2 Broke Girls - 1x02 - And the Break-Up Scene

Wow. Huh. What was that? I'll tell you what it was. It was the sound of opinional (that's a word!) whiplash. It was the whooshing sound my expectations made as they were lifted and fell again. That was the fastest I've ever lost enthusiasm for a show since I found out Samantha Who wasn't the Doctor's next regeneration.  Okay maybe that's not fair. It wasn't completely horrendous. But damn, where did it go wrong? Let's find out! Or not. I'm pretty much committed to this whole reviewing thing now, but that doesn't mean you have to follow me down this dark path, dear readers.

How I Met Your Mother - 7x03 - Ducky Tie

So what do you know: Victoria. Didn't see that coming! This week we tie up some threads I didn't even realize were loose, and pull at some others I never thought they'd get around to trying. And yet, how could they not? So we follow Ted as he tries to make up for his philandering ways back in Season 1, gains a little insight and knowledge about his past and future along the way, and still manages to be the only cast member on this show not to have seen Lily's boobs. For shame Ted. Consider it punishment for cheating on the nauseatingly adorable cupcake lady.

Free Agents - 1x02 - What I Did For Work

Much like it's timeslot partner, Up All Night, somehow I missed that this had started already...or existed. I'll catch up on the pilot when I find it somewhere. In the meantime - Context-less first exposure reaction GO!

Up All Night - 1x02 - Cool Neighbors

Somehow I missed that this had started already...or existed. I'll catch up on the pilot when I find it somewhere (Hulu?). In the meantime - Context-less first exposure reaction GO!

2 Broke Girls - 1x01 - Pilot

Huh. Potential. Surprisingly a lot of potential.  Or, maybe, just surprising it has potential. Those posters and ads made it look like two parts Odd Couple, one part Tragically Late Paris Hilton Parody.  I was ready to completely ignore another three-camera laugh track sitcom based on a tired premise, when a commercial during the HIMYM permiere was kind enough to point out Kat Dennings was in it. Luckily, I'm always in a Kat Dennings mood, so, after accomplishing the Herculean task of not reaching over twelve inches to my left and lightly nudging the remote, I found myself the surprised recipient of an oddly satisfying episode.

How I Met Your Mother - 7x02 - The Naked Truth

Not much to say about this one. Martin Short finally gets back to Marshall about that dream job at the environmental legal agency of dogooding, or whatever. Everything is set to go, they just have to do the background check. Of course a background check will inevitably pull up a YouTube video (really? again?) of Beercules, Marshall's college-era drunk streaking alter-ego. Actually I kind of like this pattern of YouTube alter-egos. Ted has Schmosby, Marshall has Beercules, Robin has Robin Sparkles...Lily's next right? I don't think we want to see what alter-ego Barney would commit to video tape and put up on the internet...

How I Met Your Mother - 7x01 - The Best Man

We start out with Dad Ted telling his kids about the time he was Uncle Barney's best man and they both sat down and flash backed to the time he was Uncle Punchy's best man which involves flashing back to several other times Ted was Best Man at various weddings, each of which featured further flashbacks until finally we join Ted eating alone in a luxurious mansion overlooking an eroding beach at the shore of a collapsing citysca--what? No! We need to go deeper!