Good Crazy

"Good Crazy" is the 22nd episode of the seventh season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 158th episode overall.^[1]

Plot

Lily and Marshall hold their baby shower. However, Ted and Robin separately miss the shower on purpose to avoid seeing each other. Because Ted had been eager to avoid Robin for as long as he can, Barney encourages Ted to try online dating and sets him up with three specific women. Over the course of each date, Ted suddenly visualizes Robin sitting in front of him and is determined to get her out of his mind even if his dates found him weird. On the third date, Ted finds out that his date, Holly, needed someone to get her over a recent breakup, which leads them to sleeping together. Apparently relieved, Ted goes back to MacLaren's and tries to order a drink, but sees Robin as the bartender and as a nearby patron. Both pseudo-Robins encourage him to find Robin and make amends. Ted runs into Robin as he leaves the bar and tries to talk to her, but she tells him it is not a good time.

Meanwhile, Barney's relationship with Quinn is strained as he overreacts whenever he thinks her job is mentioned. After two of Quinn's regular customers greet her on the sidewalk, Barney fires a top GNB official and offers Quinn a job at the bank as an "executive strategy coordinator" - which turns out to be just something to help Quinn earn income without having to strip. Seeing that Barney's trying to dictate her career, Quinn asks for some time to think and leaves Barney, who reinstates the official.

With the baby's impending birth, Marshall conditions himself for various parenthood situations by using a watermelon as a practice baby. Lily is not happy with what he is doing and applies for a two-day parental workshop. As they prepare to leave, Marshall dozes off seeing Lily as the driver but wakes up hours later with Barney behind the wheel. Barney explains that Lily asked him to help trick Marshall into taking a vacation in Atlantic City so Marshall could unwind. At a casino, Barney proposes wearing the Ducky Tie again if they can turn off their phones for one hour and drink 100 tequila shots. One hour later, a drunk Marshall madly tosses poker chips around the casino floor while Barney turns his phone back on and sees 17 voicemails - all coming from Lily, who is now in labor and wants them back in New York immediately.

Barney's blog

On his blog, Barney posts a job advertisement for a position at the Goliath National Bank.^[2]

Continuity

As seen on season 5 episode Last Cigarette Ever Marshall smokes his last cigarette ever the day his first son is born.

Cultural references

The photo in the fake profile that Barney creates is of ESPN reporter Jenn Brown.^[3]
On Ted's third date, the girl mentions her ex-boyfriend, Wayne's, lack of manners. This gets Ted thinking of Wayne Manor, then Bruce Wayne, then Dick Grayson, then Robin.
As seen previously in The Naked Man episode, Ted mentions Chilean poet Pablo Neruda as his favorite poet.
Barney include in the fake profile of the dating agency a series of references to catch Ted, like Ted's love for Pablo Neruda.

Critical reception

Donna Bowman gave the episode a B-, stating that Barney's role worked well for the characters.^[4]

Ethan Alter of Television Without Pity graded the episode at C.^[5]

References

^ "Adams TV Teasers - 22nd February - Person of Interest, Castle, The Mentalist, Glee, Justified & More..." SpoilerTV.com. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
^ http://www.cbs.com/shows/how_i_met_your_mother/barneys_blog/109449/
^ "ESPN's Jenn Brown Cameos on 'HIMYM'". Lost Letterman.
^ Grade it (2012-04-30). ""Good Crazy" | How I Met Your Mother | TV Club | TV". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
^ "How I Met Your Mother TV Show - Good Crazy - How I Met Your Mother Recaps, How I Met Your Mother Reviews, How I Met Your Mother Episodes | TWoP". Televisionwithoutpity.com. 2012-04-30. Retrieved 2012-07-13.

External links

"Good Crazy" at IMDb

[1] "Adams TV Teasers - 22nd February - Person of Interest, Castle, The Mentalist, Glee, Justified & More..." SpoilerTV.com. Retrieved March 13, 2012.

[2] ttp://www.cbs.com/shows/how_i_met_your_mother/barneys_blog/109449/

[3] "ESPN's Jenn Brown Cameos on 'HIMYM'". Lost Letterman.

[4] Grade it (2012-04-30). ""Good Crazy" | How I Met Your Mother | TV Club | TV". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2012-07-13.

[5] "How I Met Your Mother TV Show - Good Crazy - How I Met Your Mother Recaps, How I Met Your Mother Reviews, How I Met Your Mother Episodes | TWoP". Televisionwithoutpity.com. 2012-04-30. Retrieved 2012-07-13.

