slapsgiving-related stories
Posted Nov 23rd 2009 11:19PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S05E09) Let me start off by stating that any
HIMYM episode involving the famous slap bet between Marshall and Barney is going to be funny. Just the act of Jason Segel's exaggerated slapping and Neil Patrick Harris' equally exaggerated pratfall in reaction is enough to get me rolling. I just wish the slaps weren't telegraphed so much in advance.
You have to remember that tonight is a sequel to
the original Slapsgiving from two years ago. As sequels go, it's not bad; not as good as the original but satisfying nevertheless. But you knew at some point, Marshall was going to say "That's four!" and Barney was going to rub his face. So we have to examine the journey to get there. That journey started off well, but got a little predictable. Still didn't make the slap itself any less funny.
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Posted Nov 19th 2007 10:44PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews
(S03E09) Well, the slap countdown clock is gone, and we've just experienced the first-ever Slapsgiving. Was it as good as everyone thought it was going to be?
Well, yes and no.
Despite how Barney felt about it, the impact of tonight's slap probably was blunted by the fact that we knew when it was coming. However, the goofiness that led up to the slap more than made up for that. And we even got a Robin / Ted plot that wasn't boring
or annoying. So it was a bonus. Oh, and the slap
was pretty funny too. Slaps always are.
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