04+March+17

=How I Met Your Mother S3E11 - The Platinum Rule = 

=__Program Introduction __=

Production
How I Met Your Mother is an American sit-com that premiered in September 2005 and seen as attempting to be the new “Friends” TV series due to its similar setting like five best friends and life in New York. The show centers around Ted (Josh Radnor) and his search to meet the perfect woman, the mother of his children. The unique ‘hook’ of the show is that Ted narrates it in the year 2030, telling his kids the story of how he finally met and married the woman who was to be their mother.

Why is HIMYM so popular
Without Ted’s narration and the presence of Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), HIMYM would only be another run of the mill American sit-com. However, with these two elements the show overcomes the annoyance of its laughter track and the overly cheesy scenes to become an enjoyable and witty program. The character of Barney is the writers’ greatest success, as it is Neil Patrick Harris who overshadows the rest of the cast, emphasized by his 2007 and 2008 Emmy Nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. The other characters, of whom former Buffy actress Alyson Hannigan (called Lily Aldin in the series) is the most famous, present a solid stage on which Harris can shine.

Characters


Played by Josh Radnor. He's main actor. The whole series is based on his stories of how he met his wife. He had once worked with Barney and he is also a professor who teaches architecture in a college. There are so many girls in his life before he met his wife.
 * Ted Mosby **

Played by Neil Patrick Harris. Barney met Ted in a bar and became a friend of him. The goal of his whole daily life is how to get laid (have sex with girls). Barney has his own attitudes and theories about life and he is always wearing a suit.
 * Barney Stinson **

Played by Cobie Smulders. A TV anchor comes from Canada. Ted had a crush on her in the first episode.
 * Robin Scherbatsky **

Played by [|Jason Segel]. Marshall met Ted and Lily in the freshman year in the university. He and Lily soon became couple when they met each other, being together for 9 years and got married in season one. He’s a Law school graduate, very good at games and highly interested in food and paranormal happenings.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marshall Erisen **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Played by [|Alyson Hannigan]. She’s a kindergarten teacher, dreaming to be an artist and to draw a nude Marshall portrait. She has an impulsive buying habit, so she has a serious debt problem. She cannot keep a secret, and is often shown to be the most spoiled of the group, but despite those traits she is a very caring person and will much of the time do thankless acts for the good of her friends.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lily Aldrin **

=__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brief Synopsis of This Episode __= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is a saying that “A waterfront pavilion gets the moonlight first,” but is it true? When Ted was ready for the date with his doctor, his friends, Barney, Robin, Marshall, and Lily all try to convince him not to, because they know so much that they think Ted won’t get what he want. Then Barney told him a rule and some steps must happen just like a formula. But Ted still went for the date…

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=__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vocabulary and Phrases __=

Vocabulary
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tramp stamp**: a tattoo on your lower back. Women with this kind of tattoo are sterotyped as having had many sexual partners. See this link for more information: http://www.squidoo.com/TrampStamp <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Stripper**: a performer who takes his or her clothes off in a sexually exciting way in front of an audience <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Daddy issues**: women who has Daddy issues might seek relationships of a sexual or romantic nature with older men resembling her father <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Mockery**: comments or actions that are intended to make somebody/something seem ridiculous <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Zap**: to destroy, kill or hit somebody/something suddenly and with force <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Platinum**: a chemical element; platinum is a silver-grey precious metal, used in making expensive jewelery and in industry; it's more expensive than gold. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Gin and tonic**: a highball cocktail made with gin and tonic water, usually garnished with a slice of lemon or lime and served over ice <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Smug**: looking or feeling too pleased about something you have done or achieved <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Chuckle**: laugh quietly or with restraint <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Got the hots for somebody**: to be sexually attracted to somebody <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Seduce**: to persuade somebody to have sex with you, especially somebody who is younger or who has less experience than you <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Gullible**: too willing to believe or accept what other people tell you and therefore easily tricked <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Submission**: the act of accepting that somebody has defeated you and that you must obey them <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Perks**: special benefits <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Name-dropping**: the act of mentioning the names of famous people you know or have met in order to impress other people <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Psyched**: excited, especially about something that is going to happen <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Charades**: a game in which one player acts out the syllables of a word or title and the other players try to guess what it is <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Whip something up**: to quickly make a meal or something to eat <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Nachos**: a Mexican dish of crisp pieces of tortilla served with beans, cheese, spices, etc. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Fling**: a short sexual relationship with somebody <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tipping Point**: the point at which a series of changes cause things turning bad from good <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Mound**: (in baseball) the small hill where the player who throws the ball (called the pitcher) stands <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Fiesta**: a public event when people celebrate and are entertained with music and dancing, usually connected with a religious festival in countries where the people speak Spanish <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Purgatory**: a place or state in which the souls of dead people suffer for the bad things they did when they were living, so that they can become pure enough to go to heaven; but it means a condition of torment or suffering here <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Teleprompter**: a device used in television and moviemaking to project a speaker's script out of sight of the audience <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Scout**: the act of searching an area or various areas in order to find or discover something <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Hit on somebody**: to start talking to somebody to show them that you are sexually attracted to them <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Stalk**: to move slowly and quietly towards an animal or a person, in order to kill, catch or harm it or them <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Prey**: an animal that is hunted, killed and eaten by another <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Corpse**: a dead body, especially of a human being rather than an animal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Declaw**: to remove the claws from <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Neuter**: to remove part of the sex organs of an animal so that it cannot produce young <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Metaphor**: a word or phrase used in an imaginative way to describe somebody/something else, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Docile**: quiet and easy to control <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Ectomy**: a medical operation in which part of the body is removed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Fallout**: the adverse side effects or results of a situation <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Out of nowhere**: in an unexpected or inexplicable manner of arrival or occurrence <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Odds**: the degree to which something is likely to happen <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Coexistence**: the state of being together in the same place at the same time <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Resentment**: a feeling of anger or unhappiness about something that you think is unfair
 * Fixings**: the ingredients necessary to make a dish or meal
 * Cuckoo**: a bird with a call that sounds like its name; but it means a crazy person here

Phrases
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Don't poop where you eat**: don’t screw around with people that you see on a regular basis and you can't avoid them, for example, your co-workers <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Love thy neighbor**: love people around you <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Do unto others as you would have them do unto you**: treat people the way in which you want to be treated <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**I probably would have already hit that**: come from the term "I'd hit that" which means that you would be willing to have sex with someone

=__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cultural Notes __=

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reno
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s a city in Nevada. It is famous for casinos and being a “divorce city.” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The official site of the city [|http://www.reno.gov]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Golden Rule from the Bible
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barney's Platinum Rule is: "Never ever, ever, ever love thy neighbor."

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Triathlon
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] [|Ironman Triathlan]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hockey
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is an introduction of hockey [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two teams and one player mentioned in this epsode: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The New York Rangers [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Vancouver Canucks [|http://www.vancouvercanucks.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mason Raymond [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pottery Barn
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s a store of home furnishing. [|http://www.potterybarn.com]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pretty Young Thing
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s a song on the album “Thriller” by Michael Jackson. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Names to Call Your Lover
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barney's Quotes
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Hot/Crazy Scale [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

[|YouTube clip of the Hot Crazy Scale] [|Extended YouTube clip of the Hot Crazy Scale]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Lemon Law [|http://blog.kallerhoff.org/2009/02/09/barney-stinson-presents-the-lemon-law] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Platinum Rules [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are more Barney's funny quotes []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Characteristics
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work Relations and Social Relations @http://www.isso.cornell.edu/ithacalife/us2.php <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Directness, Openness and Honesty @http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/pages/faculty/alee/extra/American_values.html

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