How I Met Your Mother
Time has always been a major — if not the — component of How I Met Your Mother. But in Season 7, it will be about timing.
"That's one of the central questions this season," creator/executive producer Carter Bays tells TVGuide.com. "Love and romance to some degree is a game of musical chairs. At some point, the music stops and you're with someone. You don't know at the beginning of the game who you're going to end with. Hopefully it ends up being the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, but there's a lot of randomness to it and bad timing on parts of all the characters."
In Robin's case, she's the one with the bad timing. After realizing she still has feelings for Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) in the season finale, Robin (Cobie Smulders) unfortunately cannot act on them yet, as her former flame has reconnected with Nora (Nazanin Boniadi). And yes, Barney is actually serious about getting serious this time. (Hey, he does get married after all.) "The thing that Barney learned last year was how he came to be the dashing rogue in the suit," Bays says. "He met his father and realized that maybe he can aspire to more in life and he's in a place where he's genuinely looking for something more than one-night stands with hot girls. We're going to see him a little more emboldened about starting a relationship with Nora."
Though he's dating Nora, that doesn't mean Robin is out of the equation entirely. In fact, the first episode of the one-hour premiere features a hot and flirty dance number between Robin and Barney at Punchy's wedding. "That whole episode is about the chemistry of Barney and Robin and how you can't deny when there's a connection between two people," Bays says. "That's what the routine is about — they have chemistry, and how do you ignore it? Can you ignore it? Can they ignore it?"
For now, they are, which complicates matters since Robin works with Nora. It will come to a head in the fourth episode, forebodingly titled "The Stinson Missile Crisis," in which Robin has an "explosive moment" that leads her to meeting her shrink and love interest Kevin (Kal Penn). "There's no attraction initially," Bays says. "But he understands Robin better than anyone who's understood her before and that is intriguing to her. He'll be around for five or six [episodes]."
Robin remains one of the top candidates for Barney's mystery bride, along with Nora. There will be more candidates, but the reveal, which will happen this season, ought to make fans happy, Bays says. It's been more than a year since he and co-creator/executive producer Craig Thomas decided Barney would get married — a plot point they never imagined writing for the legendary womanizer when they conceived of the show, despite its themes of change and adult growing pains.
"That wasn't part of [the original plan]! I think Barney's development as a human being has been a nice discovery as far as things we've explored," he says. "In [Season 1's] 'Zip, Zip, Zip,' it was just Barney hanging out with Robin, and it was great. We were like, 'Let's file this away.' By Season 3, we said we will play [that card] with them dating and breaking up. ... By Season 6, we knew we had this goalpost of him getting married and wanted to build this season of how someone goes from Barney to being the marrying kind. We had to dig in at what is at the core of a guy who's so allergic to any commitment. And it was abandonment. Now it's the story of who Barney is marrying."
While Barney's wedding is the framing device for the season, it's not, of course, all about Barnacle. Marshall (Jason Segel) will get his new job working for Martin Short's less-than-stellar lawyer in the second episode, and he and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) are expecting a baby, who will arrive in the season finale. "We've decided [the sex], but not the name yet," Bays says, noting that it may not necessarily be the son Future Ted referenced two seasons ago. "There's a whole episode about do you want to know the sex? We have a pregnancy calendar that's synced up with when episodes air. How big are Lily's boobs in this episode? Is she showing yet here?"
And then there's that matter of the mother. "Maybe we'll see a knee, maybe a shoulder," Bays quips. After a disastrous relationship with Zoey (Jennifer Morrison), things are looking up for Ted (Josh Radnor) — professionally at least. "The first two episodes are about Ted realizing he might have wasted some time with Zoey and he needs to start dating again, not just to date, but to find his future wife," Bays says. "Part of the season will be about him taking a good look at his life and why is it that he hasn't settled down yet. The first episode of the series, he said he's ready to get married. Six years later, why is he not married?"
Bays remains typically coy about the eventual reveal of the mother — there will be something in the finale — partially because that hinges on whether the show will stay beyond an eighth season. "We have wiggle room. There are three or four different plans," he says. "Right now, we're focused on Season 7. I think it'll be the best one yet. I think Season 6 will always be the season where things changed for me. I liked that there was a directional change in the show with the wedding mystery and we're continuing along the course, but there are big developments for everyone and some great moments that are looming on the horizon, so we're excited."
How I Met Your Mother returns with two back-to-back episodes Monday at 8/7c on CBS.
