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So, is she really married to the captain or is the marriage a fake? 
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I think Zoey and the captain parted very soon, because it must start the relationship between Ted and Zoey.
And as Ted said: Zoey is a trophy wife, and I think that it is the truth what Zoey said in the bug room.
Also I think her marriage is very unhappy and this is the reason because Zoey is committed in her "small causes".
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I think that she doesn't use Captain's family name for her "small causes", maybe she want to avoid embarrassing the Captain. ... maybe we'll know with the time . -
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A Night at the Museum
In tonight’s episode of “How I Met Your Mother,” the role of MacLaren’s will be played by the Museum of Natural History.
Thanks to GNB, the gang gets invited to the museum’s annual gala. It was difficult for me to decide who to give the “A” plot to—Ted and Zoey or Marshall and Lily (Barney and Robin automatically get the “C” plot). But just because of how much time was dedicated to their plot, it goes to…
A: Ted and Zoey! Ted discovers that Zoey has written an Op-Ed piece about GNB tearing down The Arcadian. And she mentioned Ted quite a few times. This could easily be ignored, but the Op-Ed piece was published on Saturday. And as Future!Ted tells us, that’s crossword day. And Zoey’s letter? Right atop Ted’s beloved crossword puzzle. He’s upset but doesn’t let it spoil his night. In the museum, Ted shows Lily and Marshall an architectural quirk: if you stand in one spot and whisper, someone on the other side can hear it. (Note: You can actually do that in Grand Central Station). He tests it with several instances of potty humor. And that’s when he spots Zoey, in a nice black dress and a diamond necklace.
Ted and Zoey have a confrontation, wherein Ted meets her husband—The Captain, a friend of Marshall’s boss Arthur. Played by Kyle MacLachlan! He then spends some time mocking her for being a kept woman, and a rich housewife with nothing better to do than protest. Zoey starts to tear up, which Ted says won’t work. (Future!Ted tells us it does). Now, you see, The Captain is called such because he really, really loves his boats. And Zoey cries that she doesn’t like the boat and uses it as a metaphor for her life. She says that she wants to save the Arcadian because it represents the stability she doesn’t have in her life. Ted praises the Arcadian and insults GNB. Zoey records it. She played Ted!
Ted mopes as he realizes he is royally screwed when The Captain finds him. Ted explains what has happened and earns The Captain’s sympathy. The Captain says he’ll erase Zoey’s tapes when she’s asleep. He doesn’t seem to be too fond of his wife’s activities, calling them her “tantrums.” Ted, though, says not to and says he admires Zoey’s passion. And he happens to say it in the spot where someone on the other side of the room can hear your conversation. And guess who happens to be across the room? Zoey. Later, she and Ted share a dance as she erases his comment. She says she’ll fight fairly from now on. They share a moment as the episode ends.
Plot “B”: Lily believes that Marshall is still just biding his time at GNB until he can become an environmental lawyer and save the world. But he hasn’t told her something—he was offered a five year contract at GNB. Lily finds out when Arthur calls Barney and Marshall “the future of GNB” while introducing The Captain. After everyone leaves, she tells Marshall to let Arthur know he’s turning down the offer at the office so as not to ruin the party. She knows about that because she broke up with Scooter at the prom right before the pictures. We cut to a ticked off Lily posing with a crying David Burtka (By the by, congrats to Burka and Harris on fatherhood!). We cut back to Marshall telling Lily that he accepted Arthur’s offer.
Later, Marshall confesses to Lily that he doesn’t want to leave GNB. He likes working there. Lily says that she married the guy who wanted to save the world, the man who hated people who wore suits, who despised the corporate world. Namely, Marshall as he was in college. Marshall argues that he changed, that everyone changes. Lily doesn’t want to hear that and walks off. It is also fun to note that during the entire conversation, Ted kept whispering more potty humor from the other side of the room.
Later, Lily goes wandering through the museum. She stumbles upon an exhibit marked “College Marshall.” He offers a bite of his sandwich (and any long time viewer of HIMYM knows exactly what a sandwich is) but Lily says she’s upset with her Marshall. College Marshall worries that he’s cheated on her or been mean to her. Lily assures him that’s not it. It’s just that…he’s become corporate, everything they were against in college. Lily tells College Marshall she wants him—the man she fell in love with. He points to the sign below him. It reads “College Marshall (Extinct).” He tells her she can’t have him anymore. Marshall comes up and reveals that while he’s no longer the Save-the-World Marshall Lily fell in love with in college, he’s still entirely in love with her and completely devoted to her. Lily agrees to give this new Marshall a chance.
