How I Met Your Mother S06E21 – Hopeless
When Barney tries to bond with his father, he asks the gang to help make
his life seem more exciting by lying about their own lives. Meanwhile,
Robin runs into a guy she has a crush on.
In 1983, Jerome Whittaker, known to Barney as his "Uncle Jerry", tells Barney that his mother
thinks he is a bad influence on Barney and doesn't want them to spend
time together anymore. Jerry asks Barney for the souvenir button they
got from a rock concert together, and using a sleight of hand
magic trick, claims he just hid the button inside Barney's brain, so
that Barney won't forget him. Jerry says his final words to Barney -
"Never stop partying" - before he leaves.
Barney didn't see Jerry again until 2011, however this time
Barney was the one to walk away. However, a few weeks later, Barney
meets the gang at The apartment,
complaining that his Dad is now a boring suburban Dad, when he used to
be "Crazy Jerry", an awesome party animal. Barney decides to plan for
his Dad the "awesomest" night of all time on Saturday night, to bring
back Crazy Jerry.
Saturday night comes, and Barney meets the gang down in MacLaren's Pub before his Dad arrives. To make the night more awesome, he tries to improve the gang's identities by giving them new personas. Robin is now a professional scotch taster dating Ted, Lily and Marshall are in an open marriage, and Marshall is a successful playwright.
When Barney's dad arrives, they visit the club Hopeless. Robin
spots her secret crush at the club. Years beforehand, Robin was out
clothes shopping and a man (who later became Robin's crush) asked her
for her opinion on his clothes.
Ted introducing himself to Robin's crush.
Meanwhile, things aren't going well between Barney and Jerry. Jerry doesn't want to drink, since he has a fishing trip with J.J.
in the morning. In an attempt to get Jerry to relax, Barney reminds him
of the last words he said to Barney: Never stop partying. Jerry reveals
that he doesn't remember that at all, and a visibly upset Barney tells
Jerry to go home, since he only wants to spend time with Crazy Jerry,
not "stay at home Jerome". Jerry, who desperately wants to spend time
with Barney, decides to stay and quickly does four shots.
As a drunk Jerry starts dancing, Marshall and Lily argue about
who could do better than the other if they were actually in an open
marriage. They decide to see who can flirt with other club patrons and
get five phone numbers first.
Jerry and Barney decide to leave the club and hit "the greatest party in the world: the streets of New York".
With the rest of the gang occupied, Robin asks Ted for help
"breaking up" so that she can flirt with him. Ted asks where they met,
and discovers that Robin met him while they were still dating, and
realizes she was thinking about him when she and Ted had sex later that
night. Rather than break up in front of Robin's crush, Ted pretends to
propose to her, ruining their chances of ever dating.
Out in New York, Jerry and Barney get up to some drunken antics;
getting in fights, destroying parking meters and vomiting on police
cars. The two are arrested and while handcuffed on the street, Jerry
reveals that he's not actually drunk; he didn't want to drink, but
Barney wouldn't take no for an answer, so he used another sleight of
hand trick to pour out the alcohol in the shot glasses before he drank
from them.
Jerry apologizes, saying he only lied so that he could spend time
with Barney, since Barney didn't want to attend his fishing trip with
J.J. The two of them break out of their handcuffs and run down the
street away from the police. Remembering the fishing trip, Jerry and
Barney get a lift home with one of Jerry's driving students.
While driving, Barney asks how he managed to settle down,
revealing his fears that he'll never be able to. The two share a
heartfelt conversation, and once they reach the house, Jerry gives the
old souvenir button from 1983 to Barney, telling him how important it is
to him.
As Jerry leaves the car, Barney reconsiders and decides to go fishing with his Dad and J.J.
Meanwhile back at the club, Robin reminds Ted how he bought his
red cowboy boots against Robin's advice, simply because the cute worker
at the store suggested he buy them, and so he should stop being so
hypocritical. As they walk home with Marshall and Lily (Lily having won
their "first to five numbers" competition), Robin laments that it just
wasn't meant to be with her secret crush. Her crush appears to be
talking to someone on the phone and saying that Robin is engaged and
that's the end of that. Future Ted narrates that "it wasn't the end of that... but more on that later."
At the end of the episode, Barney is seen fishing with Jerry and J.J. He ends the episode saying- "This...sucks."
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