The Unfiltered Ramblings of a DVR Addict

Shrimp Fried Rice, Shrimp Fried Rice, Say It With Me Now, Shrimp Fried  Rice…

You were chanting along, you know you were.  This week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother was one of those rare episodes of How I Met Your Mother where there exist two completely autonomous story lines that are equally very funny.

Ted and Marshall’s favorite road trip destination from college Gazolas in Chicago is closing and they decide to get a case of TANTRUM and make the road trip.  Of course Lilly tags along and Ted is upset.  They end up ditching Lily at The Crumpet Inn where they stay the night and head to Gazolas alone.  She is being so pampered she never notices they are gone.

Back in New York Robin is facing deportation for smashing a guy in the face with a chair at the Hosier Hut.  Her only option is to apply for American Citizenship.  Barney takes her under his wing and teaches her what she needs to pass the test and what he things she needs to understand to truly become an American.  After one last binder at the Hoser Hut she winds up face down on a hotel floor in Toronto.  Barney comes to save her and it beat up by a couple of Canadian Goons for bad mouthing Canada.  Back in New York she decides on dual citizenship.

Thoughts and Observations:

• Barney’s claim that he said he “flew across the Atlantic” to find Robin in Toronto.  As a matter of fact all of Barney’s anti-Canadian rhetoric was awesome.
• Robin went to Canada with a women’s curling team to see a Bryan Adams/Rich Little Double Bill.
• Lily’s road trip banter, “So, you wanna talk about bitches?  I’m kidding, they’re called women.”
• I’m pretty sure that really was Kenny Rodgers reading the audio book “Good-bye Sparky” that Lily brought on the road trip.  Plus it was Elizabeth Hassleback approved!
• I need to find some TANTRUM!  I’ve always wanted to rip a phone book in half.
• I thought Barney talking about studying for the test was funny.  “I’m gonna drill you, then we’re going to study.” He also used “cramming” and “bone up.”