MrX

"Game Night"

Raul3

it sounds really interesting

boogieman03

Should be a good one.

Kal-El

About time. I've been missing this show.

Patman

I thought it was okay, a little uneven. But that Barney video was high-five material.

Splice2003

Wow. The origin story of Barney! I like the becoming Darth Vader homage as he gets suited up and made over.

Does anybody know the song that was playing during the final moments of this episode?

JayPen

The birth of 'Suit Up'. I thought this episode was legendary. Go Barney!! Best new character on TV.

MrX

It seemed like there were a bunch of commercial breaks.

I liked the origin of Barney.

"I nailed her!"

kevin75

this episodes gets big

but, what was the deal with the 3 or 4 minutes segments of show between commercials in the middle?

boogieman03

Yes this episode gets to big

The birth of Barney and Suit UP!
Way to many commercial breaks.

Achtung

Great ep, though I also noticed more commercials than normal. I guess that was their excuse to break Barney's story into parts.

Ah, the origin of "suit up"... legendary...

Patman

Maybe it was the flow of the episode that didn't work for me (due to the numerous commercial breaks), it was losing a lot of momentum as Barney's origin was being revealed.

ytrez

Barney's origin was great and the show would be much better if they shifted focus from Ted more often.

mdc3000

Great episode, loved the resolution of the Shannon story... Barney's response to calling her back! Hilarious. I also found the pace of the show was seriously off due to the awkward commercials...it felt like we got 3 minutes of show, 4 min of commericals and repeat for 30 min... Other than that, great.

MATT

sherm42

This is the first episode I have seen, though I have been hearing about the Barney character.

Can anyone tell me the basic premise of the show, who the characters are (especially Barney) and why they hang out together?

sven

Ted is the Narrator and dude trying to find a ladyfriend.

Marshal and Lilly are his friends from college and roomates. They have been dating for like 8 years or something.

Barney is awesome!

Robin is one of the first girls Ted was interested in when the show started but they decided to just be friends and keep hanging out. But as you could see last night things have been slightly more complicated between them.

The new chick is Ted's GF that he met at a wedding she was catering. He had to track her down cuz even though they were in to each other she wouldnt tell him her name. She also has fat arms. Luckily they must have been covered up last night cuz they didnt bother me.

clckworang

I guess it wasn't just me who noticed all the commericals. It doesn't affect the flow quite as much since I'm watching it on DVR, but it was annoying.

But I thought this was one of the better eps. It was cool to get an origin story for the best character on the show.

sherm42

But who is Barney? How does he fit into the group and what is his character like?

Achtung

Barney is the token "playa". Apparently he and Ted met randomly in a bar one night when Barney started giving Ted advice on how to be cool. I guess there really isn't that much of a backstory, he's just Ted's sidekick so to speak.

movieking

What was the song Barney was singing in his video?

Raul3

Yes, this episode was legendary. Fool of me that didn't notice the Darth Vader homage (not a big SW fan anyways).

Good thing that I DVR all of the shows I watch, that way commercials don't bother me. I always watch the shows at least 15 minutes after they started.

Of course Barney was the king yesterday but Marshall and Lilly keep stealing scenes. I also liked how they ended the episode.

Timber

Well to take the Vader reference even further. Ted is Barney's apprentice like Barney was the earlier suit guys apprentice.

invisiblegt

So... does Barney still work at the coffee shop?

Is that his job? Have we ever found out his job? Will I ever stop asking questions?

sven

I thought you watched the show? It was pretty much all about Barney and he desribed himself better than anyone here ever could.

Daniel-A

Ted's story blew. Bad writing there. They could have given him a different embarassing story even with Robin, that wasn't so lame or boring.

And I wonder if the writers actually had an idea for what Ted's chick's (I want to call her Aliison) story was. I've been in love with her since she was Dylan on Good Morning Miami