Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra
| "Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 9 Episode 14 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Carter Bays & Craig Thomas |
| Original air date | January 13, 2014 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Boyz II Men (themselves) |
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Boyz II Men (themselves)
Nazanin Boniadi (Nora)
Stacy Keibler (Karina the Hot Bartender)
April Bowlby (Meg)
Katie Walder (Shannon)
Eva Amurri (Shelly)
Joe Nieves (Carl)
"Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra" is the fourteenth episode of the ninth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 198th episode overall. The episode's name is a reference to "The Appointment in Samarra," a fable by W. Somerset Maugham based on an ancient Mesopotamian story about the inevitability of death.
Picking up where "Bass Player Wanted" left off, at 1 a.m on Sunday, 17 hours before the wedding, Marshall is about to slap Barney when Future Ted says there is a back story to this slap. A few weeks earlier at MacLaren's Bar, Marshall tells Barney that he wants the next slap from the slap bet to be as painful as humanly possible. Barney counters that he is now immune to all of Marshall's torments.
Marshall proceeds to tell Barney that he went to seek "special training" for the next slap, which he describes as happening sometime in the future. First, he learned from a kid at a martial arts training center about the existence of the "Slap of a Million Exploding Suns", and that he needed to visit three masters to learn this skill. He traveled to Shanghai for a year to learn the speed component from "The Cruel Tutelage of Red Bird", to the Slap Mountain to learn the strength component from "The Punishing Scholarship of White Flower" and to Cleveland to learn the accuracy component from "The Schooling of the Calligrapher".
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