TV Wrap-Up: How I Met Your Mother: season 3 completed!

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Viewed: 1x01-3x20

Favorite Episodes: Slap Bet, How I Met Everyone Else, The Goat, that one where Robin plays laser tag.

Favorite Character: Barney, natch. How could I not love watching NPH steal every scene he appears in?

Least Favorite Character: It used to be Robin, but now it's Ted. Though that's almost unfair, because I don't dislike Ted. I just don't love him as much as I love the other four.

OTP: Robin/Barney/TheMallSong.

Favorite Jokes Are Always From: Lily & Marshall. Because they are a unit and must always be written as a pair, even in a tv review. I love Lily's sexual comments and Marshall's sweet geeky singing. And the phrase "You've been lawyered."

Favorite Surprise As A Viewer: the scene where Ted meets Barney for the first time, and the entire 3-way conversation at the table.

Favorite Recurring Joke: It's a toss-up between the Slap Bet and "Best friend!"

Who is Ted's future kids' mother? I think we haven't met her yet, but I predict we will in season 4. It's really pushing the limit of a decent reveal.

Fanfic: YES PLEASE. Um... Barney/Robin is great, but gen works too, and more humor the better!

Fandom: I'm going to dive in. If anyone else on my flist loves this show, tell me! I never had an inkling until last week that it would be so awesome. It's almost given me faith in sticoms again.

Plus, now I have a show I can laugh at, and save my angsting for shows about aliens and vampires and robots and time travel and firebenders and killer time-traveling robots and robot aliens and possibly alien vampires too.


WARNING: SEASON THREE SPOILERS IN COMMENTS!

Comments

OMG. Crazy idea! [x2]

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of this on the drive to my night class, and I just HAD to tell you about it. It's so crazy awesome.


Title: "It's A Bitch Convincing People To Like You"

Pairing: Azula/Barney

Summary: 'I've got to hand it to you, you've played by all the same rules.'

Premise: 18-year-old Azula (with Ty Lee as her wingman) goes out to a bar to try this "boys" thing Ty Lee is always babbling about. She attempts [badly] the same "be stupid and smile" advice from the episode The Beach, and Barney tries to hit on her. Unfortunately, Azula is the person who makes a "crazy/hot" scale moot, because no one is as hot or as crazy as Azula. Hilarity ensues!


*****

Second idea, came to me on the drive home:

Through a series of strange circumstances, Robin ends up giving Barney a puppy. As a present, kind of.

At first he doesn't want it, tries to foist it off on a couple of the women he seduces, but ultimately he can't give it away. After all it's a gift from his Bro, from Robin, and he's kind of not ready to admit why it matters that she was the one to give it to him.

Eventually the puppy wears him down and a couple weeks later he decides that rather than being a burden, this puppy will be an Awesome Puppy. With an Awesome Collar of [Gaudy Bling] Awesomeness, and they will be Awesome together: Awesome Barney and his Awesome Dog.

And that's how the taming of Barney Stinson begins. He's not ready for a girlfriend or a wife or a serious commitment to a person, but he's an obsessive caretaker so giving him a puppy:

a) distracts him with something new to obsess over
b) goes straight for his deeply buried mushy lovey-dovey heart and inner-23-year-old peacenick
c) gives him a best friend that's just his
d) gets him to commit to some[one], even if right now it's only one small, fuzzy, constantly-widdling-on-the-carpet puppy.

Re: OMG. Crazy idea! [x2]

[irrel.livejournal.com]

You should see the silly grin plastered on my face right now.

Azula is the person who makes a "crazy/hot" scale moot That is strangely PERFECT. Azula/Barney sounds... dare I say it? Legendary...

And I want to have the second idea's babies! Awesome Barney and his Awesome Dog. He so totally would! write it write it write it write it

BTW, have you already watched Dr. Horrible PartI?! http://drhorrible.com/act_I.html

Re: OMG. Crazy idea! [x2]

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Let's make a pact!

You sketch or draw Barney & Barney's Awesome DogPuppy, and I'll write this ficlet.

I'll let you choose the puppy type since you'd have to draw ut.



I haven't seen Dr. Horrible yet, no! I will immediately.

Azula/Barney OTF! hint: the F is not Friendship.

Re: OMG. Crazy idea! [x2]

[irrel.livejournal.com]

I suck at drawing dogs but YOU ARE ON!!!!

Go watch now! NPH is adorable. Can't wait to see him live and fangirl about him.

Pinkyswear! ::holds out pinky finger:: Bring your A Game!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

NPH: "Wow SARCASM, that's original." ::pause:: ::pause:: ::shrug::

::pinky swears!::

[irrel.livejournal.com]

Now I want to cosplay someone in Dr. Horrible... somehow! But I have too many cosplays already! Cruel world!

::pinky swears!:: Done!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Male or female dog?

I kind of think he should have a female dog (just seems to fit), but a male dog is more "bro" style.

Re: ::pinky swears!:: Done!

[irrel.livejournal.com]

Don't know why, but I think a male dog would be better.

Re: ::pinky swears!:: Done!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Settled that then.

Re: ::pinky swears!:: Done!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

ooh, he could put off naming it until the end of the ficlet, so that when everyone else meets the dog they finally hear its "legendary" name choice.

Re: ::pinky swears!::

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'm totally picture Barney posing, suited up, and the puppy is beside him, posing with nose in the air and "suited up" collar of awesome. And then another image, same clothes, with the puppy doing something embarrassing/cute/puppyish and Barney's totally lost his cool pose.

You don't have to draw that, of course, but that's the general theme of the pairing in my head.

Re: ::pinky swears!::

[irrel.livejournal.com]

But Barney is even harder to draw than a dog. Believe me, I've tried lol I'll keep trying, though, I'm not one to give up easily *brave face*

Re: ::pinky swears!::

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I have never tried to draw real people as cartoons. If it were me I'd probably just oversimplify until it was a blond guy with maybe-blue-dots for eyes. ::sheepish::

YOu can do it!

...this laundry song is so cute!

Re: ::pinky swears!::

[irrel.livejournal.com]

I freaking loved the songs <3

Yeah, I should just draw a blond guy in a suit, who cares if it doesn't look like NPH...

Re: ::pinky swears!::

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

"You need anything dampened... or soggy..."

HAHAHAHA.