How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother comes on CBS every Monday night at 7.  This is the eight season of the show so we are getting closer to finding out who the mom is!!!!

This weeks episode is called "Stamp Tramp."  Which is what they call Marshall's approval on anything.  Pretty much it has no significance because he gives it to everything.  When he sees his friend Brad outside his work, looking like he was homeless, he gets him an interview at his firm.  He tells the gang that he has given him the stamp of approval.  The gang knows that this is a bad idea but Marshall is determined to prove them wrong.  They are preparing for a case against Gruber Pharmaceuticals and when they arrive at the court house they find out that Brad was working for Gruber the whole time.  He used Marshall's kindness and got their whole game plan against them.  If Marshall doesn't win this case, he will be fired.  

Barney was a regular customer at Lusty Leopard where he met Quinn, his ex-fiancee, and now that she has returned to work, he is the hunt for a new strip club.  When the other strips clubs know this, they all want Barney as their customer and they start to woo him.  This become too much to handle on his own so Robin offers to help his find a new strip club.  She gets swept up in all the hype and picks a strip club called "Golden Oldies".  Barney then fires her as his agent when he learns that she was bribed by the club and makes the decision himself.  He announces at MacLaren's that his new strip club is the Mouth Beach.  And on his first night there he talks Robin with him.  When they are walking back home they start talking and get into a moment and Barney kisses Robin!!!! She returns the kiss and then pushe shim away and leaves!!! Ugh they need to be together already!!!

Ted is dealing with a separate issue.  He believes that he has his own stamp of approval and that it actually works.  But that bubble was shattered when the crew tells him that he piggybacks on other peoples ideas.  So he spends days going through videos of what he thinks are his most iconic ideas, only to realize that they were right.  Ted piggybacks off of their ideas and makes them his own.  But there was one thing he didn't piggybacks on.  He is the one who tells Marshall that Lily is a keeper.  he gives Marshall the best advice ever!!!

This is one of the best episodes this season.  I know that the season will only get better because we see bits and pieces of Barney and Robin at a wedding chapel about to get married!!! I don't know how they get there but I can't wait to find out.  Also they have reveled to us where Ted meets his future wife.  Now to finally know who she is!!!

*I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving.  I am thankful for my family and friends who are always there for me. And I am thankful to God that he has allowed to me see all the blessings he has continued to give me.    

gLee

This week could not belong to any other show than Glee.  It was the school musical and this year they did Grease!! One of my all time favorites!!!

Sooo many things happen on this episode it blew my mind.  Let start...Mr. Schuster is leaving McKinely to go to Washington D.C. to save the arts and he names Finn as his replacement.  When Sue finds out she flips and asks Principal Figgins to not allow it.  Obviously it has already been passed and there is nothing she can do about it.  But she declares war on Finn just like she has to Mr. Schu.  She is more upset because of the comment that Finn made about her daughter and she won't accept any of his apologies.

She starts to sabotage the play by having Unique's parents take him/her out of the play because he/she got the role of Rizzo.  But she doesn't stop there, she reserves the auditorium for her cheerleading squad so that they don't have a place to rehearse for the musical.  Classic Sue.

In New York, Rachel tell hot Brody about her first audition on Broadway and asks for his help to get prepared.  Cassandra her dance teacher overhears and tells her she should probably wait because the director is a hard one.  Rachel then makes the mistake of telling her she should audition with her for a different role in the play.  Rachel and Kurt are rehearsing in the dance studio when Cassandra overhears them talking about going to McKinley for the play.  She offers them her frequent flyer miles that she can't use.

Kitty is after Marley and she alters her costumes so that she makes her believe that she is gaining weight.  Making Marley believe that she is predisposed to gain weight.  Kitty then "advises" Marley to start throwing up so that she can lose the weight she is gaining.  This affects Marley so much that on the day of the musical she is found in the bathroom by Ryder, the new cute lead. He snaps her out of it and later she feels so self conscious in her last costume and he plants one on her!!! While Jake is looking!!! Thats what he gets for choosing Kitty over Marley.

