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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The whole premise of "The Naked Man" strategy. Even more so behind the scenes with the show’s season four gag reel showing Creator/Cobie Smulders hugging a naked Adam Paul (Mitch) and slaps his butt afterwards, resulting in the crew getting a good laugh out of it.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The whole premise of "The Naked Man" strategy. Even more so behind the scenes with the show’s season four gag reel showing Creator/Cobie Smulders Creator/CobieSmulders hugging a naked Adam Paul (Mitch) and slaps his butt afterwards, resulting in the crew getting a good laugh out of it.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The whole premise of "The Naked Man" strategy.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The whole premise of "The Naked Man" strategy. Even more so behind the scenes with the show’s season four gag reel showing Creator/Cobie Smulders hugging a naked Adam Paul (Mitch) and slaps his butt afterwards, resulting in the crew getting a good laugh out of it.
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* DoubleStandard: Marshal slut-shames Robin, despite Barney having far less standards and his own wife listing 49 reasons why people have sex unrelated to love.
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** Some of the poses they used referred to [[CaptainMorganPose the Captain Morgan rum logo]], Franchise/{{Superman}}, the Heisman Trophy, Mr. Clean, the Coppertone Baby pose, Rodin's ''The Thinker'', and actor Creator/BurtReynolds.
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** Some of the poses they used referred to [[CaptainMorganPose the Captain Morgan rum logo]], Franchise/{{Superman}}, the Heisman Trophy, Mr. Clean, the Coppertone Baby pose, Rodin's ''The Thinker'', Creator/AugusteRodin's ''Art/TheThinker'', and actor Creator/BurtReynolds.
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* OhCrap: The gang initially starts making jokes about Robin's possible reactions when she finds Mitch naked on the couchm, [[GunNut until they get to the possibility of Robin getting a gun and shoot him]], so they rush back to the apartment. They realize that she fell for "The Naked Man" when the "Mr. Wang sign" is on the doorknob.
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* OhCrap: The gang initially starts making jokes about Robin's possible reactions when she finds Mitch naked on the couchm, couch, [[GunNut until they get to the possibility of Robin getting a gun and shoot shooting him]], so they rush back to the apartment. They realize that she fell for "The Naked Man" when the "Mr. Wang sign" is on the doorknob.
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Mitch is fully aware that his reliance on "The Naked Man" to get laid doesn't speak very highly of him, and he points out to Robin that at least he's honest about that, unlike her, who pretends to have feelings for him to make herself feel better about falling for his move.
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* ContinuitySnarl: In Ted's flashback of 2004 (one year before Season 1), Lily has long darker hair, but in other flashbacks of that year and in Season 1, Lily had her hair bright red and above the shoulders.
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* ContinuitySnarl: In Ted's flashback of 2004 (one year before Season 1), Lily has long darker hair, but in other flashbacks of that year and in Season 1, Lily had her hair bright red and above the shoulders. It’s most likely Lily dyed her hair before turning it back to normal.
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-->'''Marshall:''' I'm sorry, Robin, but you sleeping with this guy makes it seem like the only thing standing between you and sex is clothes.
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** March 2008. Ted has his first encounter with Mitch, The Naked Man, while Robin is outside answering a phone call.
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** March 2008. Ted has his first encounter with Mitch, The Naked Man, while Robin is outside answering a phone call.call.
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* CoughSnarkCough: Marshall uses it to slut-shame Robin.
-->'''Marshall:''' Oh, no, no, Robin. I just had a bad cough. ''[Coughing]'' I don't really have a cough. We all know "college roommate" is really you, slut. [{{Beat}}] Does anyone have a lozenge?
-->'''Marshall:''' Oh, no, no, Robin. I just had a bad cough. ''[Coughing]'' I don't really have a cough. We all know "college roommate" is really you, slut. [{{Beat}}] Does anyone have a lozenge?
