Neil Patrick Harris is his usual brilliant self, but Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel totally knock it out of the park as Marshal and Lilly.
Plot In A Paragraph: Despite only having tried for six days, Marshall and Lily are worried about Lily not being pregnant yet. So their doctor sends them to Dr. John Stangel, the best reproduction specialist in New York City. He ends up being Barney's doppelgänger, although Lily is convinced that he's actually Barney in disguise. Meanwhile, Robin has just started her new job at Worldwide News. She hates it because the anchor, her old co-host Sandy Rivers, divulges some facts about Robin to the rest of her co-workers which make her the laughing stock.
I never thought an episode of "How I Met Your Mother" would ever make me cry (except maybe tears of laughter) but the ending to this episode was brutal, and I was distraught, I just didn't see it coming until it was upon me. Both Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel were superb. In a world where Jennifer Aniston (who I am a fan of) can win awards for her work on "Friends" (which I loved) during a routine season I find it criminal that Segel (who has never been nominated for his work on this show) and Hannigan (who did win it in 2009 for this show) did not even garner a nomination for their work here. It was heartbreaking.
Plot In A Paragraph: Despite only having tried for six days, Marshall and Lily are worried about Lily not being pregnant yet. So their doctor sends them to Dr. John Stangel, the best reproduction specialist in New York City. He ends up being Barney's doppelgänger, although Lily is convinced that he's actually Barney in disguise. Meanwhile, Robin has just started her new job at Worldwide News. She hates it because the anchor, her old co-host Sandy Rivers, divulges some facts about Robin to the rest of her co-workers which make her the laughing stock.
I never thought an episode of "How I Met Your Mother" would ever make me cry (except maybe tears of laughter) but the ending to this episode was brutal, and I was distraught, I just didn't see it coming until it was upon me. Both Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel were superb. In a world where Jennifer Aniston (who I am a fan of) can win awards for her work on "Friends" (which I loved) during a routine season I find it criminal that Segel (who has never been nominated for his work on this show) and Hannigan (who did win it in 2009 for this show) did not even garner a nomination for their work here. It was heartbreaking.