Writer:	Matt Kuhn
Director:	Pamela Fryman
Star:	Jason Segel (Marshall Eriksen),  Bob Saget (Voice of Ted, 2030),  Cobie Smulders (Robin Scherbatsky),  Josh Radnor (Ted Mosby),  Alyson Hannigan (Lily Aldrin),  Neil Patrick Harris (Barney Stinson)
Guest Star:	Orson Bean (Bob),  Eben Ham (Young Bob)

International Air Dates:
Australia: May 8, 2008 on Network 7 (edit) Music Featured In This Episode :
"Still Alright" by Adam Merrin
"You Just Got Slapped" by Marshall Eriksen (edit) The slapcountdown.com clock was off by 30 seconds in the West Coast. (edit) According to the Slap Countdown website (introduced in the episode Wait For It...) a slap will occur at 8:27pm the night that this episode airs. The clock counts down to 8:27 pm, November 19, 2007, based on your own computer's clock, which is presumably accurate (i.e., during the episode) for viewers in the Eastern and Pacific time zones, but an hour late for those in Central and Mountain times. During part of November, immediately after daylight savings time ended, the clock was counting down to 7:27 pm. This was subsequently corrected. (edit)

Future Ted: You see on the surface Robin and I looked like we were doing great, but the truth is, trying to be friends with your ex is a lot harder than it looks...
(Flashback) ... you can't be as candid as you used to be!
Ted: So then hot intern leans over my desk, I can totally see she has a pierced-... (Robin and Lily passes) ...Brosnan! Pierce Brosnan is my favorite of all the Bonds.
(edit) Barney: I'm sorry, did u just say the Canadian thanksgiving was - and I'm quoting - the "real thanksgiving"? What do Canadians even have to celebrate a-boot?
Robin: The Canadian thanksgiving celebrates explorer Martin Frobisher's valiant, yet ultimately, unsuccessful attempt to find the Northwest Passage.
Barney: Why are you guys even a country? (edit) Marshall: Oh my! Look at that! That means we're in the final hour of the countdown.
Barney: I'm not scared
Marshall: Then why is your right cheek twitching?
Barney: It's not...
Marshall: Maybe it's because future me slaps future you so hard, it reverberates back to the present, shattering the time-slap continuum .
Barney: Please don't slap me! (edit) Barney: No, no. The countdown ends at 3pm the day after thanksgiving. I counted it out!
Ted: How many days are in October?
Barney: Uhhh...Thirty (edit) (after knowing Ted and Robin slept togheter)
Barney: Relapse five! That's when we high five, then it gets awkward a little bit...then we high five again! (edit)

Early in the episode we are told that the slap will occur at 3:01pm. However, as Marshall shows Barney the slap bet countdown in the final hour, the clock in the background clearly shows the time as 4:20. (edit) In the flashback explanation of the slap bet, the clip they show for the first slap is not the official first of the five slaps but rather when Marshall prematurely slapped Barney after believing he was right in guessing Robin was married. (edit) Marshall looks at the slap countdown, which shows 2:45:19 remaining, but then tells Barney they're in the final hour. (edit) Determined from the countdown in the episode, that scene was filmed on October 19th, 2007 at 2:40 PM. (edit)

In the flashback to Halloween, we see Barney dressed up as, and imitating, Sacha Baron Cohen's title character from Larry Charles' 2006 film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. (edit)