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This post will be updated with more information as it becomes available.

Viewers: 8.98 million, up from last week’s 8.8, and up a million from last year’s October 8 episode.

Adults 18-49: 4.0/10

Adults 25-54: 4.6/11

Households: 5.7/8

Compared to other networks: How I Met Your Mother came second to Dancing with the Stars, obviously, but did better than NBC’s Chuck, Fox’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and the CW’s Gossip Girl.

Compared to other CBS comedies: Third in viewers again – this time behind Two and a Half Men (13.94m) and The Big Bang Theory (9.32m), but ahead of Worst Week (8.79m). Second in A18-49: Behind Men (5.1/12), ahead of Theory (3.6/10) and Week (3.0/7). Second in A25-54: Behind Men (6.2/13), ahead of Theory (4.3/11) and Week (3.7/8). Third in households: Behind Men (8.7/13) and Theory (6.0/9), ahead of Week (5.7/8).

CBS spins it:

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER was second in households (5.7/08), viewers (8.98m), adults 25-54 (4.6/11) and adults 18-49 (4.0/10).  Compared to last week, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER was up +6% in households (from 5.4/08), +7% in adults 25-54 (from 4.3/10), +8% in adults 18-49 (from 3.7/09) and added +260,000 viewers (from 8.72m, +3%).

Sources: PIFeedback, Zap2It, CBS.

Barney blogs about the esteemed history of the fist bump.

HIMYM Style has identified several outfits from last night’s episode, with updates posted as they become available.

Jason Segel: Fugged again.

Reviews and recaps:

• Alan Sepinwall
• TV Squad
• Television Without Pity

Apparently CBS has a problem with letting people embed videos now, since it’s been disabled on one of the YouTube videos and all of the CBS.com ones. Anyway, here are two YouTube clips from the episode:

You can see the third [Barney's failed fist bump] here, and two more clips [Ted spending all his time on the train and Ted deciding to live in NJ], along with the full episode, here.

The Big Bang Theory/HIMYM promo for this week’s episodes:

And a clip from the episode – not spoilery beyond the basic premise:

While we’re on videos, here’s Eyelab’s redone version of Barney’s ode to bimbos from 401:

CBS has confirmed that I Heart NJ, not Intervention, will be airing third. (If you’ve haven’t been reading spoilers: Intervention was originally listed as 403, but continuity-wise it seemed like I Heart NJ should come before it.) Official description:

Tired of spending most of his time on the train commuting to Stella’s in New Jersey, Ted convinces the group to hang out at Stella’s place one night.

Photos after the jump. Continue reading →

This episode is listed as #404 – looking at the continuity, though, it looks like it might be airing third, before Intervention.

On to the spoilers. Continue reading →