"How I Met Your Mother" The Bracket (2008)

Director:

Pamela Fryman

Writers:

Carter Bays (creator) &
Craig Thomas (creator) ...

TV Series:

"How I Met Your Mother" (2005)

Original Air Date:

31 March 2008 (Season 3, Episode 14)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

One of Barney's exes is sabotaging his love life, but he doesn't know who. So he makes a NCAA Basketball Tournament-style bracket to figure out which women he wronged the worst. |

Plot Keywords:

Told In Flashback | Manhattan New York City | Question In Title | Friendship | Yuppie

Cast

Josh Radnor	...	Ted Mosby
Jason Segel	...	Marshall Eriksen
Cobie Smulders	...	Robin Scherbatsky
Neil Patrick Harris	...	Barney Stinson
Alyson Hannigan	...	Lily Aldrin
April Bowlby	...	Meg
Dawn Olivieri	...	Anna
Maite Schwartz	...	Holly
Chris Tallman	...	Mark
Ken Barnett	...	Colton Dunn
Brendan Patrick Connor	...	Janitor
Yvonne Delarosa	...	Charna
Hallie Lambert	...	Kate
Tess Parker	...	Mysterious Woman (as Tess Alexandra Parker)
Katie Savoy	...	Karen

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Netherlands:AL

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

As the episode ends, Neil Patrick Harris starts typing at his computer, the theme song from "Doogie Howser, M.D." (1989) starts playing.

Goofs:

Continuity: Barney reveals that one of his "crimes", that he committed to one of the women of his past, was stealing her car and driving away from their camp in the woods, leaving her there alone. In an earlier episode "Arrivederci, Fiero" (s2e17) it is revealed that Barney can't drive a car and is, in fact, very afraid of the idea.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs "Doogie Howser, M.D." (1989)

Why this show is so IMDb-censoring awesome.

If you pause at a certain moment when Barney's going through pictures in his head, for a split-second there's a picture of Madeleine Albright among the others (referring to a joke from a previous episode).

The fact that this series never forgets anyone or anything, that everything (well, everyone goofs) is so meticulously planned. Wow. SIMPLY AMAZING!

If you pause at a certain moment when Barney's going through pictures in his head, for a split-second there's a picture of Madeleine Albright among the others (referring to a joke from a previous episode).

The fact that this series never forgets anyone or anything, that everything (well, everyone goofs) is so meticulously planned. Wow. SIMPLY AMAZING!

(Oops, did I just double that? My bad...)