Single Stamina

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"Single Stamina"
How I Met Your Mother episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 10
Directed by	Pamela Fryman
Written by	Kristin Newman
Production code	2ALH10
Original air date	November 27, 2006 (2006-11-27)
Guest appearances
Wayne Brady as James Gabrielle Richens as Girl at bar with tattoo Sarah Cahill as Rosa Megan Mullally as Barney's mother's voice (uncredited)[1]
Episode chronology
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"Single Stamina" is the tenth episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on November 27, 2006 on CBS. The episode was nominated for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Individual Episode.^[2]

Plot

It is winter in

is, and it is revealed that the two don't really know it; amongst other things, their mother says that Barney is white because she ate vanilla ice cream when she was pregnant with him, and James is black because she ate chocolate ice cream.

James tells them that they are young people living in New York and that they should go out and have fun. The six of them go out, and James helps Barney pick up a girl with a

. Barney says no, which crushes James.

The next day, Barney goes to the apartment and laments that once

. However, after several men come onto Ted and Marshall, they become uncomfortable, while the girls realize they miss the attention.

Meanwhile, Barney tries to hook James up with other men. When James resists their advances, Barney accuses James of abandoning him and their way of life. James surprises Barney when he tells him that he and Tom are

"). Barney meets James's son, and promises to take him out on his 21st birthday and show him how to pick up women. The baby is also wearing a suit and Barney says "great suit".

References

External links

• "Single Stamina" at
  IMDb