How I Met Your Mother. CBS.
This last season of How I Met Your Mother has been very disappointing. It's the final season and there is the general idea that they bring the series to a close. This entire season seems to consists of filler episodes that all rely on cheap bits. This last episode just made me furious. Marshall goes through this huge and ridiculous story to try and freak out Barney for the next slap. Not only was the story ridiculous even for this outlandish show but it wasn't even clever. Actually this episode felt a little racist with its depiction of Asian culture. What I found really annoying is how the characters all acted about the slap beat. There in their thirties but are acting like immature teenagers, especially Marshal who has a child and is about to be a judge!
The story wasn't funny. It didn't add anything to the plot. I think the writers and crew were trying it parody the idea of kung fu movies and I'm not going to say it's outright racism but the depiction of the actors taking on kung fu slap masters and some of the things that were parodying was just awful. I like to think they were just trying to have fun but it still felt wrong. The line "I have much gold" was actually used several time through the show. And i was like "What?!"
This season is becoming a chore to watch. The only good thing in this episode was that Boyz To Men showed up to sing the slapping song at the end. It's okay, they are good at singing but the song seemed wrong for them to sing. It felt out of place especially after having the actor introduce them just took me out of the story. I'll give this show a 0.5 out of 5 and that half a point is for Boyz To Men. Their singing was nice but really not needed and a little out of place. Other wise I would give this episode a 0. I would just skip this episode and actually from now on when I see this episode is on I'm changing the channel.
