History HIMYM / TropesSeasonFive

* AnimalChickMagnet: Barney harnesses the power of a ridiculously cute teacup pig to get women into his apartment.

* BigBookOfWar: Barney's Playbook.

* BrokenRecord: After Super Bowl 2009: "Or this one?! Or this one?! Or this one?! Or this one?! Or this one?!"

* CanadaEh: In the episode "Duel Citizenship", when Robin relapses into her Canadian ways, she goes out drinking with a women's curling team and wakes up in a Toronto hotel room surrounded by hockey jerseys and maple-leaf flags.

* GirlNextDoor: Explicitly invoked with Maggie.
* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: Don Frank, [[spoiler:at first]].

** It gets worse. In Season 7, Ted's flashback to the first time he said "I love you" to the Mother features them in front of a movie theater featuring "The Wedding Bride III." So apparently it managed to get two sequels.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Barney's advice to Marshall in "Bagpipes."

* MundaneMadeAwesome: '''The suit song'''.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: "The Wedding Bride."

* [[AmIJustAToyToYou Was I Just A Toy To You]]: Robin feels this way in regards to [[spoiler:Barney]] in "Of Course".

* TheEiffelTowerEffect: Averted in "Duel Citizenship" when Robin goes on a bender and Barney tries to dramatically show she'd ended up in Toronto by opening a window hoping to see a memorable Toronto monument except there isn't any.

* HomoeroticDream: Lily mentions her dreams of Robin yet again.
** Barney sniffing, licking, and rubbing his face all over Marshall's suit when he's going through Suit Withdrawal in "Girls vs. Suits". The [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything orgasm faces]] are a particularly nice touch, too.
** In "Say Cheese", a flashback involving a picture with [[Music/GunsNRoses Slash]] reveals that [[AccidentalPervert Marshall had been grabbing Barney's ass instead of Lily's all along]].

'''Barney:''' Let me tell you where I'm at. [[AnythingThatMoves I want to have sex with a girl]] [[SelfImposedChallenge so I can take off these overalls.]]

* WhipItGood: Marshall in the first episode of the 5th season.

* {{Deconstruction}}: JustForFun/TheWeddingBride deconstructs a [[FromACertainPointOfView "bad guy"]] who gets left at the altar by showing how it affects the guy who got dumped. [[spoiler: Namely, Ted.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: One of the ways to defuse a pissed-off Robin is to talk about emperor penguins.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Film/TheWeddingBride deconstructs a [[FromACertainPointOfView "bad guy"]] who gets left at the altar by showing how it affects the guy who got dumped. [[spoiler: Namely, Ted.]]

* RealTrailerFakeMovie: Film/TheWeddingBride

* ShowWithinAShow: Film/TheWeddingBride.

* StylisticSuck: Also Film/TheWeddingBride, though in-universe it's the fifth highest grossing movie of all time.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The lyrics of the Suit Song:
--> ''Girls will go and girls will come...''

** "Twin Beds": Robin moves in with Don and decides to separate herself from the group.

** "Girls Vs Suits": This may seem like a normal episode at first, but it turns out that Ted's usual girlfriend of the week is actually roommates with [[spoiler: The Mother]].
** "Of Course": Robin and Don start dating.

* MarySue: In-universe, Tony and Stella in "The Wedding Bride".

* AuthorAvatar: In-universe example: Tony writes a screenplay with a MarySue character named Tony.

** Another interpretation is that it really ''is'' that awful, but the reason it's successful is due to BileFascination, with people going to multiple viewings because it's SoBadItsGood. Ted doesn't realise that the people aren't really laughing at "[[JerkSue Jed Mosley]]", but are mocking the wooden dialogue and the fact it paints Tony ([[WriterOnBoard who wrote]] [[AuthorAvatar the film]]) as an infallible GodModeSue with Stella as a PuritySue.

* ThisIsYourSong: Ted's stepfather.

* NoSmoking: One fifth season episode revealed that Future Ted has been leaving out the detail that he and the rest of the gang smoked pretty regularly during this period in their lives (this is one of only few episodes that show Robin, Lily or Barney, and the only episode that show Ted or Marshall, actually smoking anything other than [[RunningGag sandwiches]] or celebratory cigars). The reveal is done one by one for the main cast with shocked reactions from the kids in the future each time. The episode ends with Ted detailing exactly when each character ended up quitting for good, in his case it was right after meeting their mother.

* YouSuck: The whole point of the faux movie ''The Wedding Bride,'' was to tell Ted that he sucks. Of course, it's really fricking biased, because Tony wrote it.

* CharacterShilling: Two {{egregious}} examples, both suspiciously soon after the breakup of FanPreferredCouple Barney/Robin. Robin's next LoveInterest, Don, was heavily shilled by the rest of the cast (especially Marshall) even before he actually became Robin's boyfriend and despite the fact he seemed to the audience to be an unremarkable {{Jerkass}}. Also, when Barney was [[{{Flanderisation}} Flanderised]], the rest of the cast suddenly became his enthusiastic cheerleaders of his womanizing, when previous they'd only had a weary tolerance for it.

--> '''Barney:''' Eh... I did something worse in it after ''ThePhantomMenace'' premiered.

* Dawson Casting: "Last Cigarette Ever," averts the way HIMYM usually subverts this trope. Typically, flashbacks have the actors playing young versions of themselves, even as teenagers. However, when Present!Marshall goes back to kick his own ass for smoking, they obviously had to get an actor for Jason Segel to wail on.