Barney Stinson: the Man, the Myth, the LEGEND-

-ARY!!! 

No, I did not plan that.  But it’s still funny all the same.

I’ve been rewatching How I Met Your Mother over the weekend.  Mostly beacause I FINALLY started putting all the TV shows into my DVD changer.  (and what a task that was… 192 discs and only 18 were recognized, which means I have to manually enter the rest… ACK!)

But I’ve been watching.  And still, to this day, my all time favorite episode is The Pineapple Incident. Drunk Ted is my FAVORITE.

But this isn’t about Drunk Ted. This is about Barney.

He’s Barney.  My dream guy.  No, seriously.  I keep telling D that Barney is my dream guy.  And my dream guy dresses in nice suits and has some crazy job that pays him a boatload of money, but no one REALLY knows what he does because he is just so AWESOME.  And he’s confident, and dramatic and funny.  Which all adds up to one thing: BARNEY STINSON.  And if Neil Patrick Harris wasn’t gay, he would totally be a crush of mine.  Actually, he is… but the kind where I know it’ll never happen because he is gay.  But I LOVE him!!!

But today, I’d like to puff up Barney a little.  Give him a bit of an ego boost, because he is just so awesome.  And funny… as demonstrated by the time when Ted tries to teach him to drive.

And also, this is an early mention of the fact that the 3rd season comes out on DVD in October.  And guess what is released the same day (or at least in the same week)?  The Bro Code. That’s right. A book that contains all the Broings on, among other things.

THE BRO CODE, from an episode of the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother, a guide that provides men with all the rules they need to know in order to become a “bro,” supposedly dating back to the American Revolution and handed down to the character Barney Stinson (played by Neil Patrick Harris), written in the voice of Barney by show writer Matt Kuhn, to Meghan Stevenson at Touchstone Fireside, for publication in October 2008, by Debbie Olshan at Twentieth Century Fox, with Barry Kotler at the Gersh Agency representing Kuhn (world).

Barney Stinson, we salute you!  Even though you almost didn’t let Lily live with you.

And yes… I hear that guy’s awesome…

So, Barney Stinson… to you I say this:  SUIT UP!