'How I Met Your Mother': How they do it in Canada
Those kooks over at "How I Met Your Mother." I am completely entranced every time they come up with a new website. Even if the episode itself isn't the greatest, I'm just in love with the websites, and boy did we get a new website tonight.
If you were an architect designing the new headquarters of Goliath National Bank would you try to use it to pick up women in an elevator? I wouldn't. Especially if the headquarters project had been scrapped. Oh sure, Ted didn't know that last bit, but using the project to pick up chicks wasn't smart. Barney and Marshall were screwing Ted and he didn't even know it, that's a Sneaky Snowplow.
Forget it, I don't want to talk about Ted's problem. Sure, Barney and Marshall did a whole bunch of crazy, really elaborate things to convince Ted that he was still working for GNB, but I don't want to discuss it. No, I want to talk about other crazy, really elaborate things. I want to talk about the important stuff. I want to talk about Canadian sex acts. Don't pretend like you don't want to talk about it also.
As we've discussed previously, those Canadians are odd folks and now they've created a handy-dandy little website to help clue us in about all of their... proclivities. The only problem is (and you've worked this out if you visited the website), you can't tell what any of the acts are, all you get is Alan Thicke being perplexed and a message to try back later.
Fine, you want me to talk a little bit more about the episode, I will. After all, I wouldn't want my boss to give me a Saskatoon Totem Pole, which coincidentally is exactly what was going to happen to Ted after Ted lost the Goliath gig. And Ted did lose the Goliath gig, it wasn't his fault, it was the economy, but that didn't stop the gig from disappearing. While I can't say that he got a Saskatoon Totem Pole, he did get fired.
Robin, we learned (and don't pretend like you were surprised), wanted to perform one of those weird Canadian sex acts. She pretended that it was a Canadian celebrity who had a weird set of collectibles who wanted to perform the act with her, but it wasn't. I completely understand why Lily wanted to know the details so badly, but I can't fathom how anyone in the group figured that they could possibly ever guess which celebrity, sex act, and collectible was involved.
Furthermore, I don't know why Robin pretended like it was the celebrity who wanted to do the weird sex act when it was her. Do you think that perhaps she was considering herself a celebrity due to her Robin Sparkles-ness? She's a celebrity in my world, and even though I have no idea what a Halifax Fudge Badger is... nevermind, I won't go there.
The ultimate answer to the question is that Robin wanted to do an Old King Clancy with the Frozen Snowshoe who collected Harvey's trays. I just wished that they hadn't titled the episode tonight "Old King Clancy" because it sort of gave that bit away. Out of curiosity, what do you think the maple syrup is for?
Quotes and other thoughts:
- Ted on what happened after Billson fired him in the ETR -- "after he proposed a vocational paradigm shift, I made an impromptu presentation using a four-pronged approach that really brought him to his knees." That's the greatest way of saying "he fired me so I hit him with a chair" that I've ever heard.
- As much as I love Canadian sex acts, Barney firing people in the ETR was pretty great too, particularly sleeping with the one lady and canning her immediately after. I really liked the hand wave dismissal he gave everyone. Awesome.
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I'm totally confused. I'm on the West Coast, and we seem to have had a repeat of the "Bracket" episode.... I feel a little cheated :(
they moved the time, the new one was on at 8 and they showed a repeat at 830
I missed this episode too as I often do because it comes on the same time as Chuck and House. I love it though! Just wanted to comment that the French on the site is soo terrible it's laughable, hahaha! And the last thing it says is "poutine forever!" I like the websites they create too, they're pretty funny.
Read more about Old King Clancy at http://wfpc.net/old_king_clancy.html
As much as I love this show, the Canadian jokes usually fall flat for me (although I LOVE the Canadian sex acts website). Probably because I actually am Canadian. I'm never offended or anything, it's just that the country they keep making fun of seems to bear no resemblance to the one I actually live in. They seem to just keep making stuff up. At least when they make fun of our funny accents that we don't really have, we recognize the stereotype, and it's at least a little amusing. But then there are comments like "Canada didn't get the eighties until 1993" and we just have no clue what they're even talking about.
It's like if I were to make a joke about how Paris Hilton is really fat. It might be really funny if you've never seen what Paris Hilton looks like, but if you have, you'll just be sitting there going "Huh?"
So being fairly Canadian joke heavy, I didn't particularly care for most of this episode, but the footage of Barney firing people was hilarious. As was "after he proposed a vocational paradigm shift, I made an impromptu presentation using a four-pronged approach that really brought him to his knees."
Ryan M. I get what you are saying about the Canadian jokes but I think that is why they are funny. Because everyone knows that Canad is not really like that. It's a fictionalized Canada. I think that is why you don't find it funny, because you know the real Canada so well.
Sorry, Ryan, but I'm a Canadian too and I laughed at all the Canadian jokes. Because they are so over the top.
And the maple syrup is most likely lube.
Did I miss something? I don't recall missing the last part of the show. When did Robin reveal that she was the one who wanted to do the act and not the other way around?
I liked the part when Robin was explaining what a Harvey's was: "Over 12,000 served!!!"