How I Met Your Mother

[CaptMurdock]

Perhaps we might all hope that CBS decides that the show overall does not work, but instead could use some 'retooling.' "The show needs some work, fellas. How about we shift the focus towards Alyson Hannigan's character?"

Where Lily Blooms...coming this January on CBS.

[Dana5140]

MediaWeek reports that HIMYM is losing its audience, that it has dropped each of the four weeks it has been on, and for this past Monday finished 4th in its time slot. With regard to CBS, this is what MediaWeek has to say:

CBS
-Close To Home: too soon to tell.
-Criminal Minds: shoo-in for a full-season renewal.
-Ghost Whisperer: shoo-in for a full-season renewal.
-How I Met Your Mother: waiting for the axe to swing.
-Out Of Practice: on the fence.
-Threshold: expected full season pick-up.

I will be truly sorry to see Aly off the small screen, but there has to a better vehicle for her than this. Give her something with meat- or make Where Lilly Blooms.

[aceivan]

Give her something with meat- or make Where Lilly Blooms.

Uh, I just googled Where Lilly Blooms.

It's disappointing that HIMYM isn't doing well, but Aly definitely deserves better. I'd love to see her in her own sitcom (and Amber in Doctor Who).

Len

[urnofosiris]

I found this week´s episode to have the most amusing moments so far, but whereas the show seems to have improven in some parts it has lost points in others. Aly´s part seems to be shrinking. It is not just my bias speaking when I say that is a big mistake. For me, she and the other woman have the best screen presence by far. The lead man, i.e the ´dad´, annoys me so much that I do not want to watch his big brown eyed quasi innocent deer in the headlight facial expressions for another second. He was just a nasty asshole this week, I did not find his actions amusing or cute in the least. Doogie just annoys me period. Every other comedy show seems to have one stupid and/or nasty best friend persona. I find it terribly unoriginal. I definitely would have given up by now if not for Aly. For her sake I do hope the show will get the chance to finish the season and maybe they can work on it´s weaknesses.

[Dana5140]

Ah- CBS picked the show up for a full set of 22 episodes- just announced.

[Incarnadine]

Ah- CBS picked the show up for a full set of 22 episodes- just announced.

Yup.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005
CBS GIVES FULL SEASON ORDERS TO "HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER," "GHOST WHISPERER" AND "CRIMINAL MINDS"
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CBS GIVES FULL SEASON ORDERS TO "HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER," "GHOST WHISPERER" AND "CRIMINAL MINDS"

CBS has given full season orders to its new comedy HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, and to freshmen dramas GHOST WHISPERER and CRIMINAL MINDS.

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, starring Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris and Cobie Smulders, is averaging 10.41 million viewers and has placed first in its Monday (8:30-9:00 PM) time period in viewers and key demographics against regularly scheduled programs. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER has increased the time period by +6% in adults 18-49 (3.7/9 vs. 3.5/9) and +12% in adults 18-34 (2.8/8 vs. 2.5/7).

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television. Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline are executive producers.

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good for Aly! glad she has a job - but now if they could just make this show more interesting!!

[sacinema]

I'm glad for Aly, too. Actually I also like the show for a comedy. And that says a lot because normally I don't like the genre at all. For instance: Friends did nothing for me. So in the end I only watch it because of Aly but it gives me a lot of fun. Till now for me the second and the fourth episode were the best and the funniest. And Aly is great.

The lead character Ted is so lame but the real problem seems to me: I don't like him at all. He is a little brat ass. At least in episode four. How he dumbed Nathalie - grrr. Lily did well for pommeling him. Unlike most of the others I like watching Barney he is a real asshole but funny and a good actor.

On another board someone said the show should be based on the Lily character. But that would mean to rename the show: How I met your father. That's actually not a bad idea. Or maybe I thought - because I also like the Robin character - it could be based on the leading woman characters Lily and Robin and they could start a lesbian relationsship. So the show could keep his title.

