How I Met Your Mother: Post-Proposal Confetti

How I Met Your Mother: Post-Proposal Confetti

I just recently started watching How I Met Your Mother (and when I say recently I mean about a month and a half ago. And I watched all 8.5 seasons in a matter of about 3 weeks. Yes, I'm a loser) and my love for this show is very well conveyed in Barney's face in the above photo. After having non-stop new episodes of HIMYM to watch, going a few weeks without it seemed like a lifetime. So I have been very anxious for this show to return after its winter break, especially considering the exciting events of the winter finale! I'm sure that you all share in my joy that Robin and Barney are finally getting hitched. Barney's proposal is definitely one of my favorite moments in television ever.

One thing that I really love about this show is how it substitutes ordinary objects for television-inappropriate things to make it more family-friendly (such as "sandwiches" instead of pot) and I loved their new addition to the long-running joke for this week: "confetti" instead of shit. This idea really is so clever because those of us who are a little older understand exactly what they actual mean, but the innocent objects make it so that younger viewers can enjoy the show as well and allows them to reference things that normally wouldn't be network appropriate. I can really appreciate that since my own mother made me stop watching Friends when it became too inappropriate seeing how I was only 12 when the later seasons were on (yes, I watched Friends when I was 12. And even younger than that. Again, I'm a loser cool). Had the show had a clever idea like this, I could have been allowed to continue watching. So kudos to the writers for that one. I loved it. Especially at the end why Lily looks in the window and says "holy confetti!" Brilliant.

But even more than all of the shows clever inside jokes, I love picking apart the little details of the plot to figure out what will happen later down the road. And this episode had a great one! Ted gives a whole speech about DJs and bands, in which is is made known that the DJ is a metaphor for himself and the band is a metaphor for Barney. Then, at the end of the episode we find out that the band that was supposed to play at Robin and Barney's wedding fell through. While they do end up getting another band (which has Ted's bride-to-be in it), I think that incident is a metaphor for what will end up happening with the wedding. I think there will end up being some sort of mishap where the wedding almost doesn't happen and then at the last minute it will end up coming together and the wedding will happen. Especially since the show has been giving us the impression that the wedding might not happen ever since we found out who the bride and groom are. But I guess we shall see!

-LC