How I Met Your Mother (TV Series) Of Course (2010) User Reviews

Of Course (#5.17)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 23 July 2015]

I am not a fan of seeing Robin in a mourning period, or even the idea that she has one. But this got us some nice moments.

First of all it was hilarious how all the guys were clueless about it. And their reaction to how they remember behaving around Robin was pretty funny. Especially Barney who even puked into the helmet.

Well this is the best part, Barney being a caring ex boyfriend. Showing Robin that she was not just somebody who he slept with and who didn't matter he gives her the date. And after does everything to not sleeping with a woman (Jennifer Lopez!). This sure is the reminder that Robin mattered to him.

And the fun catchy bang song! Even Robin got to sing it at the end of the episode.

Jennifer Lopez Is Great But All Hail Neil Patrick Harris

[slightlymad22 · 8/10 · 15 January 2015]

Neil Patrick Harris knocks it out of the park as Barney Stinson. In fact, I'd go so far to say he has carried the show during its fifth season. He is certainly the stand out performer, and I don't say that lightly as I am a fan of both Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan (but they have been woefully under used this season) but as Barney would say its a "True Story"

Plot In A Paragraph: Following Robin and Barney's break-up, Robin isn't yet ready to date again, So when Don , her new co-anchor, calls to ask Robin for a date, she is about to say no until someone intervenes on her behalf. Meanwhile Barney has been back to his womanising ways. However, the latest woman he meets named Anita (guest star Jennifer Lopez) has him confused, as she seems to want to sleep with him, but at the last minute she turns down his sexual advances. Telling the gang this story, Ted realises that Anita is using a tactic in a new guidebook for single women in how to empower themselves on the dating scene. When Barney finds out that Anita is not only using the strategies in the book but is the book's author, he comes up with a plan to get around Anita's strategy. Later, the gang minus Barney learn that Barney meeting Anita was not by accident.

The Barney storyline is hilarious, with several laugh out loud moments and Jennifer Lopez is a good guest star, possibly my second favourite so far, behind only Britney Spears two episode stint as Amy (who'd have thought that)

hilarious but boring

[saikrishna89 · 7/10 · 10 March 2010]

I've loved the initial seasons of HIMYM and loved the recent episodes such as the playbook etc. But I don't really find a point in prolonging the story with some lame story about barney and one more of his flings. The poor guy has been carrying the entire show on his shoulders the whole 5 th season. The characters of Ted and Marshall is virtually useless other than singing some lame songs!! The show has to change if it has to survive.

This episode is hilarious at times and boring at times too. It may be fun for ones who are watching the series for the first time, but it is kinda boring for all the followers. Turning Robin Sherbotsky into someone emotional may not be counted as a new innovation and the jumping into the river scene is completely non hilarious.. 7/10 on the whole....

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[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 15 June 2020]

I like the bit where Barney jumps into the water. Also when he spews into the helmet

An emotionally centered storyline is able to resist the awfulness of Lopez's performance

[SLionsCricketreviews · 7/10 · 12 December 2015]

I have never been a fan of the character Robin. Sure, Cobie Smulders does a fine job with the character but she has come off as a completely flat character. Her failure to commitment and her career as a news reporter have been traits that failed to interest me in the slightest. Aside from some of the Canadian jokes, Robin has been the weakest link to a disappointing show.

"Of Course" is the first such occasion where I managed to sympathize with her character. When she realizes that Barney has moved on, and she finds herself just another number among many of Barney's women, I genuinely pitied her. This in turn allows Barney to shine, in one of his most humanizing moments to date: after preparing a Superdate for Anita, he gives it up for Robin and Don. It was an excellent moment, that hopefully furthers the stellar writing of Barney's character. The only problem being, his character arc is moving very slowly as of late.

The episode isn't that funny, but it does have an emotionally strong core. Jennifer Lopez guest stars, in one hell of an awful performance, as an author whose latest book condemns the nature of weak men. Please, Jennifer Lopez is an author??? Her performance in itself is god awful from beginning to end, and her final scene features the most off putting, most out of context accent that I was left perplexed. There are many actresses who could've played this role, Lopez is just not one of them....

"Of Course" is a good enough episode. The show itself is moving incredibly slowly, most of the characters are becoming further uninteresting as we are made to painfully await the arrival of The Mother....