ALEXANDER LAVELLE HARRIS

ALEXANDER LAVELLE HARRIS

He is the accidental hero who inadvertently comes up with a great idea or who surprisingly stakes a vampire. He is portrayed by Nicolas Brendan in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Profile:
Known as Xander
Dark Brown hair
Brown eyes
Six foot (6ft)
Born 1981 in Sunnydale California
Parents are Anthony and Jessica Harris

Powers:
He has no supernatural powers or abilities
He is an average Joe who has clocked more fieldwork than every watcher combined
Persuasion and empathy
Regards insight and understanding as his superpower
Has military knowledge from Season 2 episode “Halloween”







Xander is the truest of true life characters in this show; he represents the underachiever and the no-one from high school. Throughout the years he has gone from the goof to the mature reliable person Buffy can count on to save her life and those around her.

Season one – The first glimpse we get of Xander is as he is riding up to school on his skateboard and getting knocked to his ass by a rail as he sees Buffy walking by, small side note – thank goodness the skateboarder angle was dropped for Xander. He is the first person to find out about Buffy’s secret identity and is the co-founder of the Scooby’s. During the first season we learn that Willow has a crush on him – but he only sees her as a friend. During the course of this season he is seen as the jealous stalker kind – of as he has this massive crush on Buffy but she only has eyes for Angel. His main role is to save Buffy in the finale as he has to perform CPR to revive her.




Season two – Xander is still the class clown, with jocks bullying him and girls avoiding him. His main rivalry with Angel boils over as they constantly have words and seriously don’t like each other. Xander starts dating Cordelia as the year progresses, due to all the life and death situations they were thrown in together. In the episode Halloween he is turned into an army man and after the spell ended the military knowledge stayed with him and has served him well. He was the key figure in the demise of the Judge as he had the knowledge to acquire and use a rocket launcher. He was there with the final battle against Angelus helping Giles out of the mansion.

Season three – This was the climax of his relationship with Cordelia, as they broke up after Cordelia and Oz witnessed him and Willow making out while trapped in Spike’s basement. He went single for a while until Cordelia wished to Anyanka the Vengeance demon – and her wish was stopped and Anyanka was turned mortal and known as Anya. She asked Xander to the prom – the beginning of big things for them. In the episode “The Zeppo” Xander has to single handedly stop a bunch of zombies from blowing up the high school and during the course of that evening he loses his virginity to Faith in her motel room. During the final battle with the Major at Graduation day Xander was pivotal using his military knowledge in co-ordinating the students in flanks and attacking and beating back the wave of vampires.



Season four – This is Xander’s year of downward spiralling – he decides not to go to college and instead goes on a cross – country road trip which doesn’t go very far as his car breaks down. When he comes back to Sunnydale he has to move into his parents’ basement and pay them rent. He gets quite a few lame jobs. Anya return to his life and at first their relationship is purely sexual but as it progresses he falls in love with the crazy ex-demon. During the enjoining spell – Xander was the heart part of the “Super – Buffy”.


Season five – Here Xander starts maturing a bit, securing a managerial construction job and his own apartment with Anya moving in with him. This season is infamous because of the Dracula episode – where Xander is turned into Dracula’s manservant – brilliantly done! He has to contend with Willow and Anya’s bickering over him and Anya’s ex boyfriend Olaf the Troll who breaks his arm. Just before they go into the final battle with glory the hell god and her minions, does he ask Anya to marry to – to which she replies that she will say yes if they both survive the battle.

Season six – Sees another powerful spell with Xander as a key element – as he, Willow, Anya and Tara bring Buffy back from the dead. Xander and Anya are engaged and it’s the build up to their wedding with tensions building. On the day of the wedding Xander gets a visit from a demon pretending to be his future self in order to get Xander to leave her, which he does as he realises his fears and shortcomings. The rest of the year he has to work on getting over Anya and rebuilding his life without her. He is the pivotal character in this season, when Willow goes over the deep end after the murder of Tara; he was the one to use the yellow crayon story from kinder garden to reach her heart by using his words and determination, effectively stopping the end of the world.

Season seven – during the course of this season, he and Anya have a few sexual encounters in times of crisis but ultimately end things for the good of both. He was the lead constructor while building and renovating the new Sunnydale high school. During the battle at the wine cellar against Caleb the evil priest, Caleb destroyed one of his eyes saying he was the one that is all seeing and that he would put an end to it. During the final battle he was with Dawn fighting and killing a few Tulacan vampires – manning one of the crucial exit points in the high school. After the destruction of Sunnydale he was mentioned being in Africa – finding and recruiting new Slayers to the cause.




Relationships:
These are the main relationships for the Xan – man:
Cordelia Chase – season 2/3 she main Xander’s first real girlfriend
Willow Rosenberg – season 3 a brief make out session after years of her wanting him
Faith Lehane – season 3 she took Xander’s virginity
Anya Jenkins – season 4/7 his main love interest who he almost married


Some other less significant relationships:
Buffy Summers – recurring throughout the seven season as only an infatuation
Ampata – season 2 an ancient mummy who tried to steal his life force
Nancy – season 7 they had a brief date
Lissa – season 7 went on a date but she was a demon wanting to kill him










Xander is the man, goofy and wise. He is true embodiment of all that we are and want to be. The whole struggle to gain yourself.

WILLOW DANIELLE ROSENBERG

WILLOW DANIELLE ROSENBERG

The wily red head vixen that stole our hearts as the super hot witch in Buffy the Vampire Slayer is portrayed by Alyson Hannigan.

