How I Met Your Mother (8pm, CBS) - The friends recall their memories of Hurricane Irene and Barney tries to get out of wearing the ducky tie.

2 Broke Girls (8:30pm, CBS) - Granted this show has flaws (the racial stereotypes at the diner are beyond tiresome) but sometimes it's very funny. It's worth checking out, with fingers crossed they eventually burn down that diner and start fresh. Tonight, Max and Caroline (left) take an apartment-cleaning job to make extra cash, not realizing it's the apartment of a hoarder.

House (9pm, Fox) - A well-respected man (Jamie Bamber) collapses mysteriously, and while treating him the team discovers that he has been hiding secrets. Naturally. Meanwhile, Chase and Taub rejoin the team.

Bored to Death (9pm, HBO) - Jonathan and George try couseling to mend their relationship, but Jonathan thinks he might have better luck by investigating a rival's business practices. Meanwhile, Ray finds himself with an embarrassment of romantic riches.

Give Me the Banjo (9pm, UNC-TV) - A re-airing of the history of the banjo narrated by Steve Martin and hosted by Roseanne Cash.

Castle (10pm, ABC) - Castle, Esposito and Ryan go to Atlantic City to solve the murder of a New Jersey casino owner who was found in an abandoned New York City warehouse. While there, they have a bachelor party for Ryan.

Nikita (8pm, CW) - Ryan has secrets to give Nikita regarding how Oversight is funded, but Amanda intercepts the messages between Ryan and Nikita, and Nikita and Michael race to get Ryan out of prison.

Chuck (8pm, NBC) - Chuck tries to get his freelance spy business off the ground as the team search for a vanished person and compete with a crafty business rival (Carrie-Anne Moss).

Grimm (9pm, NBC) - Nick and Hank investigate a breaking-and-entering case that leads them to a mysterious family with a cultural heritage of blurring the line between right and wrong. Nick also asks his blutbad buddy Monroe to help safeguard Aunt Marie.

Fringe (9pm, Fox) - An electrical engineer (Stephen Root) and his wife (Romy Rosemont), a theoretical physicist, pitch in during a frantic search for a pattern between time-loop anomalies.

Give Me the Banjo (10pm, UNC-TV) - Steve Martin narrates the history of the banjo, which dates back to colonial times. Includes comments and performances by Earl Scruggs, Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Abigail Washburn. Roseanne Cash hosts and talks with fellow country star (and former husband) Rodney Crowell about the influence banjo music has had on their musical styles.

Sanctuary (10pm, Syfy) - The team tracks an Abnormal fugitive, and discovers that Tesla is the head of a secret research lab for a Homeland Security agency that conducts tests on Abnormals.

Note: A Gifted Man, CSI:NY, and Blue Bloods are all new tonight, but I don't know if CBS will show the episodes they aborted last Friday in deference to the final game of the World Series, or if they'll show the ones they have listed currently online. Just tune in and you'll get new stuff.