User Reviews

This is a pretty good episode on how Marshall and Lily try to decide who will be the godparent.

The fun part was both seeing how their three friends tried to get the title with teddy bears and Barney's funny songs. And also the game was a great addition where we had many fun answers and moments.

And it also ends pretty sweet. All three are getting the title of the godparent as they are all their best friends. And Lily and Marshall go back to being great friends by taking down the rate 8 rule, because as Marshall so very well said since their are their friends everything in their lives is 8 and above. People who have kids should all learn from this.

The fourth episode of the already dry and lackluster eight season is no better than the previous episode. Every bit of 'humour' injected into this episode falls under as cliché, without a single laugh being well earned.

When the show doesn't focus on the dramatic elements of Robin's life (as it did quite well in the seventh season), the character is downright awful. Barney's womanizing is becoming a bit repetitive at this point, partly because the character is in the midst of undergoing a major character arc. Ted's constant search for "The One" is also terribly frustrating, and when the writers bring back Victoria, they do not choose to focus on that relationship. Rather, Victoria has now been delegated to cheap comedy, rather than a character with a lot of warmth and heart as she was in the first and seventh seasons.

The game in the episode is overlong and unfunny. There is not a single good laugh, and the fact that the episode resorts to the most clichéd means of resolving this issue (delegating each of the three as the guardians of Marvin) is more frustrating. Robin would make a terrible parent, as would Barney. Ted is the only sensible and logical choice, as he would make a fine parent. It is frustrating to see Lily and Marshall make such a idiotic decision, whilst we as an audience are left to see the only logical option.

This episode is painfully unfunny, even when it tries to be most funny. HIMYM needs to do a special turnaround....perhaps with Victoria.