Biography:
Red haired
Green emerald eyes
Height – five feet six inches (5ft 6in)
Born in 1982 in Sunnydale California
Parents are Sheila and Ira Rosenberg
She goes dark and turns her hair and eyes pitch black

Powers:
Telekinesis
Flight
Telepathy
Energy bolts from her hands
Can cast a variety of magical spells

She has come a long way from the shy, nerdy girl we met to the most powerful Wiccan in this plain of existence. The wily ways and sometimes risky humour entertained us and not to mention the jaw dropping kisses and sex scenes of a lesbian nature that we witnessed

Season one – We meet Willow and she is portrayed as a nerdy girl that does not risk much. She herself says she has had a crush on Xander since they were five, but because of her nature she was too afraid to do something about those feelings. Here Buffy becomes her best friend alongside Xander and helps her gain some confidence in who she is. During the course of the first season her main role is to aid Giles in his research via the internet and hacking into databases.



Season two – In this season Willow starts to explore the magicks. After Angelus murders Miss Calendar – the computer sciences teacher, Willow is given her class to teach. She also gets a bit of a more aggressive make over as she leads the Scooby’s in Buffy’s absence. Due to her long standing crush on Xander and his betrayal of her trust by getting into a relationship with Cordelia, Willow decides to risk it all and starts a relationship with Oz the lead guitarist of Dingoes Ate My Baby and who it turns out is a werewolf. At the end of the season she has become such an expert witch she is able to re – ensoul Angelus and revert him back to Angel before Buffy sent him to hell.

Season three – Here Willow explores even further with the magicks and we are introduced to her doppelganger – vampire Willow from another dimension, who as Willow describes – might even be a little gay, giving us reference to her future lesbian relationships. Willow joins a coven with Amy Madison and Michael Czajak which didn’t last long. Willow and Xander are taken hostage by Spike and share a kiss but didn’t know Oz and Cordelia were in the doorway watching them and having come to their rescue. Cordelia and Xander’s relationship didn’t make it but Willow and Oz were able to patch things up. Oz was also the person to take her virginity just before the assault on the Major at Graduation Day. She was approached by Yale, Harvard and Oxford but chose UC Sunnydale because she could be with Buffy and help with the good fight.

Season four – After some trials and tribulations Willow and Buffy become roommates but even while living together they drifted away from each other and only fully reconnected at the end of the season. This season was full of self discovery for Willow – she and Oz broke it off after his carnal relations in werewolf form with another werewolf, resulting in Oz leaving Sunnydale on a journey of self discovery and trying to tame the beast inside. Trying to further her magicks she joins a coven on campus, which resulted in the meeting of Tara McClay, her soul mate. She and Tara met and took things slow with Willow eventually coming out of the closest at the end of the season. She conjured a very powerful spell at the end of the season combining her essence with those of Buffy, Xander and Giles and going forth in destroying Adam in the Initiative.

Season five – This season sees Willow’s magic power increase dramatically and her relationship with Tara strengthens. Willow doesn’t have as much to do in this season and it’s only after Glory mistakes Tara for her key and brain sucks Tara does Willow really feature. Fuelled by her desire for revenge Willow goes on a rampage and fights Glory woman on god and we get a glimpse of dark Willow that rears again in season six. Even though in their first encounter Willow doesn’t do that much damage she gets a feel for the god and knows what to do the next time they meet. At the end of the season Willow reverses the brain suck on Glory restoring Tara to her rightful mind and significantly weakening the god and giving Buffy the chance of defeating her.

Season six – Here Willow spirals out of control, after an argument with Tara about Willow using too much magic, Tara leaves Willow and tells her she much quit the magicks and she’ll come back. At the start of the season we get another glimpse of Willow’s power when she restores Buffy back to life and her powers only grow as the season progresses. After Tara left, Willow de-ratted Amy and went on a magic spree with her while being introduced to Raiffe the warlock who enhances Willows powers but infects her with an addiction for it. Only after landing Dawn in the hospital and facing the loss of Tara does Willow decide to face her problems of abuse and quits magic. In one of the most heart wrenching scenes, Warren Mears shoots and kills Tara (which made me cry) and ultimately resulting in the awakening of dark, veiny Willow who goes on a rampage resulting in her filleting Warren alive and hunting the other two of the Trio. With the retuning Giles, he imbues her with the true essence of magic and using Xander are they able to talk Willow off of the proverbial cliff and calm her down.

Season seven – Starting off Willow was taken by Giles to England to learn the meaning of magic and help her deal and control her powers. When returning to Sunnydale she had to make amends with her friends who she tried to kill. After the tragic demise of Tara, Willow found a new love in the form of a potential Slayer named Kennedy. When the first evil rears its head, it’s Willow that has the power to turn the tables on it. During the build-up to the final battle with the first, Willow gets a call from Fred in Los Angeles, asking her for help. Willow goes to Los Angeles and battles with Jasmine a former Power That Be that has come to earth, and re – ensouls Angelus for a second time and also retrieves Faith and brings her to Sunnydale to help against The First. Willow was used in the final battle not as a fighter but as the person that would change the Slayer line forever, she used the Slayer Scythe to tap into the Slayer powers and turn all the potential Slayers into real Slayers thus making her a goddess on earth.


