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* FunWithAcronyms: Milt, the crazy homeless guy (played by Creator/DanCastelleneta) apparently thinks ATM stands for "Alien Time Machine."
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* FunWithAcronyms: Milt, the crazy homeless guy (played by Creator/DanCastelleneta) Creator/DanCastellaneta) apparently thinks ATM stands for "Alien Time Machine."
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* FunWithAcronyms: Milt, the crazy homeless guy (played by Creator/DanCastelleneta) apparently thinks ATM stands for "Alien Time Machine."
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* NiceHat: Ted is hired to design a restaurant modeled after a cowboy hat.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Ted meeting Stella for the first time since she bailed on their wedding.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Ted meeting Stella for the first time since she bailed on their wedding. It also ends with Barney tearing up his 200 list and saying, "Now what?", then looking over to Robin at the bar.
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* {{Squick}}: Again, InUniverse, everyone is disgusted by the number of women Barney has slept with, including Mathew Panning, the guy who claimed to have slept with 100 chicks in the seventh grade.
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* CallBack: Marshall's fish-based "comedy" routine returns.
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* CallBack: Marshall's fish-based "comedy" routine returns.returns, as does Barney's habit of going to the gym to "invest" in women.
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* CallBack: Marshall's fish-based "comedy" routine returns.
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* AbsenteeActor: Creator/AlysonHannigan is still absent due to maternity leave.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Barney's bodybuilder gym buddy Pauline, who has apparently "been after" him for a while. Barney does sleep with her, but only because he was trying to get to 199 sexual conquests at the last minute before his date with a Czech supermodel (whom he intended to be his 200th). Unfortunately, a counting error results in Pauline actually being his 200th.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Barney's bodybuilder gym buddy Pauline, who has apparently "been after" him for a while. Barney does sleep with her, but only because he was trying to get to 199 sexual conquests at the last minute before his date with a Czech supermodel (whom he intended to be his 200th). Unfortunately, Unfortunately for him, a counting error results in Pauline actually being his 200th.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Barney's bodybuilder gym buddy Pauline, who has apparently "been after" him for a while. Barney does sleep with her, but only because he was trying to get to 199 sexual conquests at the last minute before his date with a Czech supermodel (whom he intended to be his 200th). Unfortunately, a counting error results in Pauline actually being his 200th.
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* AndThenWhat: Barney runs into this after sleeping with 200 girls, an ambition he held onto since middle school, as he wonders what next. It's at this point that Robin walks in, as if to answer the question.
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* HideYourPregnancy: The episode went out of its way just to ensure Creator/CobieSmulders' pregnancy will not look obvious.
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* ForWantOfANail: To an ''impressive'' degree. Every little detail, from Robin getting food poisoning at Schlegel's Bagels, to Barney's 200th date, to even Marshall's chart fixation, ''all'' were integral to Ted being at a specific street corner one rainy day in May... just so that he can run into Stella once again.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Internally: as Future Ted admits that ''everything'' that went into him heading outside at the start of the episode was integral to how he would eventually meet the Mother (as the woman he bumps into is Stella), he explains what he would have done had he known that at the time... by having Ted run around and hug ''every'' involved character from the three plotlines of the episode.
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* WhamShot: Ted sees Stella again since she bailed on their wedding.
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* WhamShot: Ted sees Stella again for the first time since she bailed on their wedding.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Exploited by Barney in his efforts to pick up women at the gym, who he sees as future investments. He takes an interest and acts kind to women who are working out in an attempt to get fit. The way he sees it, when they lose weight and become more attractive, they'll remember the guy who was kind to them before they lost the weight.
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* HandshakeRefusal: When Barney announces that he's about to date his 200th woman.
-->'''Ted:''' 200? As in "sex with"?\\
'''Barney:''' As in "sex with". I request the highest of fives.\\
'''Ted:''' Not even if I was wearing a hazmat suit.
