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Plot. Chastened by Marshall 's father's fatal heart attack, the gang all go to get their hearts checked, except Barney, who is too scared to go alone. Lily agrees to accompany him so long as Barney promises her to never lie to his new girlfriend, Nora.
Feb 28, 2011 · With Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris. The gang gets mad at Barney when he lies to Nora and says he wants to get married and have a family to impress her, and Robin begins dating a guy who seems to possess several canine characteristics.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Pamela Fryman
- 2011-02-28
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- Continuity
- Future References (Contains Spoilers)
- Notes and Trivia
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Barney gets confused feelings when Nora reveals she wants to settle down and marry. The gang mock Robin's new boyfriend, Scooby, who acts like a dog.
With Marvin Eriksen Sr.'s recent heart attack, the entire gang (minus Barney) get their hearts checked out by Dr. Kirby, a cardiologist. At MacLaren's, Barney defends his decision not to get checked out, claiming he doesn't need it. Robin interrupts, telling them she plans to get another dog. Marshall tells her she doesn't need a dog; she needs a man, thinking she must feel like a seventh wheel since he is with Lily, Ted is with Zoey and Barney is with Nora.
Barney quickly tells the gang he and Nora are not together, though he still plans to sleep with her after their date tonight, claiming nothing will get in the way of his plans. At that moment, Barney catches the flu, and arrives at the restaurant sick. Nora calls off their date, and takes him home to take care of him until he falls asleep.
The next day at the apartment, Barney tells the gang how his date went. Robin enters and introduces them all to her new boyfriend: Nate Scooberman, but he tells them to just call him "Scooby." Even though Robin took his advice, Marshall criticizes her for just picking up the first guy she met on the street.
Barney pulls Lily aside, and tells her he did make an appointment with Dr. Kirby to check his heart, but wants Lily to come with him because he's scared. At the doctor's, Barney is hooked up to a heart monitor, and returns twenty-four hours later to check the results. When viewing the results, Dr. Kirby spots a few abnormalities, and asks Barney to explain what he did over those twenty-four hours.
He had another date with Nora the night before, where Nora revealed she wanted to get married and have children. Barney responds by saying he wants the exact same thing, and the two plan out how their future children and house might be.
Meanwhile, the rest of the gang are at MacLaren's with Robin's new boyfriend. Marshall notices Scooby acts exactly like a dog, and they subtly make fun of him for it. Nora and Barney enter, and Barney blackmails the gang into talking him up to her. Nora invites Barney to meet her parents and Barney agrees to, despite previously stating you should never meet a girl's parents.
•Barney similarly uses blackmail against Ted in Game Night.
•In his imaginary meeting with Nora's parents, Barney uses magic tricks to try and impress them. Barney has used magic tricks to impress people before, as seen in The Scorpion and the Toad and Desperation Day.
•Nora has brunch with her parents at the Popover Pantry. Marshall previously had brunch there with Brad in World's Greatest Couple, and Ted and Stella broke up at the Popover Pantry in Miracles.
•Ted and Robin argue over her getting a dog. She owned five dogs before giving them away to her aunt in Stuff.
•Barney tells Nora he lied about wanting to get married so she would sleep with him. In We're Not From Here, he tells Ted he has proposed to girls in order to sleep with them, and in The Bracket, one of the girls on the titular Bracket is referred to as Fake Proposal Girl.
•Scooby offers to share his bag of "sandwiches", Future Ted's euphemism for marijuana introduced in How I Met Everyone Else, with the gang.
•Robin mentions breaking up with Scooby in The Exploding Meatball Sub.
•Nora is still mad at Barney for lying to her in The Naked Truth.
•Future Ted mentions that Barney always says "I only have one rule", followed by a different rule. (The exception to every rule is "...unless she's hot".) In Challenge Accepted, Barney does this again, saying "I only have one rule, new is always better."
