Season 2, Episode 10: Single Stamina

Oh!  Poor me!  I’m a pretty girl and everybody everywhere wants to buy me drinks and have sex with me.

Poor me!  I get to order yummy pink drinks with chunks of real fruit that guys secretly like but can’t order because they’ll be made fun of.

Dude.

They’re delicious!

Barney’s brother comes into town and Barney is shocked to learn they may not be as alike as he previously thought.

Everyone- Ted and Robin and Lily and Marshall are deep in “couple hibernation” and poor Barney is left trying to hang out by himself.  So his brother, James, comes to visit New York.  The group fills Robin in that James is exactly like Barney, except that he’s gay.  They just didn’t want Robin to be surprised.  What they didn’t tell her is that James is black, played by the awesome Wayne Brady.  And yes, James is exactly like Barney, if Barney were gay and black.  Robin asks what the story is and they avoid the subject.  Future Ted explains that Barney and James were told a lot of things over the years, all of which were ridiculous.

Barney and James are going out, where they are the perfect wingmen for each other.  James pumps everybody up and they all head out to a bar.  There, the couples are just looking for a place to sit down, while the singles are having a great time.

James blows off a hot guy and Lily points out that he’s done it numerous times.  And they realize James in in a relationship.  Then they tell Barney, who is horrified.  Barney goes to James and takes his phone and finds a picture of James and a guy as the wallpaper.  So James admits he’s engaged.  Barney is disgusted that James is getting married (it’s not gay marriage he dislikes, just marriage).  Barney even refuses to be James’ best man.  The group reminds Barney he needs to be supportive, so Barney takes them all to a gay bar to celebrate James’ engagement.  Barney is still fighting it, until James tells tells him they’re having a baby.  And Barney is thrilled to become an uncle.

A year later James gets married, Marshall and Lily are married, and Robin and Ted aren’t adverse to staying out late as they were before.

The Mother- Does anybody else miss “Whose Line is it Anyway?”  I sure do.  I love Wayne Brady and you put him with NPH together and it’s almost too much awesomeness!  And NPH with a baby?  Too cute!