Entries from November 2008 ↓

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Glarkware’s offering huge discounts for Black Friday, meaning you can get the Sparkles Mall Tour shirt (and any other shirt on the site, though the Slap Bet Commissioner design is sold out) for five dollars, while supplies last. (Which shouldn’t be long - most sizes are already sold out.)

While you’re waiting for your dinner, I recommend decorating your place with paper hands and/or turkeys, watching Belly Full of Turkey and Slapsgiving, and drinking Barney’s Thanksgiving cocktail, the Thankstini.

(Dinner, of course, should include the Eriksen seven-layer salad.)

Here’s NPH on Tuesday’s Late Late Show:

Sorry this is late - the numbers came out later than usual yesterday morning, and I just haven’t had time. [Heads up - the post about Cobie's pregnancy has been updated to include this link, with some thoughts from Craig Thomas.

Viewers: 9.96 million. The streak had to end at some point - this is down .03 million, or 30,000 viewers, from last week's 9.99 million. [Last week, although the overnight numbers - the ones that were posted here - pegged the audience at 9.84 million, the final number was 9.99.] The slight downturn was partly because of Dancing with the Stars, which aired its final competition show and had about 1.5 million more viewers at 8:30 than at the same time the week before.

Adults 18-49: 4.3/11

Adults 18-34: 3.7/10

Adults 25-54: 4.5/10

Households: 5.9/9

Compared to other networks: First in 18-34, and in everything else, second to Dancing with the Stars, as usual. [But hey, it's over! For now.]

Compared to other CBS comedies: Last in viewers again (although HIMYM was only 70,000 viewers behind TBBT), but first in 18-34, and second in 18-49 and 25-54.

[No CBS section this week, as they didn't say anything beyond stating the numbers.]

Sources: PIFeedback, Zap2It, CBS.

UPDATE: E! Online’s Watch With Kristin has Craig Thomas’ response to the news.

How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders and actor Taran Killam are expecting their first child.

Smulders, 26, who plays Robin Scherbatsky on the CBS hit, is due in late spring, Smulders’s rep confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.

The couple met through a mutual friend, and have worked together on HIMYM.

[Source]

Taran Killam played Barney’s coworker Blauman in two episodes (Life Among the Gorillas and The Chain of Screaming). He and Cobie both appeared briefly in an episode of the online series Dr. Miracles:

And in the online short Hobo Heroes - Killam wrote, directed, edited, and starred, and Cobie produced and made a brief appearance:

Thanks so much to everyone who emailed about the news!

Barney’s Blog delves into the origins of The Naked Man.

HIMYM Style has identified some of the outfits from last night’s episodes.

Lily’s 50 Reasons to Have Sex List.

Clips from the episode - try this if you’re outside the US:

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NPH will be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson tomorrow night.

Listings might say it’s Tony Curtis and Megalyn Echikunwoke, but they’ve been moved to Thursday and tomorrow night will be Neil and Betty White.

• Trailer for 4.09:
  
• Cobie Smulders on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson:
  
• Alyson Hannigan walks, carries drinks. There are also HQ versions of the rest of the Lint Roller Party photos available here.
• Jason Segel’s upcoming movie, I Love You, Man has had its release moved from January 16 to March 20.
• The 2008 World Magic Awards, which Neil Patrick Harris hosted a while back, will air this Wednesday on MyNetworkTV. The LA Stage Blog posted a photo of Neil at the recent Ovation Awards.
• Bob Saget’s new sitcom may never see the light of day now that Media Rights Capital has lost control over the CW’s Sunday night lineup.
• Photos of one of Those People on set, including one shot with Jason Segel and his attractive new haircut.
• Variety’s 2008 Comedy Impact Report includes a profile on Jason Segel and one on Carter Bays and Craig Thomas.
• Fun with numbers: Based on data from tvbythenumbers.com, last week HIMYM was the third most-watched half-hour comedy on network TV (behind Two and a Half Men and Worst Week). It had the second-best 18-49 numbers (behind Men, and tied with The Office) and the second-best 18-34 numbers (behind The Office, tied with 30 Rock).

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

-Theodore Roosevelt, April 15, 1906

After months of pain and horror, good has finally triumphed over evil, and our global crisis is, at last, finally over.

That’s right: Jason Segel cut his hair.

This is evident both in the photos from 410 that were posted last night and in fan encounter photos on ohnotheydidnt. [Given that those photos were taken on the 9th, this is somewhat old news, but hey - I'm on vacation, and a haircut's a haircut.]

A new character and evidence of a callback to an earlier episode, but nothing major. Continue reading →