Barney Stinson is the epitome of awesome. What he does on a regular basis is never short of outlandish, ridiculous, and purely hedonistic. Because of this, America loves him. It should be no surprise that Neil Patrick Harris starring as Barney Stinson in a commercial bumper at Super Bowl XLIV seemed perfectly appropriate. Unlike Sheldon [...]

Baseball. The national pastime. Even if you don’t like sports, the culture has perpetuated modern society and become an everyday happenstance. Even now, days before the Super Bowl, baseball still holds the number one spot for sports in our hearts. Rules, terminology, legendary players and notable achievements have seeped into daily life and ingrained themselves [...]

As a citizen of the American Midwest, I can assure you the fear of big cities is rampant and pervasive. Television and movies paint urban backdrops as areas of frequent crime, theft and violence, while suburbia is a safe haven. In this podunk mindset, Los Angeles and New York are the two scariest, deadliest places [...]

The theme for this week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother is observation. How do we perceive ourselves, and how do we display these selves for the sake of others? True, while How I Met Your Mother is consistently about how Future Narrator Ted displays himself , tonight specifically is about the self-conscious tendencies [...]

Tonight’s episode of How I Met Your Mother was the 100th episode. Like any long-running series, the 100th episode is a a hallmark of success and a time for celebration. It establishes the series’ place among television’s elite in terms of sustainability and popularity. The episode begins with our main character, Ted, approaching a quartet [...]

Although the Destiny has survived the violent turbulence buffeting them at the end of last week’s episode, “Darkness,” the crew’s situation has not gotten any better. The ship is still totally out of reserve power and on a collision course with a nearby star. The only only chance any of the crew seems to have [...]