So we already know that people seem to love Barney Stinson’s motivational posters from How I Met Your Mother…but there is more to Barney than just that. Especially the catch phrases. Legen-dary, High Five, Say What, Please and True Story…but the one we associate best with Barney? Suit Up! ..well that or any of the many variations, like:

Snowsuit Up!
Birthday suiting Up!
Slut Up!
Spacesuit up!
You are suited in an unmistakably upward direction!

So other than a great suit what else do you need to show people that you are different from the millions of t-shirt and jeans lemmings out there. How about Suit Up poster.  I’ve also decided to start adding a new motivational poster to the Be Awesome Instead Store at least every month. And this month is inspired entirely by Barney. I also felt this poster was so legendary that I needed a vertical and a horizontal version. For now I only have the large sizes but I plan to add more soon.

Get yours  at the Be Awesome Instead Store and check back often for more updates and new poster’s and shirts.

International Suit Up Day (ISUD) is celebrated on October 13th of each year.  On this day, suit up in honor of How I Met Your Mother, and Barney Stinson, and because suits are awesome…

For more information and to confirm your participation, visit the ISUD facebook event page. I’ll remind you again when it get’s close but I would love to see some pics of how you chose to suit in an upward direction!

    I’ll run down my regular music moments and quotes below but I’m pretty sick so I’ll just hope the discussion gets the rest. Just don’t jinx it.

What did everyone think of the episode?

MUSIC

• Pennant Fever from the Major League Soundtrack (Ted helps Barney check the scouting report. Thanks Skip) (youtube link)
• Baseball Charge (night 5 intro and a beer for Ted)

LEGENDARY LINES

Robin: He couldn’t keep his good eye off of me.

Barney:  I’m just assuming that’s what they say when I’m not around.

Marshall: You know how Lily & I have been looking for couple friends ever since we lost Robin & Barney and Ted & Stella, and Ted & Robin, and Ted & Victoria…geeze Ted, when are you gonna get your live together?
Ted: How did we end up here?

Ted: Marshall, 4 out of 5 dentist just threw up in their mouths.

Robin: My panties would drop so hard there would be a hole below me halfway to China.

Barney: Giddy-what-up

Jim Nantz: Unbelievable. You know. There’s two things you don’t do. One, you don’t open an email from Phil Simms in from of your kids…

Ted: Yea…I’m totally gonna site my kids down one day and tell them about the time Uncle Barney nailed 7 chicks in a row…
(lingering shot of the kids)
Old Ted:  Am I a bad dad?

MOMENTS OF AWESOMENESS

• Barney calls his shot.
• Marshall’s Sasquatch fixation “Sasquatch isn’t fictional”
• Barney might get fired? While Barney losing his job isn’t really awesome at all, it was very cool how he handles his stress. This bring me to my next moment:
• Jim Nantz. High fiving, making sports analogies about sex, kicking his chair, calling Barney a ‘playa’…the dude was great tonight.
• The reference to “performance enhancing drugs”. Espically when Marshall asks for the time, counts on his fingers to 4 then get’s up with the pillow and ask to go to the hospital…YOU CAN TEST ME IF YOU WANT JIM NANTS!!!
• Wendy. I love it when Wendy (Charlene) is on the show, I wish Carl would show back up but I’m still happy with the Wendy appearance.
• How many people will start talking about Victoria possibly being the mother again because of the reference? Even though we know she is not.
• Marshall’s “Seven Up, Seven Down” hats tribute to Barney’s week.
• Mustache Pete Drexel
• Ted helps Barney check the scouting report in a Major League tribute.
• IS it just another coincidence that Nick Swisher (who happens to be dating Ted’s dream girl, JoAnna Garcia) was on tonight?

THE RE-RETURN

(FYI: “re-return” is the epilogue scene…a reference to something Ted does in s01e15, Game Night)

Wendy the Waitress (Hooray Windy!!!) has a to go order for Cook Poo…

Ted, believing it’s a joke by his friends makes fun of what a stupid name it is…then Cook Poo says “Here” from the bar and leaves.

And now the full lyrics to “Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit”. Enjoy:

I know what you’re thinking

What’s Barney been drinking?
That girl was smoking hot

Yes I coulda nailed her
But no it’s not a failure
‘Cuz there’s one thing she is not

To score a ten would be just fine
But I’d rather be dressed to the nines
It’s a truth you can’t refute
Nothing suits me like a suit

Picture a world where all the girls and boys
Are impeccably well dressed
That delivery guy in the jacket and tie
That puppy in the double-breast

That ’80s dude in mutton chops
That baby with a lollipop
That lady cop who’s kinda cute
Nothing suits ‘em like a suit

Wingman I can wear
They’re oh so debonair
The perfect way to snare
a girl with daddy issues

In navy blue or black
Check out this perfect rack
I want to give them a squeeze

Oh really? Then answer these questions
If you please

What would you do if you had to choose
Between your suits and a pot of gold? Suits.

