How I Met Your Mother

"Jenkins" is a good How I Met Your Mother episode with definitely some cute parts. In this episode, the gang is supposed to meet Jenkins, but everyone thinks Jenkins is male, but really Jenkins is female. It was cute how Jenkins kisses Marshall and Marshall feels so bad. I love how Lily doesn't believe that Jenkins kissed Marshall. I love the debate between "reacher" and "settler". I love how Robin is starting to get a lot of viewers, but that's only because they play a drinking game when she says "But...umm". I give this episode a 8.5/10.

Getting right back on track after the 100th episode, the show continues with hilarity. The Lilly/Marshall plot was a bit unoriginal, but it definitely was still funny. Robin's plot was definitely original, and definitely funny. In this episode, Robin learns that she has fans when Ted's class recognizes her from her newscast. Only to find out that they made a drinking game out of her, every time she said "But, um…" they would have to drink. Meanwhile Marshall keeps on talking about how awesome his co-worker, Jenkins is, he lies to Lilly and says that Jenkins is a guy. When she finds out that Jenkins is a girl, she surprisingly doesn't get jealous. Marshall then wants her to get jealous, when he fears that she might be the settler, and he might be the reacher. When Jenkins kisses him, Lilly doesn't believe him, and thinks it's just something to get her jealous. The funniest part is when Jenkins finally admits to kissing Marshall and you think Lilly won't care, but boy were you wrong. Lilly punches Jenkins in the face, hilarious. I also like how it tied in with Robin's plot. She was drunk that day because of Robin's drinking game. Robin manages to do some payback and says "But, um…" nonstop so that they can drink until they can't drink anymore. Both plots were hilarious and the fact that they tied in together was great.

This was an absolutely amazing episode of HIMYM, and it really is a great return to form for this amazing show!



I thought the storyline was really great, with the "but, um's". I was cracking up all throughout those scenes, and I thought it was just brilliant! I loved that, so much!



I also thought that th e fact that Lily didn't believe Marshall got kissed by "Jenkins" was hilarious! I laughed really badly all throughout this storyline as well.



Overall, I'd highly recommend this episode, if you're looking for a few laughs! I absolutely loved it, and if the show continues this way, I can't wai t until we see some more!

Following the brilliant episode last week, returns (from the laziness a couple of episodes ago) How I Met Your Mother with an episode that brings back what we love about the show. Funny scenarios.

FINALLY, Marshall and Lily have somewhat of a story and episode devoted to them. Lily believes that she is 'the Settler' (settles for someone lower than her league) and Marshall is 'the Reacher' (reaches out of his league). So when Marshall gets kissed by Jenkins, a new worker at his office, he tries to get Lily jealous.

Meanwhile Robin also gets a drinking game about her, where people take shots whenever she says "but um" on her early morning news show. Although the phrase "but um" doesn't quite catch on as well as "Swarley" or the likes, it's still quite a funny concept.

Overall, a welcome return to How I Met Your Mother and the same originality put in as the earlier seasons.

Some very funny scenes and a few embarrassing moments tonight.



Jenkins is played by the beautiful and quirky Amanda Peet. When Marshall first tells the Jenkins stories then you see them again with Peet as the actual person doing the skits you begin to understand Marshall's fear in telling everyone Jenkin's is not only a woman, but a very attractive one at that.



Things get a little carried away when Ted and Robin point out the reacher/settler rule of couples. When Marshall finds out even Lily thinks he's the reacher he gets really stupid. I really like his Big Fudge persona though.



The bit with Robin is funny. The pride she takes in being famous, not knowing it is for a very different reason than she realizes. Boy are those interviews bad! You'd think someone would say something? In the end she seems to rise to the occassion while everyone else is just trying to survive.



Last weeks episode got some interesting reactions from people all around. Tonight got back to a little normalcy. Not the best episode of How I Met Your Mother and not the worst. Thanks for reading...

After two back to back disappointing episodes, HIMYM finally does something right. This was a Marshall-Lily centric episode and the main plot really worked for me. Marshall is my second favorite character on the show and is so much more funny and interesting than the protagonist Ted. So I like it when the show focuses on him. The main plot concerned Marshall's new colleague Jenkins who seems to have a thing for Marshall. However, Lily refuses to believe his story that Jenkins forcibly kissed him. This puts Marshall on a mission to make her believe his story. There was also a theory on relationship that I found amusing. The sub plot was nothing to talk about. I didn't like it much. And that's why an 8/10.

Marshall hides the fact that his new co-worker, Jenkins, is female from Lily and freaks out on how to explain to her that Jenkins kisses him. He is even more miffed to understand that Lily believes he is making it up since Jenkins is so hot. As a subplot, Robin basks in her new-found celebrity status amongst the college kids and Ted is confused as to why.

The Marshall-Lily side of the episode is well done and a delight to watch. The whole 'reachers and setttlers' view on a relationship was pretty informative on the whole psyche of a relation but does not conform to the jealousy and possessiveness usually exhibited by women, especially Lily.

Robin as a drinking game was good yet they could not go much more than they did for that. And alluding Ted's act of defiance against Robin's act of revenge to like a captain and his crew going down with the ship was nice. Hence, a pretty good show, but it can be (and has been) much better. Amanda Peet's a treat.