Of Course (How I Met Your Mother)
| "Of Course" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 17 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Matt Kuhn |
| Production code | 5ALH17 |
| Original air date | March 8, 2010 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Jennifer Lopez (Anita) |
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Jennifer Lopez (Anita)
Joni Bovill (Officer McKie)
"Of Course" is the 17th episode of the fifth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother and 105th episode overall. It originally aired on March 8, 2010.
The New York Police Department's river patrol pulls Barney out of the Hudson River one night in March 2010. Upon being asked to explain by a police officer how he got there, Barney explains that the chain of events started one week before.
He had picked up Anita (Jennifer Lopez) at MacLaren's. However, she suddenly leaves him just when they were ready to make out at his place. Meanwhile, Robin and Don, who have established good chemistry on their morning show, hang out with Marshall and Lily at the bar. Marshall encourages Robin to keep Don, to the point that he later pretends to be Robin accepting Don's invitation for a date. At Ted's apartment, Barney tells the gang about his failure to snag the woman. Ted claims that the woman may have read tips from a certain book called Of Course You're Still Single, Take a Look at Yourself, You Dumb Slut. However, after checking out the book for a loophole, Barney discovers that the woman he met at the bar, Anita, is the author and plans to seduce her.
Later at the bar, Robin admits to Marshall and Lily that she met Anita during a segment on her show, wherein she told Anita the truth about Barney and their breakup. During the segment Anita shows Robin how she can break the spirit of men like Barney by saying "No." She demonstrates this on the cameraman who brings her a tray of elaborate cappuccinos, espressos, and other selections after she refuses his initial offer of "coffee"; Robin only has a cup of coffee. Even after this demonstration, Robin refuses Anita's offer but later calls her up and tells her to put the plan into action after hearing Barney brag about another female conquest. Marshall confesses to Lily that he was upset about pushing Robin to keep up with Barney's sexual activity after their breakup. He was particularly mad at himself for rubbing Barney's exploits in Robin's face through song ("bang, bang, bangity-bang"). Barney tells Ted about his failure to find a counter-strategy in Anita's book. Ted concocts a strategy (in song) of a plan to combine 17 dates into one "super-date," which Barney says is gooey and romantic.
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