neil patrick harris played barney from how i met your mother.
neil patrick harris played barney from how i met your mother.
who plays barney from how i met your mother?
neil patrick harris
the final story has the gang at mclaren's, where barney has his sights set on a girl who just walked into the bar. lily says the girl is out of barney's league, but barney claims no girl is unworthy as he is the “player king of new york city.” barney relates a story of how he was called before the high council of players, a group of pickup artists of differing social backgrounds each with a specific borough of new york city in which they can seduce women (the members are all played by neil patrick harris): hipster pickle jar bob in brooklyn, guido staten island lou in staten island, airline pilot impersonator captain bill in queens, new york yankee impersonator bronx donnie in the bronx, and upper class tuxedo charlie with whom barney shares manhattan, using fifth avenue as the boundary; charlie gets the eastern side, barney the western side. because lisa lives on east 22nd street and barney had impersonated derek jeter to bed her, barney must offer robin and lily to charlie and donnie respectively as recompense for using donnie's methods in charlie's territory. barney agrees, then offers a toast of champagne to everyone. they all drink except barney, who reveals he had poisoned the drink, and laughs as the other members die. in the present, the others sarcastically applaud barney's story, but reveal ted to be making out with the girl to punish barney for sleeping with lisa, leaving barney annoyed and jealous. the scene is an allusion to a similar meeting scene in "the godfather" in which the leaders of the five crime families of new york meet to settle a dispute.
bedtime stories (how i met your mother)
barney describes the play he used, the "lorenzo von matterhorn", using fake websites, a smartphone, and an exotic name. barney's next move is a play called the "he's not coming," where he seduces vulnerable girls at the top of the empire state building. one of the girls barney picks up, however, is an actress friend of lily's, and she steals the playbook when in barney's apartment. lily reveals the ploy to barney and threatens to post the playbook on the internet if he doesn't stop using it. barney shows up at the apartment in a scuba suit, saying he has one last play, "the scuba diver." lily tells marshall to post the playbook, but marshall is bamboozled as there is not a play called "the scuba diver" in the playbook. they go down to the bar, where barney sits in a booth. the gang heads over, and barney tells them he plans to seduce the blonde by the bar. they ask him what "the scuba diver" is, and barney breaks down, saying his breakup with robin was hurting him more than he thought, and this was how he coped. touched, the gang convinces claire (the girl at the bar, portrayed by sarah wright) to go out with barney for a cup of coffee. after they leave, the gang gets a text message from barney and finds the description of the "scuba diver" under their table at maclaren's. it was actually an elaborate con; involving lily's disgust at the playbook, revealing barney's tricks to claire, barney's fake breakdown over his breakup, and his friends encouraging the prey to go with barney.
the playbook (how i met your mother)