Relationships:
Major relationships for Willow are:
Daniel “Oz” Ozbourne – the werewolf and her first boyfriend
Tara McClay – the witch and her ultimate soul mate
Kennedy – the slayer and latest lover


Some other relationships that just didn’t last:
Xander Harris – fellow Scooby and long time crush but never reciprocated
Malcolm Black – the demon Moloch in human form
Rupert Giles – she only had a crush on him but never acted on it
RJ brooks – he used his mystical jacket to get laid

She is a wonderful person and a great friend.

BUFFY ANNE SUMMERS

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Movie the main character Buffy Summers was portrayed by Kristy Swanson in the crappy movie version that gave life to the television series, where Sarah Michelle Gellar took over the role of Buffy Summers.

Biography:
Blonde hair
Green emerald eyes
Five foot twenty five inches (5ft. 25in)
Born 19 January 1981
Parents are Hank and Joyce Summers

Powers:
Heightened speed and agility
Superhuman strength
Accelerated healing powers
Prophetic dreams
Close group of friends – that no other Slayer had – gave her strength of character.






The story starts of in Los Angeles where Buffy learns from Merrick Jamison – Smythe her first Watcher that she is the Chosen One – the one girl in all the world with the strength and powers to be able to beat back the rising evils. When Merrick gets killed by Lothos she kills Lothos and burns down the school gymnasium in order to kill the rest of his vampire cronies, which results in her being expelled from Hemery high. It is later learned that after this incident she told her parents about herself and vampires and they had her admitted to a mental hospital for treatment. She decided to stop talking about vampires and was released six weeks later.

Not long after her release, her parents got a divorce prompting Joyce to take her daughter and travel to Sunnydale to start a new life. And this is where the proper story starts. Buffy gets introduced on her first day at Sunnydale high to a wide variety of characters, Xander and Willow her newest best friends, Giles the librarian and her new watcher and Cordelia the vapid cheerleader the embodiment of all that Buffy was. Together with her friends known as the Scooby’s they go after various demons and vampires, protecting the populous of Sunnydale and especially the school that is situated over a Hellmouth.



Season one – Buffy and her friends fight off The Master, The Order of Aurelius and various other vampires as the season progresses. In so doing her friends learn all about the legend of the Slayer and all of Buffy’s abilities helping protect her cover as she protects others. Angel also makes his first appearance as a mysterious stranger throwing out clues helping Buffy find and defeat the demons. All throughout she starts falling for him even though he turns out to be a vampire as well. The climax of the season is where Buffy goes to fight the master in his underground prison – but she draws the short end of the straw and gets bit by him and being thrown face down in a pool of water, effectively dying. Luckily it was only a clinical death and with the help of Xander who performs CPR and resuscitates her bringing her back to life. She goes after The Master and efficiently kills him.


Season two – The Buffy - Angel relationship goes to the next level and Giles also falls in love with Miss Calendar. Angel takes Buffy’s virginity and reverts back to his evil form, angelus and terrorises the Sunnydale inhabitants, aiming his attacks at Buffy hoping to emotionally hurt her. He is the one who killed Miss Calendar when he found out she belonged to the Gypsy clan that cursed him with a soul so many years ago. Together with Spike and Drusilla they try to take over the town and effectively end the world using the demon Acathla. Luckily for Buffy, Spike (who does not want the world to end and spoil all his fun) switches sides and helps her to stop Angel and Drusilla, and as Buffy runs Angel through with a sword sending him into the demon dimension he had opened, Willow, Buffy’s witch friend re- ensouls him using an ancient gypsy curse. A heartbroken Buffy runs away trying to cope with murdering her true love



Season three – Buffy finds her true self (and deals with the loss of Angel) after several weeks in Los Angeles and returns to Sunnydale and has to patch up her relationships with all her friends and family. Faith the “evil” slayer is introduced in this season, first fighting on the side of good and helping Buffy find her riskier side but after she murders the deputy major turns bad and joins forces with the big bad of the season Major Wilkens, who plans on devouring the graduating class and turning into a true, pure demon. Buffy strategically plans and enlightens everyone and together she and her fellow classmates take down the Major and blow up the high school in the process. At the end of the season the retuning Angel leaves Sunnydale at the behest of Buffy’s mother to help her have some semblance of a normal life – or as normal as it can get.


Season four – Buffy heads off to college and has too deal with a heavy class load and a few new romances as well as the United States Government imposing themselves on her territory and basically taking her glory. Her new loves comes in the form of farm bred Iowa boy Riley Finn who steals her heart and helps her take down the Initiative he was working for. She and all her friends basically drift off in different directions as all friend clichés do when going to college but in the end they reunite stronger than ever. In the season climax Buffy and the Scooby’s have to take down the cybernetically engineered Adam who was built from the parts of other demons, man and machine in the basement of the Initiative. So they all combine their essences with Buffy to form a “Super – Buffy” (heart, mind, soul and body) strong enough to defeat Adam and shut down the Initiative.


Season five – This was for me one of the saddest seasons of all – as Joyce the stable of the Summers house is killed by a brain aneurism after a long battle with a tumour on her brain. For Buffy she and Riley broke up when Spike revealed to her Riley was having his blood drained by vampire chicks because as he put it “just to feel”. On top off dealing with a new sister who a couple of monks gave to her to protect (she is actually a mystical key used to open the door to another dimension) she has to run the household and pay the bills since the passing of her mother and then to crown it all she has to do battle with the Hell god Glorificus who wants to kill Dawn and destroy all mankind. At the end of the season she did battle with Glory beating her to a pulp but was unable to stop one of glory’s minions from cutting Dawn and beginning the ritual bloodletting that opens the gates to the other dimensions. Buffy realised as per her vision quest that “death is her gift” and sacrificed herself by jumping into the portal to close it and in so doing she left this mortal coil to rest in heaven.



