Slap Bet
| "Slap Bet" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 9 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Kourtney Kang |
| Production code | 2ALH09 |
| Original air date | November 20, 2006 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Candace Kroslak (Girl #1) |
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| Season 2 episodes | |
Candace Kroslak (Girl #1)
Rachel Specter (Girl #2)
Timothy Prindle (Mr. Johnson)
"Slap Bet" is the ninth episode in season 2 of the popular sitcom How I Met Your Mother. The episode, originally titled "Robin Sparkles", first aired on November 20, 2006. The episode received highly positive reviews and features in several lists of the best How I Met Your Mother episodes in the series. The episode led to two recurring jokes and storylines in the show: "Robin Sparkles", Robin's teenage pop star career, and the Slap Bet, in which Marshall slapped Barney at various points throughout the series.
Ted, Marshall, Lily, and Barney find out that Ted's girlfriend Robin never goes to malls and refuses to explain why. Marshall posits that Robin was married in a mall in Canada, while Barney believes that the secret is related to pornography. They agree to a slap bet, where the winner of the bet slaps the loser as hard as he can, and appoint Lily as the slap bet commissioner.
Ted begins to worry that Robin is married. After trying to avoid the issue, Robin tells Ted that she got married in a mall, after which her husband moved to Hong Kong without getting a divorce. Ted promises to keep it a secret, but tells the gang after Lily begs him. Marshall slaps Barney.
Law student Marshall searches a legal database, and tells Ted that there is no record of a marriage license for Robin in Canada. After asking her various questions about her wedding, Ted confronts Robin and she admits she is not married, but finds out that Ted told Marshall her supposed secret. She is angry and refuses to tell Ted the true reason she avoids malls. Marshall tells Lily that Robin is not married and Lily, as the slap bet commissioner, must allow Barney to slap Marshall three times.
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