Dear How I Met Your Mother,

Please don’t become Will & Grace v2.0 with the stunt casting. Your show becomes about that stunt casting and not about the actual content of the show. It’s distracting and if I didn’t love you so so much, I might not watch, just on principal. I’ll let it go this one time, but if you bring Britney Spears back one more time (ha! I wasn’t even trying for that joke) I may find something else to do on Monday nights.

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In this week’s episode of “How I Met Your Mother” (hereafter to be referred to as HIMYM because all the cool kids are using acronyms), Barney finds out what happens when you break the exalted Bro Code.

Last week he slept with Robin. The girl Ted was in love with and probably still is despite being apart for over a year. In typical Barney fashion, he recruits poor Marshall to go through the Bro Code bylaws with a lawyerly comb and find a loophole that will get him out of feeling guilty for sleeping with Robin. In explaning the origins of the Bro Code, we get an amusing flashback to the founding fathers of America who, along with the constitution, also set forth the rules of the Bro Code. Kind of silly I’ll admit, but seeing George Washington refer to D.C. as “Me D.C.” was enough to crack me up.

Marshall is unable to  find a loophole and tells Barney the only way to assuage the guilt is to just come clean. meanwhile, Robin already came clean to Robin and he forgave her right away. When Barney came clean, Ted ended their friendship. I don’t quite think that was fair but eh, it’s a silly sitcom and I didn’t spend all night fretting over it.

I really enjoy this show. It’s currently the only sitcom I’ve been watching. I’ve decided to come right out and admit I pretty much check out new shows based on the actors and actresses in them. I tried to deny it, but I cannot do so any longer.  I like Neil Patrick Harris (NPH for the cool kids) and so I netflixed HIMYM. I thought it was funny, thought NPH’s character was fantastic and became hooked on the show.

I love David Boreanaz. I checked out Bones via Netflix for that reason and that reason only. And was pleasantly surprised. That seems to be the way of it. So no more will I think that sampling a show or movie based on the hotness or coolness factor of a favoured actor/actress is wrong.

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I love “How I Met Your Mother.” I discovered it thanks to Netflix and an admiration of Neil Patrick Harris. I’m a little annoyed at the stunt casting that was done to get Britney Spears on there. Now sure how or why that came about, nor do I care. I’m not a Britney fan, I don’t care how often she derails and I’m actually annoyed at the amount of media coverage she generates.

So that said, I forgot to watch her episode on Monday, opting instead to catch it on my DVR over my lunch break yesterday. Funny episode - enjoyed the B-movie back and forthing between Ted and his dermatologist - and Britney, for the total of two minutes of screen time she had, was all right. Unobtrusive even. She didn’t make my skin crawl which is a good thing I’ve seen worse stunt casting.

What makes this show full of win and awesome for me though is Neil Patrick Harris. I can’t tell you how many hypothetical 5s my daughter and I have done since we started watching.

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Worth checking out: http://have-you-met-ted.com/ - I might do this from time to time if I come across other great fansites for shows.

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