Season six – This has to be considered as Buffy’s darkest year. After her death in the previous season Willow, Anya, Xander and Tara vowed to bring her back to life believing she was trapped in a hell dimension being tortured. They ripped her from heaven and thrust her back to life leaving her to deal with being back on earth and facing the normal quarrels of life like raising Dawn and paying the bills. She gets a job at the Double Meat Palace slinging burgers and starts a love to hate sex relationship with Spike so she could escape into something else for a short while – when she breaks it off with Spike she does so because the hate is killing her and to deal with the break-up Spike tries to rape her. She fights him off and with his tail between his legs he leaves Sunnydale to get his manhood or vampire – ism back. The Trio, the evil in this season was defeated by Buffy at the end and to get revenge Warren shot Buffy and killed Tara turning Willow into dark evil veiny Willow. As Willow went after the trio (who were in prison) Buffy, Dawn, Xander and Anya had to try and stop her from killing them and losing herself but it was only through the return of Giles and his sacrifice and Xander’s close connection with Willow where they able to stop her. This is the first season where Buffy was not present at the final battle stopping the evil.

Season seven – Starts off with Buffy taking a more hands on approach to training Dawn and has to deal with the newly en-souled Spike back in her life. She gets a job as a guidance counsellor at the newly renovated Sunnydale high school where Dawn in also attending. She has to face the most powerful and ultimate evil in all the world known as the First. The first is the ultimate evil that is killing the Slayer line and all the potential Slayers in it before going after Buffy and Faith. This season sees the return of Giles with Buffy’s home becoming refuse and training centre to all the surviving potentials. Buffy gets a new friend in the form of previous Slayer Nikki Wood’s son – Robin Wood joining in on the fight. Faith also makes a return and takes the reigns once the potentials and the Scooby’s rebel against Buffy. With only Spike staying true to our heroine – he urges her to follow her instincts as she knows what she is doing. She goes after Caleb, one of the First evil’s henchmen who had kicked her ass a couple of times and with the assistance of the cameo appearance of Angel defeats him and gets the all powerful Slayer Scythe. With this Scythe Willow uses to tap into the Slayer line and gives all the potentials Buffy’s powers and makes them all Slayers. At the climax of the battle – Spike, Buffy’s full time lover uses his mystical amulet to destroy the Hellmouth prompting Buffy to finally tell him she loves him. After the destruction of Sunnydale, Buffy and the Scooby’s set out to find and train the remaining Slayers that have been awakened and thus ends our story.


Relationships:
Her main relationships have been:
Angel the vampire – season 1-3
Spike the vampire - season 6-7
Riley Finn the Initiative soldier – season 4-5


Some other short lived flings have been:
Billy “Ford” Fordham – season 2 used Buffy as bargaining chip to become a vampire
Owen Thurman – season 1 only wanted to date for the danger element
Tom Warner – season 2 jackass fraternity guy who wanted to sacrifice her to demon
Cameron Walker – season 2 swim team jock who only wanted to talk about the ocean and himself
Scott Hope - season 3 dated for couple of weeks but broke up because Angel came back into her life and she had to deal with the circumstances of that
Parker Abrams – season 4 only seduced her to get in her pants
RJ Brooks – season 7 used a mystical jacket to get laid

Buffy Summers will always be remembered for her uncanny whit and beauty as well as the passion she showed to her friends and family.
We are forever thankful for the entertainment and style she brought to our lives.

NCIS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1

Heyow guys - I have decided to review my new ultimate favorite show NCIS. Starting with season one hopefully catching up before season eight starts. The first episode is "Yankee White" and it gives up one of the most under appreciated federal law enforcement agencies and all their comings and goings!



The episode starts off with Air Force One and President Bush - he boards the plane and we meet Caitlin "Kate" Todd who is working on his Secret Service detail. The football carrier Lt. Trapp dies on the plane - forcing the president to evacuate and the authorities to be called in and NCIS steals the body from the Secret Service and FBI by using the local coroner who is friends with Ducky - the NCIS coroner and so they steal the body and travel back to Washington.



Major Kerry is the second victim on the show - and he was the person who originally had to carry the football on Air Force One - but got sick and had to hand over the job. We learn he and Kate were having a romantic relationship - but she ended it as she could not concentrate on her detail of protecting the president and shortly after his meeting with Kate, Major Kerry dies the same mysterious way as Lt. Trapp.

Abby the NCIS forensic scientist finds traces of Australian Coastal Taipan Snake Venom (DMSO) on the collars of both victims - and the murders are referenced to be the work of a terrorist group. Just a small side note - Abby, wow! She is one hot goth!



The first and only movie reference Gibbs is known to make - turns out to be on the mark (Air Force One - with Harrison Ford)! The terrorist on Air Force One plans to take out the president as it was done on the movie - but Kate and Gibbs luckily foil his plans! Kate resigns from the Secret Service because of her affair and Gibbs recruits her to join NCIS.

The Tony Tale of the episode:
Once at Washington airport the FBI take the body in the body bag - but unknown to them Tony is in the bag pretending to be the body while Gibbs and Ducky get away with the real body! When Agent Fornell of the FBI finds out the body is actually Tony he gets thrown out of the van while in the bag - and bounces around on the beltway! Seriously funny!

