Bachelor Party (How I Met Your Mother)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Bachelor Party
Series = How I Met Your Mother


Caption =
Season = 2
Episode = 19
Airdate = April 9, 2007
Production = 2ALH19
Writer = Carter Bays & Craig Thomas
Director = Pamela Fryman
Guests = Erin Cardillo (Treasure), Corie Vickers (Cousin Margaret), Patricia Place (Aunt Florence), Meagen Fay (Janice), K Callan (Grandma Lois), Joe Manganiello (Brad), Jamie Rose Hagan (Stripper), Matt Boren (Stuart)
Episode list =List of How I Met Your Mother episodes
Prev = Moving Day
Next = Showdown

"Bachelor Party" is the 19^th episode in the second season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on April 9, 2007.

Plot

Ted has planned out a bachelor party for Marshall, since Ted is Marshall's best man. However, Barney wants to offer some input, but Marshall has said that he does not want a stripper at his bachelor party. Barney keeps trying to convince Ted, but Ted doesn't want to hear any of it from Barney. Ted's planned bachelor party involved watching a boxing match and eating large steaks from a cow Ted bought online. Barney, however, foils this by amazingly getting a stripper into the hotel room (even though Barney thought that they were going to Atlantic City rather than Foxwoods). To make matters worse, the stripper breaks her ankle, causing everyone to miss the boxing match as she must go to the hospital, and then Barney demands that she continue on with the rest of her show, as she wants to do it. The rest of her show causes everyone but Barney to lose their appetite, and to top it all off, they are kicked out of the hotel. Marshall and Ted return to MacLaren's bar mad that Barney ruined the bachelor party.

Meanwhile, Robin is in an awkward position at Lily's bridal shower, since (under Barney's advice) Robin has gotten her a "battery-powered adult recreational fake penis" (instead of a see-through nightie), and all of Lily's guests are much older family members. Robin tries to stop Lily from opening the gift and finally switches cards with another presents to disguise her gift. When Lily opens Robin's gift (which Lily believes to be from her grandmother), Lily is shocked, but then Robin reveals that it was actually her gift, and Lily, as well as the other women, react much more mildly than Robin expected.

Lily and Robin go down to the bar afterwards and are surprised to see Ted and Marshall there. They explain that Barney ruined the bachelor party, and Marshall is even considering not inviting Barney to the wedding. However, Lily reveals a story: During the summer when the engagement was broken off (between seasons 1 and 2 in the show), Barney flew out to San Francisco and told Lily to come back, as he thought they should be together, and that she might lose Marshall forever if she didn't come back. In San Francisco, Barney tells Lily that he cannot keep stealing girls from Marshall forever, implying that he has been trying to provide an opportunity for Lily to return. At this point, Barney is made co-best man with Ted, and Marshall is happy that Barney cared about their relationship.

Notes

*In the car, on the way to Marshall's bachelor party, Barney talks in Pig Latin

Music

* White Snake - "Here I Go Again"

Trivia

*An extended version of the scene with Treasure the stripper [ [http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/04/09/how-i-met-your-mother-bachelor-party-video/ Extended "Bachelor Party" scene] ] posted on the "How I Met Your Mother" myspace page reveals that her show involves an extensive number of props, including:
** handcuffs
** a ping pong paddle
** a whip
** a baton
** an umbrella
** a feather cat toy
** a pylon
** a lantern
** foam fingers
** a hippity hop ball
** a large water jug
** a blow-up giraffe
** a fire extinguisher
** a typewriter (Barney mentions one in a subsequent scene, the prop is unseen)
** cupcakes (snacks -- it's a long show)

Cultural references

*When talking about the best things in life, Ted mentions naked women, democracy, and the scene in "Every Which Way But Loose" where "the monkey gives the guy the finger."
*When Barney puts in (what he believes to be) a pornographic DVD in the entertainment system of the Cadillac Escalade they are riding in, someone in the car remarks that it must be a high-budget porno, since Morgan Freeman is in it. Shortly after that they realize it is really the movie "Deep Impact".
* Ted tells Barney that the guys are going to see the Popinski-Salazar rematch during the bachelor party. Popinski could be a reference to Soda Popinski, a character in "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!". Salazar could refer to Martha Salazar, the female heavyweight champion.
*Barney's suggestion to bury the stripper in the desert if she dies is a reference to "Very Bad Things".
* Lily's relatives reference "Sex and the City" and its syndication on TBS when they see the vibrator that Robin bought for Lily. More specifically, they reference the vibrator that Miranda gives to Charlotte in "The Turtle and the Hare."
* Barney asks Lily if he should visit Alcatraz or Fisherman's Wharf in the three hours before his plane leaves.

Continuity

* When Barney visits Lily in San Francisco, he says to her that he can't keep stealing women from Marshall forever, suggesting that his actions in "The Scorpion and the Toad" are motivated by his intention for Marshall and Lily to reconcile.
* Lily and Robin attempt to have one of the telepathic conversations (first introduced in "Mary the Paralegal"), with not very satisfactory results.

Errors

* Barney visits Lily in San Francisco in order to persuade her to come back to New York and get back together with Marshall. He says in passing that he can't keep stealing women from Marshall forever, a reference to his actions in "The Scorpion and the Toad". However, at the end of the first episode of Season 2, "Where Were We?", we see Lily contemplating whether or not to enter MacLaren's, where Ted, Barney, Robin and Marshall are hanging out. Thus proving Lily was in New York before Barney began stealing women from Marshall.

References