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Top 10 How I Met Your Mother Running Gags


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top 10 How I Met Your Mother
running gags what’s wrong other than the
fact that this five-dollar bill they
gave you is blue number 10 Canada
there’s kids playing hockey on the back
it’s like you want us to make fun of you
thanks to robin scherbatsky’s canadian
heritage how I Met Your Mother
mocks Canada often though she upholds
the Canadian hockey stereotype Robin
tries our darndest to convince her
friends that their neighbors to the
north can speak properly Ted this hydro
bill is bigger than Lois sirs biceps
what you leave the garburator on all
night eh aren’t afraid of the dark and
don’t spend all their time in Tim
Hortons we still don’t know what an old
king Clancy is but we’re sure we don’t
want to know it’s the same as a
Sacramento turtle leg except with maple
syrup number nine Barney’s job he has a
job doing what do you do please this
isn’t a running gag but a recurring
mystery nobody knows what Barney does
our only clues he does a lot of hiring
and firing at GNB
fine he also has all the time and money
in the world
who else could create a bachelor pad
with a floating jor-el head projector
life-sized stormtrooper not a doll
it’s a stormtrooper and of course the
Hobie gun
the whole begone sleep system by Stinson
patent pending come on Barney what do
you do huh
please not weed at least try I’m fairly
certain that if these contracts are
executed precisely we will be at war
with Portugal that that’s a Tuesday for
me number eight musical numbers
these guys love to get their sing on no
matter the occasion
we remember when Marshall had a problem
with photo montages and songs about
mundane events for Lily’s mom it’s it’s
gonna bring us all closer together
but marshmallow ain’t the only one with
pipes
Ted’s given Barney some dating tips
through song you just have to make while
Barney’s song about his love of
formalwear know that suits me like a
suit but they’re team effort for the
oddly familiar theme tune to their bar
may be our faith puzzles is a place
where people go feel like they belong
gonna take advantage of dumb drunk girl
number 7 catchphrases How I Met Your
Mother has a catchphrase for every
occasion and many of them are
attributable to the ultra quotable
Barney Stinson but he’s not the only one
with memorable mottos Robin’s verbal tic
is the most dangerous drinking game we
know but I’m Lily’s oddly interested in
trying to find the poop where’s the
pooper and Marshall will own you with
just one kaboom
you’ve been lured I think we can’t name
them all challenge accepted gopher bunny
happy that Ted no no no we’re not
playing have you met Ted
have you met Marshall when I get sad I
stop being sad and be awesome instead
suit up it’s gonna be legendary snow
suit up it’s gonna be legendary phone 5
it’s gonna be legend wait for it and I
hope you don’t like to us intolerant cuz
the second half of that word is dairy
number 6 Robin sparkles how about I sing
you a song this recurring gag is a blast
from Robins Canadian past her career as
a teen pop sensation in her home and
native land yielded hits like the catchy
let’s go to the mall
the heartbreakingly beautiful sand
castles in the sand
and Robin daggers first grunge effort PS
I love you all maybe just two but
perhaps our favorite Robin sparkles
contribution with space teens her
short-lived TV show with Alan Thicke how
about we sing you a song about our
beavers number five
Barney’s rules the playbook and the bro
code bro code article 89 the mom of a
bro is always off limits but the step
mom of a bro is fair game if she
initiates at and/or is wearing at least
one article of leopard print clothing
Barney has a lot of rules whether
they’re for the purposes of fashion
picking up ladies or living life to the
fullest
we’ve glimpsed the place from his
legendary playbook but we know he has
way more of his tailored suits leave the
bro code is his ultimate weapon but I
think I broke a much much higher law the
bro code rule numero uno bros before hos
obviously also never sure desert or rent
a chick flick bro code article 34 bros
cannot make eye contact during a devil’s
three-way
two dudes number four flashbacks and
flash-forwards what the hell happened
last night
you really don’t remember sometimes
they’re piecing together a drunken night
sometimes they’re discussing how they
met
sometimes they’re proving a point but
flashbacks are always hilarious with
Ted’s jew-fro Robin’s daddy issues
Barney’s hippie phase Lily’s goth look
and Marshalls mullet the past was a
simpler time when dr. X shot truth
bullets so who’s dr. x nobody knows
he was this genius mystery DJ it was Ted
and sandwiches were better
flash-forwards are equally entertaining
if only to see how everyone’s aged chew
chew chew chew
number three slap bet what the hell’s a
slap bet whoever is right gets to slap
the other person in the face as hard as
they possibly can but no rings starting
in season two Barney and Marshall began
an all-out slap dance that lasted years
we can hardly remember how it even
started but we think it has to do with a
bet about Robins fear of malls guys
there’s no way Robin is married it’s
ludicrous to even suggest it Thank You
Barney because it’s porn
since then we’ve celebrated two
slapsgiving ‘he’s learned that time slap
Continuum’s can exist and been
introduced to a song that accompanies
the slaps perfectly yeah just cats
you think the slap bet Commissioner
would approve number two blue French
horn Wow
that is one badass blue French alarm
yeah so it looks like a smurf penis
whether or not it’s a smurf penis or a
simple blue French horn
it’s where Ted’s neverending story began
it shows up periodically as a symbol of
schmoes beat silly romantic nature and
the ever-present possibility that he and
Robin end up together
he stole a blue French horn from me
I would have stolen you a whole
Orchestra well we all know that doesn’t
happen we don’t care we just want one
for over our fireplace where are you
when we need you Teddy Westside
everybody brings flowers number one
yellow umbrella can’t wait to see what
the universe has lined up for me out
there anywhere this umbrella is so shall
the mother be for eight seasons the
yellow umbrella is all frustrated fans
knew about Ted’s future wife well that
and she plays bass paints bizarre
pictures and likes to play with her food
the yellow umbrella is one of the series
most important symbols that we had to
wait until a little ways down the road
to find out exactly why one ticket to
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