This is my vote

Pick Nora! Pick Nora!! Pick Nora!!!


I'm going to say "Pick Robin" just to mess with you.


So tonight is the big season finale of 2 of the 3 TV shows I actually watch, Chuck and How I Met Your Mother. Today's Sametime Status deals with the latter.

As you may or may not know, Neil Patrick Harris's character in HIMYM (Barney Stinson) is one of the greatest TV characters ever. He is, in fact, LEGENDARY! So anyway, one of the main facets of Barney is that he is a consummate ladies' man and bounces from one conquest to the next with hilarious frequency. As the show has progressed, Barney's character has grown a little bit, and managed to carry on a somewhat stable relationship with Robin, another of the show's main characters.

This was crap.

While the two characters are outwardly similar, throwing them together into this story arc proved to be deflating to the show and pretty much killed the entire season that it happened, finally being rescued by the episode "The Playbook." In fact, I think I put a review of that episode on this Blag somewhere, but I can't be bothered to look it up. Later on (just a few weeks ago, in fact), Barney met Nora, one of Robin's friends, and seemed to hit it off very well with her, even getting Nora interested in a Laser Tag tournament. Things didn't go very far with them once Nora learned of Barney's typical intentions, and Barney was going through some stuff of his own at the time, so she was out of the picture. Tonight's season finale episode has a couple things in store.

First, the return of Nora. Second, a little personal bonding between Barney and Robin over Ted's latest fiasco (This is actually good, because for most of this season, Robin has been largely a throw-away character). Finally, it involves a wedding set about 1 year into the future, in which Ted is the best man. Who's getting married has remained a mystery for a while, but there is rampant speculation as to who it is. Barney and Robin? Barney and Nora? Robin and a Player to be named later? Punchy? As today's Sametime Status indicates, my vote is for Barney and Nora. We'll see how I did.


This part added later, since Jeremy got bored during lunch and found the video.


HERE'S MY EVIDENCE. How can anyone think he's into Robin after watching that? It's Barney and Nora!!