How I Met Your Mother -- "Shelter Island" -- 10/20/08
 

"Shelter Island"

Originally Aired: October 20, 2008

This will be interesting to see how things play out tonight, and in the next couple of episodes.

One thing annoying me already, from the preview commercials I've seen -

Awww . . Poor Ted. Sucky ending for him but it resolves the story nicely.

I knew she'd end up with JD. Errr, Tony.

I love Sarah Chalke, but thank god tonight was the end of Stella. The character became increasingly annoying as the story progressed.

Barney and Stella's sister was the highlight of the episode.

So what about all the equations during Barney's DaVinci Code moment? Some of them are just 69 equations. Some of them are funny and clever. Here's what I've figured out:

suit↑ - Suit Up
The hot/crazy scale we've seen before
du^12f^6 - do you want to have sex? (On the chalkboard it's "du^12f^6 w/me?")
CH3CH2OH = OHOHOH - Ethanol (alcohol) equals Oh! Oh! Oh! (or Ho Ho Ho)
36-24-36 - Women's dimensions, numerous songs, etc.

Are these from a previous episode?
relationships ≈ freeway
fish ≈ women
the "No way/gross/ew/maybe" pie chart

And these I just don't get:
83% (Edit: Looks like it might be <a href="http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/community/barney_blog/index.php">this</a>, search for 83%. Edit 2: nm, looks like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty-three">83</a> is a running Barney joke)
(↑BAC)@f:TM->BS ∪ RS (I think that's a UNION at the end)

The last one here, TM is probably Ted Moseby, BS is Barney Stinson, and RS is Robin Schbotsky

Relationship freeway was in a previous episode, fish comparisons to women are pretty common and have probably been used before.

I'm also glad that Sarah Chalke run on HIMYM is over. However, I don't like the fact that there are hinting more Ted/Robin stuff.

This show is becoming the comedic version of "Lost" in trying to decipher all of the clues from the flash forwards.

I really enjoyed the episode, but Stella had to go. Not really a fan of having the whole Ted/Robin thing possibly start over, when Barney pining for Robin. It's the same storyline as Ross/Rachel/Joey on Friends, although Barney is way more awesome than Joey.

After we found out that Stella was not the mother, I rewound my DVR and paused it on the scene with his two future kids....

I saw one that was something like
? (don't recall) = HI5 (high five)

Glad to see Stella gone, but she left a swell guy like Ted for that douche? And where was her daughter while she was on the ferry?

Bad language


Poor Swarley. He had a huge chance to be with Robin again, and blew it. At least he got a threesome out of it. :)

I was so hoping that when they slowly showed each person reading the letter to Ted that when Barney showed up, he would be wearing the championship belt.

Best scene in the episode. Finding out that the girl in the bed wasn't Stella's sister was a better twist than Stella leaving Ted.

I'm happy it ended this way. It sure sucks for Ted but it's better than them going back to Ted being a douche and leaving her for Robin. I don't think anything will come of the Robin/Ted situation. There may be a few awkward moments in the upcoming episodes but I doubt they'll get back together. I think it only came up to throw us all for a loop as to why Stella and Ted wouldn't be getting married.

Count me in as also glad this thing with Stella is over as she became more unlikeable with each episode. I'm OK if they do a weird tension thing w/ Ted-Robin as long as they don't go through the dating thing again while Ted resumes his search.

Otherwise, I still think the episode as a whole has been better than in recent weeks.

"Count me in as also glad this thing with Stella is over as she became more unlikeable with each episode."

Same here.

I almost teared up at Robin's talk with Ted

who was the actress who played stella's sister? she seemed familiar.

I honestly don't care who the mother is. I think this is a good stand alone show without the gimmick, and if the producers knew how good the show going to be, they would have just axed the whole Bob Saget/Kids narrative and called the show something else.

I think they painted themselves in a corner with the "Aunt Robin" line in the pilot. If that wasn't there, we would all still be wondering if Robin was the mother and it would make her and Ted's on & off again relationship actually mean something.

I am starting to think that this series might end up like "Definitely, Maybe". The premise is that there is a guy talking to his daughter about three girls that he loved in the past, and the girl (and the audience) tries to figure out which one was her mother.



Just as an aside, has Future Ted referred to the kids as anything other than "Kids", or have they referred to him as their father or "Dad"? I know that it is a stretch, but do we know for a fact that he is their father? I just think that there is going to be some kind of twist that allows Ted and Robin to be together.

^^

Re. your spoiler: I don't think he would be referring to her as "Aunt Robin" if that were the case.

Interesting idea about the kids not being Ted's. Ted could then be with Robin without screwing up the storyline and Robin would be Aunt Robin to the kids. They would then have to be Barney's kids and the show is about how Ted met Barney's wife. But why would he be talking to Barney's kids about their mother? Maybe she dies?

I would be very upset if, after 4 seasons, they were to ditch the future Ted storyline.

Daneel Harris. She was in One Tree Hill for a couple years, and was also in the 2nd Harold and Kumar movie.