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"One of my favorite types of movies in the whole wide world is the kind where everything goes down in one day. The Breakfast Club? Fantastic. Can&amp;#x27;t Hardly Wait? Even betta. Take Me Home Tonight? Underrated, guys! Give it a chance. And I was originally psyched about How I Met Your Mother&amp;#x27;s decision to plot its entire ninth season across the course of one weekend. It felt appropriately magical and meant to be, like that glimpse you got of the Slutty Pumpkin during last night&amp;#x27;s wedding gift/thank you note misunderstandingpalooza. But now, I kinda feel like I did when my parents took my brothers and me on a vacation to the Mohonk Mountain House when we were the exact age at which kids&amp;#x27; nature appreciation is at an all-time low/computer-game hunger is at an all-time high. I&amp;#x27;m getting antsy. It might seem like the problem is strictly location-related&amp;amp;#8212;yes, the gang (minus Marshall) has been kicking around Farhampton for five episodes now&amp;amp;#8212;but I actually don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s the worst of it. It&amp;#x27;s more that the show is leaning too hard on humor that&amp;#x27;s based in the past. Last night, things really came to a head on that front. Barney and Robin got into a sniping match, the roots of which stretched back for weeks, to James&amp;#x27; divorce announcement. Ted, Marshall, and Lily three-way sniped about whether Ted had, in fact, gotten them a coffeemaker back when they got married. And that...was really about it. Suddenly, it looks like Sherri Shepherd&amp;#x27;s travel-bedraggled character has the best seat in the house. Here&amp;#x27;s how I hope we see this train turn around in the next couple weeks: More wedding stuff. I&amp;#x27;m not asking that they turn this into an episode of Say Yes to the Dress, but I can&amp;#x27;t help but feel that for a season set just hours before a walk down the aisle, so much bridal funny remains untapped. Gowns get ruined! Old exes show up! That cousin throws a room-party and gets busted by the cops! I&amp;#x27;ve enjoyed the whole question-marriage-as-an-institution-due-to-brother&amp;#x27;s-divorce thing, but let&amp;#x27;s put it to bed. Which brings me to my second point... Don&amp;#x27;t make us forget why we love Barney and Robin. These two are stressing me out with their poker-table problems (Rajit, may I borrow those headphones?). And I&amp;#x27;m weary already at the prospect of Robin and Barney&amp;#x27;s mom declaring a war on each other. Why the heck wouldn&amp;#x27;t Robin have simply told his mom she had nothing to do with Barney&amp;#x27;s bizarre tell-off? Just get Marshall here already. Seriously. We did the iPad thing. That was very cute. But it&amp;#x27;s been a whole episode since Linus got Lily a drink (call me juvenile, but I was loving that gag), so she and I are both more than ready to get the big guy back in the game. If Ted&amp;#x27;s going to wrestle demons, let him beat them. I&amp;#x27;m not trying to wait till episode 20 to see Ted make unquestionable, journal-it-and-forget-it progress. The show has teased tickets to Los Angeles and flashed back to Robin&amp;#x27;s locket-digging; enough with the loose ends. And while I cannot wait for Ted to meet the Mother, it won&amp;#x27;t be half as satisfying if she&amp;#x27;s saving him from himself. Ted has earned the right to get himself to a definitive good place before he meets the lady of his dreams. As Jay-Z says, &amp;quot;Change clothes, and go.&amp;quot; Reader mamaworker made a small but mighty point last week: &amp;quot;When will Friday be over so we can stop seeing the gang in the same clothes, including Robin in that unfortunate blouse?!&amp;quot; I have to agree that a visual change of pace would be nice. Also, this inn isn&amp;#x27;t surrounded by a moat, right? I think everybody would be about ready to get out for a bit at this point. I don&amp;#x27;t care if it&amp;#x27;s CVS for a wedding card or Taco Bell for a Crunchwrap Supreme&amp;amp;#8212;let&amp;#x27;s release everybody back into the real world for a sec. And finally: Bring us the Mother. You gave us a shiny new toy, then you took it away! I think I need the Mother more than Ted does at this point, and the most I&amp;#x27;ve seen of Cristin Milioti in the past few weeks is the Once commercials running in the Philadelphia area. Please! Please give her back! How are you guys feeling about the one-weekend setup at this point? Photo: CBS"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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