This week's episode of HIMYM was chuck full of pop culture references, which made the pop culture junkie inside of my extremely giddy.
First and foremost the title itself is a reference to the romantic comedy starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. Then there was a reference to another rom-com, The Holiday. When Ted is talking about how he met the girl on the train, he says it's a meet cute, something that is talked about a lot in The Holiday.
Then a reference to Harry Potter. When Barney is sitting in Robin's room reading her journals, he says that it is ridiculous, except he says it "riddikulus" like the well-know boggart-repelling spell in Harry Potter.
The next one is a bit of a stretch, but there always has to be a subtle Friends reference in HIMYM. In this episode, it comes when Ted is talking to Jeanette in a British accent and says "it's hard to stop." Phoebe does the exact same thing in Friends with her Posh accent when she's meeting Mike's parents.
And of course there's the main reference that runs through the entire show: the Dobler versus Dahmer theory. This references John Cusack's character Lloyd Dobler from Say Anything and famous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to compare crazy romantics to just plain crazies.
And I saved my very favorite for last :) my latest Netflix obsession has been Dawson's Creek and there were not one, but TWO DC references in this episode! First we had Dawson himself (James Van Der Beek) guest starring in the episode as Robin's ex-boyfriend Simon. Then when they showed a list of who could possibly be Robin's old stalkee, Joshua Jackson was on the list! It was just too great.
Besides the plethora of pop culture references, there was one other great thing that happened this week. At the end of the episode, Ted says that before you meet the person you're going to marry, you make one last mistake and that mistake for him was Jeanette. That means that the next woman he dates should be the mother! It's getting so close, I can't wait!
-LC
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