Cleaning House
| "Cleaning House" | |
|---|---|
| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 2 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Stephen Lloyd |
| Production code | 6ALH02 |
| Original air date | September 27, 2010 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Ben Vereen as Sam Gibbs |
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Ben Vereen as Sam Gibbs
Frances Conroy as Loretta Stinson
Wayne Brady as James Stinson
Riley Thomas Stewart as Young Barney
Michael Earl Reid as Post Master General
"Cleaning House" is the second episode of the sixth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 114th episode overall. It originally aired on September 27, 2010.
Barney is with the gang at MacLaren's tells them they will be helping him move his mother's belongings out of his childhood home. Despite their protests, he convinces them and they meet Barney's mother, Loretta, and brother, James, at the house in Staten Island. They find evidence of his lonely childhood, covered up by Loretta's lies. Lily finds a basketball jersey, and Barney tells the gang that he was asked by the coach to quit the team because he was too good. James backs Barney; but when he is out of earshot, tells them that Barney was awful, but their mother covered it up with the story. James was lied to with a white glove sent from Michael Jackson for his 10th birthday. Barney accepts the delusions, until he and his brother find an un-mailed letter to a "Sam Gibbs," with a photo of them, with the words "your son" on the back.
The gang heads over to the address. An older black man answers the door. James realizes that Sam is his father, and the two embrace, crying. But Barney joins the hug, under the impression that this man is his father. He then proceeds to feed into the idea that he is African-American. Back at his mother's house, Barney sits in his room with Loretta who gives him a note to the identity of his father. Barney puts together all the work his mother did for him as a child. Barney tears up the note and realizes that she's all the father he'll ever need.
Robin tells Ted that she has been promoting him to a make-up artist at work, but when she describes her selling points, Ted is worried that she oversold him. She sends a series of text messages to try to balance out this faux pas. Robin receives a text from the woman which says she is still interested in meeting Ted. Ted then realizes that Robin has possibly oversold the woman to him.
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