Eight months before their wedding, Marshall and Lily decided that they wanted a small, intimate outside wedding, with an acoustic guitar player. Slowly but surely that idea disappeared. Marshall's father didn't want the wedding outside in New York (he thought he'd get mugged), Lily's mother invited too many people and the guitar turned into a harp. Still, the couple is happy to get married at the historic Van Smoot House in Upstate New York, which they once chased another couple down for.

I've already made it clear that I believe How I Met Your Mother is the best scripted comedy on TV. (I added scripted because NBC's new show Thank God You're Here is really funny.)

Thus it surprises me (or maybe it shouldn't considering how silly the networks have been lately) that How I Met Your Mother has not yet been picked up for another season. The executives must be nutty that it has taken them more than two seconds to make this very, very, very simple decision.

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Lily and Marshall's wedding is fast approaching. The couple is even feeling each other's pain, which is very annoying to their friends. This co-dependency forces Lily and Marshall to return to their plan of sleeping apart the two weeks prior to their wedding. Lily goes to Robin's bringing with her a tape of Marshall singing her night-night song. During her stay with Robin, Lily discovers that her dress is too big and she doesn't have the money to get it altered. So, Robin puts Lily on a hardcore eating regime.

Three things are known. 1) When things are really bad, Barney cannot be found. 2) When things are good, you can't get rid of him. 3) Marshall's bachelor party is coming. It is not difficult to imagine the kind of party that Barney would want to throw for Marshall. He desires strippers which are not what Marshall wants. Barney, however, will not give up on imposing his will. He even brings porn to watch in the car on the way to Atlantic City.

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It is the day that Ted is supposed to move in with Robin. Ted's belongings are packed and a moving truck is out front. Barney even offers to rent Ted's room. He wants the room because it takes 23 minutes to get from the bar to his apartment. As Barney explains, a lot can happen to a woman in 23 minutes, including falling asleep and reuniting with her old boyfriend. Naturally, Marshall and Lily refuse Barney's request. They don't want to wake up strange women that Barney has left behind.

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The best part about the show How I Met Your Mother is that we get to learn about its characters' pasts and how they came to be who they are. This episode, Marshall and Ted are in Marshall's beloved car waiting for the odometer to hit two hundred thousand when they hit a pot hole and the car dies. While they are waiting at the repair shop, Barney, Robin and Lily bring their origami party to them. Barney pretends that he can't fold a paper crane so he doesn't have to complete the task. This is far from the moral of the story.

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Robin and Ted have reached that point in there relationship where they are, in Ted's words, trying to pretend that they haven't been in a lot of other relationships. Yet, Ted keeps mentioning places he's been with other women and covering it up by saying it was actually with his sister. Consequently, the pair decides to be honest with each other. However, when Ted gives Robin an old girlfriend's lotion to use, she has had it. She asks Ted to get rid of everything he has from old girlfriends. Ted does not want to give up these things. The pair agrees to let Marshall, Lily and Barney decide what should be done. Only Marshall votes with Ted. Ted must get rid of it all. He empties the apartment so much that Robin thinks they were robbed, but when she finds out what really happened, she is very happy.

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In true How I Met Your Mother fashion, this week's show started at the end of the story and worked its way back. Now that Ted is the youngest project manager at his firm, other companies have been seeking him out. One company even wants Ted to run their New York office, but their headquarters are in Chicago. So, Ted has to fly to Chicago to interview for his dream job. Unfortunately, Ted and Robin miss the flight. Of course, it is not their fault. Ted traces the blame to Robin who is taking the trip with him. Robin is quick to correct Ted. Robin's trail of blame ends at Lily.

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It seems that all the holidays get celebrated on How I Met Your Mother, including Ted's favorite holiday, Super Bowl Sunday. Ted has the whole day planned according to tradition until the gang finds out that Mark died. Mark apparently worked at the bar and his funeral is scheduled for Super Bowl Sunday, which seems pretty unbelievable. Since no one really knows who Mark is, they think that they can skip the funeral. However, they soon realize that they have to attend when Carl, the bartender, threatens another patron, who plans on watching the football game.

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Ted is now the boss at his architecture firm. The only problem is that he is his former boss's boss. Hammond Druthers was a nasty man before, and he is even nastier since his demotion. This difficult situation, along with the other pressures of being in charge, has Ted frustrated and working all the time. Ted even confronts a higher up who tells him to fire Druthers.

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As regular viewers of How I Met Your Mother all know, Ted told Robin he loved her on their first date. Robin, however, has never said that to any man. It seems she wants to say it to Ted, but she just can't. One of the best lines of the show? When Robin has "I love you" on the tip of her tongue, and instead the word "falafel" comes out. Robin has even bigger fish to fry when her sister, Katie, comes to town and wants to lose her virginity to her boyfriend of two months, Kyle.

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For Christmas of 2006, Ted has a few options. He can spend Christmas with his Mom and her boyfriend, his Dad and his microbrew, his religious cousin in Staten Island or his friends. Naturally, he chooses Christmas with Lily, Robin, Barney and Marshall, who is so excited about Lily's winter wonderland that when he leaves to write his final paper, he does it with his eyes closed. But Marshall's dream of coming home when his school work is finished to a winter wonderland is temporarily dashed by the old answering machine.

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CBS is no longer just the CSI network. It has at least one hilarious sitcom, although it had hoped to have more humor in its lineup. How I Met Your Mother is a light-hearted comedy that airs on CBS Monday nights at 8:00 p.m., ET. The show, which is in its second season, is obviously holding its own. It was even moved from its original time slot at 8:30 to 8:00 in the hope that it would bring more viewers to the failing program, The Class, which now follows it at 8:30 p.m., ET, Monday nights on CBS.

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