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* In "The Magician's Code, Part 1," Marshall was drunkenly trying to use an ATM, and the ATM's screen turned into the original ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' briefly.

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* In "The Magician's Code, Part 1," Marshall was drunkenly trying to use an ATM, and the ATM's screen turned into the original ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' briefly.
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* In "Do I Know You?", Marshall asks Ted what color Stella's eyes are, and he responds with, "The color of the sea after a storm", which is paraphrased from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.

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* In "Do I Know You?", Marshall asks Ted what color Stella's eyes are, and he responds with, "The color of the sea ocean after a storm", which is paraphrased from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
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* In "Do I Know You?", Marshall asks Ted what color Stella's eyes are, and he responds with, "The color of the sea after a storm", which is paraphrased from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
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* In "Bad Crazy," Ted needs to purge his crazy girlfriend from his apartment, saying [[Film/HomeAlone "This is my house, and I have to defend it."]]

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* In "Bad Crazy," Ted needs to purge his crazy girlfriend from his apartment, saying [[Film/HomeAlone [[Film/HomeAlone1 "This is my house, and I have to defend it."]]
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* In "Unfinished", Marshall has an entire elaborate ''StarWars'' analogy for GNB and Ted being like "the guy who built the Death Star". Not designing it with any ventilation shafts and clearly marking all the trash compactors on the detention level…

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* In "Unfinished", Marshall has an entire elaborate ''StarWars'' ''Film/ANewHope'' analogy for GNB and Ted being like "the guy who built the Death Star". Not designing it with any ventilation shafts and clearly marking all the trash compactors on the detention level…
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I added a shout out to "Silence of the Lambs" mentioned in 2 episodes after watching "The Final Page Part II" episode.

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* There are references to Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs in two episodes: one where a lady Barney picks up mentions the movie upon acting apprehensive when he takes her to the back of a truck in an alley, and one referring to the pit in the film where Ted, Robin, Marshall, and Lily imagine throwing into the pit people who have wronged them.
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* From the episode "Landmarks", Ted's mom briefly appears in Ted's dream holding a spinning top thats actually spinning in her hand. A nod to Film/{{Inception}}.
* Steve "The Blitz" is a walking ShoutOut to ''Series/{{Lost}}''. His name has the same form as his Lost character, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes. Both characters are chronically unluncky. When asked for random numbers, Steve calls out the {{Arc Number}}s from Lost which "cursed" Hurley (making this one a literal shout out). Finally, he compares the unlucky streak to being on an island for a very long time, [[spoiler: which is how Hurley's character arc ultimately ends]].

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* From the episode "Landmarks", Ted's mom briefly appears in Ted's dream holding a spinning top thats that's actually spinning in her hand. A nod to Film/{{Inception}}.
* Steve "The Blitz" is a walking ShoutOut to ''Series/{{Lost}}''. His name has the same form as his Lost character, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes. Both characters are chronically unluncky.unlucky. When asked for random numbers, Steve calls out the {{Arc Number}}s from Lost which "cursed" Hurley (making this one a literal shout out). Finally, he compares the unlucky streak to being on an island for a very long time, [[spoiler: which is how Hurley's character arc ultimately ends]].
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* In "Rally", when Barney is drunk, one of his incomprehensible mumbles is "Aggle flaggle plabble wumby flappy", the entire dialogue of Trixie, the infant heroine of Mo Willems' children's book ''Knuffle Bunny''.

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* In "Rally", when Barney is drunk, one of his incomprehensible mumbles is "Aggle flaggle plabble wumby flappy", the entire dialogue of Trixie, the infant heroine of Mo Willems' children's book ''Knuffle Bunny''.''Literature/KnuffleBunny''.
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* In "Hooked" Barney laments the passing of the era of hot pharma girls, and speculates (while quite high) that the next hot girl profession may be [[Series/StarTrek "intergalactic communications officer on a rocket ship to some distant solar system we can't possibly imagine…"]]

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* In "Hooked" Barney laments the passing of the era of hot pharma girls, and speculates (while quite high) that the next hot girl profession may be [[Series/StarTrek [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "intergalactic communications officer on a rocket ship to some distant solar system we can't possibly imagine…"]]
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* Barney is named after a heroin dealer in the book version of ''LAConfidential''.

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* Barney is named after a heroin dealer in the book version of ''LAConfidential''.''Literature/LAConfidential''.
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* In "The Front Porch", when being questioned over breaking up Ted with numerous girlfriends, Lily gets her Colonel Jessup on and imitates the famous scene from AFewGoodMen.

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* In "The Front Porch", when being questioned over breaking up Ted with numerous girlfriends, Lily gets her Colonel Jessup on and imitates the famous scene from AFewGoodMen.''Film/AFewGoodMen''.

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* ''Film/LethalWeapon'': I'm too old for this sh… stuff!" Ted watches the films.
* When Marshall describes how wonderful it feels to sleep in a nightshirt, the accompanying fantasy sequence mimics the dream sequence from ''Film/TheBigLebowski''.



* Then there was the time a kid was running rampant in Lily's class with a toy horse. She admits that she's a psycho when she reveals that during nap time, [[Film/TheGodfather she cut off the horse's head and placed it in his bed.]]
* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': Oh Captain My Captain!



* Steve "The Blitz" is a walking ShoutOut to ''Series/{{Lost}}''. His name has the same form as his Lost character, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes. Both characters are chronically unluncky. When asked for random numbers, Steve calls out the {{Arc Number}}s from Lost which "cursed" Hurley (making this one a literal shout out). Finally, he compares the unlucky streak to being on an island for a very long time, [[spoiler: which is how Hurley's character arc ultimately ends]].



* ''Film/LethalWeapon'': I'm too old for this sh… stuff!" Ted watches the films.
* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': Oh Captain My Captain!
* When Marshall describes how wonderful it feels to sleep in a nightshirt, the accompanying fantasy sequence mimics the dream sequence from ''Film/TheBigLebowski''.
* Steve "The Blitz" is a walking ShoutOut to ''Series/{{Lost}}''. His name has the same form as his Lost character, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes. Both characters are chronically unluncky. When asked for random numbers, Steve calls out the {{Arc Number}}s from Lost which "cursed" Hurley (making this one a literal shout out). Finally, he compares the unlucky streak to being on an island for a very long time, [[spoiler: which is how Hurley's character arc ultimately ends]].



* Then there was the time a kid was running rampant in Lily's class with a toy horse. She admits that she's a psycho when she reveals that during nap time, [[Film/TheGodfather she cut off the horse's head and placed it in his bed.]]
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* In "The End of the Aisle," Barney's dressing room is decorated with ''Art/TheLastSupper'', a significant reference considering that the series ended in the episode after this one.
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* "Best Prom Ever" has [[AlysonHannigan Lily]] mention several times she wanted to have a [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer lesbian experience]].

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* "Best Prom Ever" has [[AlysonHannigan [[Creator/AlysonHannigan Lily]] mention several times she wanted to have a [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer lesbian experience]].



* Possibly unintentional, "Zoo or False" sees Lily, played by AlysonHannigan, going as a [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E6Halloween sexy cat for Halloween, then changing her mind.]]

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* Possibly unintentional, "Zoo or False" sees Lily, played by AlysonHannigan, Creator/AlysonHannigan, going as a [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E6Halloween sexy cat for Halloween, then changing her mind.]]

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