* {{Jerkass}}: Ted's date Vicky turns out to be an awful human being. She's rude to the waiter after a mistake so she can get freebies from the restaurant, tells Ted how she laughed at an old man falling to the ground, and trash talked Ted's favorite poem from Pablo Neruda.
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* OhCrap: The gang initially thinks Robin will kill Mitch if she finds him naked on the couch, so they rush back to the apartment. This is how they realize that she fell for "The Naked Man".
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* OhCrap: The gang initially thinks Robin will kill Mitch if starts making jokes about Robin's possible reactions when she finds him Mitch naked on the couch, couchm, [[GunNut until they get to the possibility of Robin getting a gun and shoot him]], so they rush back to the apartment. This is how they They realize that she fell for "The Naked Man".Man" when the "Mr. Wang sign" is on the doorknob.
* RuleOfThree: According to Mitch, "The Naked Man" has a success ratio of 2 out of 3. Ted nails his date after he realizes that she is an awful person, Lily gets Marshall to forget their fight, but Barney gets chased away by his latest conquest, who didn't even let him get his clothes back.
* RuleOfThree: According to Mitch, "The Naked Man" has a success ratio of 2 out of 3. Ted nails his date after he realizes that she is an awful person, Lily gets Marshall to forget their fight, but Barney gets chased away by his latest conquest, who didn't even let him get his clothes back.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Marshall is wrong for slut-shaming Robin after she had pity sex with Mitch, but he is right about love being an important factor in a sexual relationship, while Lily is right about people having more reasons to have sex asides love and none of that being wrong or reproachable.
* ContinuitySnarl: In Ted's flashback of 2004 (one year before Season 1), Lily has long darker hair, but in other flashbacks of that year and in Season 1, Lily had her hair bright red and above the shoulders.
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* KavorkaMan: Mitch, and he knows it.
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* KavorkaMan: Mitch, and he knows it. The only thing he has on his favor is the 2 out of 3 possibility of getting laid with "The Naked Man" stunt.
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* MeetCute: Ted and his GirlOfTheWeek.
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* MeetCute: Ted and his GirlOfTheWeek. They started by getting in the same elevator every day for a week until Ted started to talk to her.
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* StraightMan: Mitch is aware that he has become a weirdo, has no appealing qualities, and only relies on "The Naked Man" stunt to get laid, but he is straight with Robin about what happens after, pointing out to her that he knows the date is her "I'm not a slut" date, and she owes him nothing.
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** May 8, 2009. The goat is in the apartment.
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* SlutShaming: Marshall to Robin after she slept with Mitch. PlayedForLaughs of course.
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* SlutShaming: Marshall to Robin after she slept with Mitch. PlayedForLaughs of course.course.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Future!Ted tells his kids that he has encountered really weird stuff just arriving home.
** November 26, 2004. Lily was painting two acrobats in the living room before deciding to just do the bowl of fruit.
** July 16, 2007. The rest of the gang are watching Barney trying to nail the Water Tank escapism trick, with Robin and Lily ready with axes. Marshall registers twelve minutes.
** December 15, 2006. Robin is holding two burglars at gunpoint, one of them holding the TV, while Lily and Marshall are cowering in the couch.
** March 2008. Ted has his first encounter with Mitch, The Naked Man, while Robin is outside answering a phone call.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Future!Ted tells his kids that he has encountered really weird stuff just arriving home.
** November 26, 2004. Lily was painting two acrobats in the living room before deciding to just do the bowl of fruit.
** July 16, 2007. The rest of the gang are watching Barney trying to nail the Water Tank escapism trick, with Robin and Lily ready with axes. Marshall registers twelve minutes.
** December 15, 2006. Robin is holding two burglars at gunpoint, one of them holding the TV, while Lily and Marshall are cowering in the couch.
** March 2008. Ted has his first encounter with Mitch, The Naked Man, while Robin is outside answering a phone call.
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** Some of the poses they used referred to the Captain Morgan rum logo, Franchise/{{Superman}}, the Heisman Trophy, Mr. Clean, the Coppertone Baby pose, Rodin's The Thinker, and actor Burt Reynolds.
