Let's go to the mall

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Let's go to the mall
Cobie Smulders
publication September 4, 2007
length 3:16
Genre (s) Teen pop
Author (s) Carter Bays , Craig Thomas
Label 20th Century Fox Records , Fox Music

Let's Go to the Mall is a song from the 2006 How I Met Your Mother series performed by Cobie Smulders as Robin Sparkles . It was written and produced by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas . The song is part of the How I Met Your Mother episode slap by slap (original title: Slap Bet , episode 2.09), which was first broadcast on November 20, 2006. On September 4, 2007, "Let's Go to the Mall" was also released as a single. In 2012 it also appeared in the album for the series, How I Met Your Music .

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Robin Sparkles tells Jessica, Tori, and everyone else to take their jelly bracelets and graffiti coats and go to the mall because all of their friends are there. She's not doing her homework. Everyone should throw away their worries and go to the mall.

In the food court, she met a boy who she now hopes will ask her to go out and the two of them are alone. But her father told her she was too young for a date , but she doesn't care and she doesn't want to wait and do it. She wants to dry his body through by Canada Day .

She came here with friends to shop and flirt. She saw Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and he said "Young lady I don't approve" (in German: "Young woman, I don't approve of that").

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Cobie Smulders (2014)

In the television series How I Met Your Mother , the episode takes place in rapid succession an important role. So immersed Let's Go to the Mall in conjunction with Robin Sparkles again and again as a running gag on. The music video for the song was shown several times in later episodes of the series. Robin Sparkles was also the interpreter of Sandcastles in the Sand , another song that appears in the episode Jugendliebe (original title: Sandcastles in the Sand , 3.16). In the episode Glitter (6.09) she sang The Beaver Song with Jessica Glitter . The slap bet between Marshall and Barney is also made in this episode, so that Marshall distributes a total of five slaps to Barney over the course of the series, one of them in the episode himself.

As a result, blow by blow Robin is pretty panicked want to go than the other in a mall. In the further course the four friends try to solve Robin's secret. In the end, they find out that she was a Canadian pop star in her teens, which took everyone by surprise. When she was 16, she traveled to various malls and sang the song.

Links in other episodes in the series

  • Let's Go to the Mall is in the episode Reluctant Help (Original title: As Fast as She Can , 4.23) Ted's ringtone.
  • In the episode In Exile (Original title: Little Minnesota , 4.11) Marshall sings Let's Go to the Mall in karaoke to alleviate Robin's homesickness.
  • The denim jacket that Robin wears in the music video appears again in the episode Bad News (Original title: Bad News , 6.13).

Music video

In 2006, the show's creators, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, agreed to produce an embarrassing video of each of the main characters. Last season, Barney's "secret video" was found directed at his then love, Shannon. They chose Cobie Smulders for this scene "because she could". Bays and Thomas love to write songs and have done so several times.

As for almost all HIMYM episodes, the music video was directed by Pamela Fryman . Cobie Smulders learned the choreography from Kristin Denehy in two days, then filmed in one day.

Robin says on the series that the 1980s-style music video was shot because the 80s didn't arrive in Canada until 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Let's Go To The Mall. In: fandom.com. Fandom, accessed March 13, 2019 .
  2. Eric Goldman: How I Met Your Mother goes' 80s. In: ign.com. IGN Entertainment , November 21, 2006, accessed March 13, 2019 .
  3. Make it Sparkle! In: fandom.com. Fandom, accessed March 13, 2019 .