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* BaitAndSwitch: When Barney makes it to the hospital, we are clearly shown that [[LookBothWays he's standing next to a sign designating a one-way street]]. As he begins to cross, he actually looks down the appropriate end... [[KickTheDog only to get swiped by a bus going the wrong way]].
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** As Ted's taxi gets hit, we briefly flash to white before getting a dramatic montage of Lily, Marshal and Robin getting called to the hospital. Once they all arrive, it's a slow-mo run to where Ted is being held... and he's just chilling out on a bed, eating pudding.
** When Barney makes it to the hospital, we are clearly shown that [[LookBothWays he's standing next to a sign designating a one-way street]]. As he begins to cross, he actually looks down the appropriate end... [[KickTheDog only to get swiped by a bus going the wrong way]].
** As Ted's taxi gets hit, we briefly flash to white before getting a dramatic montage of Lily, Marshal and Robin getting called to the hospital. Once they all arrive, it's a slow-mo run to where Ted is being held... and he's just chilling out on a bed, eating pudding.
** When Barney makes it to the hospital, we are clearly shown that [[LookBothWays he's standing next to a sign designating a one-way street]]. As he begins to cross, he actually looks down the appropriate end... [[KickTheDog only to get swiped by a bus going the wrong way]].
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* CynicismCatalyst: Robin reveals that the reason she doesn't believe in miracles is because when she was a young girl, they had a family dog, whom she loved so much, who has terminal illness. The dog eventually dies, so Robin's parents collaborated with the vet to tell her that the dog was cured but the treatment has "serious side effects" and gave her a turtle whom they led her to believe was the dog. Robin was not pleased upon realizing it.
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* CynicismCatalyst: Robin reveals that the reason she doesn't believe in miracles is because when she was a young girl, they had a family dog, whom she loved so much, who has terminal illness. The dog eventually dies, so Robin's parents collaborated with the vet to tell her that the dog was cured but the treatment has "serious side effects" and gave her a turtle whom they led her to believe was the dog. Robin was not pleased upon realizing it.it, and she implies it took ''quite'' a while for that to happen.
* TheDeterminator: After failing to get a cab in order to make it to the hospital, Barney ''ran''.
* TheDeterminator: After failing to get a cab in order to make it to the hospital, Barney ''ran''.
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** When Marshall and Lily discuss MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes to Barney, they said that he mostly thought of scotch and boobs. When Robin (re)enters the room, he grins warmly revealing (to the audience) that [[LadykillerInLove he has fallen in love with her]].
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** When Marshall and Lily discuss MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes to Barney, they said that he mostly thought of scotch and boobs. When Robin (re)enters the room, he grins warmly revealing (to the audience) that [[LadykillerInLove he has fallen in love with her]].her]].
* WorthIt: Said verbatim by Barney after he gets Marshall to high-five him while he's in traction[[note]]Barney even states he had the hospital staff have his arm raised for such an event[[/note]], even though it causes him ''immense'' pain. Tellingly, he says this while looking directly at Ted.
* WorthIt: Said verbatim by Barney after he gets Marshall to high-five him while he's in traction[[note]]Barney even states he had the hospital staff have his arm raised for such an event[[/note]], even though it causes him ''immense'' pain. Tellingly, he says this while looking directly at Ted.
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Barney makes it to the hospital, we are clearly shown that [[LookBothWays he's standing next to a sign designating a one-way street]]. As he begins to cross, he actually looks down the appropriate end... [[KickTheDog only to get swiped by a bus going the wrong way]].
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Lily calls Barney in the middle of his meaning, the second she says Ted was in a car accident, Barney hangs up. Ted just assumes that meant Barney didn't care (since the two of them were still on the outs); in reality, Barney hung up so that he could rush to the hospital as fast as he could.
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* LookBothWays: Barney gets run over crossing a one-way street. While he does look at the appropriate direction, the car that runs him over was traveling the wrong direction.
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* LookBothWays: Barney gets run over crossing a one-way street. While he does look at the appropriate direction, the car bus that runs him over was traveling the wrong direction.
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* MoodWhiplash: Upon hearing of Ted's accident, Marshall, Lily and Robin are very emotional while rushing to the hospital. Once they get to see him, he's OK.
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* MoodWhiplash: Upon hearing of Ted's accident, Marshall, Lily and Robin are very emotional while rushing to the hospital. Once they get to see him, he's OK. As Lily is telling Barney about the accident, he hangs up on her and we're made to think Barney doesn't care. Instead, it's immediately revealed that he hung up because he couldn't even wait for the rest of the phone call before rushing to Ted's side.
