How I Met Your Mother: ‘Band or DJ?’

I have to say that ‘Band or DJ’ fell in the better half of season 8 episodes thus far; although the qualifications for that title sit at finding at least 1.5 humorous moments. A lot of the credit for that humor goes to Ray Wise playing Mr. Scherbatsky. I’d be very interested in a spin-off show where Ray Wise just discusses the internet: “You familiar with memes?”… “I can haz cheeseburger?” The rest of that story kind of faltered though as HIMYM continues to tell us that we know Barney and Robin are meant for each other as opposed to actually showing us why this is the case.

The actual bad or dj storyline also fell in the average range, but it never made any sense to me from the beginning as this seemed like a “we don’t have anything else for the other three characters this week so let’s let them make this decision as opposed to the actual bride and groom to be.” The culmination of the story was really well done though as Lily and Ted force themselves to deal with the real problems that are their mind, albeit ones that are extremely uncomfortable to admit giving the selfish nature of them.

Also, it looks like HIMYM has really pinned themselves into a corner now by proclaiming that Robin and Barney’s wedding will be in four months, which will in all likelihood be the season finale. Seeing as the season 9 pick-up is almost a certainty right now it looks like they won’t have a choice but to add “the mother” to the cast next year. Unless of course they do something very HIMYMy and come up with some excuse as to why we won’t be meeting her just quite yet. Ugh.

Other favorite moments:

• Maclarens has chili? Looked pretty out of place when Ted was eating it at the beginning of the episode.
• “Dude’s a stone cold Slytherin.”
• “Barney has cameras in our bathroom?” … “Well, I mean, don’t you think?”
• Barney didn’t have a dog as his wingman.

What did everyone else think? Comments are always welcome.