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Neil Patrick Harris in How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Neil Patrick Harris: Barney Stinson

The Playbook

How I Met Your Mother

Neil Patrick Harris credited as playing...

Barney Stinson

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  • Lily Aldrin: I had Shelley reserved for Ted for three years!
  • Barney Stinson: Well, he didn't miss much. She's brainy and whiny and boring in bed. Hey, maybe she is perfect for Ted.
  • Girl: [the play SNASA] Wow! You're an astronaut?
  • Barney Stinson: Shhh! I'm actually in a top-secret government space program called Secret NASA, or SNASA.
  • Girl: Wow. SNASA? Do you go to the moon and stuff?
  • Barney Stinson: Well, not the moon you're familiar with. Though I have been to the smoon.
  • Girl: Wow, the smoon.
  • Barney Stinson: The Playbook contains every scam, con, hustle, hoodwink, gambit, flimflam, strategem and bamboozle I've ever used, or I've ever hoped to use, to pick up chicks and give'em a business.
  • Barney Stinson: Every woman in New York! Barney Stinson is back on the market. Mothers lock up your daughters, daughters lock up your MILSWANCA.
  • Marshall Eriksen: MILSWANCA?
  • Ted Mosby: Oh I got it, Mothers I Like To Sleep With And Never Call Again
  • Barney Stinson: Correct! Circle gets a square.
  • Barney Stinson: Don't drink that!
  • Christy: Why not?
  • Barney Stinson: I saw a guy put something in that drink.
  • Christy: Really? Who?
  • Barney Stinson: [Points at Ted] That guy.
  • [Bartender tackles Ted]
  • Girl: [Barney demonstrates the play "The My Penis Grants Wishes"] Really? A genie comes out of it?
  • Barney Stinson: Only if you rub it hard enough.
  • Barney Stinson: None of these are cheap tricks. Except for The Cheap Trick.
  • [Cut to Barney dressed as a rocker]
  • Barney Stinson: Yeah, I'm the bass player for Cheap Trick.
  • Barney Stinson: [Back to reality] And even that requires expensive hair extensions.
  • Barney Stinson: Guys, code red, emergency, lockdown! Nobody's leaving.
  • Robin Scherbatsky: What happened?
  • Barney Stinson: I tried the "He's Not Coming", and it worked, gangbusters. You should have seen this girl. Bang! Ping! Padow! Gadonk!
  • Robin Scherbatsky: Okay, I'm leaving.
  • Barney Stinson: So, we get up to my place, and I go into my room to set up the camera... to light the candles. And when I come out, she's gone, and so is The Playbook. I think we all know who is responsible for this.
  • Lily Aldrin: Yeah, we do.
  • Barney Stinson: Yeah. Al-Qaeda.
  • Lily Aldrin: Barney, I've got half a mind to take that playbook and put it up on the internet for the whole world to see.
  • Barney Stinson: You wouldn't.
  • Lily Aldrin: I won't, as long as you agree to no more scams, no more cons, no more hustles, no more hoodwinks, no more gambits, no more stratagems, and no more bamboozles.
  • Barney Stinson: [long pause] I notice you left out flimflam?
  • Lily Aldrin: No more flimflam!
  • Barney Stinson: Damn it!

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