Once You Have Baby, You Never Get To Be Crazy Again

How I Met Your Mother, S07E21

Marshall got upset about Lily's sex dream with Ranjit.  Barney started a campaign to make every day legendary with Ted at his side.  Ted was less interested in hanging out with Barney than he was enjoying his time living alone as an adult for the first time in his life.  Robin was frustrated that despite becoming an anchorwoman on a major news network, she was far from famous yet. However, after she landed a helicopter by herself after the pilot passed out from a stroke, she finally got the celebrity status that she longed for.

It's incredible how well Marshall and Lily know each other, to the point that Marshall could tell that Lily was lying about the content of her sex dream.  It's too bad that he could easily tell that she had "sleep cheated" with someone she knew, but it wasn't anyone in their inner circle.  I'm glad that it was Ranjit, not just because it wasn't someone I'd easily guess, but just because I like him on the show.  The issue of the sex dream wasn't as funny as Ranjit continuing to listen in on their fight by lowering the partition randomly after Marshall had asked him to raise it several times.  And I loved when Marshall and Ranjit were eating at the fancy restaurant.  I thought he was going to comfort Marshall about women acting a little nutty when they are pregnant, but Ranjit crushed his dreams about ever having the luxury to be crazy himself:

[Ranjit] She’s pregnant. She gets to be crazy. You have to be the sane one.
[Marshall] So what, I don’t get to be crazy again until the baby comes?
[Ranjit] No. Then it’s baby’s turn to be crazy.
[Marshall] When do I get to be crazy again?
[Ranjit] Never.

 That was my favorite part of the episode.  I didn't care too much about Robin being depressed about her fame and then getting it, nor Barney's point system and his attempt to have all these "incredible" nights with Ted.  The only thing I liked about the latter story was that Barney revealed that his incessant bragging about Quinn being a stripper was a front to cover up his fears about what she did on her job at nights.  The only thing that distracted him from all those terrible thoughts were hanging out with Ted.  I'm glad that it isn't that easy for him to date a stripper because I was wondering how he thought it was such a great job that he needed to tell everyone every time he spoke to them.  Ted was nice to accept his challenge to get a girl's number while wearing a dress.  It was really unflattering on him, though, especially because he didn't wear matching shoes even.  But he did wear perfume with it.  Not gonna ponder why that is--Ted's just weird in general.

I think this was a pretty boring episode except for the fact that Ranjit came back.  I wish that he had more opportunities to be in the show, but as he is a limo driver and none of them can afford such services on a regular basis, I guess he can only come back for the occasional episode or two.  I'm ready to see Ted find out that living on his own isn't all about the freedom of walking around naked or eating buckets of ribs in peace.  The season finale is drawing near, so I'd like to something eventful to happen with his relationship (that doesn't involve Robin) quickly.

Surprise Laugh, Surprise Break-Up

Happy Endings, S02E16

I was pretty surprised on Wednesday night.  I was prepared for a story about Penny or Dave with few promises that I would be laughing my ass off.  Things were also looking very good for team Grant-Max, who even had an adorable T-shirt made to celebrate their love:

But the story about Dave haunting their dreams had a very unexpected hilarious moment.  Jane likens the horrible sex dreams to a popular horror character:

Dave is Freddy Krueger-ing us in our dreams...with sex.

That didn't really do anything for me humor-wise until Dave came into the place looking like this:

OMG.  That was hilarious!  And with Dave's horrible choice in fashion, it makes perfect sense he would suddenly roll up in there in such an outfit.  Brad's girlish scream was the best of all, and he is more or less a man.

So I was satisfied with the story just because of that great moment.  The second thing that surprised me was that Max found out that he wanted kids.  I guess it's not huge surprise since he found out that he liked his niece and nephew more than he thought he would, but still...  I never thought he would take a break with Grant over an issue like that!  Nooooo!  I like them together.  I suppose I can be glad it wasn't because of anything stupid Max did to sabotage their relationship, but I won't like him dating anyone else besides Grant.  I mean, I miss Max flirting with guys and whatnot, but that pales in comparison of him being in a happy couple.  Speaking of Max and this surprising break-up, he had a wonderful line he used to illustrate how one cannot be certain of things in the future:

This morning I didn't want frittatas. Now if you told me I could never have one again, I'd kill you in cold bold. Assassin style.

Max has wonderful lines about food.  Anyone who can say something like "Oo! Floor bacon!" has a special place in my heart.  I wouldn't eat something like that, but I love that a little dirt doesn't deter him.

I won't even get into the cleansing thing going on with Penny and Alex, as that story was pretty boring except for the food flying everywhere in Penny's room.  Anytime Alex is going off in one of her obsessions, my eyes start to wander.

Not sure what I'll be expecting for next week, but hopefully there will be more Max now that he's done being lovey-dovey.  Maybe seeing that, I will get over my disappointment about Grant and Max (4eva!!).