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** Some of the poses they used referred to [[CaptainMorganPose the Captain Morgan rum logo, logo]], Franchise/{{Superman}}, the Heisman Trophy, Mr. Clean, the Coppertone Baby pose, Rodin's The Thinker, ''The Thinker'', and actor Burt Reynolds.Creator/BurtReynolds.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to the NakedPeopleAreFunny ploy for one-night-stands and it's innovator, [[SecondaryCharacterTitle Mitch]].
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to the NakedPeopleAreFunny ploy for one-night-stands and it's its innovator, [[SecondaryCharacterTitle Mitch]].
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* TheLongList: Lily's 50 Reasons to have sex list.
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* TheLongList: Lily's 50 Reasons to have sex Have Sex list.
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* OhCrap: The gang initially thought Robin would kill Mitch if she finds him naked on the couch, so they rushed back to the apartment. This is how they realized that she fell for "The Naked Man".
* SceneryCensor: Everytime someone pulls "The Naked Man", objects were conveniently placed to their private parts.
* SceneryCensor: Everytime someone pulls "The Naked Man", objects were conveniently placed to their private parts.
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* OhCrap: The gang initially thought thinks Robin would will kill Mitch if she finds him naked on the couch, so they rushed rush back to the apartment. This is how they realized realize that she fell for "The Naked Man".
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* SlutShaming: Marshall to Robin after she slept with Mitch. PlayedForLaughs of course.
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* SlutShaming: Marshall to Robin after she slept with Mitch. PlayedForLaughs of course.
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* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Barney after he fails to pull of "The Naked Man".
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* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Barney after he fails to pull of off "The Naked Man".
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* ActorAllusion: A variant. The reason a lot of ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' ShoutOut was made (aside from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'') is because the actress of Ted's GirlOfTheWeek is the wife of ''Film/SupermanReturns'' actor Creator/BrandonRouth.
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* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Barney after he fails to pull of "The Naked Man".
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* ActorAllusion: A variant. The reason a lot of ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' ShoutOut was made (aside from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'') os because the actress of Ted's GirlOfTheWeek is the wife of ''Film/SupermanReturns'' actor Creator/BrandonRouth.
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* ActorAllusion: A variant. The reason a lot of ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' ShoutOut was made (aside from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'') os is because the actress of Ted's GirlOfTheWeek is the wife of ''Film/SupermanReturns'' actor Creator/BrandonRouth.
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After Robin falls for a move called "The Naked Man", Ted and Barney attempt to try it while Robin tries to save her dignity.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion: A variant. The reason a lot of ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' ShoutOut was made (aside from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'') os because the actress of Ted's GirlOfTheWeek is the wife of ''Film/SupermanReturns'' actor Creator/BrandonRouth.
* BadassLongcoat: Mitch wears one in the end as a way for the show to make a ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' ShoutOut.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ted's GirlOfTheWeek turns out to be a {{Jerkass}} sociopath bitch.
* CallBack: The main premise of the episode is Ted getting back in the dating game after [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E05ShelterIsland being left at the altar]].
* ChekhovsLecture: Mitch lectured to Ted that "The Naked Man" strategy only works two out of three times came to bite Barney's ass in the end.
* DoubleEntendre: How Barney gave Lily her reason #46 in her 50 Reasons to have sex list.
-->'''Lily:''' Wow, this is getting a little hard.
-->'''Barney:''' [[SomethingElseAlsoRises 46]]!
* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to the NakedPeopleAreFunny ploy for one-night-stands and it's innovator, [[SecondaryCharacterTitle Mitch]].
* {{Fanservice}}: While NakedPeopleAreFunny is still in play, it's still an episode featuring Creator/JoshRadnor, Creator/NeilPatrickHarris and Creator/AlysonHannigan showing skin, so audience of all gender will be happy.
* KavorkaMan: Mitch, and he knows it.
* TheLongList: Lily's 50 Reasons to have sex list.
