HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER “Jenkins” Review

What did you think of tonight’s episode of How I Met Your Mother, “Jenkins?”

I expected HIMYM to have a hard time following up their epic 100th episode, but Marshall and Lily centric episodes are always fun and this was no exception. (By the way, Neil Patrick Harris actually directed this episode, which explains why he was only in few scenes.) As much I love me some Barney, Lily and Marshall are so freaking adorable that I didn’t mind less NPH. The reacher/settler debate was hilarious and I’d wager a lot of couples are having the same conversation tonight.

Some of my favorite quotes and moments from How I Met Your Mother, “Jenkins?”:

- Marshall’s “Taken” reference: “Is this a trap? Are you a Packers fan? My wife knows I’m here. She doesn’t have money, but what she does have is a very special set of skills.”

- “C’mon. You can’t handle Big Fudge.” – Marshall

- Fat guy Jenkins eating cherries and dancing on tables versus Amanda Peet’s sexy Jenkins.

- Marshall freaking out when Jenkins kissed him.

Lily initially laughed at the idea of being jealous of Jenkins, but in the end she wasn’t laughing as Jenkins confessed to kissing Marshall. I knew Lily was going to take her down when she started taking off her scarf and earrings. Did you notice the clump of hair in her hand during the beatdown? Yikes! Don’t mess with Lily and her future baby daddy.

The secondary story about the Robin Scherbatsky “but, um” drinking game was good as well. Was that the music from Platoon playing in the bar during the drinking game and then in classroom the next day? I loved the scene with Ted and Barney getting wasted while watching Robin’s show. Way back in the first season, didn’t Ted claim to be “vomit free since ’93?” I’m kind of fuzzy on the details, but if his streak wasn’t broken before, it definitely is now.

Overall, this was another solid episode of How I Met Your Mother. With Barney laying low, it wasn’t quite as quotable as usual, but still a good episode. So what do you think – does every relationship have a reacher and a settler?

PS: Can anyone clarify if Ted’s vomit free since ’93 streak was broken before tonight? Leave your comments below!

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KeKo

His streak was already broken, when he said the catchphrase “vomit-free since 93″. It is revealed in S01 E15 “Gamenight”, when Barney forces them all to tell their most embarassing moment, Ted tells the story of his re-return to Robin on their first date.
The flashback shows how Ted got really drunk in the bar with Ranjid and Barney after he missed the chance to kiss Robin. Totally trashed he decides to kiss her right now and then they drive to Robin’s place, where he vomits oh her customized Scherbatsky-doormat.

So, “but-uhm”s-up!
Chis N

Ted’s vomit free since ’93 thing was a lie; he ‘ralfed’ on Robin’s customised welcome mat during his re-return. I think it was told in the Season 1 episode where we met early hippy Barney.
http://myrighteye.korv.us/ Phoenix

“Was that the music from Platoon playing in the bar during the drinking game and then in classroom the next day?”

Yup, ‘Adagio for strings’, from Platoon and many, many other places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_for_Strings
Kel47

Teds vomit free since 93 was actually broken the night he returned to robins doorstep the night they met or had their first date, he threw up on her Scherbatsky doormat. and probably been broken since as well. this was revieled in the episode where they revieled to teds crazy date how they all met.
Me

This episode just made me sad. I don’t know who wrote this episode, but the creators of the show are in their mid-30s. Have they really never experienced an egalitarian relationship based on mutual respect yet? What a sad, sad way to go through life.
The show keeps getting less and less intelligent and depending more and more on college dudebro humor. It’s really disappointing. Didn’t this show used to be based on clever humor and a relatively realistic (for a sitcom) portrayal of relationships? I want those days back.
Sean

Ted did confess to breaking his streak of being vomit free since ’93 when he tells the story of the “Re-Return” where in the plotline of the first episode, Ted goes back to Robin’s apartment with Barney and Ranjeet and throw’s up on her “Welcome” mat. I believe this happens in the episode from Season 1 where in order to get Barney to tell his story about his first girlfriend he wants everyone else to tell their most embarrasing stories i.e. For Ted, the Re-Return.
Josh

Jenkins is…?

… a recycle of an actress?
… some story we are missing out on?

After watching this episode I wanted my fill of Barney, so my sis and I popped in the episode “The Playbook” and watched that. Sure enough, Ted pulls off “The Ted Mosby” on the Jenkins actress.
b-girl

Vomit-free since ’93 was broken a long time ago.. I don’t remember wich episode it is but there is one where they all tell an embarassing story an Ted tells the one where he throws up on Robins personalized doormat… and I thing even before that theres some “throwing up” by Ted..

Nabeel

Hey please can anyone tell me the music playing in the background when Marshall tells Ted “Think about all the stories i’ve told” when they discuss that Jenkins is a she not a he…
will really appreciate