There was a period in world history when the United States and Russia were mortal enemies who spent years toeing a tense diplomatic line that threatened to topple at any moment into total atomic…   Read Story »

I recently moved back to New York after being gone for most of the year. In the time that I was gone, bed bugs decided to invade the city. Last summer they were everywhere. Now maybe they are…   Read Story »

Kids, sometimes life brings disappointments, like last night's season finale of the still totally great show How I Met Your Mother, which was predictable and lovey dovey and, ironically for its title…   Read Story »

Well, we couldn't just have funny, stand-alone episodes forever. That would be like if they just had cannibal monster mother episodes of The X Files forever (awesome.) No, they have to get to the…   Read Story »

Now that How I Met Your Mother doesn't need Britney Spears cameos to be a certified hit, it seems CBS is letting them just do whatever they want or something, because Monday's episode was one of the…   Read Story »

Last night's HIMYM began with a scene in which Barney, Marshall and Ted are telling a dirty joke when Lily walks up. After the other guys refuse to tell her the joke, claiming it's "boy-funny,"…   Read Story »

In order to promote the April 13th episode of How I Met Your Mother, which will concern the Barney/Robin love thing we've all known was coming but chose to ignore this whole season, CBS has put…   Read Story »

It's unlikely that The Wire and How I Met Your Mother share a lot of fans, as superfans of The Wire tend to be the type of people who say "I do not watch sitcoms," so that makes it even more amusing…   Read Story »

On last night's episode, Ted found out that Lily has been purposely sabotaging his relationships for years. This is funny, because Lily is supposed to be nice, but it's also funny because the scene…   Read Story »

You know how you'll see a show and tell all of your friends it was great, and they'll watch the next episode and report back to you that you were wrong and they're never trusting you again and you're…   Read Story »