Are you happy now, all you Barney/Robin shippers? Robin and Barney have declared themselves boyfriend and girlfriend, which automatically makes their relationship twice as interesting as Ted's never-ending search for a mother. (Although the upcoming 100th episode may liven things up in that arena.) So, in an attempt to make Ted relevant again, the writers have him teaching Barney how to date his ex-girlfriend. Which seems like asking asking the captain of the Titanic how to navigate the North Atlantic, but whatever.

Tags: How I Met Your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris, NPH

That wedding they have over-hinted about all season may not be until next week, but tonight is the episode we've actually been waiting for. It looks like the gang is going to tell Ted just how bad they think Zooey is for him. Of course, considering she's stayed past her welcome this long, there is no reason to have much hope that this will be the last time we see Zooey, even if the intervention banner shows up.

Tags: HIMYM, How I Met Your Mother

It's finally here -- the 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother! Of course, it feels like more than 100 episodes that we've been watching Ted strike out with women, but it's been a good ride. Supposedly, tonight's episode takes him one step closer to meeting the mother, but we've been hearing that for a while, and we'll believe that when we see it. Special guest star Rachel Bilson may or may not be the child-birthing lady in question, or at least that's what they want us to believe, but we're sure it'll just be another red herring. We're more interested in the B-plot -- or is Ted's romantic journey now the B-plot? Let's say that it is. Less pressure on it to deliver week after week. (Although let's be clear on this -- Ted is still awesome.)

Tags: How I Met Your Mother, musical episode, Neil Patrick Harris, Rachel Bilson, Stacy Keibler

Because everyone who wants to watch a show about a couple who fall in love at first sight will be at home watching TV on Valentine's Day, CBS is premiering a show about just that tonight. Mad Love centers on a a couple (Jason Biggs and Sarah Chalke) who meet on top of the Empire State Building and very quickly find they are perfect for each other. Unlike most other relationship-y sitcoms popping up this mid-season, they are the only couple. Hopefully, this will give the show a sense of Dharma and Greg-like focus, even if the characters seem all too bland.

Tags: How I Met Your Mother, Jason Biggs, Mad Love, premiere, Sarah Chalke

As New Moon has proven this weekend, sequels are always highly anticipated, and tonight's HIMYM is no exception. Titled "Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap," tonight's ep features the return of one of the most popular running storylines in the show's history. After being shelved for a while -- so long, in fact, that I wondered if it had been resolved and I'd missed it -- it seems that Marshall is ready to give Barney another one of the slaps he owes him from their ill-advised Slap Bet of yore. Having dispensed three of the five, a fourth will be given tonight... but it may not be Marshall doing the slapping.

Tags: How I Met Your Mother, Slap Bet, Slapsgiving

November 21, 2009
This movie wasn't good enough to be released in theaters, but Lifetime is taking some initiative and airing Personal Effects (Lifetime, 9 PM), an Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Pfeiffer sobfest about (what else?) a younger man falling in love with a much older woman.

Dear Joseph Gordon Levitt, I believe in you. Please be funny on Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 PM) this week. Love, Heather. P.S. Dave Matthews, will you please play a 17-minute version of "#41"? Just consider it.

November 22, 2009
Yay, an awards show! The American Music Awards (ABC, 8 PM) will feature a Taylor Swift/Lady Gaga showdown. By the way, this is the award shaped like a narrow glass pyramid, for some odd reason.

Will everything work out for a Seinfeld reunion show? Watch the seventh season finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO, 9 PM) to find out.

On My Fair Wedding (WE, 10 PM), Christina had planned to have her wedding on a Mexican beach, but the swine flu outbreak caused her to move it to a beach in... New Jersey.

November 23, 2009
Interested in seeing Lewis Black rant about the holidays? History Special: Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black (History, 8 PM) will have the comedian explore the meaning behind the madness behind Thanksgiving football, who St. Nicholas really was, and why we drink on New Year's Day.

Barney fears a slapping from any one of his friends on How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8 PM). Also, Lily's estranged father (Chris Elliott) shows up for the Thanksgiving victuals.

The end of an era is here. The last episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8 (TLC, 9 PM) airs tonight. I still don't have the feeling that it's over, but for now, let's hope it is.

In the vein of feel-good reality shows, Find My Family (ABC, 9:30 PM) airs as a sneak preview tonight. On this show, people search for their long-lost family members (and cause viewers to break out the Kleenex).

Nerd-fantasy girl Katee Sackhoff will magically find her way into Howard's bathtub on The Big Bang Theory (CBS, 9:30 PM). Starbuck fans, take note.

November 24, 2009
Who among Donny Osmond, Mya, and Kelly Osbourne will reign supreme on the finale of Dancing with the Stars (ABC, 9 PM)? I think Donny needs to give it up.

That was fast. The winter season finale of V (ABC, 8 PM) airs tonight. New episodes will return in March.

For some odd reason, Chelsea Handler will guest star as herself on The Good Wife (CBS, 10 PM), because Peter's mistress appears on her show. Alicia then runs into said mistress in a parking garage. Ooh, bish, plz.

November 25, 2009
On a two-hour "Where are they now?" edition of The Biggest Loser (NBC, 8 PM), we catch up with the most popular contestants from the last seven seasons. But of course we're only interested in what they look like now.

Annoying Lindsay leaves her husband and moves in with Christine, her "divorcee role model," on The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS, 8 PM).

In the 100th episode of Criminal Minds, C. Thomas Howell (who will forever be Ponyboy, in my mind) returns as "The Reaper," a crazed serial killer out to kill Hotchner's family (CBS, 9 PM).

November 26, 2009
My guiltiest pleasure, Beyoncé, has a nice little Thanksgiving special this year. Beyoncé: I Am Yours (ABC, 9 PM) will have behind-the-scenes footage in addition to singing and dancing.

Matt Lauer takes a cue from Baba Wawa with his own NBC Special: NBC's People of the Year (NBC, 9 PM).

Another music special could be an option for those who are not fans of Beyoncé. Great Performances: Sting: A Winter's Night (PBS, 9 PM) will have Sting singing in an English cathedral. Damn, he probably won't be able to play "Roxanne" in a church.

And yet another Thanksgiving concert special! Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York (ABC, 10 PM) is self-explanatory.

November 27, 2009
In a much more realistic look at family dysfunction, a fifth season of Shameless (Sundance, 8 PM) premieres tonight. There's cussing, fighting and no laugh track. It's just like everyone else's family, but with heavy northern British accents.

Tags: Big Bang Theory, curb your enthusiasm, how i met your mother, Jon and Kate Plus 8, lifetime movies, saturday night live

It's the How I Met Your Mother season finale, and it's taking place at the long-teased mysterious wedding attended by The Mother! Surely, Ted will meet her tonight and ask her out and we can all stop complaining about how long this is taking, right? Because believe it or not, I'd love to stop bitching about it. Really. Just give me the chance. Please.

Tags: How I Met Your Mother

While I'm most excited for the premiere of the disastrous-sounding Skating with the Stars -- even though I wasn't a super-fan of Skating with the Celebrities -- on Monday night, I don't know if I can sit through the Dancing With the Stars episode that precedes it. Instead, I'm glad to have this HIMYM Thanksgiving episode to watch.

Tags: how i met your mother