How I Met Your Mother – Canning Randy
Robin’s post Halloween walk of shame made me laugh right off the bat. Then, Will Forte arrived as the titular Randy, and the laughter stopped. I don’t watch SNL because I find the humor juvenile at best, mean-spirited at worst, but I still know Will Forte is on SNL. I do not find him funny for the most part, but he was funny the last time he was on HIMYM. He was more annoying this time.
Eventually we found out that Robin didn’t do the walk of shame because she slept with someone, but because she made a commercial. It was awful but ended up running seven years, according to Future Ted.
Ted had the B storyline this week. Zoey, from a couple of weeks ago, signed up for his class. She ended up getting his entire class to go out and protest his architectural project, and he couldn’t figure out how to win them back to liking him. Lily explained that as a teacher they didn’t need to like him, only to fear and respect him. So, instead of trying to be their friend, he told them all that if they weren’t in class the next day they would get an “F”. Everyone showed up, and while they might not like him, at least they fear him.
Mike & Molly – After the Lovin’
There was a big controversy about this show in the last week, when an author/blogger at Marie Claire said some really horrendous things about watching two overweight people in love. If she had said the things she said about people of another race she would have been called a racist. If it had been said about a gay couple, she would have been called a homophobe. Because she said nasty things about an overweight couple, there is not really a name for it, maybe sizism? Anyway she was awful and she got a lot of well-deserved heat for it. I won’t ever read another thing from Marie Claire. It wasn’t just her, but also whoever posed the question to her in the first place, and whatever editor let that piece see the light of day. Even her non-apology apology was ridiculous.
Mike and Molly spent the weekend together and he then got a bit clingy. Molly tried to take it slow, being a bit more aloof, so she didn’t start getting all mushy, sending him poems and buying him stupid gifts. I can totally relate! It’s hard when you feel a special connection with someone, but you want to go slowly so you don’t get hurt or scare him away.
They tell each other how they are feeling, and agree to keep each other in check and let the relationship move at a natural, slow pace. Then they make out, so I don’t know how slow they are really going to be able to take it. They obviously really like each other, and they are really well matched. When you find that person, it is really hard to hold back.
Castle – Almost Famous
A male stripper dressed as a cop was shot and killed between his gig at a bachelorette party in an apartment and his car.
Interesting bit of trivia: the scenes in the strip club were actually filmed in the “gentleman’s club” right down the street from my office. The day they filmed we saw all the trucks and trailers, but no sign of either Nathan or Stana. I would have been happy to be an extra for those scenes.
After a very convoluted story, Beckett and Castle finally figure out that the lawyer of the woman the victim was seeing killed him. The lawyer had set up a scam company and had the victim act the part of the real estate broker, brokering deals for properties to which they had no claim. When the victim took $25000 to pay off a biker club president who was angry with him and was probably going to hurt him, the lawyer found out, and killed him.
In the Castle family sub-plot, Alexis decided to audition for her school’s production of Grease, and Castle’s mother Martha, threw herself into helping Alexis prepare. I always love when they reference Martha’s acting career, because Susan Sullivan seems to relish being able to play on her own past. Alexis ended up not getting the part, mainly because she realized she just didn’t want it as badly as her rival, but she didn’t tell Martha that, because she didn’t want to disappoint her.
James MaCarthur, the original Danno, died this week, and I thought it was a lovely touch that the put an “In Memoriam” card at the beginning of the episode instead of at the end, where I would have expected it.
We got a good amount of shirtless Alex O’Loughlin, and that made me very happy.
A man took a bunch of tourists hostage to force the team to find out who really killed his wife, when he himself was accused. I don’t get how anyone would think that makes sense, taking hostages is really no way to prove your innocence. He is also suffering from PTSD, after being a Navy Seal in the war. He could have actually killed his wife and not even remember having done it, according to his doctor.
Eventually the team discovers he really didn’t kill his wife. She was killed by her first husband, the biological father of her daughter, whom her second husband thought was dead. He then attempted to kidnap his daughter, but the kidnapping was thwarted by the team on the runway as his plane was about to take off.
The accused was eventually captured by McGarrett, and had to say goodbye to his daughter anyway, since he was going to be either hospitalized or jailed. It was a sad ending since the child will have to stay with an aunt because her mother is dead, her bio-father killed her, and her dad is sick and may have to go to jail. Not really a feel good ending.
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