'How I Met Your Mother' | "The Burning Beekeeper"

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012 --

Last night was the premiere of the long-awaited new episode of the seventh season of How I Met Your Mother. In this episode, the audience joins Lily and Marshall as they hold a housewarming party and invite not only the rest of the gang, but Marshall's boss, Lily's dad (a resident at the Eriksen-Aldrin home), and a divorced woman named Geraldine (and who chases women? Barney, that's who).
One thing I liked about the episode is the aspect of getting straight into the story. It was very fresh to see the housewarming party occur from the get-go, and not watch on as Lily and Marshall hurriedly prepare a sure-to-be-a-disaster get-together. The episode provides backstory by using the show's well-known flashbacks. So we'll do that here.
THE LIVING ROOM
Here, we see Marshall, Lily, Mr. Cootes (Marshall's boss), and Ted (primarily). Marshall and Lily are panicking about the stress of hosting their own housewarming party, something I find very believable for Marshall moreso than Lily. I'm not sure why, but I think Lily's characterization in this episode was a little off. I see Lily as the maternal, yet BA, member of the group, who handles situations in a calm and rational way rather than worrying about the outcome of things. While we do see Lily freak out a couple of times, I just wasn't feeling it this time around. As per the whole Ted/Cootes thing, the main issue was that Mr. Cootes was forcing Marshall to come in late at work and then searches for some Spring Rolls, only to find that they've vanished and believes that Ted was the one who ate them all. Then we see a beekeeper running through the living room aflame.
THE DINING ROOM
We see Barney flirting with divorcee Geraldine and plan to--well, you know--do what Barney always does. Whilst this is occurring, we see Barney eat the last of the Spring Rolls and accuse Ted of doing so when Mr. Cootes asks who finished them off. We also see Marshall plan to confront Cootes about comign into work the following day. Then we see a beekeeper running through the living room aflame.
KITCHEN
In the kitchen, Ted and Robin fight over the concept of Robin's female superiority, bickering and bickering about how she yelled at an elderly woman who tried to steal some of her food. Lily comes in, overwhelmed with the idea of hosting the party, and realizes the internet-bought Gouda cheese is infested with rats and mold. We also find out Marshall has been fired from his job after confronting Mr. Cootes. Oh, and we learn that Geraldine likes to cut off certain 'parts' of her lovers! The more you know! Then we see a beekeeper running through the living room aflame.

As a whole, this episode really didn't factor into the overarching plot (at least, we don't think it did) but was a really nice and warm look at Lily and Marshall's home...the home that I don't think will last. Mwahaha...ha...haha...

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