The Best Man 'is one of my favorite episodes of Season 7 because finally we have some clues about Robin's feelings.
I see many similarities between 'Do I Know You?' and 'The Best Man':
'Do I Know You?' begins with Barney finally admits to himself and to Lily that he's in love with Robin. In 'The Best Man', the one who's talking with Lily is Robin, who admits practically the same thing, saying "I wish Barney were my boyfriend again." Barney in 'Do I Know You?' tries to impress Robin and tries to talk about his feelings, which Robin tries to do with Barney in 'The Best Man' after their dance. But, in both cases, things do not go as hoped: Robin arrives with April in the first case while in the second one Barney gets a call from Nora.
'Benefits': the "I love you" from Barney can be compared to the speech that Robin does in 'The Best Man' when Barney is on the phone with Nora. In both situations, one of the two does not realize that the confessions of the other are true.
'The Possimpible': Barney tells Robin that he had found a job for her. She looks at him incredulously and Barney opens his arms smiling. And it's exactly the same thing that happens in' The Magician Code Part 2 ' when Barney and Quinn announce their engagement. When B / R are left alone, Robin looks at him incredulously and Barney opens his arms smiling.
'Murtaugh': what B / R are doing in this episode is exactly what they'll do during the first half of Season 7.
-Record a voice message in unison: the scene where Robin suggests Barney what to say to Nora in 'The Best Man'. -Dance preparing to go to the rave: the scene of their dance in 'The Best Man'. -They wear extravagant clothes to rave: their crazy costumes on Halloween in 'Slutty Pumpkin Returns'.
I also love The Best Man and parts of early S7 because it does finally give the audience some clue into Robin. And I think the parallels to Do I Know You are absolutely intentional. Both The Best Man and The Stinson Missile Crisis are almost deliberately written to be parallels to B/R in S4, although this time we get all of Robin's feelings and *none* of Barney's until the very end of Disaster Averted (and even in that episode, it's Robin who brings what happened during the hurricane up, which leads to their hookup).
Robin even has similar random blurt-outs (like Barney's in S4 and Hopeless) in both The Best Man and Noretta. But I think CTCB had to know that in order to make the general audience buy B/R getting back together, they had to show the relationship from Robin's side both this time, and again in S8.
I see many similarities between 'Do I Know You?' and 'The Best Man':
'Do I Know You?' begins with Barney finally admits to himself and to Lily that he's in love with Robin. In 'The Best Man', the one who's talking with Lily is Robin, who admits practically the same thing, saying "I wish Barney were my boyfriend again."
Barney in 'Do I Know You?' tries to impress Robin and tries to talk about his feelings, which Robin tries to do with Barney in 'The Best Man' after their dance. But, in both cases, things do not go as hoped: Robin arrives with April in the first case while in the second one Barney gets a call from Nora.
'Benefits': the "I love you" from Barney can be compared to the speech that Robin does in 'The Best Man' when Barney is on the phone with Nora. In both situations, one of the two does not realize that the confessions of the other are true.
'The Possimpible': Barney tells Robin that he had found a job for her. She looks at him incredulously and Barney opens his arms smiling. And it's exactly the same thing that happens in' The Magician Code Part 2 ' when Barney and Quinn announce their engagement. When B / R are left alone, Robin looks at him incredulously and Barney opens his arms smiling.
'Murtaugh': what B / R are doing in this episode is exactly what they'll do during the first half of Season 7.
-Record a voice message in unison: the scene where Robin suggests Barney what to say to Nora in 'The Best Man'.
-Dance preparing to go to the rave: the scene of their dance in 'The Best Man'.
-They wear extravagant clothes to rave: their crazy costumes on Halloween in 'Slutty Pumpkin Returns'.
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Robin even has similar random blurt-outs (like Barney's in S4 and Hopeless) in both The Best Man and Noretta. But I think CTCB had to know that in order to make the general audience buy B/R getting back together, they had to show the relationship from Robin's side both this time, and again in S8.
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