Architect of Destruction

Season 6, Episode 5, Aired
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Ted is approached by a beautiful girl who's upset about the landmark hotel to be torn down to make way for the new GNB headquarters he's designing. Marshall has trouble concentrating on anything else after finding out his friend Max has a small penis.
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  • Ted meets Zoey.

    9.0
    "Superb"
    By Jon_MW_14, Sep 03, 2011
    "Architect of Destruction" is an awesome How I Met Your Mother episode. I like the introduction of Zoey. I love how she's crazy girl. I like how this episode introduces the Arcadian hotel building which becomes the main focus of the season and it makes this season have a purpose. I thought it was funny how Zoey revealed that she was married. I for one thought the small penis jokes were funny in this episode. I give this episode a 9/10.moreless

  • Whats with all this gutter trash reviewing todays episode?

    8.5
    "Great"
    By zeta, May 10, 2011
    This is ridiculous. Disregard those other reviews because they're wrong. This episode was funny! I can't say it was as funny as last weeks episode, its definitely not a step backwards. Heard a new Legendary moment (won't spoil it). Its filled with nerdy architecture-ness, wizards, Union soldiers, stoners, sex, and Ted's witty attempts at getting a hot girl. Look, just watch the episode..you don't really have an excuse since you stream it through here. Its a funny episode so don't listen to the haters and judge for yourself. Like I said, its not as funny as the race episode but you will laugh and its on track for becoming a successful seasonmoreless

  • HIMYM is back on track!!

    10
    "Perfect"
    By Orbster251, May 10, 2011
    This is the funniest episode in a while! I'm not sure why people gave it such bad reviews. The story was perfect, and had a lot of Mosby-ness that we had hardly seen enough of in the last season and a half. There was definitely a touch of it last week and the week before, but this episode was riddled with his self-absorbed quips! Not only the comedic timing was great, but the script was well written too. Also Marshall's story was beyond funny this time around. The best part is when he imagined Robyn and Lily trash talking his sexual abilities as he tried to make love to Lily. Priceless!and the whole small penis thing was just a riot of a story!!!

    Last but not least, Jennifer Morrison was hilarious!!!I was hoping something would happen between her and Ted, but who knows...she has another episode coming up...I bet its gonna be ridiculously funny!

    All I'm hoping for is for the rest of the season to keep up with this trend! Go HIMYM!moreless

  • new stuff!!

    7.0
    "Good"
    By topreview, May 10, 2011
    I liked it. Although it wasn`t especially funny. And the ending of the Ted storyline feeled a bit cheap. when he sees her ring on the finger and it all falls apart.
    And some how the Max story line feeled unstructered, first small penis then the sex live talk, and in the end it didnt change anything. Max and robin just split and Lily and Robin will always talk about their sex live,
    Marshall doesnt like it. So there s no developement.

    Having all said that. There was, and that s what makes the episode worth watching, plenty of new stuff. You didn t see Marshall fighting against the teamed up Robin and Lily. And Teds will to sacrifice all his values for random girl, showed the negative side of his honest search for true love. All this stuff feeled real. I don t know if himym is back on the track. But at least they showed that there still a some stories to tell about Ted and the gang.moreless

  • It had all the humour. That's all I can ask for.

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    By amazing_race, May 10, 2011
    This was a great episode of How I Met Your Mother, although definitely not as good as its predecessor. Marshall was hilarious in this episode, with basically everything that happened, meanwhile Ted was also interestin, as he falls for a married activist who is preventing the constructino of the building that he is desinging. Weird...

    The episode is funny, and as long as it has that aspect, I really can not fault it, because atfer all, this is a comedy. The storyline might not have been at 100%, but humour-wise, it was brilliant!

    Keep it up, guys, and I hope this standard and calibre is maintained right throughout the season.moreless
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