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* [[Actor Allusion]]:
** Recently featured Barney, played by Neil Patrick Harris, typing up a blog entry--The "[[
** 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).
** At the end of Ten Sessions, the tattoo removal doctor tells Ted to call her if he ever ends up with a dolphin tattoo on his right ankle, which is coincidentally the tattoo that Alyson Hannigan has in real life.
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** Barney aka [[Neil Patrick Harris]] pretends to be Neil Armstrong and spend about a minute one of his women spends going "Neil, Neil, Neil, Neil...Armstrong"
** 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 doppleganger is basically her as a lesbian. Cobie Smulders previously played a lesbian in season two of ''[[The L Word]]''.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: "Hey, wasn't [[Doogie Howser, M.D.|that blond guy-?]]" "Heh, please..." "-[[Dr.
** 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......]]
** Hey, [[
** [[Angel
** [[Firefly
** While at it Ted's mum ([[Heroes (TV series)|Angela Petrelli]]) is now married to [[Buffy|the Mayor of Sunnydale]] and I think I saw [[Buffy|Harmony]] in one episode as well. This show is where Joss's characters go to catch up.
** This probably has something to do with [[Dr.
*** The show's creators are, by their own admission on the DVD commentaries, HUGE Joss Whedon fans.
** Also, Jonathan is now a minister.
** [[Scrubs|Elliot Reid]] is Ted's laser tattoo removal surgeon, and [[Britney Spears]] is her receptionist.
** Victoria from ''[[Twilight (
** [[House (TV series)|Amber]] and Ted used to date. And, not for the first time, [[Friends|someone will dump her on her birthday]].
*** It turns out she wasn't "effable".
*** He dated [[House (TV series)|Cameron]], too.
** Ted's kids are [[Wizards of Waverly Place|Justin Russo]] and [[Desperate Housewives|Dylan Mayfair.]]
** In the second episode, [[Leverage|Parker]] gatecrashes Ted's party -- probably scoping the joint. Barney even helpfully shows her the roof.
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*** You mean [[Freaks and Geeks|Kim Kelly]]?
** [[Family Ties|Mr. Keaton]] is Ted's dad.
** [[Malcolm in
*** Also, [[Malcolm in
** [[Friends|Janice]] sold Marshall & Lily their apartment.
** Everyday, Ted gives one dollar to [[The Simpsons|Homer Simpson.]]
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** [[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 the episode Atlantic City, [[Bones|Caroline Julian]] and [[Scrubs|Gooch]] bring up obstacles in the way of Lily and Marshall's quickie wedding, followed by a [[Married At Sea|near-miss ceremony]] officiated by boat captain [[Heroes (TV series)|Eli]].
** 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!}}
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** Robin's dad [[Retcon|just became]] [[Reaper|Satan!]]
*** [[Twin Peaks|Leland Palmer]] was Satan?
** [[Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
** [[Watchmen|Silk Spectre II]] played Stella in "The Wedding Bride".
*** ''The Wedding Bride'' is an interesting example, because the actors of the movie (Jason Lewis, Malin Akerman, and Chris Kattan) were actually supposed to ''be'' those actors. Meaning this would've possibly been a [[Hey It]]'sThatGuy in-universe as well.
** Zoey is married to [[Twin Peaks|Special Agent Dale Cooper]]/[[Sex and
** 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.]]
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*** And [[Scrubs|Hooch]]. Hooch is crazy.
** [[Primetime Glick|Jiminy Glick]] is Marshall's New Boss.
** Robin dates [[House (TV series)|Kutner]]
*** Alternatively, you'd expect that [[Harold and Kumar|Kumar]] would have recognized [[Neil Patrick Harris]].
** In Season 6, Robbie Amell plays a love interest of Robin's by the name of "Scooby", and is mocked by the main cast for having dog-like tendencies. Interesting, since two of his best known roles are Scooby-Doo movies.
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** 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
** [[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
** Marshall tells Jenkins that if she kidnaps him his family doesn't have any money [[Taken (
** 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.
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** 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
** 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 [[
* 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
** 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.
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*** This is a [[Shout-Out]] in and of itself - Carl MacLaren is a member of the HIMYM crew.
** Marshall once made Ted swear on the names of his unborn children: [[Star Wars|Luke and Leia.]]
* Over half the main cast have worked with [[Joss Whedon]]. [[Alyson Hannigan]] rose to fame in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Neil Patrick Harris was in ''[[Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]'', and Colbie Smulders is in ''[[The Avengers (
* One episode shows a picture of Robin appearing on Letterman. In real life around the week later Colbie appeared on that show to talk about her role in the Avengers movie.
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