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1. Important hair cut
When a character cuts off their hair, it often symbolizes a rite of passage or bout of character growth.
This is a important hair cut because this is when the Barney we all know and love was born.
2. Death Glare
The Death Glare is a "calm", murderous look often coupled with a tensed and menacing posture, others with a deadly stillness, but always, always served with deathly silence. The Death Glare is hard to pull off, but when done right can convey a depth of anger and potential violence that no Badass Boast or Pre Ass Kicking One Liner can hope to top.
Lily's "You are dead to me" look. Hopefully we will never get one from her, or you may just get disintegrated.
3. Flashback
A narrative technique in which we're shown events that took place before the episode's main action.
Technically all of How I Met Your Mother is a flashback but it still has flashbacks into the past of the characters. Sometimes it can not be clear where the flashbacks begin and end but it doen't always matter.
4. Funny Background Event
Sometimes, a scene contains something funny going on in the background. Very often it is used during a conversation and if you are paying too much attention to the obvious, you may even miss the scene. The event can contain simple slapstick humor, or be an inside gag. It doesn't have to be subtle, sometimes it is obvious while the conversation is unimportant. The important thing is, that it is played in the background and is at least somewhat funny or cool.
Though the scene going on between Lily and Ted was important the most of us were probably watching what was going on with Robin, That was some messed up show she had.
5. The Not Secret
You've got a secret. A deep, dark, Earth-shattering, reality-bending, madness-inducing secret. Something so secret that you have to kill people just in case they do know it. It's a secret of massive proportions. They don't have a classification for how secret it is. You take a deep breath, and blurt it out. There's no shock. There's no surprise. There's mild annoyance when your audience says "What, that's it? I thought you were going to tell us something we didn't already know."
The worst kept secret in How I Met Your Mother, clear to everyone but the person it involves, Robin. Of all the people to tell Barney chooses Lily, the worst secret keeper ever.
6. Local hang out
A place where the main characters spend much of their time, usually a bar, diner, cafe, coffee house, ice cream parlor or fast food restaurant. Extra credit if the place is named after the owner and he's a recurring character. Can also be a Malt Shop or Greasy Spoon. In any case, it's supposed to serve as a place to kill time, have fun, and/or talk. Sometimes it even serves as a show's primary setting.
Every sitcom has one, its typical. Mac Larens bar, visited because Lily, Ted and Marshall all live above it. Similar to Central Perk in friends or Cafe Nervosa in Frasier.
7. Tear Jerker
Some viewers are impassive when it comes to what they watch most of them involve death scenes, shocking twists, or something just as major, expect many spoilers. However, they can also be as simple as the right imagery, tone, and music coming together - for the sole purpose of working those tear-ducts.
When Lily leaves Marshall at the end of season 1. We have seen how much he loves her but she just leaves for no reason but to find herself. Though this isn't really quite as sad as Lily leaving when Barney tries to tell Robin that he loves her, she just takes it as a joke. Poor Barney.
8. Fan Preferred Couple
Barney: We both think commitment's a drag, we want something fun and casual, and we clearly get along
Fans will often have a “fan preferred couple” which they will attempt to find reasons to substantiate as well as reasons to disregard other possible matches with these characters. Some fans even designate a ’’‘ONE TRUE PAIRING’’’ which they will defend to the death.
Barney and Robin are the true fan preferred couple because its so wrong its right. Barney shouldn't be the one to fall in love but he does with a character that has already had a relationship with his best friend.
9. Fan Service
Gratuitous display of female characters in skimpy clothing, or none at all, under the assumption that it will attract or "reward" straight male viewers. (There is occasionally fanservice for straight female and gay male viewers, but it's not nearly as common.) This is not just a fan term, but one used during the production of, and even in the dialogue of, various shows
During the episode "The Naked Man", you can probably see where this is going. Barney and Ted both strip down, to nothing, this is for the female veiws of the show. You can also see how much time Barney spend with his shirt off. (I ain't complaining though)
10. Every-things Better With Robin Sparkles.
Humanity has an historical fascination with shinies. That might have to do with how some of the more precious materials tend to sparkle, but in the end, there is just something in how stuff shines or sparkles that leaves people staring on with, well, shiny eyes. That goes double when the effect is of a mysterious nature.
Barney always gets very excited when Robin Sparkles comes back in another random thing she did. In a dull moment of the show trust Robin Sparkles to save the day. Weather its via a ring tone or a karaoke song.
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