Okay Awesome

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“Okay Awesome”
How I Met Your Mother episode
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 5
Written by Chris Harris II
Directed by Pamela Fryman
Guest stars Joshua Zisholtz (Daniel), Eddie Alfano (First Bouncer), Jayma Mays (Coat Check Girl), Stephen Keys (New Bouncer), Sebastian Siegel (Bartender), Kyle Bornheimer (Kyle), Michelle Noh (Claire), Rob Evors (Bradley), Ryan Raddatz (Chris), Samm Levine (Phil), Vanessa Lee Evigan (Kelly)
Production no. 1ALH04
Original airdate October 17, 2005
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"Okay Awesome" is the 5th episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on October 17, 2005.

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[edit] Plot

Robin has been invited by someone to come to Okay, a new dance club. Ted and Barney agree to come, but Marshall and Lily are hosting a wine tasting party so that Marshall and Lily can begin to be more mature. Lily felt out of place when she found out that other couples their age are much more mature than they are. Ted and Barney go; Ted has agreed to meet Robin's friend Kelly, while Barney decides to find a "cutlet" and grind with her all night. Marshall becomes very bored at the wine tasting party, and escapes by jumping out the bathroom window (although Ted disputes this). Meanwhile, Robin cannot get in to the VIP area even though she was invited there. She leaves to call to try to get in the VIP area, and lets Marshall in to the club. However, Robin cannot get back in because a different guy is now a bouncer. Ted prepares to leave after ruining his chances with Kelly, but stays for a bit when Marshall arrives. They both get beers, but Marshall's elbow is bumped as he is drinking, and because he had a temporary crown put in earlier that day, Marshall is now in pain. Ted goes down to the coat check area to hang out with the coat check girl, while Marshall finds Barney, who suggests going to the bathroom to find some aspirin. When Marshall comes out of the bathroom, he is miraculously no longer in pain. Meanwhile, Lily comes to club, having also escaped from their party in the same manner as Marshall after she called him and heard the music of the club. Robin convinces Lily that she doesn't have to mature like the other couples, while Lily convinces Robin to flash their breasts at the bouncer to get back into the club. Meanwhile, Barney has discovered that the "cutlet" he has been grinding with all night is actually his cousin Leslie. Barney tries to leave, but because Robin and Lily have returned, they stay for a bit, and Marshall and Lily dance at the club, while Robin, Ted, and Barney watch.

[edit] Trivia

  • Jason Segel performed a similar elaborate dance in the Freaks & Geeks episode "Discos and Dragons."
  • In the scene in which Marshall climbs down the side of the apartment building, Jason Segel wanted to walk out of frame doing a Big Foot walk. While Segel didn't use the walk in this episode, the walk was incorporated into "Life Among the Gorillas."
  • When Jason Segel tossed his hat into the crowd during his dance, the hat accidentally hit an extra in the face.
  • Barney's cousin Leslie is played by the woman who choreographed Marshall's dance in this episode and Ted's rain dance in "Come On."
  • In the DVD commentary for this episode, Alyson Hannigan said that filming the scene in which Marshall and Lily kiss while they dance was awkward because of both the height difference between her and Jason Segel and trying not to bump each other's teeth.
  • Jason Segel previously worked with guest star Samm Levine, who plays one of the nerds outside of the club, on Freaks & Geeks.

[edit] Cultural references

  • Ted calls Barney "Tin Man," because of his shiny silver shirt, referencing The Wizard of Oz.
  • The guests at Lily and Marshall's winetasting discuss Norah Jones's new album.
  • The nerds outside of the club think that Marshall might be the third Affleck brother, referencing Ben and Casey Affleck. This line may also reference the Baldwin brothers, who are often sighted as a joke in TV and film.
  • The game Marshall and Lily's winetasting guests are playing when one says, "For the wedge," is Trivial Pursuit.

[edit] Continuity

  • Listing things that are never as good as they're supposed to be, Ted mentions New Year's Eve to the coatcheck girl. The premise of "The Limo" is Ted trying to prevent New Year's Eve from being a let down.
  • The big African-American bouncer in this episode at club "Okay" is the same bouncer that was outside club "Posers" in 'Ted Mosby, Architect'
  • In the first minute of the episode, Robin says, "Well, the owner [of club "Okay"] goes to my gym..." However, in the third season episode "The Yips" the group decides to join a gym for the first time. It is implied that Robin never before belonged to a gym.

[edit] Barney's Blog

  • In the episode, Barney mentions to Lily that being attracted to shiny objects is one of 24 similarities between women & fish. This is, in fact, the entire subject of a blog entry .
  • Barney then updated his blog, mentioning that Robin had got him & Ted onto the list to enter 'Okay', and claiming he was only going because Ted wanted to .
  • Barney then updated the blog again, giving the club a 'High Two' out of a possible 'High Five', generally complaining about the "lack" of grindable cutlets in the club, before making a remark about having better luck picking up women at family reunion, before hastily retracting that statement.

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