History Recap / HowIMetYourMotherS6E21Hopeless

* FiveManBandConcert: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7LgB14XmS8 opening sequence]] of this episode features the adults doing a rendition of the TiTleSequence's song. They are FiveTemperamentEnsemble -- Ted (Leukine) and Barney (Sanguine) are the guitarists, Lily (Choleric) is the bassist, Robin (Melancholic) is the drummer, and Marshall (Phlegmatic) is the keyboardist.

* WhosOnFirst: The entire gang and Barney's father engage in this when trying to figure out which club to go to. Barney's father even lampshades the conversation by uttering lines from the original skit... and then the lampshading is [[UpToEleven incorporated into the joke]].

* ActorAllusion: When Barney tries to get Jerry to stop dancing at the club, Jerry calls him “a small-town preacher from the Midwest” and asks if dancing is banned, referencing ''Film/{{Footloose}}''. Creator/JohnLithgow played a small-town preacher in a town that banned dancing in that film. Also, before the gang goes out on the town, Jerry asks them if it’s time to “cut loose.”

* ShoutOut

* ActorAllusion: When Barney tries to get Jerry to stop dancing at the club, Jerry calls him “a small-town preacher from the Midwest” and asks if dancing is banned, referencing''Film/{{Footloose}}''. Creator/JohnLithgow played a small-town preacher in a town that banned dancing in that film. Also, before the gang goes out on the town, Jerry asks them if it’s time to “cut loose.”

* ContinuityNod: When Robin asks Ted to end their fake relationship so she can go hit on her secret crush after Barney and Jerry leave the club, Ted obliges by saying, "I would have stolen you a whole orchestra," in a deadpan voice. This is what he said to Robin when they actually broke up in "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E22SomethingBlue]], though with considerably more emotion.

* ActorAllusion: When Barney tries to get Jerry to stop dancing at the club, Jerry calls him “a small-town preacher from the Midwest” and asks if dancing is banned. These are references to the film ''Film/{{Footloose}}''. Creator/JohnLithgow played a small-town preacher in a town that banned dancing in that film. Also, before the gang goes out on the town, Jerry asks them if it’s time to “cut loose.”

* FromACertainPointOfView: Jerry takes advantage of Barney's drunkenness to make him believe that they're causing trouble on the street (e.g., what Barney remembers as Jerry roughing up a biker is just Jerry shaking a mannequin).

* ActorAllusion: When Barney tries to get Jerry to stop dancing at the club, Jerry calls him “a small town preacher from the Midwest” and asks if dancing is banned. These are references to the film ''Film/{{Footloose}}''. Creator/JohnLithgow played a small town preacher in a town that banned dancing in that film. Also, before the gang goes out on the town, Jerry asks them if it’s time to “cut loose”
* CrazyPrepared: Barney gives each of his friends "personality modification" cards to impress his father. Ted receives a stack of topics to avoid talking about; right as he starts quoting Oscar Wilde, Barney tells him to read the cards, and the first one says "No quoting Oscar Wilde".

* PlayingDrunk: Jerome tricks Barney by pretending to drink whilst secretly diposing of them and switching his bottle of alchohol with milk so that Barney would think he got his cool "Crazy Jerry" back to teach him a lesson.

* ActorAllusion: When Barney tries to get Jerry to stop dancing at the club, Jerry calls him “a small town preacher from the Midwest” and asks if dancing is banned. These are references to the film ''Film/Footloose''. Creator/JohnLithgow played a small town preacher in a town that banned dancing in that film. Also, before the gang goes out on the town, Jerry asks them if it’s time to “cut loose”

* ActorAllusion: When Barney tries to get Jerry to stop dancing at the club, Jerry calls him “a small town preacher from the Midwest” and asks if dancing is banned. These are references to the film Film/Footloose . Creator/JohnLithgow played a small town preacher in a town that banned dancing in that film. Also, before the gang goes out on the town, Jerry asks them if it’s time to “cut loose”

* ActorAllusion: When Barney tries to get Jerry to stop dancing at the club, Jerry calls him “a small town preacher from the Midwest” and asks if dancing is banned. These are references to the film Film.Footloose. Creator/JohnLithgow played a small town preacher in a town that banned dancing in that film. Also, before the gang goes out on the town, Jerry asks them if it’s time to “cut loose”

* ActorAllusion: When Barney tries to get Jerry to stop dancing at the club, Jerry calls him “a small town preacher from the Midwest” and asks if dancing is banned. These are references to the film “Film/Footloose”. Creator/JohnLithgow played a small town preacher in a town that banned dancing in that film. Also, before the gang goes out on the town, Jerry asks them if it’s time to “cut loose”

* ActorAllusion: When Barney tries to get Jerry to stop dancing at the club, Jerry calls him “a small town preacher from the Midwest” and asks if dancing is banned. These are references to the film Film/Footloose(Film). Creator/JohnLithgow played a small town preacher in a town that banned dancing in that film. Also, before the gang goes out on the town, Jerry asks them if it’s time to “cut loose”

* ActorAllusion: When Barney tries to get Jerry to stop dancing at the club, Jerry calls him “a small town preacher from the Midwest” and asks if dancing is banned. These are references to the film Film/Footloose. Creator/JohnLithgow played a small town preacher in a town that banned dancing in that film. Also, before the gang goes out on the town, Jerry asks them if it’s time to “cut loose”