The parody motivational poster, or the 'demotivational poster', is a pretty common sight on the Internet these days.
As the saying goes, "If you can't beat em - join em":
...and my favorite of the lot:
Now that I actually have an office (albeit a puny one), I'm kind of tempted to buy one pre-framed, ready to hang. On second thought, however, it might be considered a little.... unprofessional...
Hmm... I've been meaning to do this for a while now.
But first, I gotta say that July went by blazingly fast. There were so many new things to learn, so many new people to meet, and a whole new daily schedule to get used to (6am wakeups - bleh). Thankfully, on the days that I'm particularly busy, a 10-hour day comes and goes before you know it.
Back to the motif of this post though - I clearly have an ever-growing love of lists on my blogs, and today's post is business as usual. I wrote a rather ambitous top Simpsons episodes list before, but I don't think I will ever have the time to do that again. Instead, without further ado, here's my Top 7 How I Met Your Mother episodes:
(Minor Spoiler Alert – but if you haven’t watched the series, why are you reading this?)
7. Swarley (s2, ep7) - A great episode with loads of laughs. As with many of the other episodes on this list, it's always entertaining to see the normally cocky Barney get all flustered and exasperated.
6. Brunch (s2, ep3) - Another variant of the 'Run Lola Run' multiple-perspective style of storytelling, which is a fun change of pace for the viewer. It also has one of the most morbid (and funny) endings to a sitcom episode that I’ve ever seen.
5. Ten Sessions (s3, ep13) – One of those episodes where it’s hard not to root for Ted as he tries oh-so hard to find his wife. It’s kind of sad to watch it now though, after knowing that Stella turned out to be kind of a…. well, you know….
4. The Platinum Rule (s3, ep11) – A really clever piece of writing that puts a twist on the classic ‘main story / sub story’ relationship. It’s brilliant how you can figure out the time period of the flashback just by looking at Robin and Lily’s hairstyles.
3. Slapsgiving (s3, ep9) – An actually exciting episode to watch, especially with the sudden Ted-and-Robin ‘are they back together??’ moment that totally caught me off-guard. I’m kind of sad that slap #4 has yet to occur or even be mentioned recently, but I hope that means they’re cooking up something good.
2. Showdown (s2, ep20) – This is probably the episode that put Barney Stinson on the top of everyone’s ‘favorite TV character’ list. He is, in all honesty, an appalling character whose behaviour cannot be excused by even the most severe form of childhood trauma, but how can you not love a guy who plays a perfect game of The Price is Right just to talk to Bob Barker?
1. Slap Bet (s2, ep9) – This is just a really funny episode with a lot of jokes made at the expense of Canadian culture, but it’s also my current favourite because it’s the first HIMYM episode I ever watched. They kept replaying it on an Alaskan cruise I went on last summer and, seeing how there’s absolutely nothing to do on an Alaskan cruise, my cousins and I watched it enough times to be able to sing ‘Let’s Go to the Mall’ word-for-word. Two weeks later, the entire series made its way onto my hard drive (^_^)
