No Barney Ill Never Speak to My Father Again

*"Legendaddy"*
←	HIMYM episode 6x19 (131)	→

Kickoff aired: March 21, 2011
Director: Pamela Fryman
Author: Dan Gregor and Doug Mand
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When Barney finally meets his father, he's surprised to learn how his life turned out. The gang points out each other's "gaps", things they should know by adulthood but never learned.

1 Epitomize
2 Continuity
3 Future References (Contains Spoilers)
4 Gallery
5 Memorable Quotes
6 Notes and Trivia
- vi.1 Goof and Errors
- 6.2 Allusions and Exterior References
- vi.3 Music
- 6.4 Other Notes
7 Guests
viii Podcast
9 Reception
x References
11 External Links

Recap

Ted shows his business firm to the gang, pointing out all the ideas he has for it, including a basketball hoop in the dorsum garden for his kids. Barney tells him the house should be his "seduction lounge", with a sexual practice swing, vibrating Jell-O pool and an outdoor stripper pole included. Marshall and Lily lead Barney outside, telling him the real reason for their visit wasn't to visit Ted's house, but to host Barney's intervention.

To explain why Barney needed an intervention, Futurity Ted goes back a few days, to the dark when the gang tried watching March Madness in Barney's apartment. Barney's TV is broken, then he calls his building'due south super to bring a screwdriver and set up it for them. Ted mocks him for never having learned how to employ a screwdriver.

Barney answers the door, expecting to come across the super. Instead, information technology's an old human being who they don't know. The human being speaks to Barney and tells him that he got his letter, revealing that he is Jerome Whittaker, Barney's dad. Barney is shocked to see that his long lost begetter is actually at his door.

Whilst the ii of them are at MacLaren's getting better acquainted, the rest of the gang is upstairs in the apartment, wondering what the two are talking near. Ted starts to feel bad for criticizing Barney, when he realizes information technology was his dad that taught him how to utilise tools.

Robin says that everyone has some gaps in their knowledge; something really obvious to everyone else that they themselves never learned or knew. Ted doesn't think he has any gaps, but Robin brings up how he mispronounces the word "chameleon", since Ted just learned that word past reading it, not by hearing it. Ted points out a huge gap Robin never knew: that the North Pole is real.

Barney enters the apartment, and the gang ask virtually his fourth dimension with his dad, Jerry. Barney tells them his dad is crawly; they both liked the same drinks, loved suits, have great stories, and are big womanizers.

The rest of the gang warn him, telling them to be careful of not getting hurt, since Jerry was absent from then much of Barney's childhood and he might simply be telling Barney what he wants to hear.

The next dark at the bar, Ted points out one of Lily'southward gaps; she has terrible aim and can't throw properly. Jerry enters the bar and asks the gang for their help, since Barney won't return any of his calls. It turns out Barney lied near terminal night; he and his dad didn't have anything in common, and Barney found his dad actually boring. The night concluded badly, with Barney refusing to take dinner with Jerry and meet his family. Jerry asks the gang to convince Barney to give him another run a risk.

Back to Ted's house, Lily tells Barney the reason for their intervention is to convince Barney to have dinner with Jerry and meet his family unit. Barney refuses, telling her he's never going to speak to his dad again. Marshall steps forward, saying that he'll never speak to his dad again, and he should take advantage of the opportunity.

Barney decides to requite his dad some other take chances. He attends dinner with his dad and meets his wife, Cheryl, and their son, J.J. Barney and Jerry reminisce on the time they met ZZ Top. Barney starts to rib on J.J., but once he finds out J.J. stands for Jerome Junior, he then leaves the house in anger and green-eyed.

Outside in the car, Marshall tries to allurement Robin, Ted and Lily into pointing out his gaps. None of them will. Since the expiry of Marshall'south dad, they've all been overly nice to him to brand him feel better. Marshall noticed this and so previously tried to goad them into insulting him, such every bit growing a soul patch and adopting a pet opossum.

Marshall tells them he's never going to move on if things don't get back to normal, so asks them to point out his gaps. They tell him all about his gaps: he tin can't wink or swallow pills, adds too much water to oatmeal and misses chugalug loops.

