Once more, with feeling

“Your Grandpa Olaf was a wise man..”

Watching The Office tonight made me appreciate How I Met Your Mother. Usually I love The Office and its this-is-so-awkward-I-can’t-help-but laugh tone but tonight, things fell flat for me. This week’s episode of HIMYM however was out of this world. Literally.

At one point in the episode (“Front Porch”), Jason Segel’s character Marshall defied gravity. Let me explain. During a truly hilarious sleepover party at Marshmellow and Lilypad’s abode, Marshall whips out his choice evening lounge wear: the night shirt. The idea of it would have been enough to satisfy me for a week but they took it to levels I couldn’t have even imagined. In order to explain Marshall’s fondness for the sleep time frock (I just realized that there is an infinite number of amazing ways to classify a night shirt), they showed him wearing his nightie whilst floating over the midnight sky in ecstasy to Bob Dylan.

Now, I’m not even a Bob Dylan fanatic but I love me some movie references and this one was a shoutout to the one of the only scenes I really loved in The Big Lebowski. And this happened not once, but twice in the episode! First, it was just Marshall but then later when Barney converted from Suit-jamas worship to night shirt devotion, both boys floated around on a free-wheelin’ PJ high.  It’s times like these I wonder if the peeps at HIMYM HQ are tapping into my mindhole.

The point is I love HIMYM and night shirts. Especially on Jason (Melissa says I’m “in love” him.  But that’s just her way of trying to explain why she doesn’t like Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I worship it. Plus, I’m in love with Emile Hirsch. Jason is my endearing 6-foot-4 side project. Also, she says she is fully prepared to rock a tracking device in case me and Jason get married so that we can make sure she and her ultimate nemesis - Paul Rudd - never get too close. It's too much of a risk otherwise). As he said himself, it’s just flat-out sexy. And it leaves no judgemental pink teeth marks around the Thanksgiving belly.