How I Met Your Mother season 9, episode 9, “Platonish” airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET on CBS, featuring the return of Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston as Hammond Druthers in an all flashback episode.
So far in its final season, How I Met Your Mother has been dedicated to the storytelling mechanic of not deviating from the weekend of Barney and Robin’s wedding.
For better or worse this has meant season 9 is missing some of the mainstays of each previous seasons: McLaren’s, Barney hitting on random women (it’d be kind of weird if he did this during his wedding weekend) and the Barney-Ted-Robin love triangle. Tonight we’ll be getting what promises to be a vintage How I Met Your Mother episode featuring all of these things…plus Bryan Cranston as Hammond Druthers for good measure.
Cranston’s return is clearly the big one for CBS’ marketing department but according to the official synopsis of the show the episode will be entirely a flashback episode where the gang ponders the future of the Ted, Robin and Barney love triangle, while Barney accepts a series of numerous challenges from Lily and Robin.
So if you’re scoring at home, Future Ted is telling his kids the story of how he met your mother at their uncle’s wedding while flashing back to years before said wedding after having already covered that portion of the story in detail. No wonder it’s taken nine years to tell this story.
Watch Season 9 of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ online
CBS does offer a free, legal replay of How I Met Your Mother episodes on their website to watch online the morning after an episode airs. Their video player can get a little spotty, but it’s hard to beat that low, low cost of free. iTunes also offers How I Met Your Mother episodes for purchase, but currently does not have a season pass option set up.
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