| “Good Crazy” | ||
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| First aired: April 30, 2012 | ||
| Director: Pamela Fryman | ||
| Writer: Carter Bays Craig Thomas | ||
| Barney's Blog | ||
When Lily and Marshall have a baby shower, Marshall starts to panic after realizing the birth of his baby is fast approaching. Meanwhile, Ted and Robin come to terms with their relationship, and Barney takes Marshall on a road trip.
Recap[]
Lily and Marshall hold their baby shower. However, Robin appears three hours early while Ted (who wanted to avoid Robin) shows up three hours after the party - and both have strollers as gifts.
Because Ted had been eager to avoid Robin for as long as he can, Barney encourages Ted to try out online dating by setting him up with three specific women. Over the course of each date, Ted suddenly visualizes Robin sitting in front of him and is determined to get her out of his mind even if his dates found him weird. On the third date, Ted finds out that his date, Holly, needed someone to get her over a recent breakup, which leads them to sleeping together. Apparently relieved, Ted goes back to MacLaren's and tries to order a drink, but sees Robin as the bartender and a nearby patron. Both pseudo-Robins encourage him to find Robin and make amends. Both Ted and Robin meet by chance outside the bar and try to talk but Robin says it is not yet a good time.
Meanwhile, Barney gets concerned over his relationship with Quinn and overreacts in situations regarding her job. After bystanders greet Quinn on the sidewalk, Barney fires a top GNB official and offers Quinn a job at the bank as an "executive strategy coordinator" - which turns out to be just something to keep Quinn from stripping. Seeing that Barney's trying to dictate her career, Quinn asks for some time to think and leaves Barney, who reinstates the official.
With the baby's impending birth, Marshall conditions himself for various parenthood situations by using a watermelon as a practice baby. Lily is not happy with what he is doing and applies for a two-day parental workshop. As they prepare to leave, Marshall dozes off seeing Lily as the driver but wakes up hours later with Barney behind the wheel. Barney explains that Lily sought his help and was near the car wearing a disguise for the switch; the "parental workshop" was actually a trip to Atlantic City that Lily planned so Marshall could unwind. Both men hit the casinos, where Barney proposes wearing the Ducky Tie again if they can turn off their phones for one hour and drink 100 tequila shots. As a drunk Marshall madly tosses poker chips around the casino floor, Barney turns his phone back on and sees 17 voicemails - all coming from Lily, who has gone into labor and wants them back to New York immediately.
Continuity[]
- Barney makes use of his statistics again, as he mentions his online dating success rate to be as high as 83 percent.
- The Ducky Tie returns.
- Xing Hai Shi Bu Xing appears, which was first seen in Atlantic City.
- The scene of Marshall getting wild at the casino and yelling "All hail Beercules!" was first shown in The Naked Truth.
- The beer that Ted is talking to is a Wharmpess which was made by Randy, Marshall's and Barney's ex-co-worker.
- Marshall is seen smoking his last cigarette ever at the casino in Atlantic City, as revealed in Last Cigarette Ever.
- Quinn says "Come again for Big Fudge," originally said by Marshall in Jenkins.
- Ted again wants to take a girl out on a date to Miniature Golf, which is previously shown in Of Course.
- Ted mentions growing his mustache while on his date with Holly (his 'palate cleanser'). Although not a breakup, he was still heartbroken after the rejection from Robin, and he grows a mustache after his relationships end as seen in Wait For It.
- The fake online dating profile Barney set up to "catch" Ted references many of the events of the series, such as:
- The Goat accident, which happened in The Goat.
- Ted's love of Pablo Neruda, shown in The Naked Man.
- Ted's favorite book, Love in the Time of Cholera, mentioned in Milk.
- Ted's desire for a woman can quote Ghostbusters mentioned in Pilot
- Ted's love for dogs, also mentioned in Pilot.
- The coin documentary done by "The guy who played Argyle" in Die Hard, mentioned in Noretta.
- Ted's habit of correcting people's grammar, first referenced in Spoiler Alert.
- Ted's "baggage" of being left at the altar by Stella; the concept of "baggage" is introduced in The Wedding Bride.
- Ted's hatred for Sven's architecture firm, which first appeared in Woooo!
- Ted's love for crosswords, mentioned in Natural History and Robots Versus Wrestlers.
- Ted's name can be seen in the profile, alluding to Barney attracting Ted's attention, alongside with the research for "the One".
- Lily is chewing the cookies that Barney made her quite loudly, which could be reference to her loud chewing brought up in Spoiler Alert
- Ted says Robin once made "lasagna" by attempting to salvage her botched kugel. This may have happened in The Burning Beekeeper, when Robin couldn't figure out how to make kugel so brought a store-bought one to Marshall and Lily's party.
