Tuesday, February 7, 2012

How I Met Your Mother: 5 Minutes

HIMYM always breaks up their episodes, whether by view of character, time of day or in this case parts of the house. Within a 5 minute timer (of heating up stolen kugel) something went wrong in every part of the house. It is Lily and Marshall's housewarming party. They have already warned her dad that he will ruin it and he promises not to, although he has decided to cultivate 10,000 bees in the basement to make organic honey. She decides to order a fancy Gouda off the internet and Marshall finally has a night off. Let's begin, shall we?

Living Room

Robin and Ted are in a huge fight over a kugel from Zabars. Robin was to cook, but she cant, so she stole the last kugel from a 90 year old woman. Mr. Koots (Marshall's boss and Martin Short) tells Marshall that they need to leave in 45 minutes to go back to work. Lily swoops in and tells him that there are vegan egg rolls just for him in the dining room. She then asks her dad to get the wine from the basement of bees. He puts on the beekeeper suit and heads off. Mr. Koots comes in and starts screaming at Ted for eating all of the vegan spring rolls "you could've had anything on that table. The mini pizzas, the bacon wrapped figs" he screams and then Ted gets angry and starts to argue with him. Barney is telling Robin how much he loves his junk and calls it a she. He said all good things are called her, cars, boats, penis. Marshall brings in the gouda and Lily drops it on the floor and kicks it dead. Just then a man in a bee suit is in flames and runs through the living room and out the door. End Scene. Super confused? Yes, me too.

Dining Room

We find out that Barney is the spring roll eater as he downs about 20 of them. He is hitting on their neighbor and tells her they should meet in the guest room in a few minutes. He then tells Mr. Koots that Ted is the one who ate all the spring rolls. A scream comes from the kitchen and Barney runs out to say everything is ok. Lily's dad comes up from the basement with the wine and smells like Kerosene. He doused himself in it.

from cbs.com

The Kitchen

Ted and Robin talk about the Kugel. This is probably the only funny part. She talks about how the 90 year old woman was a slut because she wore too much makeup. Ted tells her she doesn't need to be so assertive with everyone. Where is Kevin in all of this? Lily is telling Barney in the kitchen about her neighbor who went crazy and cut off a guys junk with a cheese knife when he didn't call her back after they had sex. Barney is super freaked out. Marshall tells Mr. Koots he will not be returning back to the office and that he needs to lighten up and have a beer. Lily's dad says why not take up beekeeping? And he decided to don the suit. Two mice crawl on the gouda and it falls to the floor. Marshall puts it on the plate anyways. Just then the timer goes off. DING. Mr. Koots tries to get the kugel but because of the kerosene soaked suit, he goes up in flames, runs through the dining room, living room and then out the door to roll in the snow to extinguish the fire. He then tells Marshall that he wants a beer and they will not be going back to work. Just then the bees are all over the house and they do not go back inside.

After the credits

Barney just slept with the neighbor upstairs. He tries to do the dip, but the hoards of bees are outside the door. He makes a run for it anyway and we hear him scream in horror.

I have to say this episode was not my favorite. I think that the breaking up the episode tactic is fine as long as it is super funny.I hope that they start picking into more of the drama between lovers and we get to meet baby Erickson super soon! Don't you?

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