There are four rules mentioned in this episode namely:
Rule#1 - Never let suspects stay together
Rule#2 - Always wear gloves at a crime scene
Rule#3 - Never believe what your told - always double check

Another rule is mentioned but not fully and not numbered: never apologize!

And finally a bit of trivia - the director of the Secret Service as seen on the MTAC screen talking to the Director of the FBI and Director Morrow of NCIS was the murderer Dr. Russell Pike in the season 4 episode "Driven"

HIMYM - SEASON 1 EPISODE 10

This episode is one of those laugh-a-minute episodes where the cast and story keep you glued from the beginning to the end. The 'Pineapple incident' must be one of the most popular episodes of the season and trivia fact the actress who played Trudy returned in a following episode when Ted and Barney fight it out for the championship belt!



This episode takes place mainly at the pub - as Ted is still whining about not being able to catch Robin. So Barney tells him to stop thinking about it and start drinking about it. Ted gets horribly drunk on shooters that Carl the bartender created called 'the red dragon' and so our night out with Ted begins. A wonderful backdrop story is Marshall's paranoia about Carl being a vampire - which I found so funny!

The episode deals mainly in each characters dealings with Ted while he is drunk in flashbacks of their memories as he cannot remember for himself what he had done. Major props have to go out to Ted for being "vomit free since '93"! As the story unfolds we find out Ted had made numerous phone calls to Robin while she was on a date with a 'hundred millionaire' - as she put it. Ted dances on the tables and sprains his ankle and wakes up with a strange woman who he had met in his drunken stupor, in his bed as well as a big ass pineapple on his side table!



Here we have another connected BARNEY-ISM and quote of the episode:
This takes place during Barney's recap of his time with Ted at the bar.
[FLASHBACK]
BARNEY: You're calling Robin?
TED: I'm calling Robin!
BARNEY: Ted, as your mental and spiritual guide, I forbid you from making that call!
TED: Oh yeah, what are you going to do about it?
BARNEY: If you complete that call, I will set your coat on fire!
TED: You're bluffing!
{TED MAKES THE PHONE CALL - AND ROBIN @ HER DINNER ANSWERS HER PHONE}
TED: Hello Robin, it's Ted
ROBIN: Ted, for the last time, stop
{ROBIN HEARS TED SCREAMING THROUGH THE PHONE}
ROBIN: Ted?
[PRESENT]
{TED, BARNEY, LILY AND MARSHALL SITTING IN THE LIVING ROOM}
TED: You set me on fire!?
BARNEY: Real suede wouldn't have gone up so fast. You got robbed, this is a blend
TED: You set me on fire! And who is the girl in my bed?
{BARNEY LOOKS UP SURPRISED, STUMBLES OVER TO TED'S ROOM AND LOOKS IN - COMES BACK TO COUCH}
BARNEY: There's a girl in your room!
MARSHALL: And a pineapple! am I the only one who is curious about the pineapple?

No Marshall your not - but I guess that is going to remain one of those unanswered question of the series! Viva pineapple!

HIMYM - SEASON 1 EPISODE 9

I know, I know it's been awhile since my last post, but I'm at it again with another wonderful installment of How I Met Your Mother. This is the first Thanksgiving we experience with the gang entitled "Belly full of turkey".

We have two plot lines in this episode featuring our favorite couple - Marshall and Lily going off to Marshall's home town to visit his parents for Thanksgiving. However Lily has missed her period for the last couple of days and goes on holiday with a preoccupied mind. Once at Marshall's family home she is bombarded with all the Erickson family traits - like being huge for one and she freaks out. She goes to the local convenience store and purchases a pregnancy test but due to the lack of a bathroom and her desperation for an answer she takes the test in the alley - and just as luck would have it she gets arrested for 'public urination' and gets put in a holding cell. Marshall comes to her rescue and they find out they are not really ready for children but if the fates want it that way they would be able to do it because of their love for one another. Luckily she was not pregnant and they were saved.

Meanwhile back in New York, Barney disappears for Thanksgiving and Ted and Robin decide they want to volunteer on Thanksgiving. Funnily enough they choose the one place place to volunteer where Barney is as well - doing court appointed community service for 'public urination' of all things. First they don't get to do much but eventually get a sorting job - when Ted and Robin realise the volunteers take much of the given food home he revolts and gets himself, Robin and Barney thrown out of the soup kitchen. So they head off to the closest strip club to experience a Barney style Thanksgiving.

The quote of the episode takes place at the strip club while Ted stands in line @ the all-you-can-eat buffet after he bought a homeless guy a lap dance as a good deed:

STRIPPER: Hey, I saw what you did for that guy. It was really sweet. Do you want a dance?
TED: No thanks. You wants some yams?
STRIPPER: No thanks. I'm amber
{She puts out her hands and they shake}
TED: I'm Ted
STRIPPER: Actually I'm Tracy
TED: Still Ted
FUTURE TED V.O: And that kids, is the true story of how i met your mother!
YEAR 2030 FUTURE KIDS SUDDENLY SIT UPRIGHT ON THE COUCH - ASTONISHED
DAUGHTER, SON: What??!
FUTURE TED V.O: I'm kidding



BARNEY-ISM of the episode takes place during the volunteer work at the soup kitchen:

BARNEY: Man, its' amazing out there. I've done so much good today, I've got like a soul boner. And the way the faces of the less fortunate light up when you give then a hot nutritional meal, is there a better feeling on earth?
ROBIN: Yesterday you said the best feeling on earth was getting your toes sucked. Then you requested a high-five with your foot

Barney is truly a legendary character - so long until next time

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

This brilliant show follows the antics of five New Yorkers as they go about their daily lives - and mainly deals with the comedy in their lives as well as thier relationship with each other and others.



