Robots Vs. Wrestlers

Season 5, Episode 22, Aired
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Crashing a snobby high-society party allows Ted to show off how pretentiously intellectual he can be, while Marshall and Lily's baby talk and Robin being off with Don leaves Barney worrying for the future of the gang.
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  • The gang tries to get into a party that the previous occupant to Ted's apartment was invited to.

    9.0
    "Superb"
    By Jon_MW_14, Aug 31, 2011
    "Robots Versus Wrestlers" is a great How I Met Your Mother episode. It's much better than "Zoo or False" and "Twin Beds". I love the beginning of this episode when Ted and Marshall open the mail of their previous occupant, and it's revealed that they've been opening this person's mail for 10 years. I love how the previous occupant was named Marissa Heller and Lily tries to pretend to be her to get into a party. I love how everyone in that party is exactly like Ted. I really don't care about the robot versus wrestlers, but I love how Ted's doppelganger is a Mexican wrestler. I love how Lily and Marshall decide that they will start trying to have a baby when they find Barney's doppelganger. I give this episode a 9/10.moreless

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    "Bad"
    By thefanof, Jun 04, 2011
    Let me just put this out there: How I Met Your Mother is not funny at all. It is almost painful to watch how bad this show is compared to the other shows on the CBS comedy block.

    However, there was actually a decent storyline here. Not Ted's behavior at the party because anything Ted does is immediately awful, but because of the idea of the group. I have had friends distance themselves over the years, I have distanced myself from friends, and you always look back and wonder why. How I Met Your Mother handled this well, by keeping the hugging and making up short, and then immediately going to a joke.

    But a good moral lesson is not an excuse for this.moreless

  • How does this count for humor anymore? Not only does this episode epitomize the show's dull performance as of late, it also embodies all the flaws in our growing society.

    1.5
    "Abysmal"
    By Silphinity, Jun 04, 2011
    I don't even know what to expect from this show anymore. From the start of the season it has flown in a thousand different directions at the same time and has completely lost track of what's important, what's good, and what's funny. Fine, I thought. I just want to watch it until the end of this season, which has gone on for way too long. I can recall I hadn't even begun to write finals when this season began and now it's the first set of exams in university and I'm still waiting for it to end. Anyways, the show has been pretty shoddy as of late. There have only been two episodes that I remember being distinctly good (the playbook being one of them), but what led me to believe this show is irrecoverable were the latest two episodes. First we discuss "Twin Beds". The only 'funny' part in that episode was when Marshall said "Yes! A Mini-fridge! Oh and twin beds". It was like a line from Friends or the Simpsons or something. It surprised me because it was somewhat out of the scope of the regular writing. But what happened later on disgusted me.

    The Blue French Horn. The elusive symbol of the bond between Ted and Robin. Why, how, what the... why did it come back? Seriously! Not only did it come back, but the show managed to reduce its symbolism to nothing, to filth. The show erupted in a wave of dadaist iconoclastic glory (which actually sounds awesome but it's not). It seems that the writers will go to any lengths to salvage the remnants of a storyline that was once in its prime but they can't seem to let go. In the destruction's wake, the blue french horn that did NOT need to come back did, and ended up a pointless tool in the episode that had but not an ounce of substance.

    Sorry, though. It seems I should have posted this review on the other episode's thread. But my description of "Twin Beds" is like the strike that caused the inferno. Because we get to "Robots Vs. Wrestlers"! And no, it's not a walk in the park. The iconoclastic elements are still there and, one by one, the personalities of each of the characters are being stripped away like peeling an orange or that stupid wrapping of a creme egg. Mmm. And on top of that, society takes a blow.

    I always like when they are like "WHOA AWESOME" to things, like with the tickets in the beginning. It reminds me of how I am with friends, getting all quasi-excited about stupid things sometimes. Then they introduce something that actually involves some substance, where Ted can go to this legendary party at the top of that building. I felt somewhat disturbed by the whole "farting" thing when Ted tries to be a little cultural. Yeah, because, you know, the club culture society in which we live is so great. You know. Sean Kingston and uh, Usher and Keisha... I think that's how you spell it... yeah because this is so great. Now some might scold me for attributing the choices of a few drunk writers to an entire cultural shift, but I don't like seeing the show that I had respect for become a poster child for the contempt for anything non-contemporary. Anywho...

    So Ted's having a great time at the party, expressing himself with intellectuals when the most iconoclastic (yeah I like that word, and it really applies here) moment of the entire show occurs: Ted walks (no, runs) out when he gets a picture of his doppelganger. Not just that, but his whole thought process of his thinking he was a douche. Seriously? I'm sure he has a lot of time with his thoughts. Why then, when the show could have seen the evolution of the main character (apparently) does he suddenly discredit his entire personality? Seriously? This is the same Ted who, in the legendary season 1 (where Marshall was, like, thin and funny) basically announced he hated clubs and would love to find someone to settle down with, hopefully being able to avoid that whole scene. Sure, things have changed since season one, but not for the better. This is the same Ted who always corrects people's grammar and logic, reads Pablo Neruda... Ugh. I think Marshall and Lily are holding him back. Maybe it's time they left. I mean, who cares about them anymore? They're the Chandler and Monica of the group except infinite times worse. Let's rename the show "Screw Your Mother, Just Watch Barney and Me Do Cool Stuff". Who's in?moreless

  • You really found this episode bad? Really?

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    By Erekle_var_ra, Mar 27, 2011
    i mean wow... this episode was great, funny , in some way even important! if this episode were somewhere in the 1,2,3,4th seasons it would at least have 9.0? so what happened? I just don't get it...
    what was wrong with it? nothing...
    even better... now we know when lily and marshal start trying to have a baby.
    now we know that they were not all lifetime together but sometimes drifted apart, but they're still best friends. it's so funny that people somehow don't understand how good last three episodes were... getting so close to whole lot new things : )) don't be so judgy... this episode was really cool :)
    P.S: i know this episode isn't exactly 10 out of 10 but this 7.6 annoys me so much that I just give it 10 get ratings up :Dmoreless

  • A good concept, writers could have done better.

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    By Canogaparkcindy, Mar 27, 2011
    I liked the concept of this episode, friends drifting apart. Since Robin is not speaking to them as much because of Don, and in this episode, Ted misses a new found tradition: Robots vs. Wrestlers. I rated this episode low, because I didn't laugh much. And I recall a time where in every scene, I got a chuckle or two from this show. This episode wasn't funny to put it bluntly. It was quite eventful though since we see the fourth doppelganger, and Lilly & Marshall decide that not until they see Barney's doppelganger, they will try to have a baby. Robin phases back in to the group by the end, but it's still sad that Robin will be in less scenes now because of Don. Last episode was better in every aspect. This episode left me unsatisfied, just wasn't up to par this week. Hopefully this isn't what the season finale will be like. Okay episode, not great.moreless
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