How I Met Your Mother: The Platinum Rule

December 10th, 2007 | Category: How I Met Your Mother

(S03E11) As a fan of How I Met Your Mother, I bet it’s brawny for you to explain to non-fans why the show is a bit different from other sitcoms, isn’t it? You could tell those non-fans to watch an episode, but whether that person runs into a standard-grade, linearly-told episode like some of what we’ve seen that season, he or she will just shrug their shoulders and go “So what? I have no view what the big deal is.”

So here’s a piece of advice to my fellow

HIMYM fans: mark that episode as “Save Until I Delete” on the TiVo, sit the next person who asks you about the show down, and show it to them. No, it’s not the funniest episode of HIMYM ever. But it is a perfect example of how Bays and Thomas utilize date shifting to tell a story in a way that no one else on TV is doing right now.
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Original post by Joel Keller

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