老爸老妈的浪漫史第四季

这部美剧看起来速度哈快，不知不觉竟然我都看到第五季了……不能说每一集都很搞笑，但有几集真的是很经典，也算是伴我度过了无数个无聊的夜晚吧……
最喜欢的还是Barney吧，坏男人果然就是讨人喜欢啊，as long as he is not my boyfriend... Ted也蛮搞笑的，呆呆的。但最呆的还是Marshall，感觉他超级适合演这种块头很大但内心纯真的角色，特别搞笑。两个女主角相比下还是有些逊色，找不到《老友记》里三个女主角的那种搞笑感觉，没觉得特别适合演喜剧……
最后作为第四季还在卖弄甚至调戏观众还不揭开“究竟谁才是孩子他妈”的一部电视剧，我觉得除非孩子他妈是Robin，否则这部戏真的偏题偏得可以……所以最后我还是“大胆”地预测Ted会和Robin在一起，虽然好像有点明显……

看着Barney在酒吧泡着mm，虽然他真人是个gay
看着Ted被不同的女人伤害着，然后继续着无尽的等待
看着Stella抱着前夫，然后对Ted说那个人其实正开着跑车冲向你
看着Marshall戴着草帽，lily拿着6瓶装的啤酒，奏起《友谊天长地久》的歌声
看着他们的爱情从热恋变成生活再变成习惯
看着Robin和Ted偶尔闪回的记忆
看着一旁砸着电视机的Barney
看着Leonard痴痴的望着penny和“能人”关上门
看着Penny倚着门背伤心的说：“That means I don't wanna you go”


其实，每个花花公子曾经都是个痴情男
其实，每个痴情男都曾被伤害而变成了花花公子
其实，每对couple都渐渐成为对方的习惯
其实，每对分手的恋人都会偶尔回忆起过往
其实，每个花花公子最后仍然有骨子里的痴情
其实，每个nerd心中并不只爱着科学
其实，每个掩饰的谎话却成了伤害自己的刀子

其实，每个宅人都曾经阳光，曾经快乐
只是，现实太累，太繁杂，害怕了，把自己包裹
所以，在sitcom中，才发现自己的影子，细细的去品味去想象那些生活

不是我们不知道，只是这个世界太不着调

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.