Tonight’s episode of How I Met Your Mother is an equal balance concentrating on both Marshal and Lilly’s baby making adventure and Robin’s realization that she’s perhaps an overly independent woman.
Overall, while it was a decent episode, I didn’t think “Baby Talk” was as strong as the previous couple week’s showings. There was plenty of humor as we saw the return of Barney’s challenges (to score by talking like a little boy), as well as some really creepy scenes of Becky acting like a little girl. I did like the fact that the writers spent some time working on Marshal and Lilly’s relationship and their realization that they really are trying to have a baby, which includes finding names and the idea that boy or girl, one of them might not get exactly what they were hoping for.
Interestingly, I had expected to see a lot more along the Robin/Becky storyline with actual conflict, but it was mostly an episode of self awareness by Robin. There were several touching lines by Barney as he reassured her awesomeness, a thinly veiled remark to remind everyone that he still is in love with her.
Other Thoughts
- Marshal’s Glee group is both hilarious and creepy.
- Secret to having a boy
- Don’t let woman eat lemons (baby fertilizer)
- Eat a jar of pickled herrings
- Ice your junk
- Face her north
- Secret to having a girl
- Eat lemons
- Heat up your junk
- Face South
- I don’t want a girl, I just want a little boy
- Of all the women in New York, you had to go out with an 8 year old.
- Ted’s western style recall of the spider incident is also super creepy.
- Marshal’s biggest fear, is his future daughter marry’s a “Barney”.
Barneyisms
This week’s challenge, score by talking as a little boy. Attempted pickup lines include:
- You got some tiggo-bitties
- Gosh your body is a perfect this many (holding out 10 fingers)
- Do you wanna wrestle in our special bathing suits?
- Wanna come back to my place and play telephone? i got the strings, you got the cans.
I’ve used the word “creepy” to describe this episode in great length. I guess that is kind of the general feel of it.
