100th episode fanfares are usually impressively huge and quite often fall short of their own hype. Can you blame them? The Marketing Department wants to pimp you out as hard and long as they can. The fact that you made it to 100 episodes as an achievement alone considering most shows that even manage to get their pilots picked up, fail in their first year. It's kind of like when you try to have a baby. If you actually work at it, you realize it's pretty hard stuff. Sex becomes difficult. You both start doing all sorts of strange things which previously sounded like interesting positions but now seem just as viable as a hiccup cure. In the end, you start getting irate at how all these women are just magically getting pregnant purely by sitting on top of a washing machine while you and your partner have to drop tons of cash down a well for just the possibility of having a kid. How I Met Your Mother is one of those shows that manages the get it right from the start and I think maybe because now the people who are writing these shows are my age. I'm pretty sure most of the jokes seem paltry to people younger than me and people older than me don't get the childish humor of the Manchild Generation. And despite being broke as a joke, other people my age buy shit. Lots of shit. Shit on top of shit. We buy gaming consoles and cars. We buy action figures and houses. We know what a game rocker and a hutch are. We actually saw "Over the Top" in theaters or on VHS cassettes from our local video store which also had an adult section behind a curtain. We grew up with tape decks in our car that would eat our favorite tape and be forced to either listen to the radio or the cassingle we had purchased in 1987. We know the term "cassingle." Shit, I'm old.
Anyway, the show was okay. There's this hyped up musical number that was previewed by CBS which if you watched the show, you had to wait for it...because it was at the end of the show. Rachel Bilsson is a story for another day, but she was neither good nor bad. She was there and thankfully she is not the mother, but you know that because if you watch or care about the series, you know it's how the series will finally end. Did I ruin it for you? Because if you haven't figured that out let me get it all out...Harry defeats Voldamort. Vader is Luke's father. Bruce Willis is dead. Soylent Green is made from people. Oh and Tyler Durden is a personality to unnamed narrator comes up with because he can't handle his shitty life. There. Now that I made you cry, I will say that you can easily guess what's going to win based off of the title of this episode. Girls vs. Suits? I'm going with NPH with a big spread.
Overall Grade: On a scale of torn jacket a Homeless man found behind H&M in New York after someone's dog peed on it to a suit made of 24 Karat solid gold, I give it a jacket scored at the Barney's New York Clearance Sale held out at the airport.
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