How I Met Everyone Else

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"How I Met Everyone Else"
How I Met Your Mother episode
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Barney graphs Blahblah on his Hot-Crazy Scale.
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 5
Written by Gloria Calderon Kellett
Directed by Pamela Fryman
Original airdate October 22, 2007
Guest stars

Abigail Spencer (Blahblah)
Jolie Jenkins (Alexa)
Season 3 episodes
  1. Wait for It
  2. We're Not from Here
  3. Third Wheel
  4. Little Boys
  5. How I Met Everyone Else
  6. I'm Not That Guy
  7. Dowisetrepla
  8. Spoiler Alert
  9. Slapsgiving
  10. The Yips
  11. The Platinum Rule
  12. No Tomorrow
  13. Ten Sessions
  14. The Bracket
  15. The Chain of Screaming
  16. Sandcastles in the Sand
  17. The Goat
  18. Rebound Bro
  19. Everything Must Go
  20. Miracles

"How I Met Everyone Else" is the fifth episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 49th overall. It originally aired on October 22, 2007.

Contents

[edit] Plot

At the bar Ted introduces the gang to his newest girlfriend, whose name Future Ted can't remember and instead refers to as "Blahblah". Embarrassed that she and Ted met online, she makes up a story about how she saw Ted across a crowded room at a cooking class. This prompts everyone to reminisce about how they all met each other, and their stories are told through flashbacks

How the group met each other:

Ted and Marshall met when they became college roommates. Marshall thought that Ted was the Dean until that night when he saw Ted "eating a sandwich", older Ted's euphemism for smoking marijuana.

Marshall and Lily met when Lily needed help with her stereo and she had this feeling about the room Hewitt 110. Marshall was the one who opened the door after she knocked. It was love at first sight.

Ted and Barney met in the men's room of the bar. Ted pretended to be deaf for Barney to get a girl's phone number. Ted then spoke with the girl in sign language, and Barney thought Ted said that Barney was a great guy and to give him her number, but what Ted really said was "He's lying to you. Just give him a fake number."

Ted and Robin met when they saw each other across the room of the bar in the pilot episode.

Marshall and Barney met at the bar and Marshall didn't want to cheat on Lily, but Barney said that he would make Marshall score the hottest chick in the bar. He pointed at a red-haired girl who ends up being Lily. Marshall walked up to her and they kiss. Barney's response: "That man is a god."

Ted thought he met Lily met at a freshman party, the night before Lily first met Marshall. Ted and eventually Lily think they made out at that college party. Ted said that Lily remembered his and Marshall's dorm room, Hewitt 110, because she was looking for him. Later, Ted finds out it was Alexa who he made out with at the party. So Lily and Ted really met when Marshall introduced her to him while he was crying about Karen.

At the end, it is the future and Ted, Marshall, and Lily are "eating a sandwich" at the college reunion.

[edit] Music

[edit] Continuity

  • Prior to this episode, Ted had already talked about how he met Robin (Pilot), Barney (Pilot), and Marshall (Where Were We?). However, this episode reveals for the first time the flashback of how Ted and Lily met, while it expands on the flashback of how Ted and Barney and Ted and Marshall met.
  • In this episode, Ted mentions Karen, his college girlfriend. In the episodes "Sorry, Bro" and "The Front Porch," it is revealed that she cheated on him and left multiple times.
  • In "Where Were We?", Ted talks about how when he first saw Marshall, Marshall was lying on his bed with his feet against the wall with a huge grin on his face. He also acts surprised when Marshall tells him he was high. But in this episode Marshall was standing up spraying an air freshener, and Ted says "Someone's been eating a sandwich (which is the euphemism for smoking pot in this episode)"

[edit] Barney's blog

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[edit] Cultural references

  • Near the end of the episode it is revealed that Ted and Blahblah met online playing the game World of Warcraft. Blahblah is shown to have a masculine character and Ted has a scantily clad female character.[1]
  • When Barney draws his Hot-Crazy Scale, he calls the yellow line the Vicky Mendoza diagonal, named after a girl he dated. This line is in reference to the Mendoza Line in baseball, used to indicate a batting average below .200, which is very poor.
  • During most of the flashback scenes, Ted is seen wearing a Cinderella Night Songs shirt.

[edit] Critical response

Staci Krause of IGN gave the episode 8.9 out of 10.[1]

Gloria Calderon Kellet, the writer of this episode, won a National Council of La Raza ALMA award for Outstanding Writing for a Television Series for this episode on August 17, 2008.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Staci Krause (2007-10-23). [http://tv.ign.com/articles/829/829506p1.html "How I Met Your Mother: "How I Met Everyone Else" Review Blah Blah. Hilarious!"]. IGN (News Corporation). http://tv.ign.com/articles/829/829506p1.html. Retrieved 2010-01-12. 
  2. ^ "2008 alma Winners". http://www.almaawards.com/2008-winners.html. 

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