Baby Talk is the sixth episode of the sixth season of How I Met Your Mother. It was broadcast last Tuesday, October 26, 2010 on CBS. This episode was created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and produced by Craig Thomas Carter Bays, Pamela Fryman, Chris Harris (II) and Stephen Lloyd.
The television series stars Emily Wilson as Marshall’s Stripper Daughter, Joey Russo as Davey, Mikaela Hoover as Stacey, Jadon Sand as Rob, Ashwyn Bagga as Johnny, Bruce Merkle as Michael, Payson Lewis as Morris, and Ryan Powers as Marc. .
His regular casts include Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby, Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson, Alyson Hannigan as Lily Aldrin, Jason Segel as Marshall Eriksen, and Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky.
Marshall and Lily trying to have a baby, and with Monday night’s installment, How I Met Your Mother covered two of them in half an hour. “Baby Talk” took the obvious parts about naming the child and trying to control the gender of the baby and put a nice, nice How I Met spin on them.
The series has fully established the ease of their love, making them utterly believable, even in the craziest of circumstances. “Baby Talk” wasn’t exactly over the top for the pair, but it did have its moments. During the opening sneak peek, it feels lovely how sickeningly disgusted they were with the names they suggested for their friends’ nameless child (Stuart and Claudia). Later, their discussions about which names they liked offered up some amusing reminiscences as counterarguments. All the names Lily didn’t like were associated with a boy she’d once taught, including Johnny, who ate the class goldfish, and Ryan, who stabbed her in the leg with a pencil.
There was also a very dated reference to Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy” which unfortunately, even if you did get it, wasn’t very funny. Marshall had the best and funniest reasons to argue against a name. “Tara” gave us a memory of Marshall singing Boys II Men style to the prettiest girl in school. She even had a cane. And “Esther” took us back to an invisible stripper. She didn’t dance, but the implied things she was doing while she was naked were some of the best laughs in the episode.