Jerome steps outside and finds Barney on the hood of his car, trying to accept downwards their basketball hoop. Barney complains that information technology'due south not fair J.J. got a childhood, a dad and a real family unit, and he at least deserves the basketball hoop. Barney tells Jerry he'due south ho-hum, and answers Jerry'due south question about why that angers him, proverb "if you were going to be some lame suburban dad, why couldn't y'all have been that for me?!" Jerry admits he fabricated a mistake, and asks what he tin practice to fix things.

Barney keeps trying to take downwards the basketball game hoop. Jerry leaves and returns with some tools. He hands Barney a screwdriver and teaches him how to use it. Jerry expresses his regret and apologizes for what he's washed, and tells him he'd love to be a part of Barney's life, whenever Barney'due south ready. Basketball hoop in hand, Barney leaves.

The unabridged gang returns to Ted's house, offer Barney their support. He asks Ted if he still wants the hoop for the lawn, and the gang crowd around to comfort the upset Barney.

Continuity

Barney in one case insisted that his father was Bob Barker, equally beginning seen in Showdown , earlier albeit that this isn't true in Cleaning House . He discovers that Jerome Whittaker, previously known to him as "Uncle Jerry", is his male parent in Natural History , decides to meet him in Last Words , and writes to him past Oh Dearest .
The gang stage an intervention for Barney to get him to become encounter his father. The gang holding interventions with the intervention imprint was introduced in Intervention .
When Ted mispronounces "chameleon" and tells a educatee that she'due south wrong, the course silently shake their heads. This likewise happened in Definitions when he struggled to spell "professor".
Barney orders Glen McKenna while with his male parent.
Ted'south house, which he buys in Domicile Wreckers , makes its second appearance.
Marshall is seen driving his father'due south station wagon. He and Ted drove back to New York in information technology in Desperation 24-hour interval .
The gang references Okay, a nightclub that they attended in Okay Crawly .

Futurity References (Contains Spoilers)

Barney'southward disappointment at his father'southward suburban lifestyle is referenced again in Hopeless , where he appears to resolve his issues with Jerome.
Jerome mentions his daughter, Carly. Ted briefly dates her in Ring Up , without knowing that she's Barney'south half-sis.

Gallery

For a list of all images on the wiki tagged as being from this episode, see Category:Legendaddy images.

Memorable Quotes

Jerry:	Barney, what is going on?
Barney:	This [basketball hoop] is mine.
Jerry:	I don't empathize!
Barney:	J.J. gets a childhood, a dad, a real family, and a basketball hoop? No, no, I at least get the hoop. I'm taking it with me.
Jerry:	Please, just come downward and talk to me.
Barney:	Why, why should I? You're lame, okay? Y'all're just some lame suburban dad.
Jerry:	Why does that make you so mad?
Barney:	Because if you were going to be some lame suburban dad, why couldn't yous accept been that for me?!
Jerry:	Okay, Barney... I know I screwed upwards.
Barney:	Ohh, screwed up doesn't even begin to depict...
Jerry:	I know, I know, I know! I wanna ready this and I don't know how. Please tell me what I can do, I'll exercise annihilation!

Jerry:	I have no good excuse, Barney. It took me years before I was even able to look myself in the mirror for the manner I permit you down. Information technology took courage to ship me that letter. More courage than I've ever had. I owe you a lifetime of apologies and I... I just... have no thought where to begin...
Jerry:	Look, if you ever feel like you're fix, I'd love nil more than than to be a role of your life.

—Jerry explains his actions.

Barney:	Guys, go it through your heads: I am never gonna talk to my dad again.
Marshall:	No, Barney. I'yard never gonna talk to my dad once more. Simply your dad is live and he lives just downwards the route...
Barney:	..Fine. I'll go.

