tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post4264387140304201310..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: How I Met Your Mother 9x18: Rally Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-63889850311384210552014-03-08T12:59:00.992-06:002014-03-08T12:59:00.992-06:00@Blam: Have we seen college-age — or any other ver...@Blam: <i>Have we seen college-age — or any other version other than baby — Marvin before?</i><br /><br />I don't think so - it stuck out to me for the same reason. <br /><br /><i>I wasn't even allowed to see my wife's dress before she walked down the aisle, let alone see her in it, so that's what we did, the trade-off being that we didn't get to mingle with guests before sitting down to dinner as much as we'd have liked.</i><br /><br />My wedding was the same way - mainly because I didn't want to see my wife before she walked down the aisle, to the point that I slept at my parents' house the night before (which is how I ended up on the aforementioned deflated air mattress) so that when my wife walked down the aisle, it was the first time I saw her since the Grooms Dinner the night before. <br /><br />And yeah, the downside is that you then lose that pre-dinner social hour with the guests while you're doing pictures. I'm told we had an array of appetizers at the reception before dinner, but I couldn't tell you what they were, because I can't remember what we had selected months before and we went right from pictures to dinner. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-43032656102919755252014-02-27T17:18:24.483-06:002014-02-27T17:18:24.483-06:00I'm with you on pretty much all of this.
Hav...<br>I'm with you on pretty much all of this. <br /><br />Have we seen college-age — or any other version other than baby — Marvin before? Even though it was a short little bit, I wanted to see him introduce himself to people in the dorm to see how into and/or embarrassed he was by "Wait-For-It".<br /><br />The wedding pictures could always happen after the ceremony. I wasn't even allowed to see my wife's dress before she walked down the aisle, let alone see her in it, so that's what we did, the trade-off being that we didn't get to mingle with guests before sitting down to dinner as much as we'd have liked. The whole "can't see the bride [in her dress] before the ceremony" thing <i>is</i> a nice tradition, although we had a family breakfast the morning of the wedding because neither of us liked the thought of not seeing each other at all the whole day until she walked down the aisle that evening.<br /><br />I suspect that the thing with the kid was just them being that drunk, because the scene in which the children Robin never had disappear at the end of that episode was so powerful, but it could and should have been made less confusing.<br /><br />"LT sandwiches" was both obvious and got a laugh out of me. So did the Tantrum gag — and I would lay excellent money on that being a thing with my cousins if it existed.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-30954390505788093472014-02-27T17:00:02.212-06:002014-02-27T17:00:02.212-06:00And really, I'm not actually saying my life st...And really, I'm not actually saying my life stinks. I've got a pretty good life. I'm certainly doing better than some people and I'm grateful for what I have. But when you compare it against TV/Movie lives?<br /><br />I was thinking about Ted and all the experiences and accomplishments he has had (by, like, age 30!) and, frankly, even if he never finds "the one" his life is still pretty much a win. But this show seems to say that unless everything works out for Ted perfectly in the end his life is a failure. And this isn't the only show to convey that. Or, more accurately, this isn't the only show to convey how "easy" it is to accomplish life goals. I just wonder what affect this idealized image of what life should be like has on people whose lives rarely measure up? Am going to deep here? Probably.<br /><br />@Teebore: "In the future, expect to wake up to me looming over you with a strange beverage after every night of binge drinking."<br /><br />Please see that you do.Dr. Bitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13568570859981368717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-40167773456024334392014-02-26T16:11:52.664-06:002014-02-26T16:11:52.664-06:00@Dr. Bitz: o I'm watching this episode and I t...@Dr. Bitz: <i>o I'm watching this episode and I think about how I've had some major hangovers in the past year and there was nobody "who loved me" there the next morning to help me out.</i><br /><br />I'm sorry that I have non-sitcom respect for boundaries and didn't come barging into your house on those mornings to take care of you. In the future, expect to wake up to me looming over you with a strange beverage after every night of binge drinking. :)<br /><br /><i>Then I realize...I'm really a bitter, jaded person aren't I?</i><br /><br />Ha! Acknowledging it is the first step...Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-61221491860335835072014-02-26T15:50:25.653-06:002014-02-26T15:50:25.653-06:00So I'm watching this episode and I think about...So I'm watching this episode and I think about how I've had some major hangovers in the past year and there was nobody "who loved me" there the next morning to help me out. So thanks for rubbing that in, show!<br /><br />Also, Marshall wins a judicial election and the mother apparently gets a book published and it seems like everyone's dreams came true. I have feeling real life may not work out that way for everyone.<br /><br />Then I realize...I'm really a bitter, jaded person aren't I?<br /><br />Anyway, I was similarly confused by the Barney/Robin baby part. I could swear the show made it clear that Robin never had kids which would mean they didn't go the adoption route (which is fine but at least present it as an option). But that makes that part all the more confusing. It feels like foreshadowing but it didn't have to be. So...I don't know?Dr. Bitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13568570859981368717noreply@blogger.com