How I Met Everyone Else

Infobox Television episode
Title = How I Met Everyone Else
Series = How I Met Your Mother


Caption = Barney graphs Blahblah on his Hot-Crazy Scale.
Season = 3
Episode = 5
Airdate = October 22, 2007
Writer = Gloria Calderon Kellett
Director = Pamela Fryman
Photographer =
Guests = Abigail Spencer (Blahblah), Jolie Jenkins (Alexa), Ray Auxais (Phil), Betsy Rue (Audrey)
Production =
Episode list =List of How I Met Your Mother episodes
Prev = Little Boys
Next = I'm Not That Guy

"How I Met Everyone Else" is the 5^th episode in the third season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on October 22, 2007.

Plot

Ted introduces the gang to his newest girlfriend, whose name he can't remember, over a few drinks at the bar. Because his girlfriend, who's name he forgets and he calls "Blahblah," is embarrassed that she and Ted met online, she makes up a story about how she saw Ted across a crowded room at a cooking class. This prompts everyone to reminisce about how they all met each other, and their stories are told through the usual flashback

How the group met each other:

-Ted and Marshall met when Ted became Marshall's new roommate. Marshall thought that Ted was the dean until that night when he saw Ted "eating a sandwich", older Ted's euphemism for doing drugs.

-Marshall and Lily met when Lily needed help with her stereo and she had this feeling about the room Hewitt 110. Marshall was the one who opened the door after she knocked. It was love at first sight.

-Ted and Barney met in the men's room of the bar. Ted pretended to be deaf for Barney to get a girl's phone number. His hand signals said that Barney was a great guy and to give him her number, but he really said "He's lying to you. Just give him a fake number."

-Ted and Robin met when they saw each other across the room of the bar in the pilot episode.

-Marshall and Barney met at the bar and Marshall didn't want to cheat on Lily, but Barney said that he would make Marshall score the hottest chick in the bar. He pointed at a red-haired girl who ends up being Lily. Marshall walked up to her and they kiss. Barney's response: "That man is a god."

-Ted and Lily met the night before she met Marshall at a freshman party. They believed they made out. Ted said that Lily remembered Hewitt 110 because she was looking for him. Later Ted finds out it was Alexa who he made out with at the party.

Near the end it is revealed that Ted and Blahblah met on World of Warcraft

At the end, it is the future and Ted, Marshall and Lily are "eating a sandwich" at the college reunion

Trivia

* During most of the flashback scenes, Ted is seen wearing a Cinderella Night Songs T-Shirt.
* Ted and Blahblah met online while playing World of Warcraft.
* When Barney draws his Hot-Crazy Scale, he calls the yellow line the Vicky Mendoza diagonal, named after a girl he dated. This line is in reference to the Mendoza Line in baseball, used to indicate a batting average below .200, which is very poor.
* When Barney details the Hot-Crazy scale of his past date, he does the line backwards, moving the Hot line when it should be the crazy line, and vice versa.
* Because he doesn't want to mention smoking marijuana to his kids, Ted instead uses the phrase "eating a sandwich" in its place. However, in previous episodes he had talked about the characters' drug use.
* The writer of this episode, Gloria Calderon Kellet, won a National Council of La Raza ALMA award for Outstanding Writing for a Television Series for this episode on August 17, 2008.

Music

* "Save it for a Rainy Day" by The Jayhawks

Continuity

* Prior to this episode, Ted had already talked about how he met Robin (Pilot), Barney (Pilot), and Marshall (Where Were We?). However, this episode reveals for the first time the flashback of how Ted and Marshall met, while it expands on the flashback of how Ted and Barney met.
* Barney makes fun of Ted for meeting Blahblah online, but in "The Duel" Barney mentions that he is on a date with a girl he met online.