“Oh my God. What happened next?”
Game Night is interrupted when an embarrassing video of Barney is discovered, causing everyone to tell their most humiliating moment.
Ted, Marshall, Lily, Barney, & Robin- Because Marshall is so good at games, they put him in charge of game night. So he creates his own game. And just to compound issues, Victoria is coming. Ted preps them that he hasn’t told her about the Robin thing. Of course, Barney is not going to go along with that.
Game night starts and Marshall’s game is super complicated. Marshall and Lily, who promised to not interrogate Victoria, instead get to ask her personal questions through the game.
Meanwhile, Lily mentions that she met a girl who knows Barney, Shannon, and she gave Lily a tape to give Barney. Barney for once, loses his cool composure, but tries to pretend he’s fine. Lily give Barney the tape and when he smashes it, she reveals it was a fake tape an she still has the real one. They play it and discover it’s of a hippie Barney begging Shannon to not leave him. Barney, takes the tape and storms out.
He meets back up with them at McClaren’s, and when they ask him to tell them what the story is, he says it’s embarrassing and will only tell if first Marshall tells his most embarrassing story. Marshall tells the story of how he visited Lily one day and went to use the bathroom, and a kid walked in on him. So he ran out of the bathroom and a kid walked in him. So he ran out of the bathroom, and tripped over his pants, just as Lily’s class walked in. “The kids still call him Funny Butt.”
So Barney tells his story, of how just after college he was, well the only word for it is a hippie, working at a coffee shop with his girlfriend Shannon. In five weeks they were headed to Nicaragua with the Peace Corps. The flashback shows a mellow, woman-respecting Barney, who is waiting with his girlfriend until marriage. Five weeks later, he was ready to go, but she never sowed up. Barney refuses to go on until someone else tells their humiliating story. Robin is chosen and starts to tell her “falling in horse-crap” story but they complain so Victoria steps up. She says it involves a game of Truth or Dare, a squeeze bottle of marshmallow ice cream topping, and the hot tub at her grandparent's retirement community. Here Future Ted stops and says it’s too inappropriate to tell.
Barney continues because the story was so great. Young Barney went back tot he coffee shop to find Shannon and she says that her dad won’t let her go. She says he’s coming by later to talk, but that Barney should go without her. Barney was going to go, but he went back to confront her dad. As he walks up tot he coffee shop he sees her arguing with her dad, and then Shannon and her “dad” start making out.
All: “WHAT!!”
In order to get him to tell more, Lily tells the story of how Marshall’s mom sent them cookies so Lily called to thank her. When she finishes the call, Lily and Marshall talk about how much they hate the cookies and then they have floor sex. Only Lily didn’t hang up the phone, so Marshall’s mom was listening the whole time.
Barney confronts Shannon and she says that’s Greg’s not her dad, and they’ve been dating a few weeks. She was hoping he’d go with the Peace Corps and they could avoid a confrontation. She stifles Barney’s protests by saying that Greg buys her stuff. He’s older and successful. That night he made the video and mailed it to her. Greg and Shannon stop in to get her last paycheck and it turns out Greg was a douche customer we met earlier who told Barney if he made money he’d get laid. So Barney clean up, suits up, and becomes the Barney we know and love. He says he saw Shannon one last time, but he’ll need a story from Ted to get through it. So Ted tells them what happened after he told Robin he loved her, he was drunk and he Barney, and Ranjit went to Robin's and he threw up on her doormat. Victoria looks uncomfortable and Barney finishes his story. That very night, after he stormed out, eh went to Shannon’s so she could know who she made him change in to. They talked and he found out she’s a mom. He wonders what he has in his life that’s so great, and tells them he’s awesome. And that he nailed her. And Barney leaves in an amazing mood.
The night itself brings the everyone closer to everyone else.
The Mother- I love seeing this side of everyone. And I love, love, love seeing Barney’s past. Honestly, I feel torn about Victoria. I want Ted to be with Robin, but Victoria is great. Putting up with everyone and their questions and telling her embarrassing story.
Anybody else notice how reminiscent Barney’s makeover scene was to the scene where Dr. Horrible becomes "Evil League of Evil Dr. Horrible?”
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