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Now that the writers have already finished the Ted/Robin couple, the show suddenly grew into the standard-y storytelling. Now all the characters have a story to tell, which will be forgotten in the next episode, and which won’t be important very much for the characters.

I wanted to like Barney’s (Neil Patrick Harris) and Ted’s (Josh Radnor) sudden and casual trip to Philadelphia, but somehow it felt completely forced. The situation with the cops at the airport, Sascha’s (Carla Toutz) ’party’, the thing with licking the Liberty Bell… With the exception of teasing that Ted might be Barney’s only friend, which is why the two hang out, the story basically had nothing to offer. And I was really expecting a drama moment in the cab, when Barney was telling Ted, why he was hanging out with him. Sadly the “You’re my only friend” didn’t come and it was just the boring “You’re my best friend”. But I can’t believe that Ted is the only one, who is actually doing crazy things with him in the past, but in this episode Ted didn’t want to do anything and just go home. I don’t know, I would call that inconsistency, but since it’s only the third episode so far.

Lily’s (Alyson Hannigan) story was cool though. I loved how she wanted to be flirted at, and I loved how she failed, even when she took the ring off. And it was actually sweet to see her fail, while Robin (Cobie Smulders) got all the guys minutes ago. But somehow even this little story went into nowhere after a while, and I don’t really think that the last scene with the gay guy and Marshall (Jason Segel) was funny – after I stopped thinking about how fast Marshall returned to the bar, even though he was already halfway to Philadelphia… Whatever.

What I was criticizing in last episode’s review was Barney not getting any depth. This episode, he suddenly got depth – very surprising. Other than that it was just an average episode, soon forgotten from my mind. 6/10

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