cobie smulders played barney's wife in how i met your mother.
cobie smulders played barney's wife in how i met your mother.
who plays barney's wife in how i met your mother?
cobie smulders
barney stinson is one of five main characters on "how i met your mother". he is a manipulative, oversexed businessman in his thirties who always wears a suit, likes women with "daddy issues" and is frequently willing to offer his (sometimes hypocritical) opinion. throughout the earlier seasons, barney is a huge womanizer, and has been described as a "high-functioning sociopath" by his best friend, ted mosby (josh radnor). barney has a plethora of strategies and rules designed to meet women, sleep with them, and discard them. through several seasons of the show, four of the main characters are couples, as ted began dating robin scherbatsky (cobie smulders) and ted's roommate marshall eriksen (jason segel) becomes engaged and later married to lily aldrin (alyson hannigan). this leaves barney the only single character, and, according to harris, barney is "resentful" that the other characters have paired up. later on, in season 5, he dates robin. they end up breaking up not long after, once they both realize they are making one another miserable.
barney stinson
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)