* MeetCute: Ted and his GirlOfTheWeek.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The whole premise of "The Naked Man" strategy.
* SceneryCensor: Everytime someone pulls "The Naked Man", objects were conveniently placed to their private parts.
* ShoutOut:
** The ending of the episode is similar to that of Creator/ChristopherNolan's 2008 film, ''Film/TheDarkKnight, where [[Creator/GaryOldman Commissioner Gordon]] provides a narration of how Franchise/{{Batman}} is the hero Gotham deserves, but doesn't need.
** When Ted is standing around naked in Vicky's apartment, he opens a book of love poems by Creator/PabloNeruda and discovers it is bookmarked to his favorite poem, which appropriately is Desnuda Eres ("Naked, You Are..").
** Some of the poses they used referred to the Captain Morgan rum logo, Franchise/{{Superman}}, the Heisman Trophy, Mr. Clean, the Coppertone Baby pose, Rodin's The Thinker, and actor Burt Reynolds.
** Barney describes "The Naked Man" as being like a superhero, the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' to Barney's ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', contrasting the Barney complicated approach, gadgets, gimmicks, secret identities and suiting up, to the simple very opposite idea of taking it all off.
* SlutShaming: Marshall to Robin after she slept with Mitch. PlayedForLaughs of course.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion: A variant. The reason a lot of ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' ShoutOut was made (aside from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'') os because the actress of Ted's GirlOfTheWeek is the wife of ''Film/SupermanReturns'' actor Creator/BrandonRouth.
* BadassLongcoat: Mitch wears one in the end as a way for the show to make a ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' ShoutOut.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ted's GirlOfTheWeek turns out to be a {{Jerkass}} sociopath bitch.
* CallBack: The main premise of the episode is Ted getting back in the dating game after [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E05ShelterIsland being left at the altar]].
* ChekhovsLecture: Mitch lectured to Ted that "The Naked Man" strategy only works two out of three times came to bite Barney's ass in the end.
* DoubleEntendre: How Barney gave Lily her reason #46 in her 50 Reasons to have sex list.
-->'''Lily:''' Wow, this is getting a little hard.
-->'''Barney:''' [[SomethingElseAlsoRises 46]]!
* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to the NakedPeopleAreFunny ploy for one-night-stands and it's innovator, [[SecondaryCharacterTitle Mitch]].
* {{Fanservice}}: While NakedPeopleAreFunny is still in play, it's still an episode featuring Creator/JoshRadnor, Creator/NeilPatrickHarris and Creator/AlysonHannigan showing skin, so audience of all gender will be happy.
* KavorkaMan: Mitch, and he knows it.
* TheLongList: Lily's 50 Reasons to have sex list.
* MeetCute: Ted and his GirlOfTheWeek.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The whole premise of "The Naked Man" strategy.
* SceneryCensor: Everytime someone pulls "The Naked Man", objects were conveniently placed to their private parts.
* ShoutOut:
** The ending of the episode is similar to that of Creator/ChristopherNolan's 2008 film, ''Film/TheDarkKnight, where [[Creator/GaryOldman Commissioner Gordon]] provides a narration of how Franchise/{{Batman}} is the hero Gotham deserves, but doesn't need.
** When Ted is standing around naked in Vicky's apartment, he opens a book of love poems by Creator/PabloNeruda and discovers it is bookmarked to his favorite poem, which appropriately is Desnuda Eres ("Naked, You Are..").
** Some of the poses they used referred to the Captain Morgan rum logo, Franchise/{{Superman}}, the Heisman Trophy, Mr. Clean, the Coppertone Baby pose, Rodin's The Thinker, and actor Burt Reynolds.
** Barney describes "The Naked Man" as being like a superhero, the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' to Barney's ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', contrasting the Barney complicated approach, gadgets, gimmicks, secret identities and suiting up, to the simple very opposite idea of taking it all off.
* SlutShaming: Marshall to Robin after she slept with Mitch. PlayedForLaughs of course.
