How I Met Your Mother (TV Series)

Cleaning House (2010)

Neil Patrick Harris: Barney Stinson

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• Lily Aldrin : [Seeing James and Sam hug]  This must be so hard for Barney.

  Marshall Eriksen : Yeah, but he took a big step today.

  Barney Stinson : Papa!

  [Hugs James and Sam] 

  Marshall Eriksen : Uh-oh.

• Barney Stinson : Oh, my God, this explains why I'm so good at basketball. Guys, I'm black! Sorry, African-American. No, I'm allowed to say either.

• Barney Stinson : You don't think I can't talk you into helping me pack? I once got the Queen to fist pump me.

  Ted Mosby : Dude, no one believes that story.

  Lily Aldrin : Maybe you can convince those brain surgeons you pick up to believe you, but it won't work on us.

  [Barney adjusts his collar, cracks his knuckles and clears his throat; cut to the guys packing at Barney's mother's house] 

  Lily Aldrin : How does he do that?

• Barney Stinson : My mother is selling the house I grew up in. All of my childhood memories. Gone! Just like that.

  Ted Mosby : It sucks. I've been there, buddy.

  Marshall Eriksen : What are you talking about? Your mother still lives in the house you grew up in.

  Ted Mosby : With her new hippie husband, Clint. The comfort of home is a little ruined when someone turns your old room into something I'm pretty sure is a tantric sex temple. With all the bamboo, pot smoking and '60s music, it's like my old G.I. Joes are frozen in some weird Vietnam flashback.

• Barney Stinson : Ted, capture this moment.

  Ted Mosby : I think you'll need Salvador Dali to capture this particular moment, but I'll give it a whirl.

• Barney Stinson : The coach made me leave the team because it was not fair for the other kids. Right, James?

  James Stinson : Oh, yeah. He was the best. He could throw inside, he could throw outside...

  [Barney leaves] 

  James Stinson : He sucked. Mom just said that to spare his feelings.