Game Night

Season 1, Episode 15, Aired
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A mysterious tape arrives for Barney from one of his numerous ex-girlfriends, and the entire gang watches it. But, in order for them all to find out how she broke Barney's heart and made him into a suit-wearing bachelor, everyone must share their most embarrassing moment.
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  • The gang reveals embarrassing stories to get Barney to reveal his most embarrassing moment.

    10
    "Perfect"
    By Jon_MW_14, Aug 16, 2011 Report Abuse
    "Game Night" is an amazing How I Met Your Mother episode. I love how Marshall is a genius at games, so he creates all the games for game night. I love how they watch a tape of Barney singing, playing the keyboard while crying, and his a hippie. I love how everyone shares embarrassing stories to make him reveal what that video was all about. I love how Ted reveals that the night he met Robin, he puked on her door mat. I love how Marshall reveals his most embarrassing moment is when his butt accidentally shown to the class. I love when Lily reveals that her most embarrassing moment is having sex with Marshall and Marshall's mom was still on the phone. Anyways, it was interesting to see how Barney became who he is today. I love how he was a hippie in love with this girl named Shannon who ditched him, and so he suited up, and became legendary. I give this episode a 10/10.moreless

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  • A mysterious tape arrives for Barney from one of his numerous ex-girlfriends, and the entire gang watches it. But, in order for them all to find out how she broke Barney's heart and made him into a suit-wearing bachelor, everyone must share their most embmoreless

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    By nishantgupta, Jun 28, 2011 Report Abuse
    Another poor episode. After each episode i just keep wondering as to why this series is still running !! Marshall's embarrasing moment was really funny, but it was the only good thing in the entire episode. Barney's story was just too boring. I can't buy the fact that a guy can change so radically after a break up. Shannon was cute though. Also the make up was laughable. I could easily see Barney's original hair below the stupid wig he was wearing. Also when he has applied shaving cream on his chin to shave of the goatee, there are no hair below the shaving cream ! The crew should be more devoted.moreless

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  • Simply the best.!

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    By amazing_race, Nov 18, 2010 Report Abuse
    This was a very amazing episode, and I would even go as far as saying it is one of the tiop three ever, if not number one.

    There was a lot of amazing humour within the episode. Firstly, the concept of Barney as a hippie was so funny, and I couldn't stop mysefl laughing when I saw that. How awesome was that?!

    I also loved the 'most embarrassing stories' that each of the characters told, particulary Lily's and Marshall's story of Marshall without his pants in front of Kindergarten.

    Overall, there was so much great humour in this episode, I think it is just plain awesome! Keep it up, How I Met Your Mother, as this is going great!moreless

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  • In here there are just jokes and jokes and jokes, but no real storyline. Nice, but not overwhelming after all.

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    By dju010, Sep 25, 2010 Report Abuse
    What? That's the question I ask myself after watching this episode. I mean were there were some really funny jokes in here, but what does it have to do with the story?

    Ok let's start from the beginning:
    Marshall takes over game night. It's kind of funny. But the best part of the new game night is Lily's power play with Barney. I so like her for such things. Barney's reaction is so great, when he cuts that tape! And then the big bang of this episode is here. We see Barney on that tape! My god! Such a great idea! The singing, so horrible I almost fell of my chair. It was so funny. I had higher hoped for the fallowing story when he ran off, but then the story went down a bit, unfortunately. But still the story was great after that.
    Barney plays the whole group when he wants to hear the most embarrassing moments of each and every one. Sadly we don't really learn more about Robin and Victoria (well it looks like she's going to leave after the next episode, isn't she?).
    The embarrassing Moments of Marshall is really nice. The one of Lily is more one for Lily and Marshall. But I really liked that one. But why didn't her mother hang up? I mean is that really what someone wants to her? I certainly wouldn't, but hey that's everyone's own decision
    The story of Ted is quite lame, but it's quite nice. Especially that he has to admit that in front of Robin. No really that's not what I expected, and let's face it, I expected more!

