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This series has totally gone downhill for a while. They keep just throwing things at you that has no relevance to their character development, imposing "scenerios" that seems contractory to the characters personality and isn't even funny anymore (for example the smoking episode). Thinking back, the only real thing that was holding the series up was Barney, and any episode where it wasn't revolved him and his life seems dull and bland, sometimes even redundant. I really liked the seasons previous but unless they step it up it doesn't seem like its going to get any better