Am I the only one who doesn’t care who the mother is?

Don’t get me wrong.  I care about How I Met Your Mother. I think it’s one of the freshest, funniest shows on TV right now.  It has great characters, greater actors, and crisp writing.  It also has, however, this slightly annoying plot device.  We viewers have been getting strung along for three seasons now, and I have to say … I really just don’t care who the mother is.  It’s not that I’m annoyed that we don’t know yet.  It’s not that I’m dying to know and I’m running out of patience.  I just don’t give a crap.  This show has so much going for it, the whole mother mystery just doesn’t matter to me.

It seems, however, that I am in the minority on this front.  Everyone appears to be in a mother tizzy since the seriously awesome Sarah “second Becky” Chalke started showing up.  Everyone is speculating, wondering, and looking for clues.  This ain’t Lost people!  Just enjoy the ride.  It’s a sitcom for crying out loud.

Now I don’t want to be a curmudgeon.  I’m not going to tell you that you shouldn’t care about who the mother is (but if you do, I will judge you and possibly mock you behind your back).  Maybe you just don’t have any other mysteries to ponder.  I’m here to help, though; don’t worry.  I present to you a list of things to think about that are far more interesting than the identity of the mother:

• If there isn’t a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, what the heck is there?
• What are the 12 grains in 12 grain bread?
• How the hell did Knight Rider get on the fall schedule?
• Is the world going to end when they fire up that large hadron collider in Europe?
• What the crap is going on with the economy?
• What were Emmy organizers thinking letting the reality hosts lead their show?
• How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

I hope I’ve been able to help.

HIMYM S3 on DVD

Clacked by Bob Degon
on Sep 25, 2008 @ 21:59 EST5EDT