Future References (Contains Spoilers)[]
- When Barney and Lily switch places as Marshall is asleep, he is seen on the street in his Old Sailor outfit which he will use again to talk to Ted in the elevator in Weekend at Barney's.
Gallery[]
- For a listing of all images on the wiki tagged as being from this episode, see Category:Good Crazy images.
Memorable Quotes[]
| Ted: | I just think it's best of Robin and I don't see each other for awhile. |
| Lily: | Ted, it's fine. I'm a child of divorce. You guys keep fighting all you want, as long as the expensive gifts keep coming. |
| Barney: | Is it a lot, Grandma Lois? Yes, my girlfriend gets naked and sits on guys' laps for money. And yes, sometimes it's as many as fifty laps in one day. And maybe society considers what she does to be "disgusting" or "slutty" or "verging on prostitution" or "actual prostitution". But you know what? I accept her. And if you can't do the same, well then shame on you! Shame. On. You. |
| Quinn: | We were, um, talking about swimming. How I sometimes swim fifty laps a day. |
| Barney: | Well it's great cardio. Lois, can I top off your champagne? |
| Barney: | I'm thinking of something much more traditional. Online dating. |
| Ted: | Yeah, no thanks. |
| Barney: | Come on, Ted, it's 2012. What do you expect, to meet some cute travel agent when you're reading a newspaper at a bookstore? None of those things exist anymore. |
| Ted: | Barney, I will never, ever, ever try online dating. |
| Future Ted: | That night I tried online dating. |
| Barney: | I scoured the dating sites, using my own personal logarithms, factoring in a broad spectrum of variables, filtering our undesirable high-risk negatives, guaranteeing a success rate of eighty-three-- |
| Ted: | You picked the girls that showed the most boob. |
| Barney: | My methods gets results! |
| Ted: | Your name is Robin. |
| Robyn: | Yeah, with a "y". |
| Ted: | Oh, Yobin. |
| Robyn: | No, Robyn. I go by ScotchAndGunlover in my online profile because those are my two favorite things. Well, next to Canada, my home and native land. |
| Ted: | Oh. Canada. |
| Future Ted: | With that, an argument began, the details of which are still are still hotly debated to this day. For instance, Uncle Marshall swears he never said... |
| Marshall: | I'm the only one making sacrifices for this baby! |
| Future Ted: | And he claims he never actually uttered the words... |
| Marshall: | It's like you don't even know you're pregnant! |
| Future Ted: | While Lily insists this part was exaggerated. |
| Lily: | Babies are easy! You just watch 'em be cute and feed 'em spaghetti! |
| Barney: | Oh, Yobin. |
| Ted: | No, Robin. And for the rest of the night, every time I looked at her, I just saw Robin's face. |
| Barney: | Well I should hope so. |
| Ted: | No, our Robin. Robin with an 'i.' |
| Barney: | Uh, our Robin has two eyes, my friend, but that's good, you're forgetting what she looks like. |
| Quinn: | Come again for Big Fudge? |
| Barney: | Congratulations, you're hired! You are Goliath National Bank's newest Executive Strategy Coordinator. |
| Quinn: | What is an Executive Strategy Coordinator. |
| Barney: | It's three corporate-sounding words which added together, equal a fake job, for which you get a real paycheck in the amount of exactly what you'd make stripping. Plus dental! Your welcs. Now about that up-against-the-window sex... |
| Quinn: | Dude, I don't want to work for a bank. |
| Barney: | Why not? |
| Quinn: | Because I have standards. You people are whores. The things you're willing to do just for some money, it's shameful. |
| Barney: | You work in a strip club! |
| Quinn: | Yeah, and I like it. And I'm good at it. Barney, if I took this job you would own me. I would be willingly stepping into a cage, which is something I don't do. Except on Thursdays when it's Cage Night at the Lusty Leopard, but that's a cardboard cage and I can get out of it anytime I want. |
| Barney: | You can? Wow, thanks for ruining Cage Night. |
| Ted: | Wayne had no manners... Wayne, manners... Wayne Manor... Home of Bruce Wayne, better known as Batman... Mentor to dick Grayson his orphan ward who, at night, would don the colorful vestments of The Boy Wonder, A.K.A... ROBIN! |
| Robin: | Holy long walk for a short drink of water, Ted! |
| Barney: | She mad reservations for two deluxe rooms, massages, and dinner at the Palm. And in return, I made her cookies. |
| Marshall: | Lily's right, I've been acting crazy. |
| Barney: | That's okay, bro. I mean yeah, you've been a little crazy. But it comes from love. It's the same kind of crazy that makes that makes a man offers his stripper girlfriend over half a million dollars of government bailout money not to rub up on others guys' junk. It's good crazy! |
| Barney: | Okay, you leave me no choice. Proposal: You give me one hour of phone-free bro time, during which we-- and by we, I mean you-- get magnificently, mythologically drunk. I'm talking "needing subtitles when you speak" drunk. If you can give me that, I will wear this. |
| Marshall: | The ducky tie? I thought you threw that thing away. |
| Barney: | I did...It came back. |
| Ted: | Of course I feel bad. I told you "I love you" which is apparently the worst thing you can say to someone. |
| Robin: | That's not why you feel bad. You feel bad because after you said it, you let me go away. I know our relationship isn't exactly what you want it to be. And I know I may not love you the way you love me, but I do love you. Isn't that worth hanging onto? |
Notes and Trivia[]
Goofs and Errors[]
- When Ted is on the date with the second girl and she changes into Robin, her arm tattoos change.
