老爸老妈的浪漫史第四季

By Defay

 

I have been watching How I Met Your Mother recently. I love it so much that I spent an entire weekend watching it non-stop. The show is really hilarious yet full of wisdom. Despite how insane and exaggerate the stories the narrator tells are, he really tries to teach some lessons here.

 

An interesting thing that I have to mention about this show is that at first I think Barney Stinson stinks, but gradually I fell in love with this character. Okay, "fall in love" might be too strong a word but it's true that Barney Stinson, the character along with the actor who plays it, is becoming my new favorite. I myself felt very confused sometimes, as Barney is not supposed to be liked by so many people, especially by me. He is a total liar and playboy who does not care about other people's feelings. He is conceited and selfish, greedy and arrogant. And above all, he is frivolous.

 

Yet I was deeply touched by Barney three times by the end of season 4.

 

The first time was when Marshall and Lily break their engagement, Barney lures women away from Marshall so that he can remain faithful to the woman he truly loves. It is later revealed by Lily that it was Barney who convinced Lily to come back to New York, even buying her a plane ticket home.

 

The second time was when Barney was secretly in love with Robin, he acted like a baby. He did everything he could to help Robin, especially that time when Robin accidently quit her job and might be expelled from USA. Barney wants Robin to be around him so much that he helped Robin to make a video tape as a resume to find jobs. Later during video shooting Robin was irritated by his ideas and he finished her e-resume alone by himself. Eventually he succeeded in finding Robin a job and kept her in the group.

 

The third time was when he heard that Ted was hit by a car and was in hospital. He did not hesitate even for a second and rushed to hospital. When he found he could not get a cab, he ran on foot to hospital. Just as he was a street-across away from the hospital, he was too tired and did not notice a fast-driving bus that he himself was hit by it and badly injured.

 

See why they still hang out with him? Everyone in the gang owes to Barney.

 

Put aside his personal life, Barney does have very special and sparkling aspects in his personality that are so rare and precious that it is very hard to find them in a human being.

 

First of all, he is rational. Recall that he is always keen to experiment on all kinds of tricks to hit on girls to test which ones of them actually work. No matter how many times he fails, he just keeps on trying till he reached a scientific statistical conclusion. That's right. 83%. That number applies to everything.

 

Secondly of all, he challenges himself all the time. "Challenge accepted" even if for most of the time, nobody challenges him. He just enjoys it, setting goals, thinking up strategies, taking actions, and eventually, achieving goals, which is closely related to another big merit of his, persistence.

 

Third of all, he is persistent. Recall that once he raised his right hand to high five but nobody responded him. He raised his hand till someone slapped him five. Barney is so driven to succeed, he will do whatever it takes to get what he wants, including lie, cheat or bribe his friends. If he's trying to get a hot girl, he might even pretend to be an astronaut or a taxi driver. Barney will talk trash, or even tell the truth if that's what it takes. He always gets what he wants. You have to admire drive and determination like that.

 

Fourth of all, he is audacious and passionate. We always see him running to do things. He never hesitates. When he wants to do something, he does it, immediately, or over a shockingly long period of time, secretly plotting. Of course, we should exclude the circumstances when he was deeply in love with Robin, which weakened his ability to make resolute decisions. His love for Robin actually completes him as a human being. We can see him as vulnerable, soft and caring as any man in love can be. We can see he has a breakable heart just like everybody else.

 

Fifth of all, we know that he is confident for sure, but sometimes he is peculiarly calm. Once, a big merger in the company Barney works in fell through and Barney was getting blamed for it. Marshall overheard that Barney might be fired. Everyone is worried except himself. Or at least he acted like he is not worried at all. He launched his project of "Perfect Week", e.g., sleeping with seven women in seven days without a single rejection, to deal with the stress. On the next Monday, Barney keeps his job. And his boss says it must have been a stressful time for him. "I barely slept," Barney winked.

 

Last but not least, he keeps rules. Despite the crazy and maniac ideas and actions, Barney keeps rules, except those rules are written by no man but himself. Still, he lives to it, devotedly. His Crazy/Hot Scale, Platinum Rule and Lemon Law are just a few of his dating guidelines. He has rules to govern his professional life. (Actually doing things gets you fired.) He updated the definition of cheating. (It's not cheating if you're not married, if the girl has two consecutive vowels in her name or if she lives in a different area code.) But his rules governing bro-to-bro relationships were so important he published them in a book called "The Bro Code."

