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Marshall: You should definitely go. Look, it's a chance to show her you are still friends and that you support her.

Barney: Or it's a chance to mess with her head by showing up with someone hotter, or even better, triple threat, hotter and bigger boobs!

Ted: That's only two.

Barney: Count again.

As pointed out by an earlier contributor, the title of the book the girl at the bar is reading changes when Barney and Ted call dibs on her. But the picture shows the title as being "Brideshead Revisted"; "visited" is misspelled. See more...

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How I Met Your Mother (2005) - 22 mistakes in season 3

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Wait For It...

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Continuity: In the scene where Ted goes over to Robin's apartment to yell about their breakup, Robin says "You shaved" and "I liked the beard, " implying that this is the first time she has seen Ted since he shaved. But the night before she was in the kitchen at his apartment asking if he was okay with her dating Gael. At that point Ted had already shaved.

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Other: In the flashback where Gael is playing a guitar and singing a song, the chords on the guitar change, but his fingers do not move at all. He is playing the same chord the whole time.

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Continuity: When Ted, Barney and their dates are in the tub, Barney is holding a bottle. He takes a sip (i.e. no cap) and hands it to Amy (Ted's date). Now it has a cap. She hands it to Ted who unscrews it and has a drink.

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We're Not From Here

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Continuity: When Ted, Barney and the girls are heading to the South Bronx in the cab, keep watching Colleen's head, near when Barney says, "Somebody's been watching too many Seinfeld reruns", her head moves instantly between shots, from looking towards Ted to looking at Barney.

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How I Met Everyone Else

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Factual error: When Ted is talking about what Marshall told him after he met Lilly, the two boys are playing with Playstation 2 controllers. The scene takes place in 1996, and Playstation 2 didn't come out until 2000.

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Continuity: In this episode we get to see when Ted met Marshall. But in Season 2, episode 1 Ted says to Marshall, "And there was my roommate, lying on the bed with his feet up on the wall. He had headphones on, big smile on his face. That guy was you." In this episode we get to see it was different.

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Dowisetrepla

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Character mistake: In the scene where Robin and Lily are talking in the kitchen, Robin makes a reference to Mount Waddington being the tallest mountain in Canada. The tallest mountain in Canada is actually Mount Logan.

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Spoiler Alert

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Other: When Barney shows Marhsall the video of a dog pooping on a baby, he puts in the CD upside down.

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Slapsgiving

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Continuity: When future Ted is counting the times Marshall slapped Barney, the first one is shown as the one at the bar, but this was before Barney decided 5 for eternity. The one that counts as the first is the one he gets after they watch Robin Sparkles' Video.

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Continuity: Marshall turns on the computer, and a readout pops up clearly displaying 2h 45m left on the countdown. He then says "look at that - that means we're in the final hour left of the countdown".

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The Yips

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Continuity: In this episode we get to see when Barney lost his virginity to Rhonda, The Man Maker. They had sex in her bed. But in season 2 (12th episode, First Time in New York), Barney says that his comforter smelled like menthol for a week.

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The Platinum Rule

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Continuity: Barney blocks Ted's path by standing in front of the door. Watch his position as he says, "Ted, don't do this" for the second time, he has his right arm over his head. When the camera changes angles he has it down.

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No Tomorrow

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Continuity: At the Saint Patrick's Day party when Barney says, "it's not cheating if her name has two adjacent vowels" his right hand is up near his left hand, pointing to his fingers. When the camera angle changes his hand is back at his stomach.

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Continuity: Towards the end, when Ted says, "You just yelled at me", look at Marshall. He's about to take a sip of his drink, but when the camera cuts to a different angle, the mug's nowhere near his lips anymore.

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Continuity: Towards the end, when Marshall's yelling at Ted, Ted says, "You yelled at me". When the camera angle changes, Marshall's hand changes position.

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The Chain Of Screaming

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Audio problem: At the very beginning, after Ted says, "A new car", Lily's lips move, but she doesn't say anything. Obviously her dialogue was cut in post-production.

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Continuity: The ice cream Robin's eating in Ted's car keeps changing shapes between shots.

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Continuity: When they're all sitting in the car listening to Marshall's story, Robin's ice cream changes between shots.

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Everything Must Go

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Continuity: In Ted's flashback where Barney's mysterious saboteur is talking to Lilly, the girl has straight blonde hair. In episode 14, "The Bracket" where his saboteur was first introduced and she originally spoke to Lilly, she had curly blonde hair in the same sequence.

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Continuity: When Robin buys Lily's "favorite dress", Lily holds it on her lap folded, when the camera changes angles it is unfolded.

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