[taralicious]

A show where Lily and Robin do a little dance, make a little love, and get down tonight or is that go down tonight?
Now that is a premise worth exploring.

[SithLordWiccan]

Am I the only one who thinks Aly was smoking in that parrot's costume in last night's episode?

[lollipopgirl]

Oh sooo excited! I found out yesterday that How I Met Your Mother will be screened over the summer here...just a couple of months to go. I can finally understand fully what you guys have been saying/discussing for ages!

X-Katie-X

[tarebear]

hey y'all

I found out yesterday that How I Met Your Mother will be screened over the summer here

i am sooo jealous... i hope my local tv picks up the show here so i can get to see it too... even if it turns out to be a not-so-good show after all, i still wanna see it. i really miss watching her on tv.


ces

[FineyMcFine]

Aly was totally hot in her parrot costume last night. I also enjoyed seeing her as Sonny Bono in the flashback. For me, she and Marshall are my favorite characters and I think they steal the show.

I also like Robin - she's funny. I know I see lesbians everywhere, but I could see them going in a coming-out-lesbian direction with her character - she didn't want to get all snuggly with her boyfriend, and her little speech on the roof about "Is there something inside me that's broken?" is a thought process I've had a lot and have heard a lot from other lesbians when they talk about their coming out experience and wondering why relationships with men didn't work out.

Anyway, I suppose we can only dream, but wouldn't it be great for Robin to come out to Lily and Lily could flash back to college before she met Marshall and how she hooked up with her best friend, or some such?

Also, another favorite moment from last night's ep was when they were taking the picture with Aly crouched on the bar and Marshall in the foreground as the pirate, to make it look like she was perched on his shoulder.

[Dana5140]

Aly was tres cute as the parrot, indeed.

I read an interesting piece of conjecture- since we don't know yet who the lead male married (I have so little interest in him I can never remember his name, LOL), a reader suggested that perhaps the person he ended up marrying was.... Aly!

[taralicious]

This is me hopping aboard the Lilly and Robin bandwagon.
Aly in her parrot costume and Robin dressed up as a saltine which Lilly the parrot licks every crystal of sodium off of.
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Polly want a cracker."

[Gatito Grande]

Well, I have to say that I think that Lily and Marshall are pretty cute together, so I'm not ready for "L&R" just yet . . . (but for Aunt Robin to turn out to be gay? TOTALLY! )

GG Lily's costume gives an Austin Power-ish twist to "shaggin' the bird" eh? Out


By the way, the (boring-the-kids) Narrator refers, repeatedly, to "Aunt Lily" . . . so, thank God, Ted does NOT end up w/ Lily!

[Dana5140]

Oy! SO if there is Aunt Lily, and we know that Robin is also an aunt (from episode one... "And that, kids, is how I met your aunt."), what the heck does that mean?

[FineyMcFine]

I wasn't trying to suggest that Robin and Lily would/should hook up, because I LOVE Lily and Marshall. They are a great couple and very cute together. I was just saying that I could see Lily being supportive, and also having moments in her past where she could relate to it

[FineyMcFine]

I was looking in the GMP forum for this thread and thought I was going insane when I couldn't find it.

I thought this week's ep was the best yet. It wasn't so much about Ted doing something dorky to try to meet a girl, it was definitely more of an ensemble cast thing. I thought Aly in particular was fantastic - she got to use more of her range and didn't seem like she was just playing a slightly ditzy oversexed chick.

Now I'm thinking that at the end of the series in addition to Ted finding his wife, that Robin and Barney will end up together. They have some kind of back and forth banter going on.

[Hemiola]

A really cute episode yesterday (11/21), with lots of nice screen time for AH

It was amusing to see her in the company of Marshall's "huge" family which included the yummy Susie Plaxon); it beautifully exploited Alyson's diminutive size! The look of fear on her face at the prospect of giving birth to an infant the size of the turkey was priceless

The "B" story about the volunteering was also amusing.

