How I Met Your Mother – This week’s title was names “BAGPIPES”

With a sharp, well-written story, “Bagpipes” provides some great laughs while staying true to the characters. Marshall getting worked up by Barney’s ridiculous speech about what he’d do in the dishes situation, leading him to ineloquently attempt to present the same argument to Lily was both funny and exactly how you’d expect Marshall to act. Lily and Marshall’s mutated and multiplying arguments were well edited and well written, feeling like real fights they would have as a couple. Lily’s Shining impression very amusingly shut down all the multiplied arguments, and Marshall’s explanation about how Lily fights dirty like his brothers did with a captured badger, was great stuff.

While Ted is mostly a side-player this episode, his commentary and problems with the new upstairs neighbors always “playing the bagpipes” are key to the overall storyline. Unlike in “The Sexless Innkeeper” where Ted was part of a very small side-story of his own, Ted’s experiences with the bagpipe-playing neighbors not only gave us a great running gag throughout the episode and a very funny reveal of the elderly couple upstairs but also tied directly into the overall story, as Ted realized the downstairs neighbors always know exactly what’s going on with a couple.

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