Mike's Bloggity Blog

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I always try to use my weekends to catch up on some of my other favourite blogs. I realize that the previous sentence makes it sound like Mike’s Bloggity Blog is my favourite blog…and I’ve decided that I’m okay with that.

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That’s right, after having an identity-citizenship crisis, Robin and Barney ended up in Toronto, more specifically a Tim Hortons. From there, there were jokes about the colour of our money, our accents, our pleases’ and thank-yous’ and even curling. It was a canadian bloggers dream.

>Are you watching How I Met Your Mother? You should. You’re missing out if you’re not.

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I’m going to be honest, I didn’t watch the Emmy’s. I was flying back from Vancouver and missed, what is normally, my favourite awards show. I’m a sucker for TV, but you know that.

What the hell is this? Jon Cryer beat NPH and Jim Parsons!?! Really? This isn’t a joke conjured up by Air Canada, just to annoy me? I honestly can’t imagine how Emmy voters could watch How I Met Your Mother or Big Bang Theory and think that Cryer is better on Two and A Half Men? And yes, I purposely didn’t bold the name of that show. I know it’s easy to say, “What is wrong with the Emmy voters?” But really, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE EMMY VOTERS?!?! So crazy. This hurts my exhausted and bald soul.

>So once we got past the treacherory of d-listed celebs that was Golden Globes Red Carpet, I settled in to catch the actual awards. There were some surprises and some much deserved winners. And as with anything that involves Hollywood, some lingering questions.

Most Satisfying: Kate Winslet picks up two golden globes for two different movies (The Reader, Revolutionary Road). If there is a more perfect actress out there, I haven’t seen her. What makes this better is that Winslet seems to be a really nice person. A really nice and funny person. Here’s hoping these awards mean that the 5 time Oscar nominee won’t be going home empty handed this year.

Most Frustrating: How can Tom Wilkenson‘s Benjamin Franklin be nominated in the same category Neil Patrick Harris’ Barney Stinson. The Best Supporting actor category needs to be split up between dramas and comedies. It doesn’t make sense that these two very different genres are competing against eachother. Neil Patrick Harris is brilliant on How I Met Your Mother and deserves his turn on the stage. The Foreign Press needs to fix sooner rather than later. Although I can’t help but wonder if Bejamin Franklin himself has his own bro-code.

Most accurate: Wall-E wins! Wall-E wins! Wall-E wins! Wall-E wins! Wall-E wins! Wall-E wins! Wall-E wins! Wall-E wins! Wall-E wins! Wall-E wins! Wall-E wins! Wall-E wins! Okay it was only for best animated movie, but any award this fantastic movie wins is beyond well deserved.

Most surprsing: Anna Paquin winning best actress for True Blood. Look I’m all about supporting Canadian talent (and vampires for that matter), but Paquin over my second mother Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters)? Well that’s just something I can’t support. Canadian vampire or not.

Least Surprising: 30 Rock won best comedy series, best actress and best actor. This is getting old.

Most (and still) baffeling: Tell me again how LOST wasn’t even nominated for Best Drama. True Blood really? At least it didn’t win, that honor went to In Treatment. Never heard of it? Don’t worry, only 446,000 watched the show when it first debut back in January 08. It was HBO’s lowest Monday night premiere EVER.

Most convincing: Alright, alright. I’ll go and see Slumdog Millionaire! Jeez, you don’t have to be so pushy.

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Look, I love me some How I Met Your Mother, but does it ever creep anyone else out how much Ted (Josh Radnor) tells his kids about how he actually met their mother?

Take last night’s episode for an example, could you imagine your dad telling you that he once hooked up with a random girl by waiting in her living roommate naked?!

Maybe there will be a spin-off, How my kids ended up in therapy.

>Last year Britney Spears made two separate appearances on one of my favorite shows How I Met Your Mother. A lot of Britney fans and even the critics saw this as the first step in Britney’s recovery and eventual comeback.

Now HIMYM is offering this opportunity to other two semi-celebs who I don’t think deserve the opportunity to be on one of TV’s funniest shows. Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, who are Lauren Conrad’s sworn enemies on The Hills, will be making a quick appearance in an upcoming episode and I couldn’t be more confused about it.

Why is this awesome show wasting even a second on these talentless hacks, when so many other people could use the opportunity to better there once shining careers? So who should they have cast instead? Well I’m glad you asked.
Peter Ostrum (Charlie in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
How can someone that pretty much inspired me to at least try to be an actor as a kid only have one great movie role? This just doesn’t seem fair does it? I say cast him as Robin’s new boss. You know, whenever she gets a job!Jenna von Oÿ (Six on Blossom). One of the most sassy and fastest talking TV sidekicks of all time would be a formidable foe for Barney. Perhaps even a love interest. Hell maybe she could even be the mother? Either way, Six cannot go quietly into the Hollywood night!

Christine McGlade (You Can’t do That on Television) Okay, this one is just selfish. But lately i’ve been missing You Can’t Do That on Television more than ever and I would give my remaining hairs to see Christine back on the small screen. Perhaps she could date Ted for a couple of episodes or be a rival teacher for Lilly. Christine was the glue that held You Can’t do that on Television together (sorry Alanis) and tv would be made better by her return!