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'How I Met Your Mother': And a woo! to you too
Poor Robin, Robin has found herself adrift of late. She has no job, she has no place to live, and tonight on How I Met Your Mother she was looking for friendship. She didn't realize that she could call me, so she wanted to spend time with Lily, who promptly informed her that on the evening in question she had to go out for a co-worker's birthday. With nothing better to do, Robin tagged along.
Lily and Robin met Lily's fellow teacher, Jillian, at a bar only to discover that Jillian was a woo girl. You know what I'm talking about, the kind of girl where anytime anything remotely good happens there's a loud, obnoxious "woooo!" Neither Robin nor Lily were into it. Now, while I might not approve of that type of girl, the fact that Jillian (portrayed by Jamie-Lynn Sigler) whipped out a breast in order to get a free drink may have made the whole woo thing a little more palatable in my eyes.
Frankly, the woo-ness was further enhanced when, somehow, someway, Robin became a woo girl. The way I saw it, is that if Robin does it, it must be acceptable (like smoking cigars, hunting, and drinking scotch). Lily confronted Robin about her new found woo-dom, and a whole lot of semi-rhyming did ensue, the found many a word to rhyme with woo. Oddly, never once did they use the word poo, nor goo, nor shoe. I know that were I a writer I would have used at least one of those, I do… I do.
Enough of that! Lily decided that she could be just as fun as a woo girl and showed up at the woo girl bar when she knew Jillian, her pals, and Robin would be there too (that was just a random woo rhyme, not a theme continuation). It took Robin to point out to Lily what Lily already should have known (see, if it was theme continuation that would have somehow ended with "knew" instead of "known") – that woo girls were sad, that they had nothing but the woo, that the woo was hiding the emptiness in their lives. Lily accepted that and seemed to move on. Oh, Ted was there woo-ing too, and we'll get to why that was right now…
At the episode's outset, Barney, was still vying to be Ted's best friend. I honestly believe that Barney thinks he has a shot at that title, and while Ted doesn't, he was more than willing to thank Barney profusely for the favor he did Ted tonight. Good old Goliath National Bank was looking for a new corporate headquarters and Barney made sure that Ted got to pitch his design to them.
Ted came up with an awesome design. Well, I thought it was awesome, but honestly I don't know anything about architecture so I'm not entirely sure that my opinion about the design is valid. Goliath didn't like Ted's design, they went with Sven, the "Swedish architecture collective."
Actually, they didn't just give it to Sven, Barney gave it to Sven. Sven came up with some crazy fire-breathing T-Rex design and so Barney opted to go with them and not Ted. Okay, that may not make Barney out to be a great guy, but to be fair to him, he was going to get the button on his desk that would allow the T-Rex to breathe fire. You have to admit it, friendship has its limits, right? Perchance, just perchance, the ability to control a fire-breathing building in the middle of the Manhattan skyline might be where the line is drawn. So, Ted lost the building and that's why he was at the woo girl bar.
After another chat with the Svens, a chat in which the Svens denigrated Barney's rooftop "conference calls" which consisted of going to the roof and drinking beer (something Barney does with Marshall), Barney opted to do the right thing. Okay, Marshall yelling at him helped too. Barney fired the Svens and hired Ted and his architecture firm.
If that doesn't deserve a "woo!" I don't know what does.
Quotes and a question or three:
- Lily, trying to fit in with the woo girls who were all referring to one another as "skanks" and "hoes" and that sort of thing – "You're all a bunch of prostitutes, you probably have STDs." Yeah, she could never be a woo girl.
- Question number 1 – do you woo?
- Question number 2 – if you woo, who do you woo? Tell me true.
- Question number 3 – seriously now, you'd totally give up a friendship for a button that would make a T-Rex building breathe fire in the middle of New York City, wouldn't you?
The TV and Film Guy's Review - I have to. You know I do. You do, don't you? Woo!
I love "HIMYM" but it's trying too hard to be witty. Woo Girls...seriously? First, it was stuff like the Platinum Rule,the Chain of Screaming, "GCWOK", the Cheerleader Effect, and now this.
With that being said, I did think this week's episode was one of the better ones this season. The guy's were spot on tonight, with some good humor and emotion. The girls' subplot fell flat. What's the deal with the rhyming?
