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How I Met Your Mother Ep. 9.10 “Mom and Dad” is just pointless

With the Mother wish fulfillment journey on hold for the time being, How I Met Your Mother turned back to Farhampton for another round of unfunny hijinks, centered around Barney and James’s selfish competitions to get their mother to sleep with their birth fathers. If that doesn’t sound like fun, Ted’s in the background arguing with Billy Zabka over a photograph of Wayne Gretzky – another entertaining round of adventures so terrible, I couldn’t believe the script is actually credited to the series’ creators. Make no mistake: this is one of the worst episodes of the series, an episode that doesn’t take a single breath between bad jokes to actually find anything meaningful in its story.

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