But Future!Ted brings us to Marshall working for GNB and says that he enjoyed working there for sometime. But as the camera zooms out, it reveals he’s a display at the museum: “Corporate Marshall (Extinct).” Yes, Marshall’s going to leave GNB, but that’s a story for another day according to Future!Ted. And you know the children are now panicking because that means the story is NEVER GOING TO END.
Plot “C”: Barney and Robin time! On the way over to the museum, Barney tells about the time he and his Uncle Jerry went to the museum. Uncle Jerry told Barney not to touch anything. So what does Little Barney do? Touch things! It got to the point that he caused the giant blue whale to crash to the ground. No one believes his story, even as he says he’s impressed security let him back in. When Arthur tells the gang not to touch anything, Barney immediately runs off and tries to touch something. Robin joins him and they try to outdo each other. By the time security catches up with them, Barney is decked in Egyptian garb and Robin has taken a stuffed penguin from an exhibit.
The security guard isn’t phased as he reveals a lot of people can’t resist the urge to touch the exhibits. He recalls one epic example of a six-years-old causing the giant blue whale to crash from the ceiling. Robin can’t believe what she just heard and Barney asks if the security recalls the name of the little boy. The security guard doesn’t know off-hand but he does pull the file. He says the story is legend—pulls out the file, throws it down—dary. And the name of the wayward youth? Barney Stinson. Robin can’t believe it as Barney celebrates.
But then the security guard throws Barney a curveball—he says that the minor was released into the custody of his father. Barney insisted that the guard meant “uncle,” but he shows Barney the paperwork where Jerry checked off “father.” Barney is shell-shocked. The man he thought was his Uncle Jerry was really his father. And that day at the museum when he was six? The last time he saw the man. Barney asks Robin not to tell anyone. She agrees.
While not a laugh-out-loud episode, it had its moments. Particularly Marshall and Lily’s fight as Ted whispered potty humor interrupted them. Their storyline felt a bit weak. I’m sure Lily isn’t the same woman she was in college, but I guess I understand why she would want to hold on to College Marshall. But at least she’s willing to grow with him. I liked the battle between Ted and Zoey. Jennifer Morrison and Josh Radnor have good chemistry. And my friend thought they had buried Barney’s father’s storyline when he refused to look at the name. But I figured they were going to bring it back somehow. I like this way—and the fact that Barney DID know his father.
Quote of the Episode:
"I wish I knew you in college because you can't knee a story." –Robin, after hearing a story about how Lily and Marshall were jerks to a guy because he was in a suit. Turns out, he was going to a funeral.
Sorry for the delay!
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Monday, November 8, 2010 How I Met Your Mother- "Natural History"
How I Met Your Mother can be a hard show to defend sometimes, especially so after the last few seasons, when its cornball sentimentality was rarely counterbalanced with an adequate number of memorable jokes and its once strong characters acted inexplicably unlike themselves. But last night’s “Natural History” was the first episode in a long time I would feel absolutely confident watching with a neophyte. A newcomer to the series would, I feel, be impressed with the episode’s writing and humor. I’m hopeful that the show can carry this momentum forward, justifying my investment in it further.
The museum setting worked in the show’s favor in multiple ways. First, the ladies looked great in their fancy attire. (Especially Jennifer Morrison, who provided ample ammunition for my continuing argument that she is just as attractive as her recent House co-star Olivia Wilde.) Second, it was great silly fun seeing Barney and Robin violate the “No Touching” rule, capped by Robin’s pun that her penguin companion couldn’t have an hors d’oeurvre because he was “stuffed.” And it was nice seeing Ted cut loose thanks to the architectural marvel that is the museum’s whisper spot.