What would you say
If you gave your suits away
In return you’d never grow old? Suits.

What would you pick
One million chicks
Or a single three-piece suit? It’s moot.

What if world peace
Were within your reach … Abbadabada I’m gonna stop you right there. It’s suits. Come on, Lily. Get your head outta your ass.

Two! Three! Four!

Girls will go and girls will come
But there’s only one absolute
Every bro on the go needs to know
That there’s no accepted substitute

I’m sorry suits, let’s make amends
My Sunday best are my best friends
Send casual Friday down the laundry chute

‘Cuz nothing suits the undisputed oft-saluted suitor of repute
Like a …. wait for it …
Suit!

Then again, she is pretty hot.

   It nice to have some hype around an episode and the Legendary 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother definitely had a lot of hype. Girls versus…wait for it…suits was an extremely funny episode. I wasn’t one of the lucky one’s who got to watch it early and in a way it’s nice to be surprised along with everyone else. If you visit here I’m sure you know it, but don’t venture further unless you want some spoilers…

    The amazing thing is how one of my favorite and least favorite things (as well as the focal point of the show) is the pursuit of the mother. I mean it’s a continual teaser and honestly despite all we “know” about the future mom, none of it really matters without a face to put it with. I mean sure we got a lot of clues tonight, the bus, the room mate, the yellow umbrella return, the tastes, she plays bass…she even has ankles evidentially, but does any of that actually bring us closer to the mother? Not only that, but I get sick of every headline I see about the show having something to do with is bla bla the mother, she has been cast for an episode…seriously Carrie Underwood? To me the whole show has gone past just meeting the mother despite the title. I digress.

    So the whole episode revolves around two plots. Ted and Cindy with mother teasers and Barney and Suits…with that hot bartender lady.  The whole Ted story was intriguing. Despite my small rant above it is still nice to feel like we’re moving towards meeting the mother, even if we aren’t any closer than the first episode. Old Ted (Bob Saget) got more voice time in tehi episode than the previous seasons combined it seemed. And his narrations points were excellent. I especially loved, “Your mother’s rendition of Memories preformed by an English muffin is to this day one of the most hauntingly beautiful things I have ever heard”

   As for the Barney story. Just wow. Neil Patrick Harris is amazing. His delivery of the list of women he has landed (a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker…yes we are to the rhyming section now) was quite funny. And you do have to love how much he cares for his suits. The organ donor suit (with appearance from Tim Gunn as Barney’s taylor… continuity?), the suit cremation and the suit angel in the sky really drove the point home.

And to top it all off, the musical number, Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit was awesome! I suppose if you’ve got a cast that can do that (esp. NPH) then why not use it.

So as you can tell, I loved episode 100. definitely my favorite of the season.

What did everyone else think?

Mother Music

• Cherry Pie by Warrant (Robin tends bar to prove her circumstantial hotness theory)
• Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit by the HIMYM Cast

Legendary Lines

Ted: So, do you ever date cute idiots?
Cindy: Almost exclusively.

Barney: For those, I mean for that, I mean for her I would stop wearing, wait for it…
Robin: Come on Barney we know your gonna say suits.
Barney: Suits.

Ted: I promise you I will not fall in love with your room mate
Old Ted: Oops

Barney: Like an organ donor for suits?

Lily: How do you not wanna hit that? I wanna hit that!

Lily: And that ass, I would wear that thing for a hat.

New Super Hot Bartender: I don’t know how to make an um, is that equal parts vodka and get the hell out of my face?

Moments of Awesomeness

• Barney… water skiiing in a suit, running for help from his taylor, music number… you name it.
• How quickly Ted got kicked to the curb by Cindy when he was too interested in her room mate.
• Lily being overly into the bartender
• More so than Lily, is just how cool Marshall is about loving his wife.
• Situational Hotness and bartender Robin… “I was somebody back there!”…and not to be critical but where was Carl? or Wendy?
• Saving a suit’s life… be a suit donor.
• Ted’s triplet schnauzers, Frank, Lloyd and Wright… I love architecture jokes like that.
• Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit.

Great 100! Congrats to everyone involved with HIMYM… Here’s to 100 more!What did you like?

• The slap on Thanksgiving again?
• Barney didn’t have many good moments this week, only cowering in fear…poor dude. I wouldn’t hang around for that.
• It’s nice to meet part of Lily’s family, and for Marshall and Lily to get some focus in the story

With this in mind what did everyone else think?

Moments of Awesomeness:

• “There is a clown demon under the bed” game…coming to a store near you
• The Re-return commercial
• the Erickson family dinner and video prayer
• Ted lying about still being in love with Robin so he can get the slap. It almost had me for a second.
• Loved the final scenes of  of the episode, they were the best laughs of the night. Still…what mental torture.

Legendary Lines:

Robin: I have never slapped Barney…above the waist.

Barney: This is basically Hell on Earth

The Re-Return:

The Slap Bet Game Commercial. A hilarious departure from the normal re-return, but in a great way.