    But Barney's story topped everything. I really liked that story. So nice!moreless

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  • A hilarious yet sad look at Barney's previous life (contains recap)

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    By RB434, Sep 25, 2010 Report Abuse
    In this funny and enjoyable episode, we learn of Barney's past life and how he became the man he is today.
    Everyone and Victoria go to Ted's house to play a game Marshall created called Marshallopoly. In order to interrogate Victoria without actually interrogating her, Marshall continually asks her autobiography questions from the game.
    Lilly tells Barney that he ran into an old friend of his and when trying to guess her name with S's, Barney blurts out her name, Shannon and freaks out when Lilly mentions a tape she gave her to give to him. Lilly brings the tape in and barney quickly destroys it only to find out it's a decoy and Lilly puts the real tape in. On it we see Barney with long hair and a beard dressed in hippie clothes crying and singin a love song to Shannon. Barney grabs the tape and leaves.
    At the Clarence, everyone is worried about Barney and he shows up a few minutes later and tells sections of his story as everyone tells their most embrassing moment to make him continue.
    In 1998, Barney worked at a coffee house playing the piano and singing and worked with his girlfriend and love, Shannon. We see that Barney was a sensitive, peaceloving guy who hated suits and wanted to join peacecrops as well as wait to have sex with Shannon after they were married. However Barney's heart is broken when he finds out that Shannon is seeing a successful and rich man named Greg. He attemptted to win her back by making the infamous tape but it failed and Barney recieves a filer on a suit sale and goes there. He then transforms into the man he is today.
    Barney then says that after he left the apartment, he went to see Shannon and finds out that her and Greg broke up years ago and that she's a single mom. Barney then makes a revelation on his life now and in a mere moment you feel sympathy towards him, but then he laughs and recants back happily saying that his life rocks.
    We also learn of everyone except Victoria's and Robin's embrassing moment although we hear Victoria's intro. We learn of Marshall being called funny butt by Lilly's class because he freaked when a kid saw him in a shared bathroom and forget to pull up his pants, Lilly and Marshall's dislike of his mom's cookies and how they have sex but Lilly frogot to turn off the phone while his mom listens on, and Ted's wee-return, when Ted first broke up with Robin he got drunk and went back to her place with Barney and the cab driver and Ted puked on her doormat ruining it.
    This episode was hilarious. I felt said for Barney, in the past, when Shannon broke his heart and then she and Greg laughed at him for his video. I knew when I read this summary that Barney's change would be because of a heartbreak from a girl, but the writers made it funny and enjoyable and I especially loved the part where Barney recants about his life and the audience thinks 'Now he'll change his life'. But are left with a recanting Barney on how great his life is now.
    Funny and enjoyable episode.moreless

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  • Trivia

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    • In this episode, Barney says that after finding out that Shannon and Greg were dating, he decides to "Suit up". But in the third season episode "The Yips" he said he went straight to his brother James who told him to go to the Manmaker. Edit
    • In the Re-Return flashback featuring Ranjit, there are some minor continuity errors with the costuming, including Ted's tie being different, but more noticable is that Ranjit's blue jacket in the original version is replaced by a red sweater. Edit
    • In "Drumroll, Please" Barney lies to a bridesmaid about joining the Peace Corps, and this episode reveals that at one time Barney did, in fact, plan to join the Peace Corps. Edit

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    • The German episode title is "Spieleabend", an exact translation. The French title is "Révélations". The Italian title is "Il gioco della verità", meaning "Game of Truth". Edit
    • International Airdates: Czech Republic: December 22, 2009 on Prima COOL Edit
    • Music Featured In This Episode: Song during final montage was "Off the Record" by My Morning Jacket Edit

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    • Barney: Ladies, gentlemen, Ted. This has been a wonderful evening. I got great dirt on all you guys. I got Ted to tell the Re-return. I finally nailed Shannon. Told her I'd call her tomorrow...ayeah, right! And I rediscovered how awesomely awesome my life is. Peace out, hombres! (the rest of the group is silent)
      Marshall: I think Barney just won game night. Edit
    • Marshall: Backgammon sucks. I took the only good part of backgammon, the gammon, and I left the rest of it in the trash where it belongs. Edit
    • Older Ted: We spend so much effort trying to keep parts of our lives hidden, even from our closest friends, that those rare times when we do open up, it's amazing how minor those secrets all end up being. Edit

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    • After Barney finds out Shannon dumped him for the guy in the suit, we see Barney being transformed. He is laying on a table that raises up as he dons a dark suit, a homage to Star Wars: Episode III and the creation of Darth Vader. Edit

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