 

Just think of having a friend like him around you. You can laugh at him every day because he is mentally strong enough to keep your unintentionally hurtful words from actually hurting him. Yet he brings you all these novel and original stories and ideas and other things that you've never heard of every day, to share with you or to brag about. He urges you to do crazy things you've never done in your entire life. It's so not boring when you are with him. Suit up! Phone five! It's gonna be Legen-wait for it-dary! I'm awesome! There are so many amazing and amusing or even annoying things he talks about. If you don't hear him say for one day, you will even feel something is missing in your life.

 

I think the most important reason is that, even though Barney is a playboy, he only hits on bimbos. And only bimbos buy into his lies and acts. Girls clever as Robin or Nora would not be easily seduced to his moves. He knows it and he tried even harder to prove to everyone that when Barney Stinson is not a jackass, he could really be a dreamy boyfriend that every woman would want. He is always handsome, wears a suit every day, even in his sleep (he wears a suit-jamas at bedtime) and he is clever and wealthy. Nothing can stop him.

 

BTW, the actor who plays Barney Stinson is actually gay. Heart-broken, huh? Still, I admire his exquisite acting skills, as well as his magic tricks, acrobatics and singing performances.

Barney，抿嘴笑了，

200人斩，华丽的数据。

苍白的数据。

他依然只是像飞机在跑道上滑行。

不飞上蓝天，他只是怪模怪样的汽车而已。

而Robin就是他翅膀，

有了她，他才能拥抱白云，

触摸蓝天。



谁是我的翅膀？或是……

我先来个20人斩愉悦一下自己，

在跑道上飙一下车~~~

“你不能一边爱着罗宾，一边和地球上那些傻大胸妞嘿咻！你必选现在作出选择！”
“我选大胸妞好了”
“什么！！！”
“嘿，莉莉。大胸妞能让我开心，她们能让我感觉良好，她们才能让我假装是个好人，而对罗宾的那些感觉只是暂时的，当这一切结束的时候，我的心还是属于大胸妞的。”
“不，那只是假象，那只是因为你受伤了”
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以上，如此出彩的台词~
可怜的巴尼，只能看看新闻看看那个人儿（卑微吧，爱意的同义词就是卑微感）
再加上围绕星战的话题，斯黛拉那句“I do”。你相信么？反正我不信，泰德，一直我把他当作我，当作我周围的大多数男生。看看他们想想自己，因此，我不信这个“I do。”
那么，太过了解是不能产生爱情的，这一集大概讲的是这个道理吧，我挺赞同的。

Lily和Marshall理应成为所有人间眷侣与冤家的典范。

Ted也会说“I look at you guys, and that's all i want in the whole world”。

这一集里，都因为Cosmo Girl上一句“As we mature, our realtionship mature”，Lily和Marshall决定放弃他们从大学二年级起的一个小仪式——Lily去了西雅图，可Marshall不打算再戴着傻帽子，举着呼唤爱人乳名的小牌子站在肯尼迪机场等她，Lily也不打算再带回没有什么实际意义的6瓶装当地产啤酒。

其实Marshall和Lily的小惯例远不止这一个，他们每天午饭时间通电话，告诉对方“我爱你”；他们每年新年钟声响起时必须深吻；他们每天回家的第一件事，就是互相汇报，在他们暂时分开的白天，各自都吃了些什么。

但是正如取消机场小仪式的打算，他们今年新年一刻，是在沙发上伴着《友谊地久天长》的音乐依偎昏睡着度过的；Marshall也把最近一通的Lily午餐来电转到了语音留言信箱。

好在，他们临时都改变了主意，Marshall决定在暴风雪中赶去机场，Lily要在下飞机后想尽一切办法弄到6瓶装西雅图产的啤酒。

开车的Robin不能理解Marshall的这种愚蠢俗套的小甜蜜式爱情，认为表达爱并不一定要给对方取幼稚的昵称、留肉麻的留言，更不必冒着暴风雪冲到机场，这一切，都没有意义。

Marshall告诉她那是由于她从来没有遇到一段让她想做这样的愚蠢事情的爱情。

他和Lily一直这样做的原因除了出于习惯，还因为他们，没有想出什么其他更好的表达爱的方式，只好用力地这样老土地去表达。

可惜，最终他们在时空中小小交错了一下，没能对接好。（这里编剧两条时间线共用的讲故事方法真是高明）

所有的人都以为Marshall不会再去接Lily了，Lily推着一整桶好不容易弄到的啤酒，落寞地坐在休息椅上。

旁边的人偏偏用Saxphone吹起了《友谊地久天长》...

