How I Met Your Mother Season 7 Episode 15 The Burning Beekeeper – Review

How I Met Your Mother was back with a new episode this week as the gang was all a buzz at Lily and Marshall’s house warming party.

Well before the first guest arrived, Lily and Marshall sat her dad down to implore him not to wreck all the hard work she put into preparing for their big event. Mickey’s foray into apiculture was a real bee in Lily’s bonnet, but also showed a funny parallel between her father and Marshall. Mickey’s bee puns were rather reminiscent of Marshall’s fish name routine from “Old King Clancy.” What seemed to be a similarity in senses of humor was yet another example of how women tend to marry men like their fathers and vice versa as we saw how alike Lily and Marshall’s mother Judy were last season around the time Marvin Sr. passed away.

For a half hour episode, primarily consisting of a series of interlinked events that unfolded within a five minute window of time, “The Burning Beekeeper” was filled with the brand of scenes and dialogue fans of the show have coveted all season long. This is not to say we have been denied such up until now, but tonight’s installment was superbly scripted and will no doubt go down as one of the most memorable episodes of the season if not the entire series.

I’m sure there were those naysayers who would have admonished Lily for even thinking about throwing such a big party while fully pregnant, while others may have been critical of Marshall for being so self involved with his work issues that he did little to take some pressure off his wife’s back, but don’t forget these are the Eriksens we’re talking about here. Lily was very excited about the cheese she purchased on the internet and Marshall did his part to spread the word about the inbound hors d’oeuvre like when he told Ted “don’t slept on the gouda.” They always have each other’s back.

Barney, despite a belly full of vegan spring rolls, dug deep into his bag of aliases and pulled out Secret Agent Gary Powers, famed CIA U-2 spy plane pilot. He may have been out of his flight suit, but was nonetheless suited up and slaying it with Hung’s Rebecca Creskoff, the cat crazy, cheese knife wielding divorcee.