Overall, I really enjoyed tonight's episode and I hope this is a sign that "HIMYM" is back on track.
MC | Nov 17, 2008 11:10:21 PM | #The moment they said Woo Girl I knew exactly who they were talking about they didn't even need to give an explanation. And yes given enough booze, I too have been known to woo. *sigh* and its too my eternal shame.
Francesca | Nov 18, 2008 12:44:10 AM | #My friends and I were texting during the show that we are all woo girls when drinking. And sometimes when not. We woo a variety of things--didn't realize how annoying it was until this episode.
Bo | Nov 18, 2008 5:03:37 AM | #Excellent episode. I liked all the little below the radar items presented in the episode especially Marshalls ability to decipher Robins criptic talks with Lily, his refusal to throw cans at pigeons and his showing up at the bar with an appropriate "Woo-girl" hat then Lily's toy firemans helmet proving even he is more of a "Woo-girl" then she ever will be.
I thought the rhyming was hysterical and the "Woo-girls" spot on especially the one who secretly was in love with Jillian.
And sadly, I can relate to Ted, as I too in my younger days had some periods were I wallowed in the pleasure of being a self-pitying "woo-guy".
sac | Nov 18, 2008 5:09:23 AM | #I thought the main SVEN guy was Neil Patrick Harris at first. Loved this episode!!
SISSERS | Nov 18, 2008 5:40:17 AM | #I thought the rhyming conversation was great!
SISSERS I too thought that one of the SVENs was familiar. I was disappointed that it wasn't.
anonymus49 | Nov 18, 2008 8:03:08 AM | #Woo! Now only Ted's love life is in shambles!
As for Barn-ster, come ON! A fire-breathing dragon head in the middle of NYC? How clumsy would that be? Now if the head could tilt and rotate, we might be onto something...
By the way, Pidgeons do remember. Evolution isn't quite done yet.
pakopako | Nov 18, 2008 8:04:47 AM | #And please don't forget, that as a further enticement for Barney to give the job to "Sven", there was also a strip club in the building - it was that on top of the fire-breathing button, that really made Barney go for the Sven collective. How funny when Barney was originally making fun of Sven and tried to imitate a Swedish accent, he ended up veering off into a bad French accent!
And I didn't/don't know Woo Girls to the best of my recollection but I do remember Squealer Girls who emit a very high-pitched squeal each and every time they see each other. I remember being at a Jimmy Buffett concert in Maryland and a group of inebriated girls sitting near me and my friends while we were tailgating acted like they hadn't seen each in forever - the squealing and accompanying hugging seemed to grow in proportion to how much they had to drink, naturally!
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Wow, that Sven stuff was just awful. And Ted's not more upset with Barney for what he potentially did to him? (Hit him whie he was down, destroyed a lifelong dream of having a building in Manhattan, ruined a chance to have huge success in his career, etc.) The whole storyline was so over-the-top bad SITCOMMY (although I would add an H in there somewhere.)
At least Robin wanting to have single female friends seemed based in some sort of reality that humans go through (although she's always been shown to be more of a guy's girl up until this point.)
But even that storyline was ruined by the blatant moral of the story being that every women in her late 20s in New York City secretly just wants to be married and have kids. God forbid they should enjoy being single and have fun nights out on the town with their friends. Gross.
Mad Men reference!
Doane | Nov 19, 2008 9:28:41 AM | #Liz T, it isn't about having a man or kids, but we all have something we wish could improve in our lives. Our careers?
And yeah I woo! I loved this episode. Loved Sven ''press it for glory!'' lol
Alex | Nov 20, 2008 5:45:08 PM | #This was an excellent episode.
The woo girls were gorgeous. Jaime-Lynn Sigler was great, but i thought Erika Medina was absolutely HOT! Please bring back the WOOOO girls!
I also enjoyed the rhyming, it made me think of all the Dr. Seuss stories I've read to my kid.
And Barney always make the episodes great. Like when he ran out the door when he realized there were woo girls at the bar. And the conference calls, excellent idea, i might say I've had some of those, but without the beer. And the last clip when barney desperately tries to reach the two hot girls for a 3some but just can't keep his balance. GREAT!
tony | Nov 21, 2008 10:05:21 AM | #Barney the dinosuar!!! come on people! that is why he loved it so much
The World | Dec 9, 2008 10:06:20 AM | #
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