The show's creators envisioned Barney as what Bays later described as a "large, John Belushi-type character" nonetheless, Megan Branman, the casting director for How I Met Your Mother, invited Harris to audition. Barney is considered the show's breakout character. Barney's catchphrases included "Suit up!", “Go for Barney”, "What up?!", "Stinson out", "Legendary", "Wait for it" (often combining the two as "legen-wait for it-dary!"), "Daddy's home", "Haaaaave you met Ted" and "Challenge accepted".Ĭritics have praised the character and credited Harris’ performance for much of the show's success. In later seasons, he has a few serious relationships, then marries, divorces, and has a child with an unnamed woman from a one-night stand, and then marries the same woman again (as implied in the alternate ending). The character uses many 'plays' in his 'playbook' to help him have sex with women. He is a womanizer known for his love of expensive suits, laser tag, and Scotch whisky. One of the show's main characters, Barney is known for his brash, manipulative and opinionated personality.
BARNEY FROM THE SIMPSONS SERIES
Barney's trademark catchphrase is simply a loud, forceful belch.Barnabus Stinson is a fictional character portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris and created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014). Navy, has been an astronaut in training and also once created an artistic and highly acclaimed short film about his alcoholism called 'Puke-A-Hontas'.
Barney was at one time part of the barbershop quartet 'The Be Sharps', has worked in the U.S. For a period Barney worked for his Uncle Al at 'Barney's Bowl-A-Rama' and upon one occasion also started up a snow ploughing service under the name 'The Plow King'. Barney is rarely seen working but has had a number of odd jobs such as a scientific test subject and posing as Krusty the Clown. The bar tab Barney managed to run up at Moe's Tavern was so large that Moe had to send away to NASA for it to be calculated and it was revealed at one point that he owed Moe $14 billion. When he cannot consume alcohol Barney will consume any toxic substances he can find such as turpentine or varnish. Barney also seems to have attempted to cure his alcoholism a number of times but presumably eventually relapses into his old habits every time. Barney is friends with Moe Szyslak, Homer Simpson, Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson, and is often shown as a friendly individual both when sober and inebriated. Barney became a severe alcoholic after his high-school love Chloe Talbot left Springfield to pursue a career as a news reporter.Īlthough Barney has a very untidy and scarcely furnished apartment he is almost always seen at Moe's Tavern and some evidence would suggest that he lives or at least lived at Moe's. Barney excelled throughout most of his education and had a promising future ahead of him until Homer Simpson introduced him to beer on the night before his SAT exams. When sober Barney is shown to be a highly coordinated and very intelligent individual, however spending most of his time drunk these qualities are rarely apparent. Navy for some time), however it is known that Barney is the son of Arnie Gumble, a soldier who fought in World War II and died in a parade float accident in 1979. Overview Little is known about Barney Gumble's mother (although she was employed by the U.S.
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