john lithgow played barney's father on how i met your mother.
john lithgow played barney's father on how i met your mother.
who plays barney's father on how i met your mother?
john lithgow
barney finally admits to the gang that bob barker is not his real father, especially when his mother decides to sell the house he grew up in and his brother, james, meets his own father. loretta offers the identity of barney's father on a sheet of paper, but barney tears this up after realizing her efforts as a single mother. at the funeral of marshall's father, barney tells loretta that he wants to see his father at last. the man, jerry whittaker (john lithgow), is eventually revealed to be someone whom barney thought was his uncle. barney, who remembers jerry as a fun-loving man, is disappointed after learning how jerry has grown out of his free-wheeling ways. although he tries to bring back jerry's old behaviors, barney admits that he wants to settle down someday. he is also introduced to nora (nazanin boniadi), a co-worker of robin, for whom he develops feelings. after an initial falling out, the two reconcile at the end of the season after barney asks her for coffee.
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)