I'm also thinking its a missed opportunity to redeem the show's rougher points some by having a parade of women who Barney slept with parade through and reveal that nobody ever fell for his deceptive plays and that he was notorious in NYC as a guy who women looking to score could pick up by acting gullible.

I maintain that "real" Barney is probably a fairly average guy who slept with ten women in ten seasons but Future Ted multiplied that number by twenty and made up a lot of the dubious misogyny. Ted's obviously taking big liberties with Barney in the telling of the story. So I figure he's probably slandering him too.

One of my favorite bits of trivia: Frank Sinatra played the character who became John McClane in Die Hard. The character of "Joe Leland" from "The Detective" was the lead in "Nothing Lasts Forever."

Then again, they all looked like Barney is disguise. Which Barney also used to do. So in a sense, it's a story about Barney killing his alternate personas.

Incidentally, this cover of "The Killing Moon" was by French Band, Nouvelle Vague.

I don't think those appeared. His only power appears to be to execute crimes as well as a video game character. I'm assuming he killed people and stole that money.

Interesting callback with the cover of "The Killing Moon." Simon was a semi-obvious nod to Donnie Darko at points, down to the super-hoodie bit (Donnie's use of a hoodie was intended to mirror a super-hero transformation in Donnie Darko, acording to Richard Kelly), and his first romantic moment with Alisha was when he…

So back in Season 5, it seems Ted suggested his lovelife was the Washington Generals to his career's Harlem Globetrotters.

I wouldn't rule out that the mother is ALSO moving to Chicago and that their dating years are spent there while Ted also keeps his house near New York.

It's not JUST that. They're also setting Marshall up to officiate the wedding and resolving his "Marshall would later save the world" subplot introduced two years ago by having him convert Daphne from a lobbyist to reformer.

They KINDA did that by giving Abed the silent subplot in that one episode.

Didn't McHale dub over or get his voice mixed with Rash for the final breakdown scene where the Dean strips down? It was a neat artsy flourish.

We need the Harlem Globetrotters, dammit!

Maybe Chevy's departure really freed up THAT MUCH budget.

Then sees John Oliver there and backs away. Slowly.

They said nobody is coming back his season. They could be lying but I think Overman's holding comebacks for a movie.

Loeb was the one who started the practice of DCU cameos on Smallville and was that show's first comic book consultant.

This entire season takes place Easter weekend 2013 though, aside from Flashforwards and Flashbacks.

There was a line in a prior season that Marshall would save the world later in the story. My guess is he converts Daphne to renewable energy (maybe even introduces her to some kind of sci-fi, conspiracy energy source) and she uses her lobbyist job to halt global warming and introduce the world to a limitless energy…

She may have already given birth by the time Ted proposes.