How I Met Your Father Copies Barney's Playbook Burning
WARNING! Spoilers ahead for HIMYF episode 6.
How I Met Your Father’s character Charlie makes a grand romantic gesture that repeats Barney Stinson burning The Playbook in HIMYM. Aside from his blog and many catchphrases, HIMYM’s Barney Stinson was particularly notable for his extensive Playbook, which was later revealed to be a physical book full of his elaborate ideas for picking up women. In HIMYM season 8, Barney makes the most significant sacrifice to his playboy routine when he burns The Playbook in a trash bin for Patrice, though this is really done to prove to Robin his womanizing days are over.
Although How I Met Your Father is a spinoff repeating the original show’s narrative setup, the series’ characters don’t particularly align with the personalities of HIMYM’s protagonists. Because of this, How I Met Your Father doesn’t necessarily have a womanizing anti-relationship character like Barney Stinson, with each character in the spinoff focused on pursuing a romantic partner. However, How I Met Your Father has repeated some of Barney’s arcs in putting his playboy persona behind him, particularly with the character of Charlie (Tom Ainsley).
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While Charlie and Barney are completely different characters, How I Met Your Father episode 6 reveals that Charlie has a Casanova past with many women. However, Charlie bouncing around different whirlwind relationships with women wasn't about conquest or sleeping with them like it is for Barney, as Charlie actually falls for his significant others. Charlie’s How I Met Your Father story began with him moving from London to New York City to be with Valentina, though she discovers this isn’t the first time
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