A rare dud in HIMYM's mostly excellent second season. It's still a fairly entertaining episode on balance since they don't screw anything up in a major way, but there's just one too many jokes that don't land, and the Ted-Lily subplot doesn't satisfy. Even Barney's subplot lacks legs, though NPH of course sells it damn well (particularly the sneeze he does in the hall). Mainly it stands out as worse from the other episodes in this season because it doesn't bring anything new or fresh to the show. Most season 2 episodes either wheeled out a great new character, started a great running joke for the show, or at least impressed with a cool new non-linear storytelling mechanic. This episode lacked any of that and has predictable and cliched plots to boot.
1/4
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