Marshall plans a game night with the gang and Victoria, which leads to each person revealing the most embarassing moment of their lives. RecapThe group plays games on game night together. Marshall is unbelievably proficient at all forms of all games that they play. Therefore, they decide that Marshall should be the game moderator. Marshall takes this to mean that he is given the liberty to create fun new games for game night. Because Ted asked Marshall to not interrogate his new girlfriend, Victoria, Marshall creates a game called "Marshgammon", which has rules bent around the idea of getting to know her better. Nobody really understands the game, beyond the fact that every time someone says "What?" they have to drink. Lily mentions a girl named Shannon whom she ran into. Barney denies the existence of this girl, even after Lily says that she remembers him, and had a tape. Barney takes the tape in her hand and destroys it in the kitchen of the apartment. Lily tells him that the tape he just destroyed was Ted's graduation, and the real tape was hidden in her purse. The group watches the tape, and Barney steals the tape and runs out of the apartment. Later, they all meet up at the bar where Barney eventually tells the group his most embarrassing story in pieces after they each tell embarrassing stories of their own. Barney reveals to the group his first, and supposedly only, relationship with another girl. Before he became "awesome", he intended to go to the Peace Corps with his girlfriend, Shannon. She describes being in the Peace Corps with him as "legendary". They were both very environmentally aware. One day, a man in a suit entered the coffee shop where the two of them work and orders coffee. He and Barney talk about his girlfriend. Barney feels that the man is rude, stating, "Women aren't objects; they're human beings." They do not go to the Peace Corps. Shannon lies to Barney and breaks up with him, saying that her father does not want her to go. In reality, the man from the coffee shop hooked up with her, and she wants to move on from Barney. After seeing them kissing, and hearing her explain that he was a boyfriend, he loses his hitherto optimistic outlook on life. He composes a video cassette of him singing to her to get her back. Some time later, in the cafe, Shannon comes back to get her last paycheck. Barney is happy to see her, and runs up to talk to her. He asked if she got the tape, and her boyfriend replies affirmatively. The shock of discovering the identity of the boyfriend causes Barney to stumble, and he storms out the cafe in tears to avoid his teasing. He is walking down the street when someone shoves a flyer advertising suits with the slogan on the top "SUIT UP!" Barney then becomes "awesome" and transforms his appearance to that of the modern-day Barney. He cuts his hair, shaves his face, and buys what is likely his first suit. Marshall tells his most embarrassing story first, recounting the time he went to Lily's Kindergarten class to see Lily, but they were all outside at recess (probably). He then needed to go to the restroom. However, the toilet in the restroom was a smaller toilet that he wasn't used to, so he sits down, and he doesn't realize it's a shared restroom until a little boy walks in on him. He flees the restroom surprised and trips over and falls forgetting to pull up his pants, just as Lily and the younger kids return and all the little kids point and laugh at him. Lily adds "And the kids still call him Funny Butt." The next time Barney stops his story, Robin begins her story of falling in horse poop, but Barney rejects it as he already knows that story. Victoria then tells her story. Ted refuses to repeat it for his kids, only saying it involves a hot tub and a squeeze bottle of marshmallow topping. Next up is Lily, telling the story of the time she and Marshall were having "floor sex", not realizing Marshall's mom was still on the phone they'd forgotten to hang up and could hear everything. Finally came Ted. He begins to tell "the Green Testicle Story", but Barney interrupts, saying he wants the story of the Re-return. Ted explains that after the events of his disastrous first date with Robin, he, Barney, and Ranjit were drinking at the bar. Ted declares he's going to kiss Robin, but instead vomited on her doormat. Robin thinks it's sweet that he re-returned for her, but this puts some distance between Ted and Victoria, who had been previously unaware of Ted's feelings for Robin. Barney is amused that he got Ted to admit this and as a present, he decides to conclude his piece of the story of when he saw Shannon. He reveals after he stormed out of the apartment, and before he came to the bar, he went to Shannon, and caught up with her. He details that she wanted to make amends and reveals her talk of breaking up with Greg, being a mother, and notes if he stayed with her that could be his life. Lily tried to comfort him on feeling empty. However, he voices his joy at his bachelor life and