Season 7 - Episode 7
CBS (US)
"Noretta" is a very busy, but very good episode of television from How I Met Your Mother. I'll forget once again that there is no progression in finding the titular mother, and focus on an episode with a premise that could have been very creepy, but ended up being very funny.
The jokes started when Barney's gay black brother James (a welcome return from Wayne Brady) points out that Barney's girlfriend Nora is almost exactly like their mother Loretta. Cue Robin's psychologist boyfriend Kevin (still very much the guy in the room - look it up) pointing out that many people end up in relationships with people that remind them of their parents. This provides some brilliantly funny moments of visual comedy when Lily pictures Marshall as her dad, and especially when Marshall pictures Lily as his dad - one of the funniest visuals that this show has ever produced.
Along with the fantastic silliness, there's some real character growth and progression for Barney, we're now finally getting to see the BArney who will be willing to get married - an arc I'm sure we're going to see properly begin at the end of the season (in fact, I already have my theories on exactly how that's going to play out).
How I Met Your MOther needs to get its story moving along, but when they do come out with episodes like this, it's easy to forgive the lack of any endgame in sight.
****
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