While this week's episode of How I Met Your Mother had Ted as merely a supporting character with absolutely no mother storyline, it was still classic Himym to us.

Why?  Because the episode used so many of the classic Bays and Thomas storytelling devices:
Reminiscent of the sandwiches, Future Ted called the upstairs neighbors having loud sex, bagpiping.  We hope they make a clever reference to this in a future episode The clever Marshall and Lily fight sequence where copies of the couple fighting around the room appeared.  Felt very Himym to us. The entire sequence in which Barney explained how he would have handled Lily was nothing short of amazing.  Marshall then attempting to re-enact it?  Ever more amazing.
You can catch up on the full events with our "Bagpipes" recap, but trust us, you need to watch this episode.  Who cares if there was no mother or overall plotline development, »
- eric@iscribelimited.com (The Barnacle)

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