Season 7 - Episode 14
CBS (US)
It's getting there again. It went through a spell of forgetting to be a comedy, but has come back in the post Christmas episodes. "46 Minutes" isn't a classic, but has two pretty funny stories running parallel to each other, and ends with a pretty sweet little resolution.
Lily and Marshall finally move out to Long Island permanently, leaving Ted, Barney and Robin feeling lost. So along with Kevin (who still doesn't seem to do much other than just be there) they decide to go to a strip club at the behest of Barney, who has installed himself as new group leader. There they meet Lily's Russian Stripper Doppleganger (from season 5's "Double Date"), who they nickname "Better Lily". They also meet her massive Russian bouncer boyfriend, coined "New Marshall". Together they have a wild adventure round New York's seedier hangouts, and end up getting inadvertently robbed.
Lily and Marshall have moved to their new house (Lily's grandparents' old house for those keeping score), but Lily's dad Mickey won't leave them alone. When Marshall blows a fuse, it leads to a hilarious sequence in nightvision when Mickey directs Marshall to the fuse box in the basement. It's a very funny sequence indeed, and it's nice to see the show do something like this. The end of the episode sees the gang all together again, a nice little ending.
How I Met Your Mother has gone through the trenches this year. They've done some great episode, but some have fallen flat. This is a step in the right direction, long may it continue.
*** 1/2
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