The show has to be considered as a memory - as the title states, it follows the main character Ted Mosby as he tells his children the story of how he met their mother in excrutiating detail (much to the sheer-grin of the children).

TED MOSBY
Dubbed Theodore Evelyn Mosby by Barney. He is the main protaganist of the show and he has two children - boy and girl who he is telling his life story too. His profession is architect and throughout the course of the show he has gone from architect in big company, to architect in his own company and finally (so far) architect teacher at New York University. His best friends are Marshall and Lily and they have been together since college - Wesleyen. He is constantly searching for 'the one' - and for two years he believed the one was Robin - whom he dated for a year. Barney who he met in the pub at the urinal has reluctantly become one of his best friends, and as such they keep going on constant legendary adventures together.

BARNEY STINSON
Known as the inventor of the "Lemon Law" and as The Barnicle. He always wears suits and has two catchphrases - 'suit up' and 'legen ... dary'! He regards Ted as his best friend as such often gets them both in compromising situations. He is a very successfull businessman but no one knows what it is exactly that he does, not even Marshall who works with him. His motto in life is too hook up with as many hot women as possible - and keep record of it! His only meaningfull relationship was with Robin but that did not work out for him! He is the ultimate single guy and role model to many!!!











MARSHALL ERIKSON
He is the ultimate relationship man - he dated Lily for more than 8 years and then married her, she is the ultimate love of his life and he is a complete wreck without her. He considers Ted and Lily his best friends. His love also stretches to good food, Wookies from Star Wars , the occult especially ghosts, aliens and of course the lockness monster. He is a good lawyer who actually wanted to be an environmental lawyer but ended up at Goliath National Bank working with Barney. Marshall does not like to fight but when he does you do not want to step in his way which was proved in season 4 in the 'Fight' episode but is actually contrary to previous statements made in the show.





LILY ALDRIN
The female lead on the show and every mans dream wife / girlfriend. She is married to Marshall but kept her own last name. Her best friend is Ted, but as of late Robin has started to take his spot. Lily is a kindergarden teacher by day (which she doesn't think much of), and a teacher and excellent cook by night. She gets very emotional when Marshall is not around and with her - as they have become very attached to each other, often having mind conversations! She left Marshall once because she wanted to persue a painting career and felt she couldn't do it while married but she quickly found out she made a mistake and came crawling back! She changes her hair colour quite often and is a running gag in the show! More recently we found out she has taken it upon herself to break Ted up with all his girlfriends she deems - not frontporch material!





ROBIN SCHERBATSKY
She is from Canada - she was a popstar and gameshow host in her home town, much to the amusement of the gang - and us! She is a television personality by nature, she was a reporter, then moved on to anchor and then had her own morning talk show. She dated both Ted and Barney but those relationships didn't work out, but more recently she dated Don her co-anchor who left her for the job she turned down for him - irony heh! She even went to Japan to try and report there but they had her on tv with a monkey who was more popular than her, so she moved back to New York and moved in with Ted. Lily is her best friend and confidant but Ted is there in a close second. She is the ultimate gun nut and loves wearing suits, smoking cigars and drinking whiskey!

So that is a wrap - stay tuned for all my posts that are done episode by episode with quote and Barney-ism of the episode highlighted! What can be better?!

TOP 100 CHARACTERS - PART 4

Good evening guys, this is the fourth and final installment of my Top 100 Characters list - so sit back and enjoy as I reveal my top 25 characters of all time.

25. Angel / Angelus played by David Boreanaz in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel - this broody vampire with a soul has grown from a punk to a legend in only a few short hundred years.

24. Det. Lenny Briscoe played by Jerry Orbach in Law & Order - he will forever remain in the annals of tv detectives history even after his real life passing



23. Dr. Andrew Brown played by Treat Williams in Everwood - we all cheered for him as he tried to rebuild his home and heart after the passing of his wife, and even though he made mistakes along the way - he remains a favourite.

22. Cliff Huxtable played by Bill Cosby in The Cosby Show - a legendary performer who paved the way for others just like him

21. Ryan Atwood played by Benjamin McKenzie in The O.C - he may be a broody and violent teenager, but overall he captured our respect with the ways he tried to lead his life and help his friends and family

20. Spike played by James Marsters in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel - he is also known as Captain Peroxide and is a long time rival of Angel. His hilarious antics cannot be decribed in words - you have to witness it to believe it!

19. Piper Haliwell played by Holly Marie Combs in Charmed - one of the three sisters of legend, I think she had the coolest power of all and was the glue that kept the show together.



18. Seeley Booth played by David Boreanaz in Bones - the sexual tension between him and his partner smolders onscreen and everyone loves a cop with a hard ass attitude but has repect for his squid partners in the lab

17. Rupert Giles played by Anthony Stewart Head in Buffy The Vampire Slayer - his British sninicism and failure to grasp American culture created a bit of a snobbish character that we all love and he leads the scoobies against evil

16. Allan Shore played by James Spader in Boston Legal - his democratic political views often put him at odds with his best friend Denny and his womanizing ways often got too much but whenever he got up and did his closing argument - everyone held there breath as they listened and took in the message in his speech

15. Ray Romano played by Ray Barone in Everyone Loves Raymond - it was the sitcom to watch and his characterization of the everyday husband was a big part of that.

