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** Recently featured Barney, played by Neil Patrick Harris, typing up a blog entry--The "[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]" theme plays while he types. In a later episode he comments that "Child actors were just better in the 80's" ([[Doogie Howser, M.D.]] again). In fact, it seems we have a diehard Doogie fan. In a Season 5 episode, NPH shows up in scrubs. The season seven episode "No pressure" has Barney compare Lily and Marshall to preppy kids who stage and bet on hobo fights. NPH was a preppy kid who staged and bet on hobo fights on ''Boomtown''.

** Another one is with [[Alyson Hannigan]]'s character. When having cold feet before her marriage, one of the items on the list of experiences to have is a big lesbian experience. Her most famous role is lesbian witch Willow from [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]. Her favorite name for her baby: Tara (Willow's girlfriend from Buffy).

** Lily used to be a [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|teenaged witch]] (with an evil vampire doppelganger) with a penchant for doing things at [[American Pie|band camp]].

** Making it doubly funny is how Willow mused whether anyone read [[Doogie Howser, M.D.]] fanfic. [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Weeeeeellllllllllll......]]

** [[Angel|Wesley Windham-Pryce]] is a news reporter? [[Angel|Fred]] is one of Barney's conquests?

** [[Firefly|Inara]] as the chick with the crazy eyes. (She's coworkers with [[Buffy|Andrew]], by the way).

** Robin's little sister is a [[Pretty Little Liars|pretty little]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|liar.]]

** [[Glee|Ms. Pilsbury]]/[[Heroes|Charlie]] was the cute coat check girl at the club in "Okay Awesome".

** Ted's little sister is [[Power Rangers Time Force|Jen]]? I'm surprised they let her be a police officer in the future, what with the shoplifting and all.

** [[Freaks and Geeks|Neal Schweiber]] just saw Bryan Affleck! No, wait, it was just Nick Andopolis.

*** And Robin went out on a date with Bill Haverchuck to prove a point about the Lemon Law.

** In "Blitzgiving", [[Lost|Hurley]] shows up as the titular "The Blitz" character (real name: Steve), complete with [[Actor Allusion]] / [[Shout-Out]]:

{{quote|'''Steve''': I was on that island for what seems like eternity!}}

** Anyone else freak out when Barney opened his door and [[Dexter|Trinity]] was there?

** A small one, but with bonus: Pat Crawford Brown does small roles like Ida Greenberg from ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''. She's the women on the plane who sat next to Lily in ''Three days of snow'', hearing annoyed to her. Also, [[Hilarious in Hindsight|she's the woman killed by Bullseye in ''Daredevil'' because she was annoying him. On a plane.]]

*** He was also Buffy's school psychiatrist.

*** And [[Scrubs|Hooch]]. Hooch is crazy.

** 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:

** 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.]]