the finer dandyHIMYM | the finer dandy http://blog.dinoray.com a dapper (and sometimes disgruntled) take on popular culture Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:04:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Countdown http://blog.dinoray.com/2011/01/07/the-how-i-met-your-mother-countdown/ http://blog.dinoray.com/2011/01/07/the-how-i-met-your-mother-countdown/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:03:54 +0000 dino-ray http://blog.dinoray.com/?p=4144

I like the direction that How I Met Your Mother is taking. Maybe it’s because this week’s “Bad News” episode was kind of depressing and depression makes everything better. Right?

Anyways, I was chatting with my friend Zaid today and realized that I am really stupid because, well, check out a snippet from our chat:

me: oh no…katy perry is going to be on HIMYM
zaid: snap
did u see the last one?
me: yes
it was sad
zaid: did u notice the countdown?
me: omg no! what countdown?
zaid: i noticed it in the first scene when they were at the doctor
and there was a brochure that said 50
and then the next scene when they went back, it said 49
me: omg i am so dense
zaid: and then you would see random numbers everywhere
me: did it mean anything?
zaid: it counted down to the “bad news”
me: oh

Check out the video to see the countdown in its entirety:

I really need to learn to be more observant.

]]> http://blog.dinoray.com/2011/01/07/the-how-i-met-your-mother-countdown/feed/ 0 Are you a settler? Or a reacher? http://blog.dinoray.com/2010/01/19/are-you-a-settler-or-a-reacher/ http://blog.dinoray.com/2010/01/19/are-you-a-settler-or-a-reacher/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:39:18 +0000 dino-ray http://blog.dinoray.com/?p=1629 Besides the ‘but ummm’ drinking game, tonight’s episode (which, by the way, was directed by the Notorious NPH – Neil Patrick Harris) of How I Met Your Mother presented the brilliant “reacher or settler” philosophy.

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Marshall and ‘Jenkins’ make it hot on the 101st episode of HIMYM

The episode titled “Jenkins” has Marshall (Jason Segel) kind of crushing on a new gal at work, Jenkins (Amanda Peet) and he gets nervous because he thinks when Lily (Alyson Hannigan) finds out Jenkins is not a guy, she’ll go postal. From this, Ted (Josh Radnor) and Robin (Cobie Smulders) compare Lily and Marshall’s relationship to the reacher/settler philosophy. A reacher is someone who reaches for someone out of their league while a settler is a person who settles for someone below their league.

Does that make sense? I typed it out pretty fast because it’s almost 1 a.m. and I need to get to sleep. Email me if it doesn’t make sense.

In any matter, as a single, insecure male, I looked at all the couples around me and thought, “Is this theory true?” Then are started to evaluate. Then I started to think it was true. Then I started to feel like I was mean. Then I started to feel really judgmental.

This is EXACTLY why this show is so thought-provoking. It plants a seed of social commentary in our heads and, for us late twenty/early thirty somethings, it fucks you up – but it makes you laugh while doing it.

What do you think? Is this theory true?

Please evaluate the loved ones around you.

More than that, which one would you be? The settler? Or the reacher?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Genius.

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A hug is like a public dry hump.

-Barney

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Marshall: Why can’t two guys who are friends go to brunch?

Ted: Because brunch is kind of…

Robin: Girly.

Marshall: Breakfast isn’t girly. Lunch isn’t girly. What makes brunch girly?

Ted: I don’t know. There is nothing girly about a horse or a horn. Put them together and you have a unicorn.

- as said in the World’s Greatest Couple episode.

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