I like Barney best when we see layers of goodness beneath the skeeve, or when someone is calling him on his skeeviness, which means I loved him to bits in this episode.

Apparently (so says someone on Alan Sepinwall's blog) someone on Zazzle has made a t-shirt of the dirty presidential names list; I'm so sad that nobody has done the Cecilia Venn diagram yet.

It's a little weird how many people on that blog are getting all grumpy about yet another Your Mother fakeout, and how they're being "strung along" by the show. Not that I don't want to know myself, but it's so clearly not what the show is about (despite being the show title) and I've been peacefully Zen about the eventual appearance of YM and all the fakeouts and takebacks for so long that it hasn't even occurred to me for, like, at least a year that anyone could feel otherwise.

They're just all so wrought up about it!

I'm so sad that nobody has done the Cecilia Venn diagram yet.

That would be awesome! Cecilia was my favorite song when I was 3. I made up a dance to it, according to my mom.

Cecilia was my favorite song when I was 3. I made up a dance to it, according to my mom.

I bet you were adorable!

Cecilia would definitely have been on my list of possible names for Matilda, except I still struggle a bit with my "s" sounds, and any name that either started with S or had two s's was right out.

And about the t-shirts, someone should definitely do a two-sided one of the pie-bar and bar-pie charts, one on the front and one on the back.

The charts were great!

And I love the ongoing things like the intervention.

And I am JZ regarding Barney & the skeeve.

The Your Mother fakeouts are, like, the whole point! I mean, if I were the (rapidly aging) kids, I would be cranky about being told this whole story instead of how dad met mom, but from the viewer perspective I can't see being upset about it. Won't the show be over once we find out? Okay, probably not, but it would be a sea change.

The Your Mother fakeouts are, like, the whole point!

Heh. Yeah, you're right. It's fun to speculate aimlessly though.

I like Barney best when we see layers of goodness beneath the skeeve, or when someone is calling him on his skeeviness

He's adorable. It's cuter 'cause you have to work to get to it.

ROBIN+BARNEY4EVUH. Etc.

And about the t-shirts, someone should definitely do a two-sided one of the pie-bar and bar-pie charts, one on the front and one on the back.

Yes! That is so needed I can't even stand it.

except I still struggle a bit with my "s" sounds, and any name that either started with S or had two s's was right out.

That's why she's now Jacqueline Thmay.

The Office made me smile tonight. And want to go dancing. I can't remember the last time I did! That is sad.

Yes, nice light-hearted episode. Even Dwight was a nice person for a while.

Yeah, that was a very sweet episode. And Mindy Kaling can shake her groove thing.