TV Recap: HIMYM - Woooo

I have never seen an architecture presentation quite as awesome as the one on this week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother. Who cares if it didn’t come from Ted? It was a giant tyrannosaurus rex building that breathed fire from its mouth! I think that deserves a “Woo.”

Lily and Robin never get to spend any quality alone time together. Anytime they start talking, Marshall shows up and so he knows everything Robin is trying to keep quiet. Like how she has a yeast infection. Exactly. Not something you want everyone to know. It’s not as if Robin is angry that Lily has Marshall, she just wants to have some girl time. Fortunately, Lily is having a girls’ night out with another teacher, Jillian (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) and some of her friends, which is exactly what Robin needs. They’re super excited to hang out without the boys until they get to the bar (an uber-classy cowboy bar with a mechanical bull) and discover that Lily’s friend is a “Woo girl.”

We all know woo girls. In fact, I can say on more than one occasion that I’ve been a “Woo” girl. But my woo antics didn’t hold a candle to these girls. They would “Woo!” for their favorite song or a cute pair of shoes. They would also “Woo” sadly for any bad news. Yes, they did love to “Woo!” for all they hold dear. But poor Robin and Lily had no “Woo”, only fear. Sorry about the rhyming but just wanted to give you a taste of the high-larious Dr. Suess writing that went on in this episode when they talked about the “Woo” girls. Back to the story…

Robin and Lily aren’t too happy about hanging out with “Woo” girls but they decide to make the best of it. And you know, it doesn’t turn out too bad. At least for Robin. It seems Robin has much more in common with the “Woo” girls than she thought. When Lily sees Robin wooing down the street out of a limo, though, her cover is blown. Easy enough to explain. Robin is a “Woo” girl. Sure, her woos are sad because she’s unemployed and single. But if you look closely at all “Woo” girls, there’s sadness behind their woos, too. It’s easy for Robin to relate to the “Woo” girls and even though Lily understands, she’s still a little bit jealous. She just has to know that when it counts, Robin will come to her. You know that deserves a woo.

While the girls are bonding this episode, so are the boys. Ted’s been so depressed lately he’s kind of the guy “Woo” girl. Except he admits his crappy life. He has his best friends looking out for him, though (it’s a tie between Marshall and Barney if you didn’t know). When GNB, the bank Barney and Marshall work for, say their looking to build a new building downtown for their new offices, Barney immediately offers Ted as a possibility. Everything goes great. Ted nails the design, the presentation, everything. Somehow, though, GNB decides to go with a Swedish firm called Sven.

When Marshall discovers the reason Ted’s design wasn’t chosen he goes straight to the source. I mean, there must be some reasonable explanation why Barney voted for Sven over Ted. There just has to be a reason. During one of Barney and Marshall’s conference calls (when they meet on the roof in the middle of the day to drink), Barney breaks down and confesses. He had no choice once he saw Sven’s design. They had an enormous tyrannosaurus rex building and they said Barney’s office would be in the brain. They also said he would have access to a button that would make fire breath out of the dinosaurs head. That’s super practical, right? Having all that gas or whatever in your building. No problem. But it was an awesome presentation. They had a laser light show and everything. You really can’t blame Barney. After all, he likes sparkly things. Marshall does give him a few things to think about, though, and then locks him on the roof in time out. I guess the whole time out strategy works on everyone because everyone converges at the cowboy bar and Barney tells Ted he got the job after all.

So Ted’s “Woo” is a little happier but Robin’s still sucks. Maybe if she knew that Barney was in love with her she would have better luck. Maybe if she got a job, too, she wouldn’t have such a sad “Woo”? Poor Robin just needs something real to make her “Woo.” Please, oh please, HIMYM gods, won’t you make her dream come true?

Seriously, high-larious.

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