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How I Met Your Mother: Season 1, Episode 7

Matchmaker (7 Nov. 2005)

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Barney takes Ted to matchmaker Ellen Pierce, but while Barney gets thrown out, Ellen promises to find a woman for Ted within three days. This promise has disastrous results: the woman that ... See full summary »

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Barney takes Ted to matchmaker Ellen Pierce, but while Barney gets thrown out, Ellen promises to find a woman for Ted within three days. This promise has disastrous results: the woman that suits him the best has already a boyfriend. Lily and Marshall have problems with some sort of cockroach or mouse that is in the apartment and they cannot get rid of. Written by 123

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Ted's favorite book is "Love in the time of Cholera" by Garcia Marquez. The book starts with an old man reminiscing how he came to be with the love of his life, similarly to how Ted tells the story to his children. See more »

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When Marshall comes out of his room with the book about the Rosswell Conspiracy, he's holding the cover and first pages bent under the book, next shot he's just holding them normally, then they're bent again. See more »

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Barney Stinson: [to Ted] Marshall ran away from a cockroach.
Marshall: It was a mouse!
Barney Stinson: Oh, sorry, my bad, you're a man.
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