The Steep Decline of How I Met Your Mother

We have consistently watched and enjoyed this show since it first appeared years ago. While always having a percentage of shows that were so off the wall as to be unwatchable the enjoyable episodes made up for this.

Watching last night's episode I was struck by the realization that this show is just not that funny anymore. I do not know if I have laughed out once this season, and this is not a show for subtle laughter. The characters are still likable but it does seem like the Robin/Barney storyline has gone on two seasons two long. Ted, we realize is the narrator, and we know that the " story" he is telling his kids " in the future" will end with the answer to the title.

We have received many hints of who this woman will be. The problem is that based on the show that we are seeing this season we should have perhaps found out a couple of years ago and written down the show as successful. As it is now it we are hanging out with friends we have outgrown.

We should have stopped " suiting up" two years back.