The Bracket
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| "The Bracket" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 14 |
| Written by | Joe Kelly |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Production no. | 3ALH14 |
| Original airdate | March 31, 2008 |
| Guest stars | |
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Brendan Patrick Connor (Janitor) |
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| Season 3 episodes | |
"The Bracket" is the 14th episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 58th overall. It originally aired on March 31, 2008.
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[edit] Plot
Barney attempts to track down and identify a woman who is stalking him in order to warn women he picks up from sleeping with him. He narrows down a list of 64 women most likely to want revenge, then has the gang help him eliminate possibilities tournament style. Lily, the only person who has seen the stalker, forces him to confront his "final four," none of whom is the stalker, although the woman from Ted Mosby: Architect, started tedmosbyisajerk.com, under the impression that Barney's identity is Ted's. Lily is irked by his refusal to apologize to the women he's hurt, Barney reasoning that they were consenting adults, he showed them a good time, and remembered each and every one, even going so far as to scrapbook each experience. Barney finally apologizes to a woman when he thinks that she is the avenger but he does not recall having slept with her. This turns out to be a case of mistaken identity, and future Ted tells us we'll learn the rest of the story later.
At the end of the episode, Barney writes of the experience in his oft-mentioned blog, in a scene which has a similar-looking screen, similar mannerisms, and identical music to those in Doogie Howser, M.D., in which Neil Patrick Harris' character would similarly summarize each episode in a computerized logbook. After glancing over at another conquest he snagged through deception, he concludes that the lesson to all this is, "I'm awesome."
[edit] Continuity
- The montage of women that Barney has slept with includes a picture of Madeleine Albright that is visible if the montage is viewed frame by frame. In addition, Madeleine is one of the names on the upper right side of the bracket. Then, when looking at the scrapbook of all the women Barney has slept with, Lily mentions "one government official." This follows from The Yips, in which Barney implied that he slept with the former Secretary of State. Later, in the same episode, Barney states that he once sat next to Madeleine Albright at a benefit and he "did not intend to hit that." She is beaten out by Anna, better known as the kickboxing instructor "resident" from Ted Mosby: Architect.
- Meg re-appears, last seen being left by Barney in Marshall and Lily's new apartment in Dowisetrepla.
- The identity of the saboteur is revealed in Everything Must Go.
- In Brunch, Ted states that Barney always uses 83 percent when he makes up a statistic. Barney uses the statistic 83 percent as how much he can see when he was acting as a blind man.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- "The Bracket" at TV.com
- "The Bracket" at the Internet Movie Database
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