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You are here: Home / ABC / April Week 3 Catch-Up: Rome, Korea, Oscars and MPG!

April Week 3 Catch-Up: Rome, Korea, Oscars and MPG!

20 April 2013 by Jess

Marshall getting ready for Rome, Godfather-style.

How I Met Your Mother

Lily gets offered a position in Rome to join the Captain buying art. It’s for a year, and she keeps playing out these scenarios where being there ruins things between her and Marshall. She decides to turn it down, not realizing that Marshall’s job has come to a screeching halt.

After much debate, and turning the job down twice, she finally agrees that it would be a good opportunity, with Marshall’s full support.

Ted notices a girl at the bar he did yoga with, and remembers her “ridonculous” body. Barney is about to leave, but he decides he has to see what Ted’s talking about first–if the girl would take off her big puffy coat!

Lily’s nightmare scenario of Rome: don’t miss Marvin with the sunglasses!

Then, Robin shows up, and introduces the yoga chick as their wedding planner, but even she doesn’t understand why the woman is still wearing the coat.

Ted gets a little weirded out by Barney’s insistence and desperation to see this woman without her coat, and decides to speak up, saying Robin might not be as cool as his ogling as he thinks. Barney puts him in his place, saying Ted shouldn’t get in the middle of his relationship with Robin.

Admittedly, Barney still has some of those old single-guy habits, but Robin knows her way around them. She may not always like it, but she knows how to get him back on track, like later, when he comes home and finds her wearing nothing but a big puffy coat.

They have a good relationship because they understand each other, and Ted, lonely and desperate not to end up alone, is still trying to pick apart Barney and Robin’s relationship because Robin is the only person he really felt he was going to wind up married to.

With only three WEEKS left until Barney and Robin’s wedding, (and the show off again on Monday), and about as much time left before Ted meets his future wife, we may yet get a good cliffhanger to end the season! The Rome thing will be hard to work around for season 9:

I’m guessing Marshall and Lily don’t stay in Rome that long and come back before the year is up, but again, we’ll have to wait and see.

Hawaii Five-0

Steve and Catherine go to Korea to bring back the body of an old friend. Steve had to leave him behind to escape alive a few years earlier, and it’s taken all that time to negotiate his return for a proper burial.

However, Steve realizes the body isn’t his friend’s–it’s missing a tattoo on the right arm, even with decomposition, Steve knows it’s not right. So, Steve and Catherine go back into hostile territory, without diplomatic permission, to retrieve his friend’s body.

It’s a pretty heavy episode–I don’t remember ever seeing McGarrett cry like he did when he saw the real remains of his friend. It was a really good episode, but I missed having Danno and the others around for the usual banter and crime fighting team dynamics.

Polly and Hot Scott: Is that Reid Scott (Brando)
from TBS’s My Boys? Can’t find anything to confirm,
but it kind of looks like him with a haircut and a darker tan.

How to Live with Your Parents

It’s the Oscars, and Polly manages to get a date to her parents’ Oscars party with “Hot Scott,” a good-looking doctor she went to college with. Because of how much she said she was going to accomplish back in college, Polly is worried that Scott won’t like her for the person she’s become. So, she fudges the truth a little.

Meanwhile, Julian takes their daughter for a sleepover, and at first, panics and calls Polly for help, but eventually, he figures out the right way to handle it on his own.

Polly’s uncle gives up the secret and lets Scott know what Polly’s life is really like. She comes clean, and it turns out Scott’s life isn’t as great as it looked either–he’s a male nurse, also divorced, also with kids.

Match made in heaven 🙂

Happy Endings “The Ballad of Lon Sarofsky”

After Penny’s break-up with Pete and her “black plague” play, Jane suggests that Penny have a fling to help move past it. However, Penny winds up with the Car Czar, Jane’s boss, a short, bald, unpolitically correct dufus, who is apparently good in bed. He’s so disgusting that Jane can’t even stomach the idea. Eventually, Penny gets a grip on the situation, but she needed to play out the fling before she could move forward.

Also, Max participates in a contest at the bar to stop being the broke guy in the group, but  he regrets recruiting Alex and Dave to help him win because they both have very different ideas of what will help him win.

The super sexy lawyers from Franklin and Bash on TNT! Courtesy TNTDrama.com

Happy Endings “Un-Sabotagable”

MPG IS BACK!! Chase, Max’s one-time roommate, has returned to vow to ruin Max’s life again, but he realizes that Max’s life is so terrible, it’s “un-sabotagable”.

So, Max tries to get his life together, with Jane’s help, and actually does a pretty good job. He gets a hair cut, changes his clothes, vacuums his apartment, and even gets an assistant manager job at a supermarket. However, he starts to wonder if it all came together too quickly, and thinks that Chase is building him up before he tears him back down, so he tears himself back down.

He ends up in the hospital, where he shares a hospital room with Chase. Chase slipped on the pizza that Max dropped the day they spoke, and has been in the hospital unconscious since then–meaning he couldn’t have been the one building Max up to tear him down. But, Chase does reaffirm his intent to destroy Max’s life.

Meanwhile, Dave and Alex make a bet that Alex can’t use all the Groupons she’s bought before the new offer on one she wants expires.

Ivy Lynn is… Marilyn!

I love Mark-Paul Gosselaar, so it’s fun to see him outside his new natural habitat–Franklin and Bash on TNT. Look for it to return June 19th at 9/8C!

Up next:

Smash is up Saturday night, and an all new Mad Men on Sunday. Revenge and Red Widow aren’t quite done for the season, even though they’ve been off for a while now. They’ll be back April 28th.

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