How I Met Your Mother – Recap & Review – Home Wreckers

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How I Met Your Mother
Home Wreckers

Original Air Date: Apr 19, 2010

Faye O – Senior Reviewer
faye@thetwocentscorp.com

Going into this episode, I had high hopes that it would be the final return of the roots of How I Met Your Mother that we’ve been lacking, but building up to with the past few episodes. I was wrong.

While the episode did provide viewers with some humor, and a slight insight to Ted’s future, it wasn’t anything spectacular.

Ted’s mom is getting married to a man who Ted actually does like, but his jealousy for them and the fact that his mother was getting married for a second time when he hasn’t even been married once was hard for him to handle. He ends up leaving the wedding during Clint’s song (that made Barney cry), and his friends don’t see him for 72 hours. It turns out that he bought a house, but not just any old house; an incredibly run down house.

While his friends all tell him that it’s a huge mistake, he tries to convince them that all decisions have to be a leap of faith. He can imagine raising a family in the house and having weekly barbecues in the backyard. The inspector ends up finding not just rotting floor boards, rats, and termites, but he also finds black mold and a hobo living there. Very frustrated, Ted decides that this house isn’t going to be his next project, and with Lily’s help and suggestion, they all take turns demolishing the wall to the living room. This made him feel wonderful. After doing that, he goes to see his mother and Clint to give the toast he didn’t give at the wedding. This was a beautiful moment between Ted and his mother.

He later returns back to the house that had had such high hopes for, and Marshall is there barbecuing sausages. They sit down and talk about the fact that Ted really wants to keep the house, and us viewers learn that this house ends up being where Ted lives with his wife and kids years later.

As side stories, we experience a few flashbacks, and see Lily in her college days. Marshall invented a new game; “Drunk or Kid” where the gang guesses if he was drunk or a kid when he tells them about something stupid that he did. As I mentioned before, Barney cried at Clint’s song at the wedding, but tried passing it off as something Robin did. He then confesses his love for Ted’s mom and his disappointment that Clint got her. Like I said, these were side stories, and in my opinion; added NOTHING to the storyline this week.

Well, that’s basically all that happened in the episode. Do you all agree that this wasn’t anything special? How badly do you want the show to return to its hilarity? Leave your TwoCents in the comments, and I’ll see you all next week.

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