How I Met Your Mother, Season 6

How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014) is an American sitcom, which aired Mondays at 8:00 pm on CBS. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future, in which an older version of the main character, Ted Mosby, tells his two children the story o… more »

[Jerome "Jerry" Whittaker sees Barney try to dismantle a basketball hoop over his driveway]

Jerry:
Barney, what is going on?

Barney:
This is mine.

Jerry:
I don't understand.

Barney:
JJ gets a childhood, a dad, a real family, and a basketball hoop? No, no, I at least get the hoop, I'm taking it with me.

Jerry:
Please, just come down and talk to me.

Barney:
Why? Why should I? You're lame, okay? You're just some lame, suburban dad.

Jerry:
Why does that make you so mad?

Barney:
Because if you were gonna be some [agitated] lame, suburban dad, why couldn't you have been that for me!?!?

Jerry:
Barney, I know I screwed up.

Barney:
Oh, "screwed up" doesn't even begin to describe what I've been through-

Jerry:
I know, I know, I KNOW! I want to fix this and I don't know how! Please, tell me what I can do! I'll do anything! [Barney continues trying to remove the hoop, Jerry briefly goes back inside and returns with a tool box] You'll never get it down like that. [gives screwdriver to Barney, who hits hoop with it like a hammer] No, Barney, Barney! Put the pointy end into the grooves. That's it, now turn it. Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey. [Barney begins unscrewing] I have no good excuse, Barney. It took me years before I was even able to look myself in the mirror for the way I let you down. It took courage to send me that letter. More courage than I've ever had. I owe you a lifetime of apologies, and I, I just... I have no idea where to begin.

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