Two or three years ago, this episode would have been a homerun, but with the current slate of writers, or at least how the writers have been performing of late, it's a barely passable roller coaster ride of ups and downs. There were some good moments, but those moments were surrounded by a bunch of substandard jokes and unearned moments. It hurts to write that HIMYM has a bunch of unearned emotional moments, but that's where we've been so far this season. It should have been a nice little moment at the end of the episode between Lily and Ted, but Ted has become so insufferable that it felt forced and overly sappy. Remember when we liked Ted, when he was the main character, the emotional center? Now it's gotten to a point where the writers have to make Ted realize how insufferable he is just to try and salvage the character. I'm sure they'll argue that it was the journey they were taking Ted through the whole time, but I don't buy it.
On the positive side, I enjoyed the gag about the sabermetric strip club and the idea of the stamp tramp, although not totally realized, was classic HIMYM. On the negative, the Lebron jokes were two years too late and I've come to totally despise every time the phrase, "But we'll get to that later." is uttered.
It didn't live up to old HIMYM standards, but it didn't offend me... 17 more to go!
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