TV Recap: HIMYM - The Naked Man

This week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother might have given another play to hard up guys all over the world: The Naked Man. It’s genius and this is how it’s done. On a first date, when you don’t think they’ll be a second one, you find an excuse to be alone in the woman’s apartment. You strip down and when she comes back, you’re standing there naked. She laughs, you laugh, and then she sleeps with you. It works two out of three times. Seriously. You don’t believe me? Read on.

Ted comes home one night to find a naked man, Mitch, sitting on his couch while Robin is outside on the phone. When Ted asks the guy what he’s doing, Mitch tells Ted the naked man trick and guarantees good results. Ted, of course, doesn’t buy that Robin would fall for something so stupid but sure enough, after he discusses Mitch’s plan with the gang, they go upstairs to find Mr. Wang’s delivery menu on the doorknob (the signal for the new roommates). Okay. Just a quick question…why do roommates with separate rooms need a signal? Either way, there it is. The naked man worked on dependable, logical Robin (who is completely overlooked by every award academy).

Such a discovery was, naturally, a huge thing for Barney, who vowed to do the naked man that night. Ted also has a date that night, his first since Stella. But he’s Ted and so he really likes the girl and doesn’t want to mess it up. When he’s on the date, however, the girl turns out to be a kind of ageist, definitely rude woman who Ted could never see a future with. Yup. Off come the clothes. Now close your eyes and imagine Ted and Barney in their respective dates’ homes. They’re on the phone with each other trying out different poses for the big reveal of the naked man. There’s the thinker, the Captain Morgan, the Superman. You get the picture. High-larious.

While Ted and Barney are trying to score using Mitch’s plan, Robin is on a date with him trying to prove that she didn’t have sex with him just because he was naked. See, after the gang found out, Marshall called slut and ever since, they’ve been trying to convince him, unsuccessfully, that there are a ton of reasons to have sex with some one other than love. Just the smallest, tiniest feeling started inching in, though, that she is a slut and so she called Mitch immediately to set up a second date. It goes horribly wrong but she pushes through. When they run into Marshall and Lily at the bar, Marshall takes back his slut comment and out the door goes Mitch. Seems Lily also tried her hand at the naked man and Marshall gave in. Sure, it’s not exactly the same thing but who cares? As long as my Monday night gang is happy, so am I.

Well, I guess not all of them are so happy. Ted’s naked man worked and he hooked up with an awful human being (his words) but at least now he’s definitely over Stella. Barney wasn’t so lucky. Mitch said it would work two out of three times, right. Poor Barney is number three. He gets kicked out of the girl’s apartment with not even his phone to keep him warm. Poor Barney. Guess it’s back to fake names and secret missions.

To everyone else who isn’t Barney: the brilliance that is keeping the sitcom alive (HIMYM) is now striving to keep you happy with your sex life. As if providing us with one of the best shows on TV isn’t enough. Too kind. Too kind.

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