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For those of you a late to the game there’s still time to catch the latest “Wonder Years” like saga of a voice over narrator and his anecdotic youth. Though surprised they didn’t cast Fred Savage for the part of Ted Mosbey, our generation is comforted still by the endearing words of Bob Saget, former loving father of three (ok, four) blondes. A show that if it succeeds in its quest to work its way into the vernacular could be a contender for the “Seinfeld” of our generation, “How I Met your Mother” has gone well beyond the plateau created by shows such as “Scrubs” in integrating the burgeoning community of HMYMites. While it maintains culturally relevant music, self-referential clichés, and a facebook profile, HIMYM has a clear grasp on the fundamental experiences that defined us as the grunge generation. Far from being “a show about nothing,” while on eternal quest for that singular story identified by its namesake HIMYM continues to assemble a collection of non-sequiturs and idioms that may yet propel it to the level of “Double Dipping” and “Festivus” whose origins we in all likelyhood first caught in re-runs on TBS (sadly not in HD). The mix of characters (a “normal” guy, a “crazy” guy and two incorrigible accessories) closely mirrors the chemistry that gave Seinfeld nine long years resulting in everyone going to jail (hope I didn’t ruin that for anyone). As the normal guy, Ted Mosbey mostly has things happening to him and regularly discovers that the situation usually gets worse when he tries to actually do something. The show seems to be held back by the driving need for Ted to find his future wife. While the quest was a useful crutch to kick off the series, HIMYM is at risk of being plagued by the same matchmaking syndrome that doomed “Scrubs” to mediocrity in season four. Here’s hoping HIMYM can drop the albatross of plot devices that is relationships and continue to concoct shenanigans that are the stuffs of watercooler conversation.

I was initially taken aback by this blog’s High School rating at the Blog Readability Test. Certainly this puts me in my place compared to Concurring Opinions which clocks in at College (Undergrad). I then posited that I might better judge my level of sophistication based on the blogs I read until I saw their ratings at Middle School and Elementary School levels (links withheld to protect the innocent). Perhaps this means I read blogs that are accessible or perhaps I’m just lazy in what I choose to read.