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* OhCrap: Everyone in the gang gets one when they learn Ted was in a car accident and is in the hospital. {{Subverted}} when they all rush to the hospital with sad music playing over it, run into his hotel room, and see that he's fine.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ted's in a car accident and walks away without a scratch, but the hospital insists on tests to make sure he doesn't have internal injuries.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: The front page New York Examiner Marshall is reading has the headline "'''NUDE CABBIE''' VOWS TO KILL AGAIN", a sketch of a man with glasses and an eye patch, and a hand-written note that reads "Dear New York. I will kill. More must die. The Nude Cabbie".
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** After He, Barney and Ted stuck a bunch of sharp pencils on the ceiling, one of them fell and only got stuck in Barney's nose.
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** After He, he, Barney and Ted stuck a bunch of sharp pencils on the ceiling, one of them fell and only got stuck in Barney's nose.
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** When Marshall and Lily discusses MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes to Barney, they said that he mostly thought of scotch and boobs. When Robin (re)enters the room, he grins warmly revealing (to the audience) that [[LadykillerInLove he has fallen in love with her]].
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** When Marshall and Lily discusses discuss MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes to Barney, they said that he mostly thought of scotch and boobs. When Robin (re)enters the room, he grins warmly revealing (to the audience) that [[LadykillerInLove he has fallen in love with her]].
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* BigDamnKiss: When Stella arrives to the hospital and the rest of the gang give them more privacy, Stella takes her time to read Ted's chart, right before dry humping him on his bed to make out.
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* JerkassRealization: Learning that Barney ''ran'' all the way to the hospital, and almost got killed by a bus, after hearing about Ted's accident makes Ted forgive Barney for sleeping with Robin, restoring their friendship.
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* JerkassRealization: Learning that Barney ''ran'' all the way to the hospital, and almost got killed by a bus, after hearing about Ted's accident accident, makes Ted forgive Barney for sleeping with Robin, restoring their friendship.
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* MoodWhiplash: Upon hearing Ted's accident, Marshall, Lily and Robin are very emotional while rushing to the hospital. Once they get to see him, he's A-OK.
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Discussed throughout the episode.
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Discussed throughout the episode.
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* LoveEpiphany: A second before the car hits his cab, Ted realizes that he made a mistake when he intended to break up with Stella. When Lily and Marshall ask Barney what he saw when the bus hit him, Barney gazes at Robin.
* ManHug: Despite Barney being extensively wounded, Ted and Marshall give Barney a hug while declaring that they are more than friends, they are brothers.
* MoodWhiplash: Upon hearing of Ted's accident, Marshall, Lily and Robin are very emotional while rushing to the hospital. Once they get to see him, he'sA-OK.
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* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Discussed throughout the episode. According to Ted, you can't see all your life flashing before your eyes at the moment of an accident. Only what you love.
* ManHug: Despite Barney being extensively wounded, Ted and Marshall give Barney a hug while declaring that they are more than friends, they are brothers.
* MoodWhiplash: Upon hearing of Ted's accident, Marshall, Lily and Robin are very emotional while rushing to the hospital. Once they get to see him, he's
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Discussed throughout the episode. According to Ted, you can't see all your life flashing before your eyes at the moment of an accident. Only what you love.
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* UnluckilyLucky: Reason why Marshall believes miracles exist.
** After He, Barney and Ted stuck a bunch of sharp pencils on the ceiling, one of them fell and only got stuck in Barney's nose.
** After Marshall returns from a trip to Amsterdam, airport security almost busted him, until a shift change puts a less competent security guard that lets him go without a baggage search.
** Marshall went to Lily's classroom to play with the children, and accidentally got lice, which ruined a hearing with his old boss to get his job back. A few days later, the entire company was busted.
** After He, Barney and Ted stuck a bunch of sharp pencils on the ceiling, one of them fell and only got stuck in Barney's nose.
** After Marshall returns from a trip to Amsterdam, airport security almost busted him, until a shift change puts a less competent security guard that lets him go without a baggage search.
** Marshall went to Lily's classroom to play with the children, and accidentally got lice, which ruined a hearing with his old boss to get his job back. A few days later, the entire company was busted.
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* LookBothWays: Barney gets run over crossing a one-way street. While he does look at the appropriate direction, the car that runs him over was traveling the wrong direction.
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** Stella's FlatWhat after Lily declared her joy that the former and Ted got back together, revealing that she didn't thought Ted is breaking up with her.
