How I Met Your Mother 6x02 'Cleaning House'

After nearly meeting mommy last week this week we stray in the direction of Barney's daddy...

What's it about?

The gang comes to help Barney's mom move out of her home, but unravel startling revelations about him. Meanwhile, Ted gets upset when Robin oversells him to a blind date.

What we saw

After going on last week about moving us in the direction of meeting the titular mother this week we meet a dad and learn not to oversell our friends to potential dates.

Review

I need to review my scoring system for this show as this was a good episodes but I couldn't give it a higher score due to its entire lack of a search for mother. Yes sadly after last weeks advances in the world of mother this week we stray back in the direction of the genius that is Neil Patrick Harris's Barney.

A long running joke on the show has been that Barney's dad is in fact Bob Barker but here we learn, unsurprisingly, that he is not and despite the comedy which goes on here there is a sweetly sad story which shows a different side to 'HIMYM' and I like it.

NPH shows a more serious side to his character which, albeit only for a few fleeting moments in the episode, show that this show can be thoughtful and possibly even thought provoking but that in the flick of a switch you will be laughing again.

It's the complex nature of family which takes a front seat in this episode but once again it is Robyn who is the staple of the B story here. Her over-hyping of Ted to a potential date brings a large amount of comedy to the show and teaches us all not to write emails in the back of a removal truck. Although unless this girl turns out to be mommy there's no real development in terms of the overall arc of the show.

As I've said previously: I find it hard to critisise this show as we are 6 years in and I am highly invested in finding out who the mother of Ted's children will eventually turn out to be... maybe next week...

Next week...

Goliath National Bank revives its headquarters project but when Ted wants no part of it after what happened to him the last time. Barney tries to convince him of giving it a second chance by using all of his best womanizing tactics. Robin's post-breakup depression leads her to drunk-dial Don. 

Overall

Storyline    3.5

Mommyness    2.0

Barney Moments    4.0

Overall    3.0