I did not just get slapped.

5.12 "Girls Versus Suits"

I just watched the 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother, and in the words of Marshall describing the degree of hotness of MacLaren's new bartender, "Eh."

It was the so-called musical episode. "So-called" because it was not a musical episode. It was an episode with one musical number. Barney sang a song about suits in an elaborate JD from Scrubs kind of hallucination. It ended very similarly to "The Mustard" in the Buffy musical episode, with the triangle of people swinging the clothes around and spinning and with the timpani reminiscent of Also sprach Zarathustra. So yeah. I didn't enjoy it as much as "Let's go to the Mall" or "Sandcastles in the Sand". I won't be singing the weird suit song for days to come. Honestly, I'm not even sure it was as entertaining as tedmosbyisajerk.com. So, nice try show, but you may be losing your touch.

That being said, the episode was relatively entertaining. The other portions of Barney's desuitification plan and its effects on him were amusing. The Tim Gunn cameo was kind of funny. Ted dating Cindy was kind of nice. I definitely laughed out loud a number of times. Thinking back, I can't actually remember any of the reasons I laughed, which isn't really a great sign, but I did laugh which is more than I've done for some episodes this year.

I am wondering, now that we've gotten so close to a glimpse of The Mother, if the plan is to end the show either this year or at the latest next year. I feel like the ongoing story has gotten a little tedious and they really hit their stride with the funny in seasons 2 and 3 and have gone downhill to some degree since then (though this year's "The Scuba Diver" was pretty great). But despite all of that, I still enjoy the show, I still want Barney and Robin to be together, I still wonder what happened to Robin's dogs, I'm still looking forward to the last slap, I still hope someday Sandy Rivers will return, and I will most certainly watch this show to the very end (mainly because I suspect that's when the final slap will happen).