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Season 4, Episode 8, Aired Nov 17, 2008

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A birthday party for one of Lily's co-workers leads to Robin connecting with a group of single partiers known as the "Woo Girls". Ted presents a plan for Goliath National Bank's new HQ.

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Matthew Stephen Young

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Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Jillian
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Krista Kalmus

Misty

Josh Radnor

Ted Mosby
Neil Patrick Harris

Barney Stinson
Alyson Hannigan

Lily Aldrin
Jason Segel

Marshall Eriksen
Cobie Smulders

Robin Scherbatsky

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Robin becomes a "Woo Girl".

9.0

"Superb"

By Jon_MW_14, Aug 23, 2011

"Woooo!" is such a fun How I Met Your Mother episode. In this episode, Robin doesn't want to hang out with Lily because Marshall is always there. I love how Lily invites Robin to a party in which Lily's friends is a woo "Woo Girl". I love how Robin becomes a "Woo girl" and Lily gets jealous and tries to be a "Woo Girl"' as well. It was kind of sad to see what the Woos really meant. I love how Lily decides to make more time for Robin without Marshall.I didn't really care for Barney hiring Ted, just to fire him, then hire him again. I did like the SVen part, but that was it. I give this episode a 9/10 because I really enjoyed Robin and Lily's plot.moreless
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Who are you writers, and what have you done with this series?

5.0

"Mediocre"

By sandybadlands, Feb 11, 2011

I first got hooked on How I Met Your Mother because it depicted a place and time realistically, only funnier. The characters were quirky (but not overly so) and not stereotypes, and the stories were original and usually specific to New York. It seemed like a group of twentysomethings might actually have a life like this, and use slang and made-up words in the same way. What I just watched, however, was unrecognizable as an episode of the same series.

By adding unrealistic laugh-grabbing scenes (such as Sven's impossible architectural presentation) and exaggerated dialogue (like any scene with the girls in the bar), the writers have fundamentally changed what the series used to be about, and that is why I'm rapidly losing faith in this show. The laughs and the surprises have been harder to come by lately, and this episode had none of either. One scene-ending joke was actually just a series of rhymes. Can that really be called comedy?

This show is struggling. Halfway through I almost turned it off. But I keep thinking it might improve....moreless
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The Woo Girls.

7.0

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By Canogaparkcindy, May 02, 2010

For some reason, the episodes that have to do with the group's work life don't ever really set well with me. So that's why the rating of the episode is pretty average. Although this episode was pretty eventful in Ted's work life. He gets a chance to design a building that would be part of the New York Skyline; Barney helps him get this opportunity, but also helps him lose it. Barney fell in to the charm of another architectural group: Sven, and Barney sold out Ted just so he can have a dinosaur building, when Marshall finds out, he urges Barney to fix the problem immediately. Meanwhile, Robin feels out of place and always hates it when she never can actually talk to Lilly alone without all the interruptions, including Marshall. So she joins the woo girls. The woo girls are party animals, but by the end, you find out the woo girls are very sad people, and Robin's one of them. Robin is unemployed and single; sometimes you have to woo once in a while when things aren't going so well with your life. Funniest scene is when Lilly & Robin find out what the "Woo's" really mean, and then Ted pops out of nowhere, hilarious. Barney does end up fixing the situation by the end, and Ted ends up getting the job. So a funny B plot, and a not so enjoyable A plot, but it was definitely eventful, which made this episode slightly above average.moreless
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Sven!

9.0

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By The-A-Man, Nov 19, 2008

Sven! How cool was Braney playing a Swedish architect. and that sales pitch almost killed me - I was laughing so hard!

Ted finally get a big break. Woo (sarcastic) - like I could possibly care less.

Stinson leads this one manfully with a betrayal and then redemption with his "best friend". Marshall provided top support.

The conference call concept idea was hilarious - and I suspect that it could actually work at a bank these days.

The "Woo" girls got really, really tiresome after the 3rd "woo" - and a lot downhill from there on. Ted as a "woo girl" was fantastic - and beautifully apt.

Barney at the end was also extremely humorous. More more more!moreless
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Barney gives Ted a chance to build a new HQ while Lilley is shocked to realise that a work friend is a woo girl.