—Marshall makes Barney realize how lucky he is to have the run a risk to get to know his father

Marine Biologist:	So this really sucks, but I'one thousand going to be in the North Pole for the next three months.
Robin:	Seriously? The Northward Pole? Okay, pal, if you want to suspension upwardly with me, just tell it to me straight. Don't pretend yous're going someplace we all know doesn't exist.
Marine Biologist:	Um, I'm going to be studying the mating habits of...
Robin:	Of who? Santa's elves? Rudolph? Y'all know what? I'k going on a trip, too, Scott. It, uh, starts in Narnia. It works its way upwardly to Candyland, and then, hey, congratulate me, because I'm the new Defence force Confronting the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. Expelliarmus!
Marine Biologist:	Robin, the North Pole is a existent identify. Yous know that, right?
Robin:	And so y'all desire to become pizza afterward? Or...
Marine Biologist:	I call back we should break up.

Notes and Trivia

Goof and Errors

Barney says that his flat is 12H (when he calls the building supervisor). Yet in Bagpipes , his downstairs neighbour Phil, is in 12B. Vertical neighbours usually have the aforementioned postfix (H or B) and take incremental prefix (12, 11 or 13).

Allusions and Exterior References

When making fun of imaginary places, Robin mentions Narnia, Candyland, and, as the Defense force Against the Dark Arts Instructor (from Harry Potter), pretends to use the spell Expelliarmus.
Barney plans to bring together his dad on Bon Jovi's tour of Asia.
Marshall claims the The Phantom Menace is the best Star Wars movie in an attempt to get Barney and Ted to insult him.
Marshall mentionsMarch Madness.

Music

Jack Dolgen - I Volition Come For You lot

Other Notes

The episode title "Legendaddy" is a play on Barney'due south catchphrase, "Legendary."
Every scene with Jerry has him drinking milk, with the exception of when he greets Barney at his door.
Early in January in the aforementioned year, John Litgow who plays Barney's dad, won the Golden Globe Award for All-time Supporting Actor. Neil Patrick Harris was himself one of the nominees.
The outside scene in which Barney removes the Basketball Net is the same film set as the driveway of The Forman'due south house in "That '70s Prove" although the Basketball Net has been moved.

Guests

John Lithgow - Jerome "Jerry" Whittaker
Nancy Travis - Cheryl Whittaker
Will Shadley - J.J. Whittaker
Michael Rupnow - Scott
Marieve Herington - Betty

Podcast

This is the terminal episode of the season with a podcast released, this fourth dimension featuring an interview with Neil Patrick Harris.

Reception

This episode premiered to 8.028 million viewers. ^[1]
Donna Bowman at the A.5. Lodge gave the episode a B. ^[2] She was disappointed that the episode didn't achieve its potential, saying "The lines never intersect to form a figure that lifts off the ground and shows united states of america something new. But they achieve a few quite remarkable minutes, as practice Neil Patrick Harris and John Lithgow, in the strange setpiece of Barney trying to tear the basketball hoop off of Jerry'southward garage... Barney'south determination to make off with a piece of the normal babyhood he never had—aroused, also, that J.J. is getting the best of Jerry—leads to a moment when Jerry does get to human action like a father and Barney gets to learn like a son."
Zach Oat at Television Without Pity gave the episode a B+. ^[three]
Robert Canning at IGN gave the episode an viii out of 10. ^[4] He praised John Lithgow's performance as Jerry, only felt the childish barrack between Barney and J.J. ruined some of the seriousness in the end scenes. He said "in that location weren't a lot of surprises, plot-wise. Information technology all seemed to go equally one would expect, or every bit i has likely seen in similar moments on other goggle box shows. Only casting John Lithgow as the dad elevated everything. Plus the B storyline given to the residuum of the group was hilarious. So fifty-fifty though the episode was hitting many familiar beats, information technology did then expertly while delivering some swell secondary laughs."
The St. petersburg Comic Review gave this episode 9 out of ten stars. "...putting information technology in the Tv set...once again."

References

↑ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/03/22/monday-final-ratings-castle-the-chicago-code-adjusted-downwardly-dancing-stars-how-i-met-your-mother-adjusted-up-chuck-stays-low/86722
↑ http://www.avclub.com/manufactures/legendaddy,53383/
↑ http://world wide web.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/how_i_met_your_mother/legendaddy.php
↑ http://au.tv.ign.com/articles/115/1156895p1.html

External Links

Legendaddy at the English language Wikipedia
Legendaddy at CBS
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Legendaddy at the Internet Movie Database
Legendaddy at Boob tube.com

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