How I Met Your Mother is one of those shows that I really shouldn't like, but I just freaking do. Since finding it shoved in the graveyard slot on a smaller channel here in the U of K, around 3-4am each night, I bought the first season, then the next two, imported because it's STILL not out here, then the blu ray of season 4, which whilst good, not as funny, and have been watching the 5th season as we fall down in quality more, with Barney being centre stage even though he's not got enough in the way of being important to the story Ted tells the kids.
I have tried but failed to enjoy a single episode this season... Until.
Say Cheese brings back the classic formula, one set, 5 characters, many call backs, flashbacks, issues that are only just being brought up, silly dialogue, crazy ideas and an all round ok basis to get ever closer to finding the mother.
The cast has great chemistry and each one is talented, put together it's an impressive bunch, with Neil Patrick Harris and the ever manly Jason Segal leading the pack, and in this episode, where the gang, to steal a name from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, are over at Marshall and Lily's place to celebrate Lily's 32nd birthday, until Ted brings in a young woman to make Lily's cake, a young woman Ted imposes on them, annoying Marshall, especially when she makes a cake with some poor choice of numbers and letters.
The episode culminates in the classic sweet college room flashback, adding more to the Ted Marshall Lily mythos (I do love the college adventure stories they have) and a subplot involving Robin trying to take a photo of Barney without it looking posed is funny enough (An addition with Marshall always blinking in photos, though, clearly lifted from My Name Is Earl).
All in all this is the classic How I Met Your Mother, fast, very funny, sweet and interesting, I hope this means we're going back to a better style of writing.
4/5
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