Last night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother was called “The Naked Man”, and for me at least, wasn’t very enjoyable at all. The entire ep consisted of a running joke about one of Robin’s hookups who claims to have an extremely high success rate of bedding women with a technique called The Naked Man.
Basically, all Mitch does is come up with an excuse to get into her apartment (saying he has to use the bathroom or whatever), and then he disrobes while the woman is out of the way. When she comes back, she’ll instantly want to sleep with him because of a combination of pity and/or awe that someone would be desperate enough to try something like that. Mitch tells Ted that it works two out of three times.
Ted passes the info onto the gang, and they all end up trying their own version of The Naked Man. And sure enough, it works two out of three times with Ted and Lily scoring, and Barney striking out.
– I didn’t think the naked man premise was funny enough to build an entire episode around, so I was kind of put off on this one right from the start.
– There’s no way in hell that this so-called “technique” works two out of three times! Well, maybe if the guy looked like Ted or Barney, but certainly not Mitch!!
– I liked Robin getting into at Mexican standoff with the burglars. In fact, I think that was the only moment in the entire show that elicited so much as a smile from me.
– Marshall saying that the only reason anyone should ever have sex is love was beyond ridiculous. Has he always been that much of a Polyanna?? I mean, give me a break!
– At this point, the only reason I’m even watching the show anymore is to see some Barney/Robin interaction. If the writers insist on ignoring that story, then I’ll just stay away until they get around to it. Because everything else? Is just sooo boring right now.
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