How I Met Your Mother

"Say Cheese" is an awesome How I Met Your Mother episode. I love how this episode because it makes a point that you shouldn't bring dates to best friend events. I love Lily in this episode because I feel the same way as her. I love how she looks through an album explaining how Ted has ruined every special event they had as friends by bringing a date. I love how Barney never takes a bad picture. I love how Robin tries to get a bad picture of him and she doesn't succeed until the end of the episode. I give this episode a 9/10.

The episode never really adds on to what they've said time and again. Ted brings home his new girlfriend to Lily's birthday, and Lily does not want her to be part of the group picture. Marshall runs around trying to plan the perfect birthday for Lily while Robin notices how Barney has the same (awesome) pose in every picture.

Firstly, Lily's apprehensiveness over Ted's new girlfriend's appearance in her birthday photo is not new, and it is understandable. Hence Ted's defending it as though it were a new subject seems off. Moreover, how she could screw the cake up so bad, I'll never know.

Second, (SPOILER ALERT) Marshall talks of how he's had to talk to all of Ted's girlfriends after he (Ted) broke up with them and be the shoulder they could cry on. It just seemed odd that Ted broke up with so many girls in his apartment when getting rid of them from there would be the obvious hassle, hence men tend to avoid breaking up in their own house.

Third, What is the point of the whole Robin-Barney photo thing? I don't see how Barney's looking good in photos has anything to do with anything. Moreover, the impossible shots just take away from the reality of the show without adding anything to it. I was unimpressed by that and though they did flesh out Robin's role as the maybe that stayed, I did not much care for it.

Overall, a dismal performance on a dismal storyline. It has been a while and the mother is almost entirely forgotten. One other thing i can't stand is how Older Ted is saying all this to his kids and they still listen to this without yelling at him to "Bring out the mother, already!'.

I thought this episode was enjoyable even though it wasn't eventful. It's Lilly's birthday, and Ted brings a girl, Amanda. Lilly doesn't want Amanda in the picture due to the other girls Ted has had in Lilly's pictures that he soon broke up with. I love how Lilly ridicules Amanda throughout the whole episode, when she's in the other room. We take a gander at the past, and two past girlfriends from past episodes make an appearance. We've got Anne Dudek as Natalie from the third episode of the firsts season, and of course, we have Karen (Laura Prepon): Ted's college girlfriend. While all of this is happening, Robin tries to find a way to take a bad picture of Barney since he says he's never had a bad picture. We learn that Marshall never takes good pictures. Marshall was the only negative in this episode, god he was so annoying. Him & his stupid guitar, and his stupid singing. I wanted to shoot my brains out every time he started talking. I liked how he told off Amanda though, Amanda ends up messing up the cake and calling Lilly: Lori, and mistaking her age for 42 when she was turning 32. All is forgiven by the end, and they take the group picture with Amanda once Lilly remembers that Marshall & Ted took a picture with her when they first met her. So everything is resolved, and Robin gets a bad picture from Barney. Sure nothing important happened, but I enjoyed it and it was funny. Good episode.

This was a funny episode, and it was without doubt one fo the best ones of this current season. The episode was quite good in a ll aspects, and it certainly awas an interesting episode in every way, in both main storylines.



I loved Robin trying to atake a bad photot of Barney, and I thought that was really funny. It was also a gtreat way to end off the episode! I loved it!



Also, Lily's albbum of Ted's 'the one's' was funny, and I really thought they did excellently with that storyline as well!



Overall, a great episode. I'd highly reocommend it, as it was really funny and the storylines were senstational!

Not the best episode of How I Met Your Mother I have seen. Maybe the worst of the season matter of fact. The premise was cute, but the actual production of the episode was full of very tired and embarrassing moments.



Unfortunately you could predict the moments that were going to awkward long before they happened and they pretty much went by rote. Ted showing up with a date. Ted not getting the cake Lily wanted. Lily and her walk down memory lane. Marshall trying to stop the negativity.



Now on the positive side there were some very cute and funny moments. The Midnight tiara, the breakfast in bed guitarist, the fact you couldn't take a bad picture of Barney, Marshall's funny games, and the usual banter between the gang.



There were just too many negatives to really rate this episode any higher than I did. It was almost painful to watch at times and I wanted to fast forward through some spots. You know you are in trouble when that happens. There's always next week! Thanks for reading...

Barney in this episode was plain and simply Barney proving to Robin how he's picture perfect. The whole 'surprise snapshot' made me laugh more then once. Lily's birthday was classic as Marshall was being really cheesy and cracked me up.



Ted got a real wake up call to how many women he has been with and how many times he says they are the one. The reason the writers are delaying showing Ted's mother is they believe once they do people will lose interest as they finally have met her. I believe once she's introduced they should spend a season or two showing her and Ted together and make us views really sure that she is actually the one.



I really hope by the end of the season we meet her and spend the next season getting to know her. We don't even have to find out she's the mother it can be just a girl he's dating.