[FineyMcFine]

I agree, the show is seeming to get better and better and continually makes me laugh. I think I officially like it and will keep watching it.

It was great that AH had so much screen time. I love Marshall; he's so funny.

Robin just gets hotter and hotter.

[taralicious]

It looks like the producers and writers of the show have wised up to the fact that the initial one joke premise of the show can't be reasonably sustained over the course of 22 episodes without the folks at P.E.T.A violently protesting over the flogging and/or beating of dead horses.
I, for one, welcome the enhanced screen time of the Lilly/Marshall B-storyline as that means more Aly yumminess and more chance for her to wow us with her unparalleled mastery of non-verbal communication.
Robin does indeed get hotter and hotter with each episode and now I wish Cobie Smulders would have been centered around the girl on girl action in her recurring role on "The L Word".

[Gatito Grande]

Agree w/ what everyone else has said: this was a terrific episode---maybe the best yet. (Good to see that they are now unafraid to break-up "the five-some" to do multiple story-lines: it's not All About Ted!). Aly was amazing---

GG OK, let's see who around here is old enough to get this joke: "With a name like Cobie Smulders, you have to be HOT!" Out

(I just recently heard about CS's stint on The L Word: she wasn't in any hot grrl-on-grrl action? Tragic!)

[taralicious]

GG,
I can almost hear the voice of Mason Adams from beyond the grave saying those words.
I'd rather visualize Cobie Smulders with grape jelly slathered all over her body.

[Hemiola]

An article by M.E. Fernandez from the LA Times was reprinted in my local paper. The title is "CBS SITCOM IS ANYTHING BUT REGULAR". There is a good deal about the difficulties of filming, along with material about the genesis of the show, which includes the following:

"...the show is sweet and screwball, with Ted, Marshall, and Lily conveying its heart and sentimentality; and Barney and Robin delivering most of the gags.
Bays and Thomas began the casting process wanting Hannigan and Segal for Lily and Marshall. Thomas' wife, Rebecca, a devout 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' fan, agreed to let her husband create a character like her if Hannigan, who played Willow on the series, got her part. Happily for them, Hannigan was searching furiously for a comedy.
'You can relate to everybody or knowing somebody just like that,' said Hannigan, 31."

Actually, I think Alyson now does her fair share of the comedy.

[BBOvenGuy]

How I Met Your Mother was #8 in Time magazine's Top 10 TV shows of 2005. Here's the write-up:

-8-
How I Met Your Mother
(CBS)

Five witty, good-looking young people dating, hanging out and trading quips in Manhattan. It's a revolutionary idea for a sitcom--in 1994. Overshadowed by more distinctive sitcom debuts this fall, Mother does for the young-urbans comedy what Everybody Loves Raymond did for the bickering-in-laws genre: proves that originality isn't everything. The gimmicky hook--narrator looks back on his courtship from 25 years in the future--is a distraction; what stands out is the crackling dialogue and rapport among the ensemble cast. (When Neal Patrick Harris isn't slipping the show into his tailored breast pocket, Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan are so cute you could sprinkle powdered sugar on them and pop them in your mouth.) Mother feels like it's been on for years, and I mean that in a good way; you sense that, just a few epsiodes into the show's run, the writers know these characters inside and out. I can't pretend this is anything but a well-executed Friends ripoff. But I'll be there for them anyway.

[DaddyCatALSO]

Hemiola; not that I mean to nit-pick (well, actually, I'm lying, it's my favroite sport) while Aly at 5' 6" isn't tall for a woman her age it isn't exactly diminutive.

[SithLordWiccan]

I caught the Halloween episode again tonight.

And I'll repeat what I said earlier in the thread.

Aly + Parrot costume = HAWT!

[werewolf123]

About aly's height , it is quality not quanity...

[Gatito Grande]

Loved Lilly pulling Barney off of (cold-feeted bride) Claudia---by the ear!

GG This show has slowly grown on me---perhaps NOT being a "Friends" watcher has helped (though it's still All About Aly!) Out