Harris describes Barney as a man who "likes to create crazy situations and then sit back and watch it all go down."[3] In the show, Barney is awomanizer who almost always wears a suit and is alwaywilling to offer his opinion.[1]
Catchphrases
In the show's pilot, Barney first utters his most recognizable phrase, "Suit up!", as he tells others to dress like him. According to creator Thomas, this is a sign that Barney "thought of his suit as some kind of superhero outfit that separated him from the pack."[4] The phrase is repeated in many episodes, and is often modified to fit whatever clothing Barney is wearing, such as "Flight suit up!" when telling Ted to be his wingman in Halloween or "Snow suit up!" when inviting Ted to build an igloo in Central Park, mid winter or "Slut up!" when Robin and Lily go to a prom. Besides "Suit up!", he often describes schemes as "Legendary!". He also frequently intersperses the phrase "Wait for it" between syllables of a long word.[4] The season two finale closed with Barney saying "Legen - wait for it...", and he opened season three with "..Dary!".[4]
In the show Barney frequently approaches attractive women with Mosby in tow and asks "Have you met Ted?" as a way to start a conversation with strangers. Thomas says that this phrase is based in real life, as a one-time friend of his often used a similar line to meet women.[4]
Barney also will tell elaborate, outrageous stories or assert his own "awesomeness", followed by "True story." Also, whenever asked what his job is he replies with a little laugh followed by "Please." His brother James reacted similarly when asked how the two were of different races.
Barney is frequently asking for high-fives in different variations. 'Relapse high-five', 'Phone five', 'Tiny five', 'Freeze-frame high-five', 'hypothetical high-five', 'wordplay five', 'arthritis five', 'self high five', 'foot five', 'claw five' and 'solemn low-five' are a few. The Early Show described him as "utterly devoid of morality", Barney lives by the "Bro Code", his own code of rules, which includes a lemon law for blind dates.[2] However, according to creator Craig Thomas, Barney is "a pretty fragile character who's really afraid of being alone. He just wants people to like him, to be important to people, and to have disciples who follow his word."[4] A flashback in the episode "Game Night" reveals that Barney had been an innocent young man who wanted to join thePeace Corps with his one and only serious girlfriend Shannon. When she left him for a suit-wearing womanizer, Barney morphed into a similar man, even going so far as to adopt some of the man's catchphrases. Barney is also seen to have a gambling problem that he occasionally gets under control, only to relapse as seen in several episodes such as Atlantic City and Monday Night FootballWhile Barney's softer side is not seen often,[4] it is not always relegated to flashbacks. When Marshall and Lily broke their engagement in season one, Barney often lured women away from Marshall so that he could remain faithful to the woman he truly loved.[3] It is revealed that it was Barney who convinced Lily to come back to New York, even buying her a plane ticket home. Barney's story arc in season four has him secretly in love with Robin. In the finale of season four he and Robin come to an understanding that they both have feelings for one another, but being afraid of having a relationship they agree to "sort this out later".
Barney's family life was defined in flashbacks in the episode "Showdown", which established that Barney's mother (younger version voiced by Megan Mullally, played by Frances Conroy) was a promiscuouswoman who claimed that his father was Bob Barker, longtime host of The Price is Right.[1] Barney also has a brother, James (played by Wayne Brady), who, unlike Barney, is African American and ahomosexual.
Also, Barney, just like Neil Patrick Harris, who portrays him, is an illusionist. His favorite type of magic tricks seem to be those which include fire, which his friends seem to hate (as seen in the eighth episode of the third season, Single Stamina and in the fourth episode of the fourth season, Intervention). Barney uses them mostly to pick up women.
Barney's occupation has not been fully specified, though the company he works for was said to be the world's largest producer of the yellow fuzzy stuff on tennis balls.[2] As of Season 4, Barney now works as an executive (Head of Search Committee) at Goliath National Bank (GNB) after his company's hostile takeover and continues to use the same office he has had since it was first shown in Season 1. In Season 4, during the episode "Happily Ever After", Barney states to a woman that he is an "Attorney In Law". His video resume was published in Season 4 episode "The Possimpible".[5]
A fourth season episode has Barney celebrating sleeping with his 200th woman, a fact even his friends find disgusting. Barney finally explains his conquests by relating that back in seventh grade, a classmate named Matthew Panning claimed to have slept with 100 girls and Barney bet he'd double that number one day. He calls Panning and presents the list, to which an incredulous Panning says he was lying at the time and Barney has based his whole adult life "around something I lied about when I was 12." Barney displays disbelief in Panning's revelation and after Panning leaves, he asks himself what his driving motivation should now be. He then sees Robin waving at him from the bar as it seems to sink in just how empty his life has been.
'The Leap', which is the season four finale of How I Met Your Mother, has Barney finally confront Robin about his feelings. Robin attempts to 'Mosby' Barney, only to have Lily tell Barney that Robin may have some feelings about him after all. Barney and Robin confront each other in a hospital room where Barney finally tells Robin he loves her.
In 2008, the book The Bro Code, ostensibly written by Barney, was published
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