When did Monday become the hottest night on television!?!?

Oh what a night! I can’t remember a Monday night of TV this entertaining in forever! First off, thank the lord for DVR, for without which I would have missed a lot of it. So let’s do a quick recap. Holy son of a married couple, there were a lot of shows on tonight! Tonight I caught How I Met Your Mother, Samantha Who?, Gossip Girl, Medium, and House. All of which were pretty darn amazing! Let’s start at the bottom and work our way up, shall we?And in case you’re an idiot *SPOILER ALERT!* there will probably be spoilers below. Read at your own risk.

How I Met Your Mother
This is probably the first (and last) time this show will be on the bottom of any list as far as I’m concerned. It’s only here by virtue of the fact that House gave me chills and set a pretty high bar. That, and the fact that Britney Spears was a giant suckhole of suck in the episode, thus preventing it from reaching its full awesomeness potential.

best moment: I feel like every minute of HIMYM is the best moment, but I particularly loved anything having to do with Ted’s red cowboy boots and i’m “pulling. them. off.”

Gossip Girl
GG definitely had big shoes to fill with last week’s ‘OMFG moment’-filled episode. I have to say, they definitely resolved the whole ‘Serena killed someone’ storyline WAY too fast for my liking. It was really great to see Chuck, Nate, and Blair rally around S in her time of need. It was also pretty awesome to see Lily and Rufus finally lock lips again, and thrillingly awesome to see just how scary manipulative Georgina is willing to get in order to ruin Serena’s life. I do think the whole “I killed someone” was totes dramatic on S’s part. She didn’t kill that guy!! If anything, she tried to save his life! Plus he semi-tried to rape her, so I think she gets a pass. Overall, a good episode, but not nearly as good as the anticipation from the past week.

best moment: Chuck’s perfectly delivered line “I’m Chuck Bass.” Check it out here!

Samantha Who?
There’s something about Samantha Who that just really appeals to my sense of humor. It’s got an absurdist quality to it, but at its core it’s rooted in reality. At least as real as possible when you’re dealing with an amnesia storyline! The one-liners on that show are brilliant, and the cast is really great; Jean Smart, Christina Applegate, and Jennifer Esposito really shine. I hadn’t seen the episode before this one, but I was really happy to see Sam and Todd getting real about their relationship, but not throwing it away either. Plus, all of the scenes with Chloe were pretty hilarious.

best moment: When Chloe opened the closet and Todd dove out of her sight. I cackled!

Medium
I’ve only recently gotten into Medium, but this show delivers the best of both worlds in my opinion. I’m a Sci-Fi lite girl, so the whole psychic thing is really cool. It’s sort of like Buffy meets Law & Order, but light on the Buffy. Patricia Arquette is really great, and they do a great job creeping the crap out of me! So glad I finally started watching this show regularly, and can’t wait to see what they come up with next.

best moment: “Don’t they know they have kids?!” The family dynamic on that show is so realistic, and I loved the little kids only conversation we got to see at the end of the episode.

HOUSE
Talk about OMFG!! Part of the reason I am writing this right now is because I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep after tonight’s episode of House. It goes without saying that Hugh Laurie is deeply talented. That man was made to play this role and it’s a joy to watch. Tonight, we caught up with House as he was looking pretty out of it in a strip club. Turns out he’d been in a terrible bus accident and had retrograde amnesia. The catch is that he remembered seeing a symptom and realizing that someone was going to die before he lost his memory, but now he can’t remember who, what, why, when, or how. Most of the episode is spent in the depths of House’s mind as he tries to diagnose the driver of the bus, who he (and everyone else) thinks is the mystery patient. At the end of the episode after a series of creepy/sexy hallucinations (and one scary, PTSD-inducing bus crash scene), a near-death House realizes that it’s Amber (also known as “CTB” or cutthroat bitch) that’s going to die; and it’s not a result of the accident. I don’t know about you, but after seeing the preview for next week’s episode, I am on pins and needles!

best moment: Cuddy’s diagnostic pole dance in the schoolgirl uniform. Lisa Edelstein definitely hit the gym before that one! Priceless that House chose diagnosing a patient’s symptoms over a topless sex fantasy. That is definitely dedication.

See, I told you TV tonight was crazy! Can’t wait for next Monday night!!