How I Met Your Mother : Delving into Barney’s Unique Psyche

For those of us who’ve come to know and love (’cause, seriously – how can you not?) Barney Stinson, on CBS’s hit show How I Met Your Mother, there are certain words and phrases we’d never expect to hear. Such as, “I’m sorry”, or, “Porn is dumb and should be outlawed for the sake of all humankind!” On Monday night we heard words from this man that surely shocked most watchers. They were, “But I don’t know the first thing about seducing a woman…”

For anyone who isn’t familiar with Barney, I’ll do my best to sum up his character in five words: womanizer. Oh, look at that, I only needed one.

Now, in all seriousness, there are other layers to his character, but one of his main attributes is being someone who uses women, and gets away with it because he’s smooth and sneaky. In Barney’s philosophy of life, if you can’t get a girl with your natural charm – lie and tell her that you’re in the Peace Corps.

Barney wasn’t always this way. He didn’t always have suave self-confidence, nor was he cocky. In past episodes, we’ve learned that he was a sensitive, emotional hippie-type.

To support my above claims, let me show you something that flashback-Barney exclaimed: “But, James, what woman is going to wanna have sex with me? – it’s not like I’m a Backstreet Boy!” (It appears he also had questionable music taste.)

The clip below is from Monday night’s episode. In it, we see a flashback of Barney with his brother, who is trying to console him after a bad break-up. Seeing no other options, Barney gets sent to “The ManMaker” for some help.

But farther along in this episode, we learned some distressing news (well, distressing for Barney, for us it’s just fun!) – he wasn’t always legendary with women. Barney found himself in an emotional spiral when he learned that the first time he ever had sex (with “The ManMaker”) he did not, in fact, rock the woman’s world. That belief had propelled him to self-confidence heights that, as heels, even Heidi Klum might be nervous to walk in. Speaking of Heidi Klum…

Barney found himself adrift in a sea of beautiful Victoria Secret models, without his magic mojo. And Heidi Klum was there to set him on the right path.

It was nice to see Heidi Klum being funny – because she’s good at it. She has a natural charm. There are some models who are really only good at their niche of modeling, which is fine. But many models do want to branch out and be a triple threat – and Heidi has proved that she can do that. (PS. Did any other Project Runway junkies find themselves waiting for Tim Gunn to walk in beside Heidi and offer pointers to Barney? He would have approved of the suit, no?)

All in all, this was yet another enjoyable episode and I hope you got a chance to see it.

For those of you who can’t wait to get another fix of this great show, you can head over to CBS.com to read Barney’s blog, and read more about Heidi Klum at CelebritySpider.com:Heidi Klum

And of course, you can get your own copies of seasons one and two of the show at Amazon.com!

How I Met Your Mother – Season 1

How I Met Your Mother – Season Two

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