The Yips (How I Met Your Mother)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Yips
Series = How I Met Your Mother
Season = 3
Episode = 10
Guests = Annie Ilonzeh (Becky), Meredith Roberts (Trish), Stephanie Faracy (Rhonda), Wayne Brady (James Stinson), Mick Harrity (Max), Heidi Klum (Herself), Marisa Miller (Herself), Alessandra Ambrosio (Herself), Selita Ebanks (Herself), Adriana Lima (Herself)
Writer = Jamie Rhonheimer
Director = Pamela Fryman
Airdate = November 26, 2007
Production = 3ALH10
Episode list =List of How I Met Your Mother episodes
Prev = Slapsgiving
Next = The Platinum Rule

"The Yips" is the 10^th episode in the third season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on November 26, 2007.

Plot

The gang decides to get in shape and everyone joins a gym. Barney is shocked to see that the woman working at the gym's smoothie bar is Rhonda, the woman to whom Barney lost his virginity. Barney has a flashback to when, fresh from his break-up with long-term girlfriend Shannon, his brother James (who was "not gay yet") set him up with his mother's friend Rhonda "The Manmaker," who told Barney that he "rocked her world," boosting Barney's confidence. Later, Rhonda tells Barney that James convinced her to tell him that he was her best ever, and Rhonda only agreed to it because James slept with her - Rhonda doesn't even remember Barney's name (she calls him Barry). Barney decides to get over it by going to the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after-party with Ted and Marshall, where all of Barney's pick-up lines become vulgar and fall flat. Barney realizes he has the yips - he is overthinking hitting on girls to the point where he can't do it anymore. Heidi Klum convinces him to go back to Rhonda and try again to regain his confidence. She rejects him at first, but after Ted talks to her at the smoothie bar, she invites him over to play cards, which quickly turns into sex. Rhonda insists that it really WAS the best she ever had this time, while Barney agrees in monotone, clearly having gained his confidence back.

Marshall is having a much harder time at the gym than anticipated. Although his trainer is a cute girl, she drives him very hard, making him do hundreds of push-ups and making him cry with only her words. Lily, however, got a very muscular trainer who is helping her with flexibility, but, as it turns out, is completely unaffiliated with the gym. Robin enjoys the gym because she doesn't have to wear a cute outfit and can work out uninhibitedly. Ted seems to always find a reason to avoid working out (i.e. bringing the wrong shorts), but after Marshall passes his trainer on to him, he gets what he paid for. Although everyone agrees joining the gym was a great decision, Older Ted's voice-over reveals that, after that first week, they never went back.

Continuity

* When Rhonda asks Barney about the last time he spoke to a woman with no intention to sleep with her, Barney says that he sat next to Madeleine Albright at a benefit once and did not "intend" to sleep with her. This is referenced in The Bracket, in which Albright's picture shows up in a montage of women he has slept with.
*In the season two episode First Time in New York, Barney says that his comforter smelt for weeks later, but in this episode, it is shown that Barney slept with Rhonda at her house. This could be due to Barney himself smelling, thus making his comforter smell as well.

Trivia

When Ted tells Heidi Klum that Barney has the yips, she says that "the yips" in German is: "Ach du meine Güte!, gar nichts klappt mehr," (the second time adding "überhaupt gar nichts mehr"), "so eine Scheiße", meaning "Oh my goodness, nothing is working anymore, (nothing at all), what a shit!"

External links

* " [http://www.tv.com/how-i-met-your-mother/the-yips/episode/1153060/summary.html The Yips] " at TV.com
* " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155839/ The Yips] " at the Internet Movie Database