This was a great Ted episode overall, with his reveling in the news that his activist foe is really a bored trophy wife and poking fun at the oblivious fat cats at the GNB ball. (Loved Ted’s lines to the monocle-wearer: “Good luck killing James Bond!” and “Tell me, do they cost half as much as glasses?”) And he also nailed the emotional stuff that makes HIMYM what it is, defending Zoe to her husband even after she’s caught him mocking GNB on tape, and then awkwardly assuming Zoe was inviting him to dance. It’s pretty certain Jennifer Morrison isn’t the mother, so in some sense it’s exasperating to think they might have Ted embark on another long-term non-mother relationship, but on the other hand it would be fairly bold for a show to have it’s romantic hero involved in the dissolution of someone else’s marriage. On balance, I’ll allow Jennifer Morrison to stick around, as long as they keep putting her in dresses like last night’s.
As for the other sentimental notes in “Natural History”, I enjoyed how the writers connected the museum into Marshall and Lily’s argument over his career. I also liked that the writers know the characters well enough that neither character is totally wrong or totally right. And Neil Patrick Harris showed some fine dramatic chops after the out-of-left-field resolution to his past as a museum-exhibit-toucher.
If you’d given up on How I Met Your Mother I think you should strongly consider giving last night’s episode a view on Hulu. You might recognize why you bothered with the show in the first place.
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'How I Met Your Mother' Season 6, Episode 8 Recap
by Joel Keller, posted Nov 9th 2010 12:30AM
It's amazing what a bunch of tuxedos can do to a show.
Seriously, though, the gang's evening at the "Natural History Museum" (just different enough from the "Museum of Natural History" to avoid needing permission) gave us three stories of enlightenment, of people finding out something about themselves and their loved ones that they didn't expect. And, while the episode did have its funny moments, the emotional resonance of all three stories helped make the episode one of the more enjoyable ones of the season.
Wow. It sounds like I'm wearing a tuxedo while writing this review. At least I don't wear a monocle; that would be snooty, am I right, people?
The rigors of writing 22 episodes of television every year tend to lead to weeks where only one of the stories in an episode have any meat at all to them. If writers are lucky, two of the stories have some weight. But it is rare when three stories show character development and emotion. But that's what happened this week; it makes a viewer wonder why the interesting stuff can't be spread around a little more.
Where to begin... OK, let's start with the least weighty story, Ted and Zoey. We're finding out a little bit more about Ted's nemesis, and it was fun to not only see Zoey outed as a bored society housewife, but it was also fun to learn that she's a master with a tape recorder ever at the ready. In the scene in bug room, I really was buying the fact that she was opening up to Ted, not trying to trick him into criticizing GNB for knocking down the old hotel.
But what cinched the story for me was when Ted seemed to sincerely tell her husband the Captain (Kyle MacLachlan at his most pompous -- I hope he comes back) that she's not bored, she's fighting for what she believes in. Did he remember the "fun architectural fact" about someone on the other side of the rotunda being able to hear him? Probably not, since his back was to who was on that other side. But it sets up a whole bunch of options for how this thing will go. Did we see a spark between the two of them as they danced? Perhaps... but if that means the Captain has to exit the picture, I'd be a bit upset.
On to Marshall's evolution. We know from Old Ted's narrations over the years that Marshall and Lily become more like a embittered, business-like couple a la Bill and Hillary Clinton, far from the lovey-dovey one we see now. So we knew that he was going to be a corporate stooge for quite awhile. But it was a little depressing to watch Lily realize that, though there are things about Corporate Marshall that are really great -- like his stamina! -- the idealistic College Marshall that she fell in love with was long gone.
I did love the imagery of College Marshall as a museum exhibit, "eating a sandwich" and convincing Lily that adult Marshall isn't such a bad guy. Everyone's got to grow up at sometime, right? But what's intriguing is that, while College Marshall is officially extinct, we see that Corporate Marshall becomes extinct as well. Will we ever get to see that story? The way I figure it, that doesn't happen until he hits 50 or so.
Finally, there's Barney. What a twist, right? It started with a lighthearted contest between him and Robin to touch everything they could find in the museum. At that point, I thought it might even lead to some lovin' between them, they were having such a good time. But little did we know that a) Barney didn't make up his incident with the blue whale and b) that "Uncle Jerry," who was with him at the time, actually was Barney's dad? It was a welcome left turn that brought back something we all thought was a done subject back in September.
