Sweet Taste of Liberty

Infobox Television episode


Caption=Ted and Barney held by airport security
Title = Sweet Taste of Liberty
Series = How I Met Your Mother
Season = 1
Episode = 3
Airdate = October 3, 2005
Production = 1ALH02
Writer = Chris Miller and Phil Lord
Director = Pamela Fryman
Guests = Joe Nieves (Carl), David Henrie (Son), Lyndsy Fonseca (Daughter), Anna Zielinski (Cute Girl), Floyd Vanbuskirk (Cab Driver #2), Pedro Miguel Arce (Dana), Carla Toutz (Sascha), Robb Derringer (Derrick), Mark Edward Smith (Bomb Squad Guy), Earl Billings (Officer McNeil), Gita Isak (Stewardess), Sean Lucore (Guy #1), Dustin Lancaster (Guy #3), Chuck Carter (Guy #2), Alyshia Ochse (Tatiana), Tiffany Brouwer (Laura)
Episode list =List of How I Met Your Mother episodes
Prev = Purple Giraffe
Next = Return of the Shirt

"Sweet Taste of Liberty" is the 3^rd episode in the first season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on October 3, 2005.

Plot

Barney has decided that it is time to break Ted of his habit of going to the same bar. He tells Ted that he wants to do something "legendary." Barney pulls Ted into his cab, and tells him that he needs to pick someone up at the airport. However, Ted did not realize that Barney meant that he was going to JFK to pick up chicks. Barney tells Ted that they are posing as international businessman who have just returned from a lucrative trip from Japan. However, Barney then decides that they should fly to Philadelphia just because two beautiful ladies are also heading there. Barney calls Marshall (who is studying law) to come to Philadelphia in the Fiero, because it is going to be "legendary." However, Ted and Barney eventually find out that these two girls have boyfriends who are players for the Philadelphia Eagles. Furthermore, Ted and Barney are taken into custody by airport security, since they left luggage on a carousel in JFK. They are held there for a while, but are released when Barney's luggage at JFK is revealed to have only condoms and a PowerBar. They then go to Sascha's house (Sascha was a security guard at the airport), which is not much of a party (although Barney also claims that this will be "legendary"), mostly because her grandfather is sleeping upstairs. Barney, upon meeting someone who works security for the Liberty Bell, decides that it would be "legendary" to go lick the Liberty Bell. Ted initially declines, but after Barney tells Ted that Ted is his best friend, Ted agrees to do so. During this whole time, Ted and Barney call Marshall, telling him to either turn around and go back home because nothing exciting is happening, or to come because it will be "legendary."

Meanwhile, Lily and Robin go to the bar for a girl's night out. Lily becomes jealous of Robin because Robin is single, and still gets hit on and has guys buy drinks for her. She asks Marshall if she can take her engagement ring off, to which Marshall says yes. Lily then tries to attract guys, but is still unsuccessful, getting only a gay man who told her that she sat on a grape. Robin is annoyed by the change in Lily's behavior, and convinces Lily that she has what most single women want: a good boyfriend. The gay man offers to help remove the grape stain, and Marshall walks in just as he is doing so. Marshall, who came only because he had second thoughts about Lily removing the ring for the night, was ready to fight the guy, but gave the guy a hug when he found out he was gay. However, then the gay man's boyfriend (who was also the jealous type) began to fight Marshall.

Continuity

* In "Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M.," Barney references licking the Liberty Bell as something good that happened after 2 A.M.
* Marshall's cell phone ring from The Limo was based on the song he sang while trying to study.

Barney's Blog

*In his blog, Barney discusses his licking of the Liberty Bell, before claiming he has licked "national monument in the continental United States." He then provides excerpts from his forthcoming book, 'Barney's Guide to Licking the National Monuments', in which he describes how certain landmarks (Such as the Alamo & Statue of Liberty) taste, and how tight security is in regards to being able to lick the monument [http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/barneys_blog/10_03.shtml .]

Errors

* Lily takes off her engagement ring, but in the subsequent scene in which she spills her martini while trying to look sexy she is wearing her ring.

Recurring elements introduced in this episode

* Barney's use of the word "legendary"
* Marshall's Pontiac Fiero
* Barney saying "BTW" instead of "by the way"

External links

* " [http://www.tv.com/how-i-met-your-mother/sweet-taste-of-liberty/episode/459773/summary.html Sweet Taste of Liberty] " at TV.com
* " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0606117/ Sweet Taste of Liberty] " at the Internet Movie Database