How I Met Your Mother (TV Series) Mom and Dad (2013) User Reviews

Mom and Dad (#9.10)

[ComedyFan2010 · 7/10 · 11 August 2015]

I actually love how this season is made. I like the idea of it all being the time before wedding with small stories added that make us see some old characters again while awaiting the wedding of Barney and Robin as well as Ted's relationship.

I was not too crazy about this one though, even it is still not bad. It just seemed a bit weird with the father's thing. But it brought many good jokes with it. I loved the elevators scenes as well as the musical ones.

I didn't care much for the Zabka story. Was really not capturing ones attention.

Even though there was too little about Marshall for my taste I did love scenes with him. And Daphne's daughter making a speech about oil with Marshall's reaction was just great.

Thriller and Comedy and Most Underrated...

[Aman_Goyal · 9/10 · 25 May 2019]

Detective Ted is back not only to catch the criminal but to also prove his innocence. Barney is the life of the episode. His devotion for his family and competition with his brother... Just Wow. Many twists and many comic ekemelem P.S. a dance number. (Date: August 7th, 2018 and November 3rd, 2018)

Not altogether horrendous, but a rather weightless episode

[SLionsCricketreviews · 5/10 · 29 December 2015]

"Mom and Dad" does have some entertaining moments amidst a rather weightless episode. Usually, the main sin a sitcom can commit is to make an unfunny episode, but when the show is so close to the end, each episode needs some weight. "Mom and Dad" fails in this specific area.

Barney attempts to hook up his parents when he sees they have established a good rapport. Ted attempts to discover who framed him for a calligraphy incident.

Ted's storyline is the weaker aspect of this episode, not enticing many laughs. It isn't unwatchable by any stretch of the word, but it really isn't important.

This episode does manage to show that Barney is still attached to his past. Deep down, he's still a child, and here he is forced to grow up when he sees James's father is now in love with Loretta. Whilst the idea confuses him, he must come to terms with it.

It was an entertaining and important aspect of the episode, but "Mum and Dad" does further stretch realism. There is a horrendous moment in a montage between Daphne and Marshall (singing a familiar song) where Baby Marvin is driving the car! Yes, a baby drives a car! Whilst something like this is appropriate in a cartoon like "The Simpsons", it has no right been in a 'realistic' sitcom like HIMYM. This moment is utterly terrible, completely unbelievable in every sense of the word, that I must remove a star from my rating.

"Mom and Dad" is not a great episode, but it has some solid material to work with. Part of it works rather well, but the episode comes off as a bit of a misfire. That moment with Marvin driving the car is arguably the worst moment of the show.

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[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 15 June 2020]

How good is billy zabka. I like when he mentioned the pineapple