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During a game night Robin gets to meet Victoria. What actually was planned to be a funny night turns quite serious when Barney's former love Shannon gives an old tape to Lily which shows the "real" Barney. While watching the tape an embarrassed Barney storms off. When he returns, Barney tells a story from 1998, when he seems to have been a whole different person, and what made him the person he is today. To make Barney feel better, all others also tell their most embarrassing stories. Written by
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Apart from
How I Met Your Mother: Pilot, and until the airing of the sixth season episode
How I Met Your Mother: Hopeless, this was the only episode to feature a different title sequence than the rest of the series, using a shorter version of the theme tune presumably to allow for more commercial time. The flying 'How I Met Your Mother' text seen in the pilot is used, accompanied by a shorter rendition of the normal theme music. The first two bars of the theme are shortened from eight to four notes, which then cuts to the ending of the normal theme.
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Goofs
The TV screen only has a power cord in it, no leads from the video player.
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Quotes
Barney Stinson:
Ladies, Gentlemen, Ted.
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Crazy Credits
Instead of the usual opening sequence, only the title is shown in white text on black background with a 3 second version of the theme.
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Soundtracks
"Hey Beautiful"
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The Solids
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I started watching How I Met Your Mother almost accidentally while I was looking for a new comedy series, especially after the end of Friends. While it I found this series average first, I somehow began to love this show without really noticing. After about 5-10 episodes I noticed that I was very excited about new episodes and that's when it was clear: This is new major comedy.
The episode "Game Night" is my famous episode of the first season, mostly because of the huge portion of Neil Patrick Harris, who really delivers the best performance in this series and who is - in my opinion
- an underestimated actor. I really can't believe that he was not even
nominated for an Emmy.This is (in my opinion) the best episode of HIMYM to date, chased by other great episodes like "The Pineapple incident" and "Come On".
If you are a fan of HIMYM and missed this episode: Find a way to watch it! It's really worth it.
Torben