Monday October 23, 2006
2ALH05
Barney seduces Marshall's law professor in hopes of getting her to grade more leniently. Lily takes a job at Ted's office, where she promptly steals to teach Ted's boss a lesson.
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Ted gets Lily a job at his firm, but she only makes trouble for Ted when he refuses to stand up to his boss. And Barney sleeps with Marshall's law school professor to help his grades, but she's less than impressed with his prowess.
This episode is the best episode yet it had me laughting from the start to the end Barney was brilliant as usual very funny when he went after the Cougar. Lily was also great, she was great when she stole the baseball and written that letter, great stuff exactly why I watch How I met your mother and sitcoms all together.
That was to great. A "modern skyscraper", I mean they weren't kidding it's a giant...Johnson, what's that in the sky. *wink*
Lily was very funny in this episode as well, she seems like a great teachers...for little kids. With adults...she needs some work. As most people could probably tell. Although the baseball idea wasn't a bad teaching technique...for children.
Overall a solid episode brought as usual up a notch by Neil Patrick Harris hide show
I had been kinda looking forward to this episode for a while, mainly because i heard that Jane Seymour was guest-starring and i just love her dry wit and humour.
As for the main plotline.... I'm not sure, it was cool and as always i love Alyson Hannigan but it just seemed a little less awesome than some of the recent episodes. However considering the calibre of those its not really something to be that unhappy about.
What made this episode great was the Cougar storyline with Barney trying to get Marshal a better grade by sleeping with his lecturer played by Jane Seymour. Neil as always nailed the character and the lines and once again completely stole the episode.
So all in all a very solid episode that while not a masterpiece continues a (so far) better second season than i ever dreamed.
The episode seems to play out as a way of getting as much of the quintessential Barney as possible.
Whilst Lilly gets a job at Teds office and promptly steals Teds bosses favourite baseball because he "was being mean". This prompts the guy to threaten to sack 3 people every hour until it is returned. Ted, realising that Lilly will not return the ball and instead steal something different has to resort to firing her to save the company.
Elsewhere Marshall is annoyed as his new law professor has recently been divorced and is taking it out on everyone else. After suggesting she needs to get laid Barney takes it upon himself to rise (pardon the pun) to Marshalls challenge.
Describing his professor (special guest star Jane Seymour) as a cougar, Barney sets off and succeeds only to find he was given a C rating, which then effects Marhsalls latest paper rating. Desperate to improve his grade he quickly tries again, and again until he dislocates his hip. Fortunately he receives a B+ grade much to Marshalls relief.
Elsewhere Ted manages to save his company a lot of money by submitting his design for the new skyscraper after the "Penis Building" design is rejected.
Whilst the season story is not developed in this episode it's good to see Barney having a bigger story as he was sidestepped in series 1 for Ted & Robin and Marshall & Lilly. He seems to be coming into the sotries now and as my favourite character that is great to see.
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Once again Barney steels the show once again in this episode. It's great how for once Barney actually meets opposition that is more than a match for him. And that is Jane Semour's character, she really didn't have a whole lot to do in this episode but that was ok, because the amount of screen time she had was enough to know what kind of character she is. Just like on "Wedding Crashers" she sort of play contrary to her sweet persona by playing a rather strict, ruthless, no noncense, sexed, heartbreaker. It was hilarious seeing how she was grading Barney on his performance, and how she was litterally wearing him down, making him for a mere moment weak. And it's even more funnier seeing how much determination Barney has, like a boxer getting knocked down but trying to get back up, this of course gives him a victory but lands him in the hospital. However not all the credit should be handed to Barney alone. Some should be handed to the Lily character. The episode was after all really about Lily finally deciding where she should be. I liked the interaction between Ted and her both of them really were a good team in the episode. I sort of wonder if their time together in the episode hints at things to come.
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