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** Stella's FlatWhat after Lily declared her joy that the former and Ted got back together, revealing that she didn't thought think Ted is was breaking up with her.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ted explains that what flashed before his eyes were people he cared about. Barney was among them.
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* JerkassRealization: Learning that Barney ''ran'' all the way to the hospital, and almost got killed by a bus, after hearing about Ted's accident makes Ted forgive Barney for sleeping with Robin, restoring their friendship.
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* DivineIntervention: Marshall is convinced that Ted's surviving the car crash was a miracle; Robin is more skeptical, and Marshall spends the rest of the episode discussing other instances in his life that he considers "miracles."
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs[=/=]BreadEggsMilkSquick: Marshall and Lily joke about what they think Barney saw when his life flashed before his eyes. They come up with (in order): boobs, scotch, money, suits, a suit of money, a suit of boobs, a giant boob wearing a suit of money and lactating scotch.
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* FourIsDeath: The cab that Ted rode is the fourth cab that passed through him.
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* FourIsDeath: The cab that Ted rode is the fourth cab that passed through by him.
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* WackyMarriageProposal: Ted does it in an arcade. In his defense, he is at least tried to get a fake diamond ring to make it a little more conventional. He couldn't so he used an orange kangaroo doll instead.
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* WackyMarriageProposal: Ted does it in an arcade. In his defense, he is at least tried tries to get a fake diamond ring to make it a little more conventional. He couldn't can't, so he used uses an orange kangaroo doll instead.
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** Ted tries to make-up with Stella...
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** Ted tries to make-up make up with Stella...
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* ContinuityNod: During Ted's MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes moment, he sees all his friends and Stella in important events from past episodes such as [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E22ComeOn him tending to a depressed Marshall after Lily left him]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E21Milk Lily telling him that she's torn between going to San Francisco or proceeding with her and Marshall's initial wedding plans]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E17TheGoat Robin confessing to him that she slept with Barney, his fallout with the latter]] and [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E18 Stella apologizing to him for overreacting over their little secret]].
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* ContinuityNod: During Ted's MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes moment, he sees all his friends and Stella in important events from past episodes such as [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E22ComeOn him tending to a depressed Marshall after Lily left him]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E21Milk Lily telling him that she's torn between going to San Francisco or proceeding with her and Marshall's initial wedding plans]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E17TheGoat Robin confessing to him that she slept with Barney, his fallout with the latter]] and [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E18 [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E18ReboundBro Stella apologizing to him for overreacting over their little secret]].
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* MoodWhiplash: Upon hearing Ted's accident, Marshall, Lily and Robin are very emotional while rushing to the hospital. Once they get to see him, he's A-OK.
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* ContinuityNod: During Ted's MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes moment, he sees all his friends and Stella in important events from past episodes such as [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E22ComeOn Marshall depressed after lily leaves him]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E21Milk Lily torn between going to San Francisco or proceeding with her and Marshall's initial wedding plans]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E17TheGoat Robin confessing Ted that she slept with Barney, his fallout with the latter]] and [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E18 Stella apologizing to him for overreacting over their little secret]].
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* ContinuityNod: During Ted's MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes moment, he sees all his friends and Stella in important events from past episodes such as [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E22ComeOn Marshall him tending to a depressed Marshall after lily leaves Lily left him]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E21Milk Lily telling him that she's torn between going to San Francisco or proceeding with her and Marshall's initial wedding plans]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E17TheGoat Robin confessing Ted to him that she slept with Barney, his fallout with the latter]] and [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E18 Stella apologizing to him for overreacting over their little secret]].
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After a near-death encounter, Ted reexamines his life and relationship with Stella now that they've broken up. Marshall and Lily debate over the existence of miracles while Barney spends most of the episode trying to reach the hospital that Ted's at.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ([[SeasonFinale and season]]) ends with Ted's WackyMarriageProposal to Stella.
* ContinuityNod: During Ted's MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes moment, he sees all his friends and Stella in important events from past episodes such as [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E22ComeOn Marshall depressed after lily leaves him]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E21Milk Lily torn between going to San Francisco or proceeding with her and Marshall's initial wedding plans]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E17TheGoat Robin confessing Ted that she slept with Barney, his fallout with the latter]] and [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E18 Stella apologizing to him for overreacting over their little secret]].
* CynicismCatalyst: Robin reveals that the reason she doesn't believe in miracles is because when she was a young girl, they had a family dog, whom she loved so much, who has terminal illness. The dog eventually dies, so Robin's parents collaborated with the vet to tell her that the dog was cured but the treatment has "serious side effects" and gave her a turtle whom they led her to believe was the dog. Robin was not pleased upon realizing it.
