but that just wouldn't make sense. No way she was rooming with a college freshman just two years ago. But I'll bet she knows the Mother; it may even be her stepdaughter*. Dun dun dunnn!


    * I'm not putting money on that theory, but it's possible. "Hannah" would be the daughter of Kyle MacLachlan's The Captain, who is old enough to have a kid in their 20s, which would make her the right age to be going to college and rooming with Rachel Bilson, as well as having the leisure time and nigh-infinite resources to be in a go-nowhere-college rock band. Ted also needs money to fix that money-pit he bought last season, which the daughter of The Captain would certainly have, or have access to (Zoey, if she were the Mother and left The Captain, would no longer be rich, so this point is just another reason she's a square peg trying to fit into a rould hole).What else? Oh, the yellow umbrella, which first appeared in season one at a random bar. It might be a little infeasible (but not impossible) for her to have been 21 in 2005, but it was St. Patty's Day and as that episode made clear, Anything is Possible.

    One sticking point to Hannah/Zoey's stepdaughter being the Mother: Last night it seemed very likely that she's a child (hence the stuffed turkey and Zoey's irrational overreaction being labeled "the wicked stepmother"); but I contend that it makes just as much sense for late-20s/early-30s Zoey to want to connect and have a relationship with an early-to-late-20s stepdaughter as she would a teenager or smaller child. In fact, that feeling might even be stronger since there'd be any number of reasons they might get along otherwise. Also, The Captain was merely going to visit his daughter for Thanksgiving, not his ex-wife and daughter, which implies that she's older and living on her own, or with a roommate. Finally, if the Mother is "Hannah" and the wedding we saw in the season opener is Rachel Bilson's Big Gay Wedding, it works that both she and Ted would meet there for the first time. I imagine Ted would be there as Rachel Bilson's bestman, the man who turned her gay, and that's why he's nervous about giving the toast.

    I watch this show too, too much.

    Posted by: RobP at November 23, 2010 4:34 PM

    Funny RobP, I feel like I don't get to watch it enough. Furthermore, if were able to click a "like" button below your post, I would do so.

    Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 23, 2010 5:01 PM

    Astrid I thought we've seen previously the kitchen of Lily & Marshall's old place. Not the new one near the stinky sewerage plant. But yes, definitely seen Barney's before. Though the oven joke was clearly added in for this ep.

    Posted by: chumplunt at November 23, 2010 7:53 PM

    I don't think Lily and Marshall have an old place. Marshall's old place is Ted's apartment, and Lily's old place is now a Chinese restaurant, but their current apartment in DoWiSeTrePla (or however the hell you spell it) is where they've lived since they left Ted's place a few seasons back. And, yes, it has always been Downwind of the Sewage Treatment Plant.

    Posted by: Lou at November 23, 2010 9:38 PM

    Please don't spell Gandhi as Ghandi!

    Posted by: Tweeter Bird at November 28, 2010 10:03 PM

    RobP, the wedding is more than likely Punchy's. We already know Ted is his best man, so for me it makes a lot more sense than it being Rachel Bilson's big gay wedding.

    Posted by: Jack at December 5, 2010 6:03 PM

    RobP, I find the theory on Zoey's stepdaughter being the mother interesting. About the stuffed turkey, I actually don't find anything weird about that. The Mother, after all, is supposedly on the eccentric side (case in point: she has drawings of robots playing sports), so that could explain her penchant for toys. Plus, let's not forget that she owns a mini yellow bus. Maybe she likes to collect cute stuff.

    Posted by: Flip at February 23, 2011 8:46 AM