Barney was hired by criminals to be a fall guy, but he was secretly an FBI informant, so he was being paid by the criminals to gather evidence on the criminals for the FBI

Before the reveal of "PLEASE", I thought it meant he was an escort.

It was really impressive how you stretched this to 15 minutes but I don't have that much time

He says “years later” while simultaneously having a screen grab where it literally says two months later😂

This video feels like someone trying to hit a character count

"years later barney went to gregg fischer"
tv show says 2 months later

Might also explain how he dated two U.S. Attorneys General.

Answered in the first 23 seconds, with a 15 minute follow-up. I appreciate videos with this structure.

What’s funny is I started watching this show in Ramadi, Iraq in 2008 when I was deployed with 2nd Battalion 9th Marines. Someone had the 2 seasons on dvd and we worked out a schedule to watch the show on a small tv. Sometimes we would have 20 Marines watching 5 episodes in a row and then go on post. The Marines on post would then watch the 5 episodes we watched and we would talk about the episodes later. Fun times, Semper Fi.

I actually overheard a twenty year old describing his job a parkrun.

(My words) He was basically the Australian jailable entity for a foreign company.

Seriously one of the best plot twists ever! Such a bold move to even reveal his job and by that ending the running gag after 9 seasons. And the fact that it's connected to his origin story and that he had a very personal agenda the whole time makes it so much more satisfying.

Had a guy in our company who went to jail for ten years for exactly that job they couldn't charge the sr execs since there was no direct connection to them. But he went from worker to jr manager to sr inside of a few years. Didn't make sense timing wise

It's been almost 30 years and we don't even know what Tommy does for a living

Who hasn't been completely destroyed and forced to become someone else to survive?

Ted was the narrator of the story and he did not know anything about Barney's job, so the audience could not know either. Ted did not have any of Barney's knowledge of his job. The audience did not get to know any more about Barney's job than Ted. Since Ted was narrating the story to children, Barney's need to wear a suit might have been child-friendly code for a drug addiction or alcoholism. There was a scene where Barney goes into a withdrawal when he was not wearing a suit and he goes to the bathroom to put on a suit. He was acting like a drug addict there. The audience was free to think that.

Barnie's life was the longest play in the Play Book.

This was the best twist. Absolutely flooring when it came out. And they did a great job if they didn't have this twist planned from early on. Barney did a great job hiding in plain site. But it made sense. If he's not at the table in a big merger deal, it would be weird if he's the one signing all of the docs. It would be too obvious.

But yes "if these contracts aren't executed precisely, we will be at war with Portugal" is fantastic

He was a fed informant the whole time, even from a time before the show starts, and no one figured it out, even when he did them outsized solids. Talk about deep cover. Decades of work to get back at corporate America greed and corrupt and the guy who stole your woman on the side. Classic Barney. But honestly, despite the joking, I definitely had the sense that he was part of the pure corporate sleaze even though I wanted to like him, not the fed informant on it all, I loved the reveal.

Ted Masby

7:55 GE has entered the chat starts glancing nervously between the machine and the A10 warhog they just like to spin things 😂😅