9.25/10. Contrasting Robin contemplating saying "I love you" for the first time with her sister contemplating having sex for the first time was a clever way to address both issue and play them off of one another. The parallels are cute without feeling forced, which is a difficult balancing act. It's moments like these where there's a real sweetness and, dare I say, wisdom to Ted that balances out his more grating qualities, and makes you understand what the foundation of he and Robin's relationship is. It's a neat trick to have the two stories dovetail the way they do, and I forget how deft the show could be in the threading the emotional needle of its stories like this.
Plus, Marshall and Lily arguing about whether Scooter playing in the shallow end counted was the perfect comedy side dish, featuring the gang's usual colorful metaphors and a chance to add some more levity the proceedings, not that the uniformly funny flashbacks to everyone's first time didn't serve that function as well. A charming episode of the show that used the structure of its various stories to move each of them along, both in terms of plot and character development.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-01-27T02:12:56Z
9.25/10. Contrasting Robin contemplating saying "I love you" for the first time with her sister contemplating having sex for the first time was a clever way to address both issue and play them off of one another. The parallels are cute without feeling forced, which is a difficult balancing act. It's moments like these where there's a real sweetness and, dare I say, wisdom to Ted that balances out his more grating qualities, and makes you understand what the foundation of he and Robin's relationship is. It's a neat trick to have the two stories dovetail the way they do, and I forget how deft the show could be in the threading the emotional needle of its stories like this.
Plus, Marshall and Lily arguing about whether Scooter playing in the shallow end counted was the perfect comedy side dish, featuring the gang's usual colorful metaphors and a chance to add some more levity the proceedings, not that the uniformly funny flashbacks to everyone's first time didn't serve that function as well. A charming episode of the show that used the structure of its various stories to move each of them along, both in terms of plot and character development.