忽然远处又有两人鸣号同揍，更多乐手也忽然出现。

Marshall在音乐中戴着一如既往傻的帽子，举着“Lily Pad”的小牌子，边走边说：

"A muffin, a pastrani sanwich, and a bag of chips,

 And, i know it's way past lunch time, but i love you.

 More and more each day.

 I love you, Lily.

 Happy New Year."

编剧可以选择了《友谊地久天长》，因为Marshall在与Lily结婚的誓词中说，他爱Lily，不仅因为他作为爱人爱她，更因为，他们是最好的朋友。

上面这个细节，是我前男友提醒我的，因为他跟我说我是他从小最好的朋友，我当时的反应是觉得这一点也不浪漫。他说，最希望的是，我们，可以成为Lily和Marshall。

我们都和Ted一样，只懂得羡慕别人的幸福，以为那是自己愿意不惜一切得到的，实际上却没有在任何一段关系中那样去细腻付出过。

我的父母每天都会告诉对方，这一天中唯一不在一起吃的一顿饭，都吃了些什么菜。

他们也会在每一天的电话里，问问我三餐到底都吃的是什么。

其实这跟中国人重视饮食没有关系，原来地球那边也是这样。

虽然有情饮水饱，可在饱暖的日子里，真正关“心”自己爱的人，就会在意他的“胃”。

——献给Lily和Marshall

 

    
Ted失业了，于是开始着手实施一直以来的梦想——建立一家自己的建筑公司。

然而目标设立之后，Ted却百般拖延，先是选莫斯比公司专用笔就选了两天，然后Robin一句话又让他将刚刚排除的水笔重新列入了备选，接着又雇佣了PJ在家办公，以设计网络、公司活动等为借口，迟迟不肯联系客户，迟迟不肯正式开始创办公司。

看着百般拖延的Ted，Robin终于忍不住面对面的责问他。

面对Robin的责问，Ted终于说出了心里真实的想法：

我拖延不是因为懒，而是因为不敢。没有做的时候，它还是我的梦想，一旦做了，我怕它会变成一件让我搞砸了的事情。

（大致意思）

看着Ted看向Robin的目光，我想我是了解他那种复杂的心情的。

有些时候，对某些事情的一拖再拖，并不能简单的用拖延症来解释，更不能用哈姆雷特的延宕心理来解释。有些时候，这种拖延，不是因为懒，更不是因为不想做，只是因为太在乎、太重视，怕自己搞砸。因为一旦搞砸，它就不再是心中那个永远的梦想，而是成为一件被自己搞砸的、无法直视的事情，那个时候，不仅梦想无法实现，连单纯的幻想它实现后种种开心激动的心情的资格都没有了。

每件事在每个人心中的重要性并不相同，但那件重要的事，在每个人心中的重要度却是相同的，那就是重要到不敢触碰，生怕一个闪失便破碎的再无复原之法。

在这个世界上，有梦想的人很多很多，但有勇气去做的，却不是百分百。

梦想之所以重要，我想，或许就在于它许诺给每个人的“有朝一日”，只不过，不是所有人都有背水一战的勇气。

听完Ted的话，Robin说，你行的，你有这个能力。于是Ted打出了第一个电话，虽然是打给Robin的练习电话。

或许每个面对梦想而踟蹰的人，都需要一个Robin，在听完自己内心全部的惶恐与担心之后，坚定的说，我相信你，你行的，你能做到，你有能力做到。然而我们更需要的，是一个叫做“自己”的Robin，在自己踟蹰不前的时候，狠狠的向前推自己一把。

是的，推自己一把。无论结果如何，都要迈出这一步，这样，才不会给自己的人生留遗憾。