But isn't this what we wanted? We wanted to see Barney go back to a little bit of the emotional guy we saw during the Robin wooing era. Not just because it humanizes the guy, but it brings out sides of NPH's acting that we don't get to see as often. I wonder if this revelation and the fact that Robin is the only one who knows about it will be what bonds the two of them together.
More fun stuff:
-- Wasn't Jane's Addiction long-broken-up by the time Lily and Marshall were in college? It's not hard to imagine they became fans while "eating sandwiches," though. I did love the fact that Lil humored College Marshall by saying that their comeback album was good.
-- Hopefully the long break for 'Breaking Bad' will allow us to see more of Bob Odenkirk as Marshall's boss. Hearing him call the Captain "douche" under his breath made his passing stint in this episode worth it.
-- Of course Teddy Westside loves his Saturday crosswords. Though it's funny that he's also the same guy who likes to test a rotunda's acoustics by saying things like "Hershey squirts" during a black-tie reception.
-- I did love how Robin was the one who accelerated the touching game -- "Like my date's tux?" she asks Barney as she carries around a stuffed penguin? Barney hiding in the pharaoh suit was the Best Barneyism of the week.
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Jennifer Morrison - How I Met Your Mother - S06e08 - Natural History
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thanks Aleki, I really love the end of this fabolous dress!!! 
also the area on her hips and around her bottom... too fabolous!!!
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Grazie, Aleki-- many times, grazie-- for your hard work in bringing these superb clips to life for us! 
Jennifer is radiant in these scenes.
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'How I Met Your Mother': Watershed moments, more poop jokes
By Mikey O'Connell
The defining "How I Met Your Mother" episodes aren't the ones with complex comedic setups or tabloid-friendly stunt casting. They sneak up on you, a lot like "Natural History" did.
"HIMYM" made plays for our hearts and funny bones during its latest outing, breaking up serious developments for Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), Zoey (guest Jennifer Morrison) and Marshall (Jason Segel) with Ted's (Josh Radnor) amazing voice-throwing ("wieners and gonads!") and some childish, potentially rekindle-y antics between Barney and Robin (Cobie Smulders).
Oh, and we're officially sold on the Ted/Zoey chemistry.
Other lessons learned:
* Since their breakup, Barney and Robin have spent an understandably few episodes playing off of each other. The dry spell ended with their night at the museum, and though the writers seemed to go out of their way to make their rule-breaking seem anything but romantic, we can't help but feel it laid the groundwork for the reunion/wedding we are so deeply sure of -- in our bones!
* Barney also learned that his uncle is his father -- a disturbing revelation in most crowds but somehow appropriate for Mr. Stinson. After that heartfelt moment with his mother, the answer to this HIMYMystery had to come from some third party in the way left field. Mission: accomplished. We expect we'll meet him by February sweeps.
* Jennifer Morrison told us that we'd see Zoey soften to Ted in "Natural History," and she was right. We thinks that teary-eyed confession about being stuck in an unhappy marriage came to easily to be just a trick. Though we can't imagine what her problem is. Who wouldn't want to be married to someone who calls himself "The Captain?" And you know how we feel about boats.
* Lily's (Alyson Hannigan) frustration with Marshall considering a 5-year contract is a bit of a surprise -- doesn't she love how GNB pays off her credit card debt? Regardless, any flashes to college Marshall and Lily are a-OK -- as are Scooter references. David Burtka deserves an Emmy for "Outstanding All-Sobbing Cameo in '90s Hair."
* So here's where we start trying to bend the myth of the mother to suit Zoey. Maybe she rents a room in Rachel Bilson's apartment to get away from her distant husband. We know she has easy access to Columbia classes, perhaps she was in Economics 101 when Ted accidentally taught the wrong class. And we haven't seen her with any umbrella that isn't yellow. Right? Zoey and Ted just looked so good together on that dance floor, and with so many episodes in her arc to go, their story has the makings of something epic.
* We do have a solitary beef. Such a perfect episode deserved deserved a much more coherent kicker. Bob Saget's somber narration over Marshall slaving away at the office seemed like less of a promise for him to reclaim his professional idealism than an awkward warning about him snapping and killing all his friends. Leave GNB now, Marshall, before it's too late.
http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/20...poop-jokes.html.
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