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* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Type 4, Unseen Time Travel. It's never made known exactly how all the future versions of Barney, Ted and Coat-Check Girl traveled through time. This trope is actually [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged]]; [[spoiler:it turns out that the entire episode was part ImagineSpot (the titular time travelers) and part flashback (the "Minnesota Hurricane" story).]] So, it's initially played straight, then subverted, but the subversion means that it's averted overall.
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* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Type 4, Unseen Time Travel. It's never made known exactly how all the future versions of Barney, Ted and Coat-Check Girl traveled through time. This trope is actually [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged]]; [[spoiler:it turns out that the entire episode was part ImagineSpot (the titular time travelers) and part flashback (the "Minnesota Hurricane" Tidal Wave" story).]] So, it's initially played straight, then subverted, but the subversion means that it's averted overall.
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* MoodWhiplash: Things go from the wacky shenanigans of Marshall and Robin having a dance-off straight to TheReveal that Ted is sitting by himself because his friends were too busy with their own lives, imagining the whole evening, and its capped off by an imaginary Barney's WhamLine reminding him that he's alone.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ted's imagined, tearful speech to his future wife about how they will meet soon, and how he wishes they could have that time together as well, foreshadows [[spoiler:the Mother's untimely death in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS9E24LastForeverPartTwo Last Forever: Part Two]]]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ted's imagined, tearful speech to his future wife about how they will meet soon, and how he wishes they could have that time together as well, foreshadows hints at [[spoiler:the Mother's untimely death in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS9E24LastForeverPartTwo Last Forever: Part Two]]]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ted's imagined, tearful speech to his future wife about how they will meet soon, and how he wishes they could have that time together as well, foreshadows [[spoiler:the Mother's untimely death in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS9E24LastForeverPartTwo Last Forever: Part Two]]]].
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* NestedStoryReveal: In the end, it's revealed that Robin and Marshall's sub-plot is just a memory from years ago, and Ted imagined the time travelers. In reality, he's spent the entire evening sitting alone in the booth because his friends were too busy.
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* [[ActingForTwo Acting For Six]]: Creator/JoshRadnor and Creator/NeilPatrickHarris playing as three aspects of Ted and Barney respectively.
* TheCastShowoff: All six of Ted and Barney singing "[[Music/BillyJoel For the Longest Time]]" in perfect harmony.
* TheCastShowoff: All six of Ted and Barney singing "[[Music/BillyJoel For the Longest Time]]" in perfect harmony.
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* TheReveal: Ted is alone at the bar, imagining that Barney's convincing him to go to Robots vs. Wrestlers, and remembering a funny story about Marshall, Lily and Robin.
* WhamLine: By Barney.
-->Look around, Ted. You're all alone.
* WhamLine: By Barney.
-->Look around, Ted. You're all alone.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Ted already said that Coat-Check Girl wasn't the mother at the end of [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E05OkayAwesome "Okay Awesome"]].
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Type 4, Unseen Time Travel. It's never made known exactly how all the future versions of Barney, Ted and Coat-Check Girl traveled through time. This trope is actually [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged]]; [[spoiler:it turns out that the entire episode was part ImagineSpot (the titular time travelers) and part flashback (the "Minnesota Hurricane" story).]] So, it's initially played straight, then subverted, but the subversion means that it's averted overall.
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Type 4, Unseen Time Travel. It's never made known exactly how all the future versions of Barney, Ted and Coat-Check Girl traveled through time. This trope is actually [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged]]; [[spoiler:it turns out that the entire episode was part ImagineSpot (the titular time travelers) and part flashback (the "Minnesota Hurricane" story).]] So, it's initially played straight, then subverted, but the subversion means that it's averted overall.
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Future Barney and Ted show up at MacLaren's to try and convince Ted to go to robots vs. wrestlers. Marshall and Robin see who's the better dancer.
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Future Barney and Ted show up at MacLaren's [=MacLaren=]'s to try and convince Ted to go to robots vs. wrestlers. Marshall and Robin see who's the better dancer.
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Future Barney and Ted show up at MacLaren's to try and convince Ted to go to robots vs. wrestlers. Marshall and Robin see who's the better dancer.
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