Who is Neil Patrick Harris

"Suit Up!"

"When I get sad I stop being sad and be AWESOME instead. True story!"

"This is so going into my blog!!"

Money, Suits, Sex.. My Life Rocks !!!

Think me as Yoda. Instead of being little and green, I wear suits and I'm awesome.

Are you nuts? That would involve me speaking to a woman I've already had sex with, which frankly is a little bit like changing the oil in a rental car!

Legen --wait for it, and if your lactose intolerant then this is a shocker-- DARY!!

Barney: The stripper at Stuart's bachelor party was a 15.
Ted: She was 15?
Barney: No a 15. Like in blackjack.
Ted: ... As in not sure whether you'd hit it?
Barney: Exactly!
Ted: Nice!

[Barney sneezes]
Ted: Are you sick?
Barney: Is it sick to find maturity and experience sexy?
Ted: No, I meant do you have a cold?
Barney: I'm fine. [blows his nose from a cold]
[Ted and Robin look at him]
Barney: I'm fine. My nose is just overflowing with awesome and I had to get some of it out.

Robin: We can split a cab to work together, we always have a standing lunch date, and last night, at the hockey game, Curt got us into the locker room and I met Mason Raymond. [gang looks clueless] Left wing for the Vancouver Canucks!
Barney: What's the opposite of name-dropping?

Ted: [flashes his tramp-stamp] Say goodbye, kids, 'cause it won't be around much longer.
Lily: Oh, but Ted, if you get rid of the butterfly how's everyone gonna know you're a stripper from Reno with daddy issues?

Barney: [entering the apartment on St. Patrick's Day wearing a green suit] Who wants to kiss the Barney stone?!

Ted: Hi, I'm Ted.
Ashlee: Hi, I'm Ashlee -- with two E's.
Barney: Please, C's at most!

Barney: Open your brain tank bro, cuz here comes some premium 91 octane knowledge. There's three rules of cheating:
1. It's not cheating if you're not the one who's married.
2. It's not cheating if her name has two adjacent vowels.
3. And its not cheating if she's from a different area code. You're fine on all three counts.
Ted:"How do you know she's from a different area code?"
Barney:"She's 516. She might dress like she's 718 and act like she's 212, but trust me she's 516. Oh, and her husband letting her out alone on St. Patty's Day? If that dude's not 973 I'm 307.
...Wyoming."

That is so not Raven!

Robin: Now we go back to exactly the way things were before.
Barney: Okay.
Robin: (whispering) Okay.
Barney: All right... So Robin?
Robin: Yes Barney?
Barney: Guess who nailed the chick from Metro News One last night?

Lily: Barney, how can you be in love and still be sleeping with anything that moves?
Barney: I'm sorry I don't follow you. That's like saying, "how can an ant carry 20 times its body weight but Root Beer floats are still delicious?" Are the two even related?

Barney (holding up his fist): I am not lowering this until I get the respect of another person's knuckles tapping against mine in a light but decisive manner.

Lily: You got her to quit her deadend gig! Good job! (She bumps Barney's fist, which he has been keeping up for the whole episode and refuses to put down until he gets a fist-bump.)
Barney: Oh, thank god! My arm hasn't been this sore since I was 13 and figured out how to lock a bathroom. Up top! (He puts up his hand for a high-five. Marshall and Lily do not give him one. Pause as Barney looks horrified.) Oh, no...
(Cut to the gang at the bar, Barney still with his hand up.)

The Bro Code

The book you've been waiting for is finally here! This isn't just a slapped-together way to cash in on fans of How I Met Your Mother, it is a witty, very funny book by Barney Stinson! The Bro Code is hilarious. If you watch the show, you'll likely hear Neil Patrick Harris' voice in your head as you read the book cover-to-cover.

With diagrams, footnotes, and over 150 "codes" written by How I Met Your Mother's writers, this is a must-read for fans of Barney Stinson and would make a great book for any fan of the show.

Get Inside Barney's Twisted Mind!

What golden advice does Barney Stinson bestow on his faithful readers this week? He discusses topics such as "The Bro Code" and "AMERICA'S WETTEST T-SHIRT CONTEST" (regrets Buffalo).

Take a look if you dare: Barney's Blog

How I Met Your Mother:
Season Four

The 4th season of How I Met Your Mother remains true to form and as funny as ever. The writers pull off all kinds of narrative tricks, and though events are sometimes absurd, they never feel gimmicky--the show has a solid grip on its characters and keeps everything grounded in their ongoing lives.

Devoted womanizer Barney (Neil Patrick Harris, riding a wave of popularity in the wake of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) can't understand why he's having actual feelings for Robin (Cobie Smulders), whose career as a TV anchorwoman is floundering. Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) struggle with keeping their love life fresh under the pressures of getting older. And Ted (Josh Radnor) struggles to follow through on his engagement to Stella (Sarah Chalke)--a relationship that (spoiler alert!) capsizes midway through the episodes.

While the season-long story lines are carefully teased out, each episode is flush with clever or daffy ideas, among them a list of Canadian sex acts, Barney trying to pick up hot chicks while disguised as an 80-year-old man, multiple interventions (culminating in an intervention intervention), Marshall's charts and graphs, Barney's fake family, wooo! girls, the cheerleader effect, the front porch test, and the Naked Man, among many others.

How I Met Your Mother
Season 1

If the end of Friends left a hole in your life, take a look at How I Met Your Mother.