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v t e How I Met Your Mother
Episodes	Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Characters	Ted Mosby Marshall Eriksen Lily Aldrin Barney Stinson Robin Scherbatsky Tracy McConnell
Soundtracks	"Let's Go to the Mall" "Sandcastles in the Sand" "Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit" "P.S. I Love You"
Related articles	Awards and nominations Bro Code Cheerleader effect "How I Wet Your Mother" How I Met Your Dad How I Met Your Father

v t e How I Met Your Mother episodes
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Season 1	"Pilot" "Belly Full of Turkey" "The Pineapple Incident" "The Limo" "The Wedding" "Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M." "Mary the Paralegal"
Season 2	"Where Were We?" "Ted Mosby, Architect" "Swarley" "Slap Bet" "Single Stamina" "How Lily Stole Christmas" "First Time in New York" "Columns" "Monday Night Football" "Lucky Penny" "Something Blue"
Season 3	"Wait for It" "We're Not from Here" "Third Wheel" "Little Boys" "How I Met Everyone Else" "I'm Not That Guy" "Dowisetrepla" "Spoiler Alert" "Slapsgiving" "The Yips" "The Platinum Rule" "No Tomorrow" "Ten Sessions" "The Bracket" "The Chain of Screaming" "Sandcastles in the Sand" "The Goat" "Rebound Bro" "Everything Must Go" "Miracles"
Season 4	"Do I Know You?" "I Heart NJ" "Intervention" "Shelter Island" "Happily Ever After" "Not a Father's Day" "Woooo!" "The Fight" "Little Minnesota" "Benefits" "Three Days of Snow" "The Possimpible" "The Stinsons" "Sorry, Bro" "The Front Porch" "Old King Clancy" "Murtaugh" "Mosbius Designs" "The Three Days Rule" "Right Place, Right Time" "The Leap"
Season 5	"Definitions" "Double Date" "Robin 101" "The Sexless Innkeeper" "Duel Citizenship" "The Rough Patch" "The Playbook" "Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap" "The Window" "Last Cigarette Ever" "Girls Versus Suits" "Jenkins" "Perfect Week" "Rabbit or Duck" "Hooked" "Of Course" "Say Cheese" "Zoo or False" "Home Wreckers" "Twin Beds" "Robots Versus Wrestlers" "The Wedding Bride" "Doppelgangers"
Season 6	"Big Days" "Cleaning House" "Unfinished" "Subway Wars" "Architect of Destruction" "Baby Talk" "Canning Randy" "Natural History" "Glitter" "Blitzgiving" "The Mermaid Theory" "False Positive" "Bad News" "Last Words" "Oh Honey" "Desperation Day" "Garbage Island" "A Change of Heart" "Legendaddy" "The Exploding Meatball Sub" "Hopeless" "The Perfect Cocktail" "Landmarks" "Challenge Accepted"
Season 7	"The Naked Truth" "Ducky Tie" "The Stinson Missile Crisis" "Field Trip" "Mystery vs. History" "Noretta" "The Slutty Pumpkin Returns" "Disaster Averted" "Tick, Tick, Tick..." "The Rebound Girl" "Symphony of Illumination" "Tailgate" "46 Minutes" "The Burning Beekeeper" "The Drunk Train" "No Pressure" "Karma" "Trilogy Time" "Now We're Even" "Good Crazy" "The Magician's Code"
Season 8	"Farhampton" "The Pre-Nup" "Nannies" "Who Wants to Be a Godparent?" "Splitsville" "The Stamp Tramp" "Twelve Horny Women" "Lobster Crawl" "The Over-Correction" "The Final Page" "Band or DJ?" "Ring Up!" "P.S. I Love You" "The Ashtray" "Weekend at Barney's" "The Fortress" "The Time Travelers" "Romeward Bound" "The Bro Mitzvah" "Something Old" "Something New"
Season 9	"The Locket" "Coming Back" "Last Time in New York" "The Broken Code" "The Poker Game" "Knight Vision" "No Questions Asked" "The Lighthouse" "Platonish" "Mom and Dad" "Bedtime Stories" "The Rehearsal Dinner" "Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra" "Unpause" "How Your Mother Met Me" "Sunrise" "Rally" "Vesuvius" "Daisy" "Gary Blauman" "Last Forever"
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