46 Minutes

Episode aired Jan 16, 2012
TV-PG
21m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

3.7K

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Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor, and Cobie Smulders in How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Comedy Drama Romance

While Marshall and Lily spend their first night in their new home after deciding to permanently move to Long Island, Barney takes over as group leader in Manhattan--both with disastrous resu... Read allWhile Marshall and Lily spend their first night in their new home after deciding to permanently move to Long Island, Barney takes over as group leader in Manhattan--both with disastrous results.While Marshall and Lily spend their first night in their new home after deciding to permanently move to Long Island, Barney takes over as group leader in Manhattan--both with disastrous results.

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

3.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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9slightlymad22

Excellent Episode

The intro credits for this episode start things off in great fashion as it is a special one-off revolving around Barney, with the show re-titled "How I Met Your Barney", and with revised theme music with lyrics sung by Neil Patrick Harris (Barney) and as usual the man knocks it out of the park.

Plot In A Paragraph: Lily and Marshall have now officially moved to Long Island, which brings about many issues. For Lily and Marshall, they receive an unexpected and somewhat unwanted house guest, Lily's Dad Mickey. At MacLaren's, Ted, Barney and Robin are lamenting the empty half a booth where Lily and Marshall generally sat, however, Barney comes to the realisation that Lily was generally the boss of their group, and thus now he plans on taking over. That leads to an evening which has them finding unexpected surrogates for Lily and Marshall.

Any episode that features the brilliant Neil Patrick Harris's character Barney Stinson in the main storyline is always excellent. I could go on and on about the brilliance of this episode, and in particular Neil Patrick Harris but I won't bore you with it.

My god Kal Penn is painful to watch, I'm sure he is a nice guy, and I feel awful as I seem to bash him with every episode he is in, but he is awfully out of place in this show. I think he found his niche as a stoner in the 'Harold & Kumar' movies.

And my final plus point is, any episode that features the delightful Alyson Hannigan as stripper Lily gets a big thumbs up from this reviewer.

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Trivia
During the poker game, one of the Russians is eating Oreos out of a poker chip tray. This is a reference to John Malkovich's Russian poker playing character, Teddy KGB, who eats Oreos the same way in Rounders (1998).

Goofs
Ted states that that night led to Mickey's one, and only, successful board game Lights Out. It was previously stated that Slapbet was his successful board game.

Quotes
Barney Stinson: Stop pining over Marshall and Lily! Have some self respect. Now put this fiver in your mouth so that stripper with the lazy eye can vacuum it up with...
Ted Mosby: Barney! I'm allowed to miss them alright? They're my two best friends.
Barney Stinson: I'm your two best friends!

Crazy credits
The intro sequence for this episode is a special one-off revolving around the Barney character, with the show re-titled "How I Met Your Barney", and with revised theme music with lyrics sung by Neil Patrick Harris (Barney)

Connections
References I Dream of Jeannie (1965)

Soundtracks
We Built Chip Cities
(uncredited)
Sung to the tune of "We Built This City"
Music and original lyrics by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert & Péter Wolf
Performed by Josh Radnor