Movie review score
5
Overview
I remember this show when it just started out - lots of potential, inherently funny and enjoyable. The show was really worth many a re-watch, until of course it ran its course and begun to lob cliche after cliche upon us. Sadly, due to its recent fall in innovative episodes, this show gets a 3.
Platypus Score = 3
Although truly brilliant in its early stages of development, the show has regrettably reached and begun to teeter off the apex of its creativity. A show can only be so funny, and now the serious plot line is far too cliched and even downright intolerable at certain points. Barney and Quinn? That is the most far-fetched commitment ever. Ted admitting his love for Robin for the umpteenth time? Please: not again!
Favorite Episode
I have a quite a few favorites but most date back to the early seasons: namely season 1 and 2. Season three had too much of Stella for my liking and ended quite predictably. As for the fun-filled and carefree mood of seasons one and two, what can I say? 'Arriverderci Fiero' was amazing, especially due to the fact that it was loaded with my preferred song for Summer 2012 - 'oh I would walk 500 miles and I walk 500 more, just to be the man who walked a 1000 miles...'
You know my answer. It's a 4!
Maybe. But honestly, its gets too repetitive and often even plain odd. That episode in Season 7 for example, when Marshall and Lily officially move to Long Island, the plot could have been so much better! Everything could have been been better: the plan, the theme, the Barney intro, the Russian dude, Kevin ... it was too far down in the inky depths of mediocrity to ever really shine.