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** Lily has a crush on [[Mila Kunis]]. Perhaps she recently saw her in ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]'', written by and starring her husband ([[Jason Segel]]).
** Jason Segel plays Marshall, who has a longtime dream of becoming an environmental lawyer and working to protect the environment. This may or may not be a reference to Segel's character of Mike in the 1999 film ''[[SLC Punk!]]'', who leaves Salt Lake City for the University of Notre Dame in order to study botany and (guess what?) save the rain forests.
** Robin's dopplegangerdoppelganger is basically her as a lesbian. Cobie Smulders previously played a lesbian in season two of ''[[The L Word]]''.
* [[Actor Shared Background]]:
** Like Ted, Josh Radnor is from Ohio.
** Youtube ukulele songwriter Tally Deushane, whose [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp7NX2cH_SI filk song] about the [[Framing Device|saintlike patience of Ted's kids]] was [http://twitpic.com/2qs1xk played over the Season 5 series recap].
** In interviews, Jennifer Morrison has stated she was a huge fan of the show and actively campaigned to get her part.
* [[Reality Subtext]]: Several months after Lily and Marshall learned they were having their first child, Alyson Hannigan announced she was pregnant with her second child.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The ending of the episode "The Naked Man" has Ted narrating to the style of Jim Gordon in the recent Dark Knight flick.
** And in "''The Pineapple Incident''", Marshall thinks Carl is a [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|vampire]]. And for a brief second, [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Lily]] seems to agree.
** Barney (played by former child actor Neil Patrick Harris, of course) saying "Call me crazy, but child actors were way better back in the 80s".
** Possibly in "Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap" when [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Lily]] gets crazy eyes and starts blowing people up (metaphorically, as opposed to [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|DarkWillow]]).
*** She also gets the demon eyes and voice in ''The Stinson Missile Crisis.'' Imagine [[Dark Willow]] even angrier.
** And again in Baby Talk when Lily wants to name her daughter [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Tara]].
** Lily says in a bar, "We need a drink that can turn subtext into text!" The last half of the sentence is almost word for word what Giles tells Buffy in the episode ''Ted''.
** ''Best Prom Ever'' has [[Alyson Hannigan|Lily]] mention several times she wanted to have a [[Buffy|lesbian experience]].
** Yet another one for [[Alyson Hannigan]]. Barney had repeatedly tried hitting on her to no avail. Well in ''Three Days of Snow'' when he throws a party for a marching band, he asks "Is the [[American Pie|flute section]] seeing anyone?"
** The sequence showing the first time Barney dons a suit is an homage to the scene where Anakin Skywalker dons the Vader suit in Star Wars Episode III.
** [[Lethal Weapon|I'm too old for this sh... stuff!"]]
** [[Dead Poets Society|Oh Captain My Captain!]]
** When Marshall describes how wonderful it feels to sleep in a nightshirt, the accompanying fantasy sequence mimics the dream sequence from ''[[The Big Lebowski]]''.
** Steve "The Blitz" (I forget his late name) is a walking [[Shout-Out]] to Lost:
*** First off, his name has the same form as his Lost character, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes. Both characters are chronically unluncky. When asked for random numbers, Steve calls out the [[Arc Numbers]] from Lost which "cursed" Hurley (making this one a literal shout out). Finally, he compares the unlucky streak to being on an island for a very long time, {{spoiler|which is how Hurley's character arc ultimately ends}}.
** Also from the episode "Blitzgiving", Ted mentioned he sang "Twist and shout" at the thanksgiving parade and telling Barney that he's not the Blitz, he's [[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|The Bueller]]
** Marshall tells Jenkins that if she kidnaps him his family doesn't have any money [[Taken (film)|but his wife has a set of special skills.]]
** The McLaren's bartender gets the entire bar to [[Cheers|shout "SWARLEY!"]] when [[Running Gag|Barney, er, Swarley]] walks in at the end of "Swarley". The closing credits use the same font as ''Cheers''.
** Ted describes the scene of Lily and Marshall fighting and finishes with putting his sunglasses on in a very [[CSI: Miami|David Caruso]] way.
{{quote|"Lily left the lid off, then Marshall blew his."}}
** In "Unfinished", Marshall has an entire elaborate ''[[Star Wars]]'' analogy for GNB and Ted being like "the guy who built the Death Star". Not designing it with any ventilation shafts and clearly marking all the trash compactors on the detention level...
** At one point in the song on tedmosbyisajerk.com, Barney-as-Ted is accused of being a [[Battlestar Galactica|Cylon]].
** Barney buys the most expensive suit known to man, thanks to its diamond pinstripes -- it's called [[Ted DiBiase|"The DiBiase"]].
** In "How Lily Stole Christmas," Ted substitutes Grinch for another word for the sake of his children, telling them: "Only I didn't say grinch." He then follows this up with: [[A Christmas Story|"Only I didn't say fudge,"]] just to make the reference more obvious.
** "Baby Talk" features one to the [[Pearl Jam]] song Jeremy in the form of Lily putting her hands up and shouting "JEREMY! NO!" before being covered in red paint.
* In ''The Leap'' we get the full story of the goat Lily rescued.
{{quote|[[Ghostbusters|"It's here...Lily. It's...looking at me."]]}}
* Then there was the time a kid was running rampant in Lily's class with a toy horse. She admits that she's a psycho when she reveals that during nap time, [[The Godfather|she cut off the horse's head and placed it in his bed.]]
** In order to argue against moving a story of Barney wanting to leave GNB is brought up, where he notices a fire house for sale. He asks someone for a phone, who turns out to be Ernie Hudson, who asks, [[Ghostbusters|Who ya gonna call?]]
** Lily and Marshall move out of New York, and Robin goes to visit them, only to feel like their prisoner. When she wakes up Lily is standing over her like [[Misery|Kathy Bates]] with a sledgehammer...erm, croquet mallet.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** [[Jennifer Love Hewitt]] was initially slated to play Robin but backed out because she ultimately chose to appear in ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]''. Likewise, Scott Foley was initially slated to play Ted.
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