"X-files" had two types of episodes; ones that followed the show's mythology and freak-of-the-week episodes. The latter where episodic; open and shut.
That is what this week's "How I Met Your Mother" was. Suspecting that the show's writers want to give some breathing room between Ted's doomed courtship of Stella and his next lady, the show's mission to find the titular character has been put on hold. This week, we learn Robin is a closet Woo Girl and watch Barney do good and give Ted the biggest gig yet of his career.
Lilly is invited to a co-worker's birthday party (remember, she works at an elementary school) and brings Robin, who is still single and unemployed, along. When they arrive, they learn that the birthday girl, Jillian played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler of "The Sopranos," is a Woo Girl after hours. We all know at least one Woo Girl. They are the girls at the bars in tiny cowboy hats that take shots out of glowing shot glasses and call each other bitches and sluts. But their signature is of course wooing when their favorite song comes or when a boy takes their shirt off or for any other reason. For more about Woo Girls, visit Barney's blog.
It's in hanging out with the woo girls that Robin learns she needs to hang out with single girls and stop being a third wheel with Lilly and Marshall. Lilly tries to be a woo girl so she can hang out with Robin but discovers she just isn't one.
Meanwhile, Goliath National Bank, where Barney and Marshall work together, is looking for an architect to build its headquarters. Barney tells Ted he has the job. He only has to beat out a Sven," an uber-modern architecture "collective" from Sweden. After giving his presentation, Ted all but has the job until Sven presents a building shaped like a T. Rex that shoots flames. Unable to resist having an office in the head of a dinosaur, Barney screws over Ted and gives the job to Sven. Was it just me or was Neil Patrick Harris playing the leader of Sven?
During their conference call - a code Barney and Marshall use to get out of work and drink beer on the roof - Marshall finds out what Barney did and leaves him locked outside the building. Of course, Barney realizes the errors of his way and decides to give the job to Ted.
Is HIMYM on the verge of becoming a workplace comedy with the prospect of Ted, Marshall and Barney all working at the same place? Seems to be the direction. I guess the show needs more than two locations that is primary uses - Ted's place and the bar.
I don't mind a couple stand alone episodes as long as viewers are paid off later with more hints of finding the Mom. The best jokes were the conference call prank, of course the Woo Girls (which included a lesbian situation) and a reference to AMC's "Mad Men." While drinking on the roof Marshall said they were mad men themselves. Barney decided that drinking at work made them "basically Mad Men."
"I'm going to go smack a secretary on the ass," Barney said.
"That's so what they would do on that show," Marshall replied.
"What show?" Barney asked.
Best joke - Barney: "I picked it, because it -- it... It breathes fire, Marshall."
Marshall laughing: "Fire Marshall"
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