S8.E23

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Something Old

Episode aired May 6, 2013
TV-14
22m

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7.4/10

3.6K

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Ray Wise and Cobie Smulders in How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Comedy Drama Romance

Robin searches for a locket that she buried in Central Park for her wedding, Ted helps Marshall and Lily pack for Italy, and Barney plays laser tag with his future father in law.Robin searches for a locket that she buried in Central Park for her wedding, Ted helps Marshall and Lily pack for Italy, and Barney plays laser tag with his future father in law.Robin searches for a locket that she buried in Central Park for her wedding, Ted helps Marshall and Lily pack for Italy, and Barney plays laser tag with his future father in law.

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7.4/10

3.6K

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1tomasspenna

So lame this Robin & Ted thing

Plus Robin is completely out of character of caring that much about this stup1d stuff, specifically considering how much she is a skeptical, independent and down-to-earth type of woman. She would have never ever cared about some cr4p buried many years ago.

1forrarser

Disappointed.

I am disappointed just for the fact that writers arbitrarily twist the story. Don't they watch just the previous freaking episode? Why would they do that? Wasn't everything great for Barney & Robin in the last episode. Where the h*ll this new stuff come from? In just one episode writers have a freedom to turn everything on opposite direction and I hate that. I hate the inconsistency with all my heart. Shame on you writers, producers, directors who are butchering the show.

Who knows what they will show on the next episode. I don't like being duped. They introduce new people, new events new connections out of nowhere just to screw up with us.

8slightlymad22

Mixed Feelings As Season Heads To Its Close

With the title of this episode being "something old" and the next episode being titled "something new" I expected a double header focusing on the wedding of Barney and Robin, but I guess I'm wrong.

Plot In A Paragraph: Robin Scherbatsky Sr. is in town. He and Barney (the son he never had) bond doing one of Barney's favourite activities, laser tag. But not all is harmonious between the father/son duo, and soon they are at war. Literally. However their bonding time leaves Robin time to carry out an important task, namely finding the locket she buried near the Central Park carousel when she was a teenager, that locket which was always intended to be her "something old" at her wedding. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily are having trouble trying to decide what to take with them to Italy and what to throw away, so they call in the packing expert, Ted.

So Ted clearly still has feelings for Robin (who didn't know, or at least suspect that??) and Robin is having doubts about marrying Barney, and is maybe thinking Ted is the guy for her. I didn't like the end scene at all!! Everything was fine with Robin and Barney at the end of the last episode, so why bring all this negativity and doubts in to it?? On the plus side Barney and Robins Dad at Laser Tag was great fun.

1puzgolac

As always, whenever this show tries to be deep it fails miserably

A completely funless episode. No jokes, but instead they try to do some forced drama and it is woefully bad. Whoever wrote this show is just not up to the task of writing serious meaningful plot. They are also not so good at writing jokes, but the jokes are still better than the drama.

Overall, another unenjoyable filler episode.

10bevo-13678

They live

I like the bit where ted swallowed his bubble gum and nearly chokes

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Trivia
During laser tag, there are two references to the 1994 movie, Léon: The Professional. When Barney is giving a pep talk to his team one of the boys asks him, "What does that have to do with laser tag?" To which Barney responds in his face, "Everything!" This is similar to Gary Oldman's line in The Professional where he responds to a fellow officer asking who he should get to which Oldman's character responds, "Everyone!" The second reference is when Barney is perched above a doorway to shoot some kids in the back and then swings down to get two more kids while hanging upside down. This is exactly like a scene in The Professional where Léon does the same exact thing to police officers trying to enter his apartment.

Goofs
When Lily is carrying the beanbag chair into the living room you can see the beads coming not from the chair, but the hand she's carrying it with.

Quotes
Robin Scherbatsky: Ted, this is a sign, and you know it! I mean, the universe is screaming at me right now, how can you of all people have come to ignore that?
Ted Mosby: Because maybe it's dumb to look for the signs from the universe! Maybe the universe has better things to do. I mean, dear God, I hope it does. You know how many signs I've gotten, that I should or shouldn't be with someone? And where has it gotten me? Maybe there aren't any signs. Maybe... maybe a locket's just a locket, and... a chair's just a chair. Maybe we don't have to give meaning to every little thing. And maybe we don't... Maybe we don't need the universe to tell us what we really want. Maybe we already know that. Deep down.