14. Cappie played by Scott Michael Foster in Greek - he might look like the average college student always walking around with a cup of booze in his hand, but everytime he opens his mouth he always has a wize word to say to help whomever out of sticky situation

13. Veronica Mars played by Kristen Bell in Veronica Mars - the sassy, female detective had us all spellbound as she conquered the local leos and ever college life

12. Sydney Bristow played by Jennifer Garner in Alias - she is the ultimate super spy, sexy in everything she does with wit and genius to back it up.

11. Goku voiced by Masako Nozawa in Dragonball Z - this guy did everything he could to save the earth and his family whenever evil threatened them. His inherant ability to always see the good in people is a trait we can all adopt from him.



10. Patrick Jane played by Simon Baker in The Mentalist - savvy and smart, the often ridiculous and intriguiing way he solves cases spellbinds us all

9. Sheldon Cooper played by Jim Parsons in Big Bang Theory - this guy is so funny, his facial expressions and lack of human emotion is so entertaining

8. Seth Cohen played by Adam Brody in The O.C - the nerd who gets the hottest girl in town - who would not want to be him?

7. Dean Winchester played by Jenson Ackles in Supernatural - sarcastic and whitty, and the way he handles a gun makes us all want to be like him, travel the world and hunt evil.

6. Denny Crane played by William Shatner in Boston Legal - another winner for William. His courtroom and womanizing antics are awesome and his mad cow - what else can be said



5. Barney Stinson played by Neil Patrick Harris in How I Met Your Mother - the only legen ... wait for it ... dary character on this list! He lives in suits and is the master of the art of picking up ladies!

4. Gil Grisson played by William L. Peterson in CSI - the bug man who has mezmerized us all with his intellect and insight for many years, leading the criminalists of Las Vegas in the fight against crime and corruption!

3. Chuck Bartowski played by Zachary Levi in Chuck - the unfortunate nerd who got the government secrets imbedded in his brain has gone from nothing to being one of the top spies in the business with the hottest spy on his arm!

2. Leroy Jethro Gibbs played by Mark Harmon in NCIS - his rules have become a code of conduct to live our lives by, with his head slapping and silent stares that keep all his team members in line

1. Buffy Summers played by Sarah Michelle Geller in Buffy The Vampire Slayer - the girl who has redefined "helpless and scared little lady" has emmersed us into her world of vampire slaying and all the while she looks good while doing it!

TOP 100 CHARACTERS - PART 3

The thrilling third installment of my Top 100 Characters list

50. Tim Taylor played by Tim Allen in Home Improvement - this humble carpenter who cannot really build anything crept into our hearts

49. Walter Bishop played by John Noble in Fringe - he is a slighly unstable father figure trying very hard to be the best father he can be with his estranged son, also being a genius can only help his case



48. Liz Lemon played by Tina Fey in 30 Rock - this dysfunctional woman is a stereotypical version of the women we all wish we could have and her brilliant writing in the series also helps her and the show quite a lot

47. Colonel John Casey played by Adam Baldwin - I enjoy his hardass attitude and American spirit. Also his comic relations with Morgan and Chuck are worth watching

46. Ally McBeal played by Calista Flockheart in Ally McBeal - this zany lawyer, is one of the first shows delving into strong female leads, lesbianism and overall feminism in television

45. Jack McFarland played by Sean Hayes in Will & Grace - what a exciting character on television, he is so funny and his antics glue us to our seats

44. Wilhemina Slater played by Vanessa Williams in Ugly Betty - this scheming woman creates amazing situations for herself and the power she wields in the show is great

43. Dennis Finch played by David Spade in Just Shoot Me - another one of those iconic comedy characters that will go down into history as one of the greats



42. Willow Rosenberg played by Alyson Hannigan in Buffy The Vampire Slayer - what an awesome character, her growth from power to power in the witch front but what sets her apart is the relationship she had with Tara and the love they shared

41. Tony Soprano played by James Gandalfino in The Sopranos - iconic mobster in television history

40. Carrie Bradshaw played by Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex In The City - every week we used to tune into the antics of the four American women and their relationship advise they give out. And to prove the success of the character and the show - it has been turned into not one but two movies

39. Angel Castiel played by Misha Collins in Supernatural - a truely funny character even though he is not meant to be, the comic timing is brilliant and when needs to be, he can deliver the more serious tone as well

38. Vic Mackey played by Michael Chiklis in The Shield - a true mans - man, being a almost crooked cop and bringing down the bad guys is what most of us want to do.



37. Michael Scott played by Steve Carrell in The Office (US version) - he is brilliantly funny, a true genius and someone who brings in the viewers

36. Dr. Frasier Crane played by Kelsey Grammar in Frasier - a legendary pshyciatrist, that had to deal with his neurotic brother and live in father who is in the hall of fame of amazingly funny characters

35. John Dorian (J.D.) played by Zach Braff in Scrubs - this idiot doctor, with his father issues and best friend who is black, just reaches to us and even though the actual story is not so great the depth to which this character is pushed is amazing

34. Sue Sylvester played by Jane Lynch in Glee - the hard-ass cheerleading coach, who normally gets one over on the glee teacher is fast becoming an iconic character

33. Chandler Bing played by Matthew Perry in Friends - even though he was a bumbling idiot he crept into our hearts and we voted for him we saw him

32. Marshall Erikson played by Jason Segal in How I Met Your Mother - he is a very versatile character that blends well with the rest of the cast. He can sing, dance and act that which not all can do

31. Cordelia Chase played by Charisma Carpenter in Angel and Buffy The Vampire Slayer - she grew from vindictive cheerleader to fighter for the Powers That Be in a amazing showing of being a woman in power. As she grew in the show she grew in our hearts and when she died in Angel - I just had to shed a tear.