Finn make a call to Santana who takes over the role of Rizzo, so he beat Sue on that one. Rachel and Kurt arrive and they run into Blaine and Finn.  AWKWARD!!!! When they are singing the last song, "You're The One That I Want", Rachel envisions herself up there singing the lead with Finn.  Kurt sees himself singing with Blaine.  Santana with Brittany and Tina with Mike.  All the couples from last season singing the final song.  Rachel left to the bathroom to call Brody for moral support.  And who answers the phone......Cassandra!!! She planned the whole thing so that Rachel would be gone and she can have Brody. fail.

They get great reviews and celebrate.  Rachel and Kurt don't feel like Lima is their home anymore...and Finn is the new director of New Directions.

*This is totally sad news....today I received my last issue of Seventeen Magazine.  I feel like I am getting to old to read it so I cancel the subscription.  It makes me sad but its time to move on. :]

Partners

This weeks show of the week is Partners "Two Broke Guys."  This is a new comedy series on CBS about two best friends, one straight and the other one gay, and how they manage to run their architect  firm and their personal lives.

In this episode Joe and Louis are struggling to keep their firm financially stable.  Louis thinks that they should ask for their old job back at the firm they were before.  When he goes back to ask he finds out that the reason behing him and Joe quitting was because Joe was going to get a promotion and Louis was going to get fired.  When Louis finds out he goes to visit his brother who wants nothing to do with him after he finds out he is gay, to ask him to let his firm do some buildings for his company.  Joe stops him because he knows that they will make it through and so Louis doesn't have to suffer any humiliation in front of his brother.

Joe finds out that his fiancé Ali kisses Wyatt, Louis partner in the mouth goodbye.  Joe gets upset and Ali assures him that he is over reacting because it's nothing serious.  Wyatt is a very attractive guy and ven Joe admits it.  So when Ali is put to the test about feeling nothing when she kisses him, she realizes that she was wrong.  Even though he may be gay and she is engaged, she still feels something when she kisses him goodbye.

This is a different take on the show Will and Grace.  I love how funny it is and how many of the topics relate to us.  I highly recommend this show, and it comes on after How I Met Your Mother so it's a perfect hour of comedy.

*Side note: I watched Wreck-It Ralph this weekend and I loved it!!! It is a feel good movie for all ages and I recommend you go see it!

Modern Family

The show of the week is Modern Family.  Luke and Manny are having a yard sale for their class and the whole family is involved.  Each one has something going on other than the sale and they all mesh in to the story line.

Everyone is pitching in to this yard sale and giving stuff that they don't need anymore.  Gloria and Jay are having the yard sale at their house.  Jay isn't too happy because he feels its exposing his house too much.  Manny finds a suitcase in the attic and Gloria doesn't want him to sell the suitcase or look in it.  When Manny and Luke open the case the find a puppet and Gloria explains that this was her talent at the beauty pageant.  She conquers her fear of performing her act and does it for the family during the garage sale.  

Claire is worried about Alex because of her new boyfriend.  Claire thinks her new boyfriend is gay and doesn't know how to make Alex see it.  She asked Mitch and Cam to talk to Alex and make her see the "truth" about her new boyfriend.  When she confronts him he gets offended and she gets upset at her mom for putting her in that position.  Claire decides that she should just let Alex go through it and she will be there for her.

Jay is thinking about selling his motorcycle and Phil decided to take it out for a spin.  He gets stranded on a cliff and acts dramatic as usual.  And decided not to get the motorcycle and keeps his moped.

Cam has lost weight and he wants to sell his "fat" jeans at the yard sale.  Mitch tries to keep them because he knows that when he gains the weight back he will need the jeans either way.  When Cam confronts Mitch he tells him that he knows and by selling the jeans he is motivating himself even more to keep the weight off.

This episode made me laugh the entire time.  And I also liked the messages that each story line had. You are able to apply it to your own life and make a joke about it too.  The episode is "Yard Sale".
http://abc.go.com/watch/modern-family/SH559066/VD55243638/yard-sale  Here is the link so you can enjoy it!!!