- Barney mistakes "algorithms" for "logarithms" when talking to Ted about online dating.
Allusions and Outside References[]
- There are two possibly coincidental references to deleted scenes from the 1998 comedy "Can't Hardly Wait". The first references the film's character "Watermelon Guy", Jason Segel's role, by having Marshall carry around a watermelon throughout much of the episode. The second reference occurs in the casino when Marshall begins speaking in subtitles due to intoxication, just as a the film's character "Crying Drunk Girl" was supposed to do before the scenes were cut.
- Ted references Batman and Robin on his third date.
Other Notes[]
- Throughout the episode members of the group can be seen giving Condolence Fives (see High Fives).
The letter that was written by "the hot girl" (who was actually Barney) on the dating website reads:
- Screen name: CoinAndCrosswordLover
- Age: 29
- Height: 5'8
- Body Type: Think Jessica Rabbit
- Occupation: Hot Lady Architect
- Looking for: A life partner, a best friend, a soul mate... all that crap
- About me: I'm just a girl with a masters degree in nerdy stuff like poetry or something searching for the one. I'm old-fashioned about romance but by no means a prude. In fact, I was a competitive gymnast so I can bend like spaghetti in the sack, which probably doesn't matter to you but it really should, Ted. I share my SoHo loft and all my secrets with my dog, Pablo (named after my favorite poet: the great Neruda!) I love pre-war architecture. Well, I love all architecture! Though not anything by Sven! Barf, right?! There's nothing hotter than a guy that's down with crosswords. Get it... down? Oh, and I love puns.
- Favorite books: Love in the time of cholera (Spanish version, claro!) and anything by Pablo Neruda
- Favorite movies: Nothing beats Ghostbusters but a close second would be Die Hard... or A Moeda Colector... or really anything from the guy who played Argyle in Die Hard's catalog.
- Hobbies: Doing the New York Times Crossword, cooking, pun and games (wink!), oh and I love to travel! I just spent a weekend in Cleveland at the rock and roll hall of fame and I didn't hate it!
- What I'm looking for: The one! Just a down-to-earth guy who knows a bunch of stupid facts about turn of the century coinage and junk like that. I don't mind if he has baggage, like if he was once left by the altar or beaten up by a goat. Also, I'm a sucker for an out-of-date plaid shirt. At the end of the day, all I really want is a guy to correct me on things like grammar and pronunciation and where apostrophe's go. Because that's really hot, Ted.
Guests[]
- Becki Newton - Quinn
- K Callan - Grandma Lois
- Bruce Gray - Yuthers
- Karissa Vacker - Holly
- Todd Sandler - Darryl
- Casey Washington - Larry
- Cristen Irene - Robyn
- Katy Stoll - Lizbeth
- Mike Nojun Park - Waiter
- Michael G. Coleman - Lou
Podcast[]
Featuring tour with the production members.
Reception[]
- This episode received 7.89 million viewers. [1]
- Donna Bowman of the A.V. Club gave the episode a B-, stating that Barney's role worked well for the characters. [2]
- Ethan Alter of Television Without Pity gave the episode a C. [3]
- Robert Canning of IGN gave the episode a 6.5 out of 10. [4]
- Chris O'Hara of TV Fanatic gave the episode 4.5 out of 5. [5]
- The St. Petersburg Comic Review gave this episode 8.5 out of 10 stars. "...Lily's in labor? And Marshall and Barney are either in Atlantic City or the Paramus Waldorf!"
References[]
- ↑ http://www.spoilertv.com/2012/05/ratings-news-1st-may-2012.html
- ↑ http://www.avclub.com/articles/good-crazy,72852/
- ↑ http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/how-i-met-your-mother/good-crazy.php
- ↑ http://tv.ign.com/articles/122/1224099p1.html
- ↑ http://www.tvfanatic.com/2012/04/how-i-met-your-mother-review-all-hail-beercules/
External Links[]
- Good Crazy at the English Wikipedia
- Good Crazy at the Internet Movie Database
- Good Crazy at TV.com
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