Line #9 Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E12GirlsVersusSuits


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3	In the 100th episode spectacular, Ted begins dating the roommate of the future mother while Barney tries to score with a bartender who makes him chose between her and his suits.
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6	!!This episode provides examples of:
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8	* ArcSymbol: The Yellow Umbrella makes its return.
9	* AsHimself: Tim Gunn.
10	* CallBack:
11	** Ted and Cindy start getting involved the moment she revealed that she was part of the class where he wrongfully attended at the season premiere.
12	** [[ArcSymbol The yellow umbrella]] marks its return.
13	** Barney's long list of hookups includes a Supreme Court justice. [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E14TheBracket The Bracket showed Ruth Bader Ginsberg as a past hookup in his fast-forward flashbacks]].
14	* TheCastShowOff: Creator/NeilPatrickHarris showcased his Broadway talent via "Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit". Creator/JasonSegel, Creator/JoshRadnor and Creator/CobieSmulders (also Creator/AlysonHannigan, though she's obviously not musically trained like the rest) even got to sing parts in it.
15	* ColorMotif: The show establishes The Mother's fixation with the colors purple and yellow. The show even [[RomanticFalseLead teased Cindy as her]] by dressing her in those colors.
16	* ComplimentBackfire: Lily tries to tell Marshall that she won’t get jealous if he openly admits that Karina the bartender is hot, but keeps getting annoyed by his lack of interest in other women than Lily. This ends in Lily describing how sexy ''she'' finds Karina, getting Marshall jealous instead.
17	* DefrostingIceQueen: Karina hates Barney because her past three boyfriends were {{Jerkass}} [[SharpDressedMan sharp-dressed men]]. It takes Barney suiting down for her to warm up to him.
18	* DudeMagnet: Karina the bartender causes [=MacLaren's=] to overflow with male patrons. Also, Cindy claims the Mother is one. She tells Ted that "guys are always falling in love with her", but she may be exaggerating since (as revealed in "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS9E16HowYourMotherMetMe How Your Mother Met Me]]") she had a crush on her and hadn't come to terms with her sexuality yet.
19	* TheDulcineaEffect: Robin (out of jealousy) claims that Karina the bartender is only grabbing everyone's attention just because of the novelty of having a woman behind the bar, and she proves it by going herself behind the bar, smiling, winking, and playing with the bottles. Before Carl kicks Robin out, Lily is visibly turned on and Marshall is also jealous of Robin.
20	* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: [[AmbiguouslyBi Lily]] thinks Karina the bartender is hot. She also gets DistractedByTheSexy when Robin poses as a bartender.
21	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The bartender's name is not stated in the show, though WordOfGod and Website/TheOtherWiki says it's Karina.
22	* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Karina the bartender.
23	* GoingColdTurkey: Played with. Since Barney stopped wearing suits so he could nail the new Bartender, Future!Ted notes that Barney started to develop this towards any kind of suits, like sniffing Marshall's work suit or even sneaking to the bathroom stalls ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything just to wear a suit for a moment]]''
24	* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Cindy, as part of being a RomanticFalseLead.
25	* GreenEyedMonster: Robin gets jealous of the attention Karina the bartender is having. Also, Cindy to The Mother.
26	* HeroicSacrifice: Barney believes that his suit "gave its life" so he can have sex with Karina the bartender.
27	* HypocriticalHumor: Ted rescues Cindy from the frat guys by confiscating their alcohol (save the hard lemonade). In the very next scene, both Ted and Cindy are drinking the booze in a classroom.
28	* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Karina uses her sex appeal to sweet talk to the patrons and get huge tips from them.
29	* ImagineSpot: The very last scene shows Barney's "Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit" music number.
30	* ItIsDehumanizing: Invoked twice with Barney referencing Karina.
31	-->'''Barney:''' "But for those, I mean for that, I mean for her, I will stop wearing [Wait-for-It] suits!"
32	-->'''Barney:''' "I will not rest until those, I mean that, I mean she... is mine!"
33	* LegFocus: Karina the bartender as noted by Lily.
34	-->'''Lily:''' Her legs go for miles!
35	* MundaneMadeAwesome: Barney's ImagineSpot turns suits into ... ''magic''.
36	* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Both Marshall and Ted are not fascinated with Karina the bartender. Later, Carl was not pleased like the other male customers when Robin posed as a bartender.
37	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Ted and Cindy meet when a dumb frat guy keeps trying to hit on her, and both nickname him “Boomer”.
38	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Barney suited down just so he can bed Karina.
39	* RememberTheNewGuy: Cindy says she was part of the Econ 305 class that Ted wrongfully attended, but she's nowhere to be seen at the season premiere. The classroom used theater seating and could easily hold a couple of hundred people, but Cindy was not among the few students focused on.
40	* RomanticFalseLead: For the first five minutes, Future!Ted makes it appear that Cindy is The Mother. She was even associated in the same ColorMotif as her ([[GracefulLadiesLikePurple purple]] clothes and having yellow stuff, and having been in Ted's fuck-up Econ/Architecture class).
41	* SharpDressedMan: A song is even made (via ImagineSpot) about being one at the end.
42	* SingleTargetSexuality: Lily keeps asking Marshall if he's attracted to Karina the bartender, which he then keeps insisting that Lily is the most/only attractive woman in his eyes.
43	* StatuesqueStunner: [[Wrestling/StacyKeibler Karina the bartender]] stands 5'11.
44	* TeacherStudentRomance: Cindy is an Economic student and [[CallBack was part of the class where Ted wrongfully attended at the season premiere]]. This becomes the main conflict of the episode.
45	* TemptingFate: Ted to Cindy.
46	-->'''Ted:''' "I promise. I will never fall in love with your roommate."
47	-->'''Future!Ted:''' "Oops."
48	* TheUnreveal: The Mother remains anonymous at the end of the episode.

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