The Yips
| "The Yips" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 10 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Jamie Rhonheimer |
| Production code | 3ALH10 |
| Original air date | November 26, 2007 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Stephanie Faracy (Rhonda) |
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Stephanie Faracy (Rhonda)
Wayne Brady (James Stinson)
Meredith Roberts Quill (Trish)
Heidi Klum (Herself)
Marisa Miller (Herself)
Alessandra Ambrosio (Herself)
Selita Ebanks (Herself)
Adriana Lima (Herself)
Miranda Kerr (Herself)
"The Yips" is the tenth episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 54th overall. It originally aired on November 26, 2007.
The gang decides to get in shape and everyone joins a gym. Barney is shocked to see that the woman working at the gym's smoothie bar is Rhonda, the woman to whom he lost his virginity. He has a flashback to when, fresh from his break-up with long-time girlfriend Shannon, his brother James (who was "not gay yet") set him up with his mother's friend, Rhonda "The Manmaker" French, who told Barney that he "rocked her world", boosting his confidence. Later, Rhonda tells Barney that James convinced her to tell him that he was her best ever, and Rhonda only agreed to it because James slept with her - Rhonda doesn't even remember Barney's name (she calls him Barry). Barney decides to get over it by going to the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after-party with Ted and Marshall, where all of Barney's pick-up lines become vulgar and fall flat. Barney realizes he has the yips—he is over-thinking hitting on girls to the point where he can't do it anymore. Heidi Klum convinces him to go back to Rhonda and try again to regain his confidence. She rejects him at first, but after Barney talks to her at the bar, she invites him over to play cards, which quickly turns into sex. Rhonda insists that it really WAS the best she ever had this time, while Barney agrees in , clearly having gained his confidence back.
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