Strong season premiere. Marshall fooling around with the Indiana Jones whip is amusing. While Lily has been one of my favorite characters, she's falling rapidly down the scale though with her bizarre way of manipulating her friends' lives, first with Ted and Robin's relationship in the past, and now with locking Barney and Robin in the same room so they can work out the exact nature of their relationship. I liked Lily much better when she's playing off Marshall as the happily-ever-after couple. The locked-in-the-room scene does have the fantastic payoff where Barney and Robin ostensibly put on an act as boyfriend-girlfriend just to get Lily to back off, but it's so clear to the audience, even if it isn't to them, that their "fake" declaration of love is truer than either Barney or Robin would like to admit. Very nicely set-up scene. Ted as a douchebag at the university is fun enough, though I'm probably not alone in being indifferent at this point as to who the identity of the titular mother is. As I've said, a nice start to the season for HIMYM. The next episode can't come soon enough!
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