HIMYM - 'Weekend at Barney's'

I see what you did there, people-who-write-the-How-I-Met-Your-Mother titles. I see it loud and clear. (wait, you can't SEE something loud... Nevermind.) 

Remember this, guys? Well, it was before my time, but it's such a pop-culture phenomenon, of course I've heard of it!!

We open on a beach. With women. Because according to TV, there are never any men on beaches. Other than on Baywatch, but that was just David Hasslehoff. And he's not really anything to look at.
Marshall and Ted are sitting on a porch, talking like the guys from Weekend at Bernie's. Barney's dead. So is my Internet connection. This could take a while.
They make him 'wave' to a girl who runs up to retrieve her beach ball, and she totally buys it. Aaaaand then Barney wakes up screaming 'WEEKEND AT BARNEY'S!!!!' hahaha - apparently his 'plays' from his playbook keep coming back to him in his sleep and freaking him out. Robin comforts him and says she wants to marry him because he burned his Playbook, and so he relaxes and says he couldn't think of anything better - then he wakes up again screaming 'WEEKEND AT BARNEY'S 2!!!' and Robin goes 'DAMNIT BARNEY!!!'
Lily and Marshall are talking about art and Robin and Barney keep making up fake events they have to go to, in order to escape the conversation - clever - and Ted is returning his RSVP card to their wedding by hand rather than by mail. He wanted to save money on stamps. Also he's taking the psycho Jeanette. Lovely.

Whatever happened to their 'Crazy Eyes' theory?? Couldn't Ted have seen Jeanette's crazy eyes when he met her, and avoided the whole thing??

Speaking of whom, she destroyed his apartment because there was spam e-mail in his inbox from a 'woman' - and now SHE'S dumping HIM. WTF??!! But he decides to win her back - which makes Barney and Robin upset.
And then when Lily and Marshall are on their way to the art gallery, he buys Skittles - and something ominous is gonna happen. But that gets cut off by Ted getting on the elevator at Jeanette's apartment, along with an old, pipe-smoking sea captain - clearly Barney - who stops the elevator, tries to strangle Ted, and then tells him to listen to his 'one' rule (apparently he has like twelve) that 'New is always better'. So he gives Ted the real Playbook (the one he burned was 'ceremonial') to try and find a new girlfriend.
Apparently there's 'no food allowed' at the gallery, so Marshall is glad he got the Skittles - and he was voted 'most outgoing' freshman, sophmore, and senior years. And he tied with a guy he hates in junior year. But he isn't making any friends at the gallery. And he keeps sitting on sculptures.
Barney is advising Ted through an earpiece as he runs through numerous plays at the bar. And makes him practise saying 'my penis' over and over again because apparently he had the wrong inflection on it hahaha - I can't believe those lines ever work on anyone!!!
MARSHALL MENTIONED ANDY WARHOL!!!!! Even though the context was "wow, for a gay guy, Andy Warhol sure liked cans" (not your best work, M-dog!) I am still happy because I FREAKING LOVE WARHOL!!!!



PS: if anyone wants to win my love FOREVER - get me this shirt :P
Or anything else Warhol-related, I'm not picky. I have fallen in love with the
website Etsy, there's SO MUCH COOL STUFF THERE!!!!

Also, Ted gets into an argument with 'himself' at the bar because he doesn't want to say the line Barney told him to ('my penis' again) and looks insane.
Marshall is sad and hates the artist at the gallery - who then asks for a minute of silence to honour his dead grandmother (he dedicated the show to her) - and LMFAO HE DROPS THE SKITTLES MAKING A LOT OF NOISE!!! So everyone glares at him and HAHAHAHA he just stands there!!!
Robin walks in on Barney's 'ops center' and goes "Oh my god, is that the Playbook?!" to which he replies "No, Robin, that is a couch... Oh wait, you mean the Playbook on the couch?" then she storms out and he chases after her, but misses Ted being confronted and kissed by Jeanette at the bar. Oh crap.
When he catches up to her, he has nothing ready to say yet, so he tells her to keep walking, and then he tells her that all his amazing ideas that took a lifetime to make up, like 'Weekend at Barney's' and she points out what a stupid idea it is to be an alive person pretending to be a dead person who is pretending to be alive.
Lily and Marshall are talking and he apologises to her for making a mess of things, she forgives him, and when he brings up the TMNT joke he made earlier, the artist overhears him and they become BFFs!!
Barney makes a speech to get Robin to fogive him, it's about how he lies really well, and loves her - an emotional speech which is undercut (in typical HIMYM style) by the hilarity of him pulling various magic tricks out of his jacket!
Uh-oh... Jeanette found the Playbook. And THAT is when she threw all his crap out the window and set it on fire. She blew up the Playbook with the fireworks Barney had given Ted for one of the plays. Wow she really destroyed EVERYTHING - including his red cowboy boots! Damn that's depressing... But on the bright side - NEW SET FOR TED'S APARTMENT!!! And he finally decides he's going to 'settle down' hahaha. Good call, Ted. 

This made me laugh... Josh Radnor's hilarious.