Line #10 Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E17TheGoat


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3	Barney tries to find a loophole in the Bro Code when he feels guilty about sleeping with Robin, Ted's ex, and Lily decides to rescue a goat, all while Ted's surprise birthday party is being planned.
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6	!!This episode provides examples of:
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8	* AntagonistTitle: Subverted. Missy the goat actually "terrorizes" Ted in his 31st birthday. Overlaps with SecondaryCharacterTitle as Missy is [[UnreliableNarrator presented]] as the [[TokenEvilTeammate Token Evil]] TeamPet.
9	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Barney, feeling guilty for sleeping with Robin, allows Ted to hit him anywhere but NotInTheFace. Ted gives him a GroinAttack.
10	* BirthdayEpisode: Ted's 30th, to be exact.
11	* BitchInSheepsClothing: ''Almost''. Future!Ted keeps describing Missy as a monster complete with an ominous {{Leitmotif}}.
12	* TheBroCode: TropeNamer. This episode marks its debut, and it is integral to the plot.
13	* BrutalHonesty: The farmer who owns Missy blatantly tells Lily's class what the butcher will do to Missy.
14	* CallBack:
15	** Ted first mentioned the goat late in season 1.
16	** Ted and Barney's falling out is because of what happened in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E16SandcastlesInTheSand the previous episode]].
17	** Ted mentions a box where he will put his old stuff that he has no longer use for early in the episode. He will refer to it in a metaphorical way after his and Barney's falling out.
18	* CassandraTruth: Future!Ted says that he was right about believing that keeping a goat in the apartment is a bad idea.
19	* ContinuityNod:
20	** Robin briefly mentions Simon when she confesses what happened between her and Barney.
21	** Ted references Barney's [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E03Brunch hots for his mother in season 2]] and uses it against him in his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
22	* ContinuitySnarl: Future!Ted put the goat story in his 30th birthday, but it actually happened in his 31st. [[LampshadedTrope Which he winds up remembering in the ending stinger.]]
23	* EarlyBirdCameo: Missy the goat is introduced a year earlier than she was supposed to be.
24	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Future!Ted says that Robin will live with him by the time of his 31st birthday, which she eventually does starting next season until midway through Season 7.
25	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/BenjaminFranklin and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington appear in "the origins of TheBroCode" story.
26	* {{Hypocrite}}: Ted calls out Barney for sleeping with Robin and breaking TheBroCode, but he's not exactly on the moral high ground as he had previously cheated on Victoria with Robin himself.
27	* IdenticalGrandson: Barney is this if Barnabas Stinson from the origins of TheBroCode really did exist.
28	* LoopHoleAbuse: Barney hires Marshall to find any loopholes that could redeem his actions. Unfortunately, he wrote it so iron clad that Marshall couldn't find any. And any chances of finding if Ted breaking the Bro Code is rendered mute because Ted has followed it no matter what the situation (He once pretended to be a Russian Transvestite just to help Barney).
29	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Barney's main dilemma.
30	* NoodleIncident:
31	** Marshall reads over some documents, and is concerned that they could be at war with Portugal if signed incorrectly. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Barney say's that's a Tuesday for him]].
32	** Also, [=AltruCell=] did something to the water in Lisbon that caused Marshall to refuse to listen at first
33	** Later on, we see Barney shredding documents while talking to the phone in Chinese. He then proceeds to shred the phone afterwards.
34	* OutOfFocus: Missy the goat, which is lampshaded by Future!Ted in TheStinger.
35	* ShaggyDogStory: After having hyped how Missy the Goat ruined his thirtieth birthday for the entire episode, Older Ted remembers at the very last minute that it actually happened on his thirty-''first'' birthday.
36	* TranquilFury: Subverted. By the time Barney picks him up from work, Ted already knows what happened between him and Robin. Once it's out though, Ted eventually snaps.
37	* TrivialTitle: Not only is Missy [[EarlyBirdCameo wrongfully placed]] in the story, but her being OutOfFocus is lampshaded in TheStinger.
38	* WhamEpisode: Robin tells Ted about what happened between her and Barney, which results in Ted and Barney's falling out.
39	* WhamLine: Done in succession.
40	** Barney keeps insisting that Ted come with him so he'll gradually break the news, but...
41	--->'''Barney:''' There's something that I have to tell you, and I wanted you to be in the best possible frame of mind before you heard it.\
42	'''Ted:''' You slept with Robin.
43	** An InUniverse example in relation to the above...
44	--->'''Robin:''' I slept with Barney.
45	** And just when it gets any calmer...
46	---> '''Barney''': So, you're not mad?\
47	'''Ted''': No, I'm not mad. Well, Robin and I broke up a year ago, we both dated lots of people since then, I'm with Stella now. Seriously, I'm fine with this.\
48	'''Barney''': I'm so relieved to hear you say that.\
49	'''Ted''': Yeah, yeah. [[TranquilFury Oh, I just remembered, my mom is coming into town next month]]. '''Maybe you'd like to''' '''''[[SuddenlyShouting NAIL HER TOO]]'''''!!!
50	** Barney and Ted's fallout is not pretty...
51	--->'''Ted:''' You know Barney, earlier this week I started putting things in a box, and that box is labeled "stuff I have no use for anymore".\
52	'''Barney:''' And what does that mean?\
53	'''Ted:''' It means, maybe you belong in that box.\
54	'''Barney:''' Are you saying you don't wanna be bros anymore?\

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