7.5

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By huntercal, Nov 19, 2008

It would seem that almost as every week goes by Barney seems to need to carry most of the laughs in this season. This ep is a prime example but still has enough laughs to keep you tuned in.

Barney decides to give Ted the chance to design the new HQ for Goliath National Bank before selling him out for Sven, a swedish company who design a T-Rex building. With the opportunity to have a T-Rex brain for an office Barney chooses Sven to the great dislike of Marshall.

Meanwhile, Lilley takes Robin to the birthday party of a work friend when they discover she is a woo girl. She's basically a girl that accompanies anything she does with a loud WOO! Things get more uncomfortable when Robin joins the woo girls to the disappointment of Lilley.

This is still a funny ep with plenty of more inside jokes (conference call anyone?) but what it really lacked was a genuine laugh out loud moment rather settling for small chuckle moments. I only hope that the other characters can startto support Barney in the laugh stakes.moreless
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- Barney: Sweden thinks they're so cool. (in a French accent) Oh, we are Swedish! With our croissants and our baguettes and our Eiffel Tower!
  Marshall: Dude, Sweden's not France. You know that, right?
  Barney: Oh, it's right.
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- Barney: What is your firm currently designing?
  Ted: The new York public library.
  Robin: Ted, that's amazing!
  Ted: No, it's the new public library in York, North Dakota. Their books are in two categories: fishin' and non fishin'.
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- Marshall: Hey, you wanna go to the current GNB building and pee on it a little? Ted: Yeah, I think I need that.
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- Jillian: Guys, the most embarrassing thing just happened. My boob accidentally fell out of my shirt—psyche! I whipped it out for a free drink! Girls: Woooo! Robin: So, Jillian, I hear when you're not flashing bartenders you teach the second grade. What's that like?
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- Barney: The world absolutely needs Woooo girls. If there were no Woo girls, there would be no Girls Gone Wild, no bachelorette parties, no Las Vegas poolside bars. All the things that you hold dearest, Lily, would be gone. Lily: Those are not the things… Barney: The souvenir shot glass industry would collapse. So would the body glitter industry... and the stretch Hummer limo industry. Tiny cowboy hats would only be worn by tiny cowboys. And when "Brown Eyed Girl" would come up on the jukebox, all you would hear would be silence... and "Brown Eyed Girl". But who would woo? Would you? Would you... woo?
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- Robin: Look, Lily, you're married, but I'm still single. I'm usually the third wheel to you and Marshall, and sometimes it's nice to go out with single women and do single women things. Lily: Like what? Robin: Like woo, Lily. Like woo. Lily: Hey, I can woo. Robin: That's not true. Lily: I could too. Robin: It's just not you.
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- Marshall: I love this! Drinking at work. Barney: We're basically mad men. Marshall: We are so Mad Men! Barney: I'm going to go slap a secretary on the ass. Marshall: Yes! That's exactly what they would do on that show! Barney: What show?
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- Lily: We saw you woo. Robin: Saw who woo? Lily: Saw you woo. Robin: I didn't woo. Lily: You did too. Robin: That's not true. Lily: Your nose just grew.
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- Robin: I love Marshall, but he's always 'talkblocking' me.
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- Lily: Oh, my God, Bitch, this is our anthem! Robin: Really, who sings this? Lily: Is LL Cool J still doing things?
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- Barney: (speaking to the board) So it's agreed, all ATM fees are now called 'Freedom Charges'.
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- The German episode title is "Woooo!". The French title is "Savez-vous dire Woooo?", meaning "Do You Know how to Say Woooo?". The Italian title is "Vita da single", meaning "Single Life".
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- International Airdates: Germany: December 19, 2009 on ProSieben; United Kingdom: January 28, 2010 on E4; Czech Republic: November 3, 2010 on Prima COOL
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- When Robin is lying about "wooing", Lily insists she is lying and says, "Your nose just grew." This is in reference to Carlo Collodi's fairy tale The Adventures of Pinocchio about a wooden puppet that comes to life and whose nose grows when he tells lies.
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