* DoubleSubversion: The episode makes it clear that a character was involved in a terrible accident. Ted was at the beginning of the episode, but it reveals that he only suffered minor injuries. Later, Barney gets seriously injured, but he gets better.
* FourIsDeath: The cab that Ted rode is the fourth cab that passed through him.
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Discussed throughout the episode.
* SeasonFinale: The third one.
* WackyMarriageProposal: Ted does it in an arcade. In his defense, he is at least tried to get a fake diamond ring to make it a little more conventional. He couldn't so he used an orange kangaroo doll instead.
* WhamLine: ''Thrice.''
** Stella's FlatWhat after Lily declared her joy that the former and Ted got back together, revealing that she didn't thought Ted is breaking up with her.
** Someone calls Ted at the hospital...
--> '''female nurse:''' Hi, Ted Mosby? We have you listed as the emergency contact for... Barney Stinson.
** Ted tries to make-up with Stella...
--> '''Ted:''' So, I've been thinking about what changed from the moment I broke up with you, to the moment I knew I wanted you back. And I... think I finally figured out what happened.
--> '''Stella:''' Your cab got t-boned by a jackass on a cellphone?
--> '''Ted:''' No. I changed. I'm ready to give you what you need. That's why I spent 10 minutes in the damn claw machine, trying to get the big fake diamond ring. But all I can get was this orange kangaroo.
--> '''Stella:''' Diamond ring?
--> (Realizes what that means)
--> '''Ted:''' Will you marry me?
* WhamShot:
** Ted's cab being hit by a limo.
** Barney being hit by a bus.
** When Marshall and Lily discusses MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes to Barney, they said that he mostly thought of scotch and boobs. When Robin (re)enters the room, he grins warmly revealing (to the audience) that [[LadykillerInLove he has fallen in love with her]].
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ([[SeasonFinale and season]]) ends with Ted's WackyMarriageProposal to Stella.
* ContinuityNod: During Ted's MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes moment, he sees all his friends and Stella in important events from past episodes such as [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E22ComeOn Marshall depressed after lily leaves him]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E21Milk Lily torn between going to San Francisco or proceeding with her and Marshall's initial wedding plans]], [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E17TheGoat Robin confessing Ted that she slept with Barney, his fallout with the latter]] and [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E18 Stella apologizing to him for overreacting over their little secret]].
* CynicismCatalyst: Robin reveals that the reason she doesn't believe in miracles is because when she was a young girl, they had a family dog, whom she loved so much, who has terminal illness. The dog eventually dies, so Robin's parents collaborated with the vet to tell her that the dog was cured but the treatment has "serious side effects" and gave her a turtle whom they led her to believe was the dog. Robin was not pleased upon realizing it.
* DoubleSubversion: The episode makes it clear that a character was involved in a terrible accident. Ted was at the beginning of the episode, but it reveals that he only suffered minor injuries. Later, Barney gets seriously injured, but he gets better.
* FourIsDeath: The cab that Ted rode is the fourth cab that passed through him.
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Discussed throughout the episode.
* SeasonFinale: The third one.
* WackyMarriageProposal: Ted does it in an arcade. In his defense, he is at least tried to get a fake diamond ring to make it a little more conventional. He couldn't so he used an orange kangaroo doll instead.
* WhamLine: ''Thrice.''
** Stella's FlatWhat after Lily declared her joy that the former and Ted got back together, revealing that she didn't thought Ted is breaking up with her.
** Someone calls Ted at the hospital...
--> '''female nurse:''' Hi, Ted Mosby? We have you listed as the emergency contact for... Barney Stinson.
** Ted tries to make-up with Stella...
--> '''Ted:''' So, I've been thinking about what changed from the moment I broke up with you, to the moment I knew I wanted you back. And I... think I finally figured out what happened.
--> '''Stella:''' Your cab got t-boned by a jackass on a cellphone?
--> '''Ted:''' No. I changed. I'm ready to give you what you need. That's why I spent 10 minutes in the damn claw machine, trying to get the big fake diamond ring. But all I can get was this orange kangaroo.
--> '''Stella:''' Diamond ring?
--> (Realizes what that means)
--> '''Ted:''' Will you marry me?
* WhamShot:
** Ted's cab being hit by a limo.
** Barney being hit by a bus.
** When Marshall and Lily discusses MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes to Barney, they said that he mostly thought of scotch and boobs. When Robin (re)enters the room, he grins warmly revealing (to the audience) that [[LadykillerInLove he has fallen in love with her]].
