HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
This new episode has the gang offering different memories of their last encounter with the Captain (played by Kyle MacLachlan, who last portrayed the wealthy eccentric on this series two years ago). It allows for some fun comic exaggeration (as with Cobie Smulders as Robin, shown flirting with the Captain from afar) – but given the structure of this series, doesn’t it make this a series of flashbacks within one longer flashback? It’s a jumping-jack flashback – but it’s a gas, gas, gas.