30. Loralei Gilmore played by Lauren Graham in Gilmore Girls - this whitty, sassy and beutiful woman has showed us what can be achieved when one puts your mind to something.

29. Arvin Sloane played by Ron Rifkin in Alias - one of the iconic bad guys in television land. His vindictive and dangerous streak scares even the toughest of the spy world.

28. Adrian Monk played by Tony Shalhoub in Monk - this detective scared of just about everything in this world uses his keen observation skills to solve the most difficult murder mysteries. And just for getting out of bed in the morning he gets on my list



27. Jerry Seinfeld played by Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld - what else can be said except "Seinfeld"!

26. Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo played by Michael Weatherly in NCIS - what a great agent, with awesome comic timing and his bickering with his female partner, Ziva is legendary!

Next time the last installment of the Top 100 list!

TOP 100 CHARACTERS - PART 2

The second part of the Top 100 Characters on my list.

75. George Lopez played by George Lopez in George Lopez - one of the great Mexican sitcoms dealing with family issues and the way George handles it is extraordinary!

74. Abby Sciuto played by Pauley Perrette in NCIS - this hot goth with the tattoos all over the place assists the NCIS team in the forensics lab - what's hotter than a goth with a microscope?



73. Jack Bauer played by Kiefer Sutherland in 24 - his relentless antics to protect the American public and presidency as well as his family is amazing

72. Rory Gilmore played by Alexis Bledel in Gilmore Girls - her sweet disposition and girl next door looks make her the perfect girl to marry and unfortunately all we can do is watch as she conquers the world.

71. Jacqueline "Jack" Barrett played by Amanda Peet in Jack & Jill - even though we only got her in our living rooms for a short while, her can do attitude and great looks made her a regular for as long as we had her.

70. Karen Walker played by Megan Mullaly in Will & Grace - her high pitched voice and pill popping and drinking habits made her one of the worst rolemodels but we still kept coming back to the show to catch that nasty quick wit of hers and see what she did next.

69. Christina Yang played by Sandra Oh in Grey's Anatomy - she is the hardcore cardio thoracic surgeon intern - with her hardass attitude we just love her



68. Gary Brooks played by Jay Mohr in Gary Unmarried - I enjoy the way he handles his ex-wife and how he treats his kids - I wouldn't mind being something like him

67. Lily Aldrin played by Alyson Hannigan in How I Met Your Mother - she is the girlfriend/wife every guy wishes he could have

66. Clark Kent played by Tom Welling in Smallville - he always saves the day even though his love life may suffer because of it - he does what is right

65. Sam Winchester played by Jared Padalecki in Supernatural - he kicks demon ass alongside his brother and looks cool doing it!

64. Bender the robot from Futurama - watch the show and you'll understand why he's on the list

63. Alan Harper played by Jon Cryer in Two & A Half Men - the halfwit brother of the womanizing Charlie - he is on the list because it's awesome to see charlie abuse him

62. Michael Weston played by Jeffrey Donovan in Burn Notice - he is the burnt spy trying to get justice on those that ruined his life and in the process teaches us all how to be spies!



61. Mac Taylor played by Gary Sinise in CSI: New York - the criminalist / detective spellbinds us all whenever they try to solve a case. Showing brains can win over brawn

60. Dr. Gregory House played by Hugh Laurie in House M.D - using his brains and sidekicks to solve medical mysteries becomes somehow very interseting when he is involved - as we cannot wait to see what he gets up to next.

59. Ranger Cordelle Walker played by Chuck Norris in Walker Texas Ranger - how can the legendary Chuck Norris not be on the list

58. Melinda Gordon played by Jennifer Love Hewitt in Ghost Whisperer - talking to ghosts has never been so hot, right?



57. Charlie Harper played by Charlie Sheen in Two & A Half Men - his constant ridiculing of his younger brother and ever persistant conquest of the ladies make his someone to watch and maybe learn a thing or two from

56. Ed Deline played by James Caan in Las Vegas - even though he was replaced in later seasons, 'Big' Ed Deline will always be the one we remember to best keep the casino running

55. Joan Girardi played by Amber Tamblyn in Joan Of Arcadia - a hot chick who talks to God with a story that delivers a message every time is something that has been missing from television for a long time

54. Betty Suarez played by America Ferrera in Ugly Betty - she comes from humble beginnings rising to the top, inspiring us all as she goes along

53. Rachel Green played by Jennifer Aniston in Friends - she was the first hot Friend we accepted and by using this role she has propelled herself into stardom

52. Jack Bristow played by Victor Garber in Alias - his stony expression and ruthless interrogation tactics make him one of the great television spies known today and to cap it off he sacrificed himself to stop the great evil - Arvin Sloane

51. Wesley Wyndham Price played by Alexis Denishof in Angel and Buffy The Vampire Slayer - growing from nerdy watcher into the rogue demon hunter over the years made him a force to be reckoned with and his death scene was noble and brave - going down for the cause as he believed



Stay tuned for the rest!