PEOPLE Critic Reviews Britney’s Return to HIMYM

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Britney victim of bad script?
Published 5/13/2008 by Ann Oldenburg at USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live
Llbritneymother_2 TMZ says Britney Spears made an "unfunny show unfunnier" last night when she did her second stint on How I Met Your Mother . (Here are several clips .) People says , "Britney was not at all bad," but the script was "an awful piece of specialty construction." TV Squad says, she "pulled off the nutty stalker role well enough," but "everything about the episode gave me a big feeling of meh." What did you think? By Cliff Lipson, CBS

Fashion Jew Not To Be Trusted, Says Post [Gossip Roundup]
Published 5/13/2008 by Ryan Tate at Gawker
... On Britney Spears' latest How I Met Your Mother cameo: "The fact that Britney’s second guest spot really didn’t work was no fault of hers. She’s not at all bad at playing clunkily-sweetly dumb... But the script was an awful piece of specialty construction." [People] ...

Britney Spears Meets Your Mother Again
Published 5/13/2008 by soc2006 at A Socialite's Life
... However a review of the episode revealed that Brit's addition this time felt as if the pop star had been squeezed in at the last minute in an attempt to capitalize on the ratings success of ...

The Return Of Britney
Published 5/13/2008 by TRENT (noreply@blogger.com) at Pink Is The New Blog
Britney Spears made her second guest appearance of the year on CBS 's How I Met Your Mother last night, reprising her role as Abby -- the love-struck (and borderline obsessive) receptionist who philanders with Barney (played by Neil Patrick Harris ) while pining away for Ted ( Josh Radnor ). Personally, I think that Brit Brit did an amazing job on last night's ep ... as did the People magazine TV critic, tho he finds fault with the episode's writing and not with ...

Another awkward performance from Britney Spears on HIMYM
Published 5/13/2008 by JayBird at Cele|bitchy
... I really don’t want to lay into Britney Spears. I feel like there is this unacknowledged agreement in the media that we all treat her with kid gloves right now, because she’s not falling apart as badly as she was. In fact you could almost say that she’s pulling her life together. And I am nothing if not a big supporter of the underdog. I love hearing about the girl with the drug problem who ended up going to Yale. And for Britney Spears, getting to be on How I Met Your Mother TWICE is pretty much her equivalent. However to be honest, I think ...