老爸老妈的浪漫史 第四季

不冒险，就不知道人有多少潜能，

不转身，就不知道朝阳天天升起，

有时候，计划和梦想真的把人束缚住了，

也许奋力一跳，就能到达一个完全不同的境地；

这一季华丽的完结了，没想到最后一集走到了青春励志的路线上；

三个男人站在天台那一段让人感想颇多，

而两段表白也十分感人，

期待下一季。

By Defay

 

I have been watching How I Met Your Mother recently. I love it so much that I spent an entire weekend watching it non-stop. The show is really hilarious yet full of wisdom. Despite how insane and exaggerate the stories the narrator tells are, he really tries to teach some lessons here.

 

An interesting thing that I have to mention about this show is that at first I think Barney Stinson stinks, but gradually I fell in love with this character. Okay, "fall in love" might be too strong a word but it's true that Barney Stinson, the character along with the actor who plays it, is becoming my new favorite. I myself felt very confused sometimes, as Barney is not supposed to be liked by so many people, especially by me. He is a total liar and playboy who does not care about other people's feelings. He is conceited and selfish, greedy and arrogant. And above all, he is frivolous.

 

Yet I was deeply touched by Barney three times by the end of season 4.

 

The first time was when Marshall and Lily break their engagement, Barney lures women away from Marshall so that he can remain faithful to the woman he truly loves. It is later revealed by Lily that it was Barney who convinced Lily to come back to New York, even buying her a plane ticket home.

 

The second time was when Barney was secretly in love with Robin, he acted like a baby. He did everything he could to help Robin, especially that time when Robin accidently quit her job and might be expelled from USA. Barney wants Robin to be around him so much that he helped Robin to make a video tape as a resume to find jobs. Later during video shooting Robin was irritated by his ideas and he finished her e-resume alone by himself. Eventually he succeeded in finding Robin a job and kept her in the group.

 

The third time was when he heard that Ted was hit by a car and was in hospital. He did not hesitate even for a second and rushed to hospital. When he found he could not get a cab, he ran on foot to hospital. Just as he was a street-across away from the hospital, he was too tired and did not notice a fast-driving bus that he himself was hit by it and badly injured.

 

See why they still hang out with him? Everyone in the gang owes to Barney.

 

Put aside his personal life, Barney does have very special and sparkling aspects in his personality that are so rare and precious that it is very hard to find them in a human being.

 

First of all, he is rational. Recall that he is always keen to experiment on all kinds of tricks to hit on girls to test which ones of them actually work. No matter how many times he fails, he just keeps on trying till he reached a scientific statistical conclusion. That's right. 83%. That number applies to everything.

 

Secondly of all, he challenges himself all the time. "Challenge accepted" even if for most of the time, nobody challenges him. He just enjoys it, setting goals, thinking up strategies, taking actions, and eventually, achieving goals, which is closely related to another big merit of his, persistence.

 

Third of all, he is persistent. Recall that once he raised his right hand to high five but nobody responded him. He raised his hand till someone slapped him five. Barney is so driven to succeed, he will do whatever it takes to get what he wants, including lie, cheat or bribe his friends. If he's trying to get a hot girl, he might even pretend to be an astronaut or a taxi driver. Barney will talk trash, or even tell the truth if that's what it takes. He always gets what he wants. You have to admire drive and determination like that.

 

Fourth of all, he is audacious and passionate. We always see him running to do things. He never hesitates. When he wants to do something, he does it, immediately, or over a shockingly long period of time, secretly plotting. Of course, we should exclude the circumstances when he was deeply in love with Robin, which weakened his ability to make resolute decisions. His love for Robin actually completes him as a human being. We can see him as vulnerable, soft and caring as any man in love can be. We can see he has a breakable heart just like everybody else.

 

Fifth of all, we know that he is confident for sure, but sometimes he is peculiarly calm. Once, a big merger in the company Barney works in fell through and Barney was getting blamed for it. Marshall overheard that Barney might be fired. Everyone is worried except himself. Or at least he acted like he is not worried at all. He launched his project of "Perfect Week", e.g., sleeping with seven women in seven days without a single rejection, to deal with the stress. On the next Monday, Barney keeps his job. And his boss says it must have been a stressful time for him. "I barely slept," Barney winked.

 

Last but not least, he keeps rules. Despite the crazy and maniac ideas and actions, Barney keeps rules, except those rules are written by no man but himself. Still, he lives to it, devotedly. His Crazy/Hot Scale, Platinum Rule and Lemon Law are just a few of his dating guidelines. He has rules to govern his professional life. (Actually doing things gets you fired.) He updated the definition of cheating. (It's not cheating if you're not married, if the girl has two consecutive vowels in her name or if she lives in a different area code.) But his rules governing bro-to-bro relationships were so important he published them in a book called "The Bro Code."

 

Just think of having a friend like him around you. You can laugh at him every day because he is mentally strong enough to keep your unintentionally hurtful words from actually hurting him. Yet he brings you all these novel and original stories and ideas and other things that you've never heard of every day, to share with you or to brag about. He urges you to do crazy things you've never done in your entire life. It's so not boring when you are with him. Suit up! Phone five! It's gonna be Legen-wait for it-dary! I'm awesome! There are so many amazing and amusing or even annoying things he talks about. If you don't hear him say for one day, you will even feel something is missing in your life.

 

I think the most important reason is that, even though Barney is a playboy, he only hits on bimbos. And only bimbos buy into his lies and acts. Girls clever as Robin or Nora would not be easily seduced to his moves. He knows it and he tried even harder to prove to everyone that when Barney Stinson is not a jackass, he could really be a dreamy boyfriend that every woman would want. He is always handsome, wears a suit every day, even in his sleep (he wears a suit-jamas at bedtime) and he is clever and wealthy. Nothing can stop him.

 

BTW, the actor who plays Barney Stinson is actually gay. Heart-broken, huh? Still, I admire his exquisite acting skills, as well as his magic tricks, acrobatics and singing performances.

How I Met Your Mother S04E24:


(Lily): Architecture is killing you,Ted,and it's killing us to watch it killing you. You're like that goat with the washcloth. You want it so bad,and every time the world tries to take it away from you,you keep grabbing it.But you know what? It's just a washcloth. Why do you even want it?


(Ted): Because I... I have to be an architect. That's...that's the plan.


(Lily): Screw the plan. I planned on being a famous artist. Marshall planned on being an environmental lawyer. Robin planned on being a TV reporter.Barney planned on being a violinist. Look,you can't design your life like a building.It doesn't work that way.You just have to live it,and it will design itself.


(Ted): So,what,I should just do nothing?


(Lily): No. Listen to what the world is telling you to do and take the leap.

 

Ted:

That was the year I got left at the altar.
It was the year I got knocked out by a crazy bartender.
The year I got fired.
The year I got beat up by a goat. A girl goat,at that.
And damn it if it wasn't the best year of my life.
Because,if any one of those things hadn't happened,
I never would have ended up in a which turned out to be the best job I ever had.
But more importantly,I wouldn't have met your mother.

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That is life and that's why I love this TV so much, it tells you stories about truly committed friends while revealing the truth of life with graceful smile