Katie Holmes Starring As Sexy Pumpkin in "How I Met Your Mother"
Watch out, Tom Cruise. Katie Holmes is celebrating Halloween a bit early this year — as a sexy Jack-O-Lantern on How I Met Your Mother. For those unfamiliar with the show, her character (referenced as the “slutty pumpkin” on the show) is a woman Ted met at a Halloween party whom he’s been trying to find for years. According to NY Magazine, HIMYM creator Craig Thomas revealed the news, adding:
Katie is a lovely and talented actress, which is why we’ve saved for her perhaps the most classily named character in our show’s history.
episode 3 mmg lawak giiler..psl ted jumpa victoria n yg plg bes barney bet ngan lily/marshall....
aku dh agak dh dorg mesti nk jd kan barney tu loser...n at the end kita tau per akan jd...tp serius xtau naper barney terlampau giler sgt ngan b**bs lily tu...hahahh
bes giler part dorg nk bet camner nk tunjuk / touch lily punya tuttt..hahha...
Ko dh tgk episod 3 x??? mcm mendebarkan je....
maxxwu Post at 27-9-2011 23:59
huhu...ye saye!!! heheaku dah tgk..tp cam lmbt sket..ari kamis br tgk..bz sket mggu ni..
padan muka barney kene pkai ducky tie for 1 yr!! haha
pastu, masa duk cte2 psl ted jupe victoria tu kan..robin je duk tny..what happen next cenggitu..
mcm dia je nk tau the whole story..
mayb sbb lily+marshall and barney duk bz psl b**bs lily tuh..
so victoria not the mother la ek?
AMARAN: JIKA ANDA MENONTON DI NTV7/STARWORLD DAN TIDAK MAHU SPOILER, SILA BERHENTI SEKARANG.....PADA YG MAHU TERUS MEMBACA, DIPERSILAKAN
BT-dub, sila hi-light kan utk baca
'How I Met Your Mother': Did Victoria just make this a lot more complicated?
by Sandra Gonzalez
I think we can all agree that we sometimes become too invested in our television programs. That’s why we cry during season finales, scream at our TV, and in the case of last night’s How I Met Your Mother, literally fall out of your chair. Well, perhaps the latter just happened to me. In any case, let’s talk about that ending…
But to do that, we have to quickly recap.
We left off last week with Ted locking eyes with Victoria at his big architect ball. Yes, Victoria/”Buttercup”/Bakery girl/Ran away to Germany girl/we never got any freaking closure girl. Yup, her. Thrilled? Yes, I was — just a bit (!!!!). Ted was excited, too, in his dorky Ted way. And in this episode, Ted told the story of their encounter while Barney obsessed over Lily’s growing pregnancy boobs. (*There’s more to this duck tale, but I’ll get to that in a minute.)
After he crossed paths with Victoria (and, I suppose, ditched Robin as a date), Ted accompanied her back to her bakery where he washed her dishes. That’s not a bad euphemism for sex. If anything, it was metaphor for Ted cleaning his conscience for the way things ended with Victoria. He still carried the guilt over kissing — and almost sleeping with — Robin, he said.
As one might have predicted (and, as many of us hoped), the two did end ,up sharing a kiss, but the excitement was marred by the revelation that Victoria’s boyfriend Klaus was planning to propose soon. (Also, there was a funny bit where Ted also realized that Victoria had started dating Klaus just days after their break up.)
So Victoria left to be with her boyfriend (even though the pair briefly looked like they were about to make my dreams come true and run away with each other). But in re-telling the story to his friends, Ted kept to himself the one major nugget from their encounter: She thinks Robin is the reason none of Ted’s relationships have worked.
So…what now? The last frame of the episode would lead us to believe that we’re about to revisit the Barney-Robin-Ted love triangle that we’ve already dealt with, but I can’t believe that’s true.
1) It was too painfully sad the first time around.
2) Unless the show is pulling a Simpsons and spoofing its own repeated plots, I honestly don’t think we’re going to blatantly retread this storyline.
3) There’s a chance that I am misinterpreting Victoria (and I’m sure that was the intention). Her reasoning seems sound, but I have to believe there’s a twist. I mean, this is How I Met Your Mother. There’s always a twist.
Do you think that’s the last we’re going to see of Victoria? If so, do you wish there was more? Do you think we’re headed to love triangle land once again? And what the heck happens when we throw Nora back into the mix, too?
* I had planned on working this into the post above, but there’s just no way of artfully weaving a mention of a subplot about boob flashing into a post that deals with the deepest matters of the heart. So here’s the short of it: Barney wanted to see Lily’s big boobs and almost won a bet that would have allowed him a squeeze. But Lily flashed him while he was executing the task that would have led to victory. Well played, Lily Pad. Well played. And as a result of losing the bet, Barney now has to wear Marshall’s nauseatingly ugly duck tie for a year. #awesome #loser #speakinginhashtagsisawesome
Post time 18-9-2011 10:15 PM
