How I Met Everyone Else

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“How I Met Everyone Else”
How I Met Your Mother episode

Barney graphs Blahblah on his Hot-Crazy Scale.
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 5
Written by Gloria Calderon Kellett
Directed by Pamela Fryman
Guest stars Abigail Spencer (Blahblah), Jolie Jenkins (Alexa), Ray Auxais (Phil), Betsy Rue (Audrey)
Original airdate October 22, 2007
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"How I Met Everyone Else" is the 5th episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on October 22, 2007.

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[edit] Plot

Ted introduces the gang to his newest girlfriend, whose name he can't remember, over a few drinks at the bar. Because his girlfriend, who he calls "Blahblah," is 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 the usual flashback

How the group met each other:

-Ted and Marshall met when Ted became Marshall's new roommate. Marshall thought that Ted was the dean until that night when he saw Ted "eating a sandwich," older Ted's euphemism for doing drugs.

-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. His hand signals said that Barney was a great guy and to give him her number, but he really said "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 and Lily met the night before she met Marshall at a freshman party. They believed they made out. Ted said that Lily remebered Hewitt 110 because she was looking for him. Later Ted finds out it was Alexa who he made out with at the party.

Near the end it is revealed that Ted and Blahblah met on World of Warcraft

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

[edit] Trivia

  • During most of the flashback scenes, Ted is seen wearing a Cinderella Night Songs T-Shirt.
  • Ted and Blahblah met online while playing World of Warcraft.
  • 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 which is used to refer to a batter who has lost his worth offensively.
  • Because he doesn't want to mention smoking marijuana to his kids, Ted instead uses the phrase "eating a sandwich" in its place. However, in previous episodes he had talked about the characters' drug use.

[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 Marshall met, while it expands on the flashback of how Ted and Barney met.
  • Barney makes fun of Ted for meeting Blahblah online, but in "The Duel" Barney mentions that he is on a date with a girl he met online.

[edit] Errors

  • While explaining the Hot-Crazy Scale, Barney erroneously moves his finger along the crazy axis when describing changes to appearance (i.e., hotness) and the hot axis when describing crazy events.