Quirky young urban folk grappling with life and love--check. Charming, good-looking actors who aren't afraid of looking like idiots for the sake of a good joke--check. Crisp, solid writing that sticks comfortably within the sitcom format, but is fresh enough to nudge the show into surprising and inventive moments--check. In fact, the creators of How I Met Your Mother should be embarrassed by how close they hew to the Friends formula--except that they do it so well. Let's face it, Friends didn't invent this territory (tales of twentysomething life), they just refined it.

How I Met Your Mother quickly cultivates its own flavor: A little more openly romantic than most sitcoms, willing to let a scene take a quiet or off-kilter turn, trusting that not every viewer has to get every joke.

The hub of the likable cast is Josh Radnor, who keeps Ted (a single guy ready to settle down) from being annoying, despite his neuroses and perfectionism. Cobie Smulders gives Robin (the girl Ted thinks might be the one, but who doesn't want to settle down) enough goofy, tomboyish charm that she feels like a person and not an idealized love interest. Jason Segel (Freaks and Geeks) and Alyson Hannigan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, American Pie), plays Ted's soon-to-be-married best friends Marshall and Lily with enough lingering doubt in their engaged happiness to keep them from becoming too comfortable. And rounding out the cast is Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, M.D.), shedding his good-guy image as Barney, a crass, lecherous cad who, nonetheless, comes through for his friends.

Episode plots are pretty straightforward (Ted signs up with matchmaking agency; Marshall takes a well-paying job he doesn't like; when Ted gets a girlfriend, Robin realizes she has feelings for him after all; and Lily has second thoughts about getting married), but the show maintains a nice balance of single-episodes stories and a season-long arc--and as you grown attached to the characters, even fairly routine stories are made to feel fresh. This is good comfort television: Smart but not snotty, earnest but not cloying, oddball without being forced or wacky. Check it out.

How I Met Your Mother
Season Two

The sweet, snarky charms of How I Met Your Mother are in full force on this clever sitcom's second season.

The show's conceit is that it's all from the point of view of the future self of Ted Mosby (played in our time by Josh Radnor, voiced in the future by Bob Saget), telling his kids the story of how he met their mother--a character that, two seasons in, has yet to be introduced.

Instead, the show revolves around Ted's romantic pursuit of Robin (Cobie Smulders) and the cozy relationship of Ted's best friends, Lily (Buffy the Vampire Slayer's beloved Alyson Hannigan) and Marshall (Jason Segel from another cult show, Freaks and Geeks). Careening through these two love stories is Barney (Neil Patrick Harris, the former Doogie Howser, M.D.), an aggressively single womanizer, whose intimate friendship with this largely sincere and domestic bunch doesn't make much sense...but often makes for excellent comedy.

This goofy quintet of late 20somethings flounder their way through life in New York, wrestling with love and careers. When the first season ended, Ted and Robin had finally hooked up, but Marshall and Lily had suddenly split up. Season two runs with this, enriching the relationships among all the characters over the season's progress while spinning out all sorts of stand-alone plots that make each episode a treat.

Examples: Ted discovers that his parents have been keeping a secret from him; Marshall, feeling burnt by love, starts doing couple things with a newly single male friend; Lily gets a job at Ted's office and is appalled by Ted's obnoxious boss; Robin tries to keep Ted from discovering her sordid past; and Barney...well, Barney is the gleeful source of a dozen cockeyed tales, ranging from asking Lily to paint a nude portrait of him to grappling poorly with his gay brother's sudden turn to monogamy to going on The Price is Right to find his father.

The entire cast is superb (and much more confident this season), but Harris's inexplicably endearing smarminess really pushes the show into a higher comic bracket. That performance energy--combined with the cunning use of flashbacks and other twisty story techniques--makes How I Met Your Mother both sweet and spicy, a conventional sitcom that tweaks the formula enough to make it feel fresh and engaging. If the creators can keep this up, this show will become a classic.

Season Two features an abundance of fan-pleasing extras, including cheerful commentaries, extended scenes, and a disturbing music video of the show's theme song.

How I Met Your Mother
Season Three

The HIMYM gang [again guided by director Pam Fryman] returns with 20 more legendary episodes in How I Met Your Mother - Season Three.

When Season 2 of How I Met Your Mother ended, Marshall and Lily had finally hooked back up (and tied the knot), but Ted and Robin had suddenly split up. The situations were reversed when Season 1 ended.

Season Three picks up sometime later after Season Two with Robin introducing her new Argentinean lover, Gael (Enrique Iglesias) to the gang and Ted hooking up with a wild tattooed woman (Mandy Moore) after going out to party with Barney. The end result from that encounter later leads Ted (in "Ten Sessions") to a chance meeting with Stella (Sarah Chalke, fresh from NBC's recently ended Scrubs), a dermatologist and possible "mother candidate" who he falls for in the season's most engaging story arc. Props must be given to the series creators for the attention to continuity featured each season as past acquaintances (Trudy from Season One's "The Pineapple Incident" returns with a tempting opportunity for Ted in "Third Wheel") and plot devices ("The Goat" from Season One's "Milk" and Season Two's "Slap Bet" in "Slapsgiving") are revisited this season with hilarious results.

Guest stars include Britney Spears (in a comeback role and the show's highest rated episode ever), Danica McKellar ("The Wonder Years"), Busy Philipps ("Dawson's Creek," "ER"), Maggie Wheeler ("Friends"), James Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek"), Wayne Brady ("Whose Line Is It, Anyway?"), Will Forte ("Saturday Night Live") and models Heidi Klum, Marisa Miller, Alessandra Ambrosio, Selita Ebanks and Adriana Lima.