The Perfect Cocktail
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"The Perfect Cocktail" | |
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How I Met Your Mother episode | |
Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 22 |
Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
Written by | Joe Kelly |
Production code | 6ALH21 |
Original air date | May 2, 2011 |
Guest appearances | |
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"The Perfect Cocktail" is the 22nd episode of the sixth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother and the 134th episode overall. It was aired on May 2, 2011.
Plot
In the
At MacLaren's, Barney hands out invitations to the Arcadian's demolition. Zoey introduces Marshall as her lawyer, which upsets Barney because he helped Marshall land a job at GNB in the first place. He launches a prank war against Marshall by doing questionable disgusting things to anything Marshall's mouth touches and sending photographs to him. Marshall retaliates by ruining Barney's hookups at the bar over several days, for instance by pretending to be a doctor and telling Barney he had crabs with "super-herpes". The pranks go too far and Carl bans them both from the bar, as well as Lily and Robin, who were irritated by a woman lurking by their booth for a chance for her and her friends to sit there.
Meanwhile,
Distraught by the rift, Lily and Robin decide to have Marshall and Barney make up using various drinks and discover that certain party drinks trigger various situations —
The last scene of the episode shows Lily and Robin pulling a prank on the women who stole their booth. When Barney's assistant shows the women a photograph, they scramble out of the bar in disgust. Lily and Robin immediately come back to clean up the booth.
Reception
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Reviews of the episode were mixed.
The A.V. Club's Zack Handlen gave the episode a B−, stating the prank war was funny, but the execution of the drink gag was not well-timed.[1]
Lindsey Bahr of
James Poniewozik of
References
- ^ Grade it (2011-05-02). ""The Perfect Cocktail" | How I Met Your Mother | TV Club | TV". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ^ "How I Met Your Mother: Not All Alcohol Is Created Equal – Lindsey Bahr". The Atlantic. 2011-05-03. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ^ "The Morning After: Shaken and Stirred | Entertainment | TIME.com". Tunedin.blogs.time.com. 2011-05-03. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
External links
- "The Perfect Cocktail" at IMDb