How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

"The Rough Patch"

Originally Aired: November 09, 2009

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

I have a feeling I'm going to be very happy with the guest appearance.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

Whoo hoo! My first live episode. I spent the summer watching seasons 1-3, nabbed 4 back in September and just caught up with season 5 over the weekend.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

The scene of Barney/Robin trying to decide whether to get married: Scherbatsky is too hard to spell :lol:

Was that supposed to be the robot from Lost In Space?

What a great episode.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

I liked the scene in the station wagon with the Storm Trooper debate and Marshall whining about not getting a van.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

Looks like we haven't see the last of Robin Sparkles. They're going to beat the joke into the ground.

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Considering that "Slap Bet" is the best episode they've done, and they've only done one other "Sparkles" episode that was also a classic, I really don't care how often they revisit it. Plus, it's just a damn funny backstory and the look on Barney's face when he realized that more material exists in the world was priceless.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

A pretty good episode. Now that they've ended the Barney/Robin thing I hope they can just move on from it instead of doing the whole "are we friends or not" storyline that they already did with Robin and Ted.

I loled at the scene where Ted and Marshall are trying to get Lily to break them up.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

Wow considering how everyone liked this episode I must be losing it with this show. I just do not care about the characters anymore especially how they dumbed down Marshall.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

How so? Like I posted above I just finished watching all 4.5 seasons. He's been pretty dumb from the get go.

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Yeah, I'll need an example of that. They usually make Marshall out to be the smartest of the group (LAWYERED!)

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

Marshall has always been dumbed down.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

while i don't think marshall has changed drastically, i do think that the show has suffered since last season.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

Again, give me an example of Marshall being "dumb." The only thing I can think of is the mistake of buying their apartment. And that was more about just making an impulse purchase.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

Alan Thicke
:lol:

and was crazy Meg the voice of Brian's one hot bimbo girl friend?

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

another funny episode! im already looking forward to the footage barney will find of robin on that variety show.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

ON topic of the episode, I was wondering how they would play out the Barney and Robin relationship, and now they can get back to Barney being the man whore he is. "Daddy's Home"

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

So since there is an actual Robin Sparkles video there must really be a Variety Hour video already out there.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

not on Barney's Blog yet
but it likely will be after what ever episode he finds the video in

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

It seemed like they called back to Lily breaking up Ted's relationships and "the Kracken". Did I miss an episode? I don't remember this.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

You must have. They didn't call her the Kraken but Lily was responsible for breaking up Ted and Laura Prepon. I think in the episode about the "front porch test".

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

judging by the "Danger Will Robinson" line that was used multiple times, I would say yes.

Re: How I Met Your Mother -- "The Rough Patch" -- 11/09/09
 

Murder!!!! Hop aboard the murder train!!!!