Season Analysis: Season 8 of HIMYM felt awfully stretched out.

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“P.S. I Love You”
The story of How I Met Your Mother has never really been about Ted meeting the mother.  Well it has, but it has never been the focus.  Now that the mother has been revealed and now that we have known for a while that the narrative is heading towards Barney and Robin’s wedding, the serialization elements have not been able to pull too many surprises.  Frankly, I don’t know why the wedding hasn’t happened yet.  So considering how frustrating the serialization is, it makes sense that the best episode this year would be more or less a one-off.  The Robin Sparkles episode of Underneath The Tunes is essentially the ultra-Canadian version of Behind the Music, which is kind of funny because the Robin Sparkles song that is the focus of the show is a parody of “You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morissette, who is already Canadian in the first place.  “P.S. I Love You” is so satisfactory thanks to displaying the full breadth of Canadian manhood, with guest appearances from Luc Robitaille to Jason Priestley to Alex Trebek all the way to Geddy Lee.