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Season 5, Episode 9 - "Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap"

23 November, 2009

Barney's unhappy after a slap bet is bequeathed to Ted and Robin by Marshall. Lily's long-absent father arrives for Thanksgiving.

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Premiere: September 19, 2005

Type: TV Show

Genres/Tags: TV-Comedy, Romance

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How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love. It all starts when Ted's best friend, Marshall (Jason Segel), drops the bombshell that he's going to propose to his long-time girlfriend, Lily (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher. At that moment, Ted realizes that he had better get a move on if he too hopes to find true love. Helping him in his quest is Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), a friend with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and a foolproof way to meet women. When Ted meets Robin (Cobie Smulders), he's sure it's love at first sight, but destiny may have something else in store. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future.

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From avclub.com: The main problem with How I Met Your Mother right now is that it's not different enough. The premise is a winner, and the cast--which also includes Freaks and Geeks alum Jason Segel as Radnor's roommate, Buffy The Vampire Slayer's Alyson Hannigan as Segel's fiancee, and Neil Patrick Harris as their super-slick lothario buddy--couldn't be more appealing. But the overtly sitcom-y beats and one-liners seem overworked, especially after Bravo's reality series Situation: Comedy showed just how much behind-the-scenes effort goes into sucking the life out of low-key relationship humor.

From NYTimes.com: In flashbacks, "How I Met" follows Ted (Josh Radnor) as a 27-year-old bachelor in search of true love; it will keep teasing out his tale without revealing whom he actually married. Yet even with that off-kilter approach, "How I Met Your Mother" is a fairly conventional sitcom, a latter-day "Friends" with a voice-over "Wonder Years"-type narration.