•Barney's respective blackmail material against Ted and Lily are referenced in later episodes:
•Barney blackmails Lily by mentioning her class' pet hamster, Mr. Buttons. In Challenge Accepted, Lily introduces her class to Mr. Buttons 2, and tells them to be gentle with him because of what happened with Mr. Buttons 1.
•Barney blackmails Ted by mentioning "the thermos", and in Vesuvius, Robin mentions Jed Mosley, a character from Tony's The Wedding Bride movies based on Ted, getting his penis stuck to a thermos in The Wedding Bride Too.
Goofs and Errors
•In the 2006 flashback at the end of the episode, Barney sees Marshall drop a calzone and then carry on eating it. As this happens Barney is clearly holding an iPhone 4, which was not released until mid-2010; in fact, the iPhone itself wasn't released until 2007. •While talking to Nora, Marshall says they did not meet Barney at a strip club, his tone implying that he was lying. However Marshall actually met Barney at MacLaren's, not a strip club. •Either way, Marshall was lying about Barney's frequent visits to the strip club. •When Barney is on date with Nora, there is flashback when Lily was saying "Promise me you won't lie to Nora!" loudly while she was holding Barney's collar. But in the previous scene when Barney asks Lily to accompany him to come to the doctor, Lily didn't say it loudly while holding Barney's collar, but that's probably Barney exaggerating it in his mind. •Lily's dog allergy is once again ignored when she gets excited about the prospect of Robin getting a dog.
Allusions and Outside References
•Robin dreams about Mr.T. •Ted recalls being in the front row at an N*Sync concert in 1998 and catching JC Chasez' shirt. •Scooby's real life actor, Robbie Amell, also portrayed Fred Jones in Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins and Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster. •Scooby most likely got his name from the popular cartoon dog, Scooby Doo, and his dog-like qualities. •May have also been an in-joke that Buffy's supernatural detective squad was known as the "Scooby Gang," of which Alyson Hannigan's character Willow was a main character. •When talking with Nora, Marshall whispers to Lily, covering the glass in the process. This is an allusion to someone testifying before Congress, specifically Oliver North in the 1987 Iran-Contra hearings, when his lawyer often prevented him from answering by whispering to him and covering the microphone. North's response was often the same as Lily's: "I don't recall."
Music
•Stones - Barbarossa
•Nazanin Boniadi - Nora
•Robbie Amell - Nate "Scooby" Scooberman
Featuring an interview with Josh Radnor.
•This episode premiered to 9.239 million viewers.
•Donna Bowman at the A.V. Club gave the episode an A-. On the topic of Barney and Nora's romance, she felt "we are led through a storyline we should want, but one that strangely fails to satisfy thanks to its lack of nuance. Then it’s yanked from underneath us, and the real story is revealed, a change that is far less dramatic, far more interior, far less obvious or easy to interpret. We don’t know quite where we’re going, and that, perverse as it may seem, is what we want on this show that supposedly is completely upfront about exactly where it’s going. So we’re right where they want us, and that’s exactly where I, for one, want to be."
•Angel Cohn at Television Without Pity gave the episode a B-.
•Robert Canning at IGN gave the episode a 8.5 out of 10. He praised the friendly interactions between the gang, saying "this wasn't one of How I Met Your Mother's over-the-top gimmick episodes where the gang raced through New York or a visual countdown led to some bad news. This was just a great showcase of these characters interacting in silly, poignant and funny ways that reminded you yet again why we keep tuning in every Monday night."
Nora is Barney Stinson's ex-girlfriend, and Robin Scherbatsky's co-worker at World Wide News. On February 13th 2011, Robin organized to meet some of her single co-workers at MacLaren's Pub to celebrate single life and protest Valentine's Day.
She played Nora, a love interest for Neil Patrick Harris's character Barney Stinson, on the sixth season of the hit CBS show How I Met Your Mother in 2011. [11] She reprised this role during the show's seventh and ninth seasons.
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