It's Christmas time in How I Met Your Mother's world. And guess what? Lily's PREGNANT! So after finding out, the whole gang were in the same line of thoughts: "Somebody's having a baby. What the hell am I doing with my life?"  

I'll never feel the weight of the thought until I turn to my late twenties and my other friends are already starting to make a family while, say hypothetically, I'm the only one who's not.  But I definitely see where Robin and the rest were coming from. So to turn their life in shape, Robin took the more serious job of being an associate researcher at World Wide News and Barney decided to donate a big portion of his Christmas bonus to charity. Marshall and Lily went a tad overboard in preparing for the coming baby -- until they found out that Lily's not really pregnant. Yeeep, some pregnancy test kit brand should be recalled. 

So, instead of the boring researcher job, Robin took the "Currency Rotation Specialist" job in a game show called "Million-Dollar Heads or Tails". Or to put simply, she prefer being seen in national TV as a coin-flip bimbo. Can't blame the girl... the exposure's high. Barney, meanwhile bought the diamond-pinstriped suit instead of donating to charity. And our couple? Well... seems that they weren't really ready yet for an addition to family. They prefer buying a puppy. A cute puppy.

 BUT. His friends' immaturity made our bestman Ted go berserk. He scolds them big time and forces them to the right path. And it seems like the bestman always knows best.  Robin is now working for the World Wide News, Barney donated three racks of suit plus a fat check and Lily and Marshall spent a lovely night together (if you know what I mean). 

Aww. What a great last episode for the year! It's what I love the most about How I Met Your Mother. Recently, the episodes are more on just pure comedy. Plus I'm not really buying the addition of Zoey, Zoe or whatever that Arcadia fangirl's name is, to the group. So I am definitely happy with episodes like this. It shows our gang's inner self and struggles with life. Robin's struggling with the slow progress of her career, Marshall and Lily's been pressured about starting a family which most couples feel, and Barney's been keeping his soft, boyish side in exchange of being cool and awesome.  These feelings make them more human and real even though they are just characters from a TV show. Sure, Barney's sex life is funny. and Robin's pop star past is even funnier. But episodes like this is what makes How I Met Your Mother tick.