ilmucche posted:

The perfect week episode of how I met your mother was on a few days ago at a friend's place and yeah it's a weirdly gross show

that site posted:

The rest of the gang is having a less-than-stellar week. Robin went out on bad date, but becomes insecure when he won't call her back. Ted laughed at a student's name ("Cook Pu") after assuming it was a fake name added to the roster as a prank, leading her to drop the class

MNIMWA posted:

Just read the synopsis of that episode: https://how-i-met-your-mother.fandom.com/wiki/Perfect_Week

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Future Ted starts off by explaining that Barney's way of dealing with stress was imagining he was being interviewed by sportscaster Jim Nantz, who listed Barney's many accomplishments with women. Barney explains that it all started a week ago, when he issued himself a challenge. At MacLaren's, he "called his shot," pointing out a woman at the bar and saying she'd be the one he'd go home with that night. Thus began his attempt at a "perfect week," defined as having sex with seven women in seven days without a single rejection.

The rest of the gang is having a less-than-stellar week. Robin went out on bad date, but becomes insecure when he won't call her back. Ted laughed at a student's name ("Cook Pu") after assuming it was a fake name added to the roster as a prank, leading her to drop the class. Marshall and Lily drive away another couple on a double date when they let slip that they use the same toothbrush. Ted and Robin soon realize they also, at one point, used that same brush.

After four days, Barney's streak is unbroken, but on the fifth night, Marshall is worried because a big merger at work fell through and Barney was getting blamed for it. He said he thought Barney might get fired. Still, Barney stands at the bar, trying to look confident. Marshall says that management were going to have a meeting on Friday to see if Barney would keep his job. Lily wants to talk to Barney, but Ted intervenes, and Barney asks him for help finding the dumbest girl in the bar, who Barney promptly takes home.

Nantz asks Barney if he'd ever used performance-enhancing drugs, but Barney said he respects "the game" too much. He said he'd been offered them before, and flashed back to a time when Marshall was grinning, but holding a pillow on his lap. He asked what time it was, then counted out four hours and realized he had to go to the hospital. Barney has a quickie on Staten Island to get through number six.

The gang continues to mock each other for their mistakes, making "poo jokes" at Ted's expense, mocking Robin's desperation for a man she doesn't even like, and sitting in judgement of Lily and Marshall's dental habits. When Barney stops by the apartment, Lily confronts him about losing his job, and utters the phrase "perfect week", jinxing Barney. Even Jim Nantz was stunned, saying, "There are two things you don't do: One, you don't open an e-mail from Phil Simms in front of your kids, and, two, you don't jinx a man going for a perfect week."

The next night, Lily is so confident that Barney was going to score with "third-martini girl" (Christy) at the bar, she says "there's no such thing as a jinx." The subsequent jinx leads to a member of the 2009 World Champion New York Yankees walking through the door: (Nick Swisher). The gang is convinced Barney's streak was over. Robin doesn't get the appeal of a Yankee, so Lily compares it to the appeal to her of a Vancouver Canucks' player.

Christy starts to walk over to Nick Swisher and a dejected Barney comes over to the table figuring his week was a waste and he was going to get fired the next day. In the awkward silence, Lily realizes they all needed Barney's perfect week to make them feel better. She gets up and trips in front of Christy. She asks Christy to get her some ice, and Marshall and Ted run to sit by Swisher, starting a conversation about sharing toothbrushes. Nick comments that he loves hockey, making Robin hot and bothered.

Meanwhile, Christy, who receives a fourth martini from Barney, says they should go back to his place. As she heads outside, Barney stops for high fives and a hoisting onto shoulders in triumph. His conversation with Jim Nantz over, Barney goes in to talk with the boss. Barney keeps his job, and his boss says it must have been a stressful time for him. "I barely slept," Barney says.

Back at the bar, the gang commemorates Barney's week by retiring the tie he wore on the seventh day and Ted claims he'll never tell his kids about this story, which makes Future Ted doubt his qualifications to be a parent. Later, we see Ted accidentally embarrass Cook Pu once again when she picks up take-out at MacLaren's.

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Ghost Leviathan posted:

It's hard to tell at times if Always Sunny is consciously parodying sitcoms.

The Bee posted:

Watching Community and realizing the lead was basically just Dennis played straight was a trip.

LASER BEAM DREAM posted:

It’s been a while since I watch Community, but wasn’t the show openly making the point that Jeff and Annie was creepy and inappropriate, at least in the first couple of years.

ilmucche posted:

pretty sure both jeff and annie felt super awkward about it and tried to deny they were interested in each other

Last Chance posted:

And seeing some of the “Jeff being a womanizer and sort of Dan Harmon’s self insert” stuff after it came out that Harmon was a creep to one of the writers feels a bit icky.

Last Chance posted:

Season one had the transfer student dance being nicknamed the “tranny dance.”

St_Ides posted:

I feel like that’s the joke. Greendale is a place that is so far away from reality that it has a dance named after a slur and doesn’t realize it.

Randalor posted:

My wife and I have been watching through the original Twilight Zone series, and while for the most part it has aged remarkably well for a series made in the late 50's/early 60's, there are a few times where the series shows its age.

Last night we watched "Nightmare as a Child" and at one point, a family friend of the main character (who is in her early 30's) who was easily in his 50's comments that he had a crush on her since she was 11. I... uh... I dunno what the standards were when the show was made, but that definitely elected a hearty "WHAT THE gently caress" from both of us.

MariusLecter posted:

There's also the one episode where a Sherman tank crew gets sent back in time and heroically join in the battle of little bighorn, aka custer's last stand.

fartknocker posted:

It was an M3 Stuart crew which I think had already been retired for like 15 years at that point, and it was the anniversary of the battle as well. The part of that episode that also stuck with me was the camp they find was like three or four hilariously small teepees.

Randalor posted:

My wife and I have been watching through the original Twilight Zone series, and while for the most part it has aged remarkably well for a series made in the late 50's/early 60's, there are a few times where the series shows its age.

Last night we watched "Nightmare as a Child" and at one point, a family friend of the main character (who is in her early 30's) who was easily in his 50's comments that he had a crush on her since she was 11. I... uh... I dunno what the standards were when the show was made, but that definitely elected a hearty "WHAT THE gently caress" from both of us.

rydiafan posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO6JcXXAqec&hd=1

packetmantis posted:

Humbert Humbert is not a loving role model!

Josef bugman posted:

Apparently this needs repeating to everyone in the 60's and 70's.

Ellie Trashcakes posted:

Bad news for you

hallo spacedog posted:

Hey at least people nowadays are pretending to understand you shouldn't rape teens.

rodbeard posted:

I guess you haven't seen anyone commenting on R. Kelly's conviction.