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   The Bracket

   When Barney and Lily go to meet Holly, the restaurant across the street from her place is Nolita, the same restaurant featured in short-lived sitcom Kitchen Confidential, which premiered in the same time slot as How I Met Your Mother. ... The sequence at the end of the episode is an allusion to the end of each Doogie Howser M.D. episode, where the title character is also played by Neil Patrick Harris
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   Best Prom Ever

   "Best Prom Ever" is the 20th episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. ... A song by The 88 was previously featured in the episode "Belly Full of Turkey."
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   List of American television episodes with LGBT themes

   "Stand On Your Man" (1992) - Nancy stands up to Arnie, who wants her back even more after learning that she is a lesbian. ... | How I Met Your Mother | "Single Stamina" | Barney invites his gay, black brother James (Wayne Brady) to "liven" up the gang's life as all of them have been 'coupled' off and Barney is alone. |
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   Manos: The Hands of Fate

   In March 2008, the "Ten Sessions" episode of How I Met Your Mother featured the main character arguing Manos to be the worst movie ever made even when compared to Plan 9 From Outer Space, a brief discussion of the film, and an ultra-condensed twelve-second screening of the film as part of a two-minute date.
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   Sock monkey

   The character was used again in 2007 to advertise PG Tips tea. ... In 2005 the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" featured sock monkeys prominently in the fourth episode, entitled Return of the Shirt.
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   Where's Waldo?

   The VH1 mini-series "I Love the '90s" featured "Where's Waldo?" as a topic of discussion during the show on 1993. ... In How I Met Your Mother 2x17 (Arrivederci Fiero) Barney and Marshall met a hitchhiker named Waldo.
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   Columbia University

   In 1933 the German Ambassador to the United States, Hans Luther, was the featured speaker at the Institute of Arts and Sciences at the Columbia University. ... Marshall Eriksen of How I Met Your Mother is a Columbia Law school graduate.
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   Sex and the City

   Each episode in season one featured a short montage of interviews of people living in New York City regarding topics discussed in that episode. ... In the episode "Bachelor Party" of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother Robin buys Lilly a vibrator as a present for her bridal shower.
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   Violent Femmes (album)

   Ethan Hawke's character in the 1994 film Reality Bites, plays a cover of "Add It Up" with his band Hey That's My Bike. A May 2005 episode of the television series How I Met Your Mother featured engaged couple, Marshall and Lily, trying to sneak into a high school prom to see if the band, The 88, who Marshall had tentatively booked for the wedding, could play the couple's song, which was "Good Feeling."
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    Tiffany (singer)

    Also in April 2008, Tiffany made a cameo appearance on the situational comedy How I Met Your Mother, playing a backup singer in a music video by one of the main characters '80s-inspired pop star video by Robin Sparkles—"Sandcastles in the Sand". ... In early August 2007, the dance single "Higher", not featured on the album, began showing up online.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• The Bracket,
• Best Prom Ever,
• List of American television episodes with LGBT themes,
• Manos: The Hands of Fate,
• Sock monkey,
• Where's Waldo?,
• Columbia University,
• Sex and the City,
• Violent Femmes (album),
• Tiffany (singer)