-->'''Ted:''' 200? As in "sex with"?\\
'''Barney:''' As in "sex with". I request the highest of fives.\\
'''Ted:''' Not even if I was wearing a hazmat suit.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: At the beginning of the episode, right before it starts to rain, it's possible to see who the women who comes up to Ted is.
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* AbsenteeActor: Creator/AlysonHannigan is still absent due to maternity leave.
* ArcSymbol: The yellow umbrella makes an appearance.
* ArcSymbol: The yellow umbrella makes an appearance.
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* BrawnHilda: Barney's female gym buddy is heavily implied to be one.
* TheBusCameBack: Stella returns after bailing on her and Ted's wedding earlier this season.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Ted meeting Stella for the first time since she bailed on their wedding.
* ContinuityNod:
** The Intervention banner reappears.
** Barney's gym, Total Rip Fitness, was previously seen in Season 3.
* ContinuitySnarl:
** At the beginning of this episode, Future!Ted tells us this episode was set in May 2009 despite occurring before Ted's 31st birthday which has already been established as being on April 25th.
** When Ted is walking down the stairs of the apartment, the [=MacLaren=]'s Pub sign was missing.
* EventTitle: Self-explanatory.
* TheFaceless: Barney's female gym buddy.
* HideYourPregnancy: The episode went out of its way just to ensure Creator/CobieSmulders' pregnancy will not look obvious.
* TheBusCameBack: Stella returns after bailing on her and Ted's wedding earlier this season.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Ted meeting Stella for the first time since she bailed on their wedding.
* ContinuityNod:
** The Intervention banner reappears.
** Barney's gym, Total Rip Fitness, was previously seen in Season 3.
* ContinuitySnarl:
** At the beginning of this episode, Future!Ted tells us this episode was set in May 2009 despite occurring before Ted's 31st birthday which has already been established as being on April 25th.
** When Ted is walking down the stairs of the apartment, the [=MacLaren=]'s Pub sign was missing.
* EventTitle: Self-explanatory.
* TheFaceless: Barney's female gym buddy.
* HideYourPregnancy: The episode went out of its way just to ensure Creator/CobieSmulders' pregnancy will not look obvious.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Robin jokes about being pregnant.
* NiceHat: Ted is hired to design a restaurant modeled after a cowboy hat.
* ShoutOut:
** Barney argues you can't have "too much of a good thing" and references Steve Guttenberg and the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' films as an example.
** Marshall's Cecilia chart is a reference to a Music/SimonAndGarfunkel song of the same name.
** Marshall is shown ranking the American presidents in his charts.
** When talking to Matthew Panning in the flashback, Young Barney is playing Advanced ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. There is a 2nd edition Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master's Screen on the table.
* TookALevelInKindness: Barney's childhood bully has obviously changed a lot for the better.
* TwistEnding: The episode heavily builds that it will be Ted and The Mother's first meeting. It... wasn't.
* WhamShot: Ted sees Stella again since she bailed on their wedding.
* NiceHat: Ted is hired to design a restaurant modeled after a cowboy hat.
* ShoutOut:
** Barney argues you can't have "too much of a good thing" and references Steve Guttenberg and the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' films as an example.
** Marshall's Cecilia chart is a reference to a Music/SimonAndGarfunkel song of the same name.
** Marshall is shown ranking the American presidents in his charts.
** When talking to Matthew Panning in the flashback, Young Barney is playing Advanced ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. There is a 2nd edition Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master's Screen on the table.
* TookALevelInKindness: Barney's childhood bully has obviously changed a lot for the better.
* TwistEnding: The episode heavily builds that it will be Ted and The Mother's first meeting. It... wasn't.
* WhamShot: Ted sees Stella again since she bailed on their wedding.
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* BookEnds: The episode begins and ends with Ted's walk to the bagel shop.
* HowWeGotHere: Ted explains all the little things that caused him to be at the right place at the right time on the corner.
* HowWeGotHere: Ted explains all the little things that caused him to be at the right place at the right time on the corner.
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Barney makes plans to sleep with his two hundredth girl while future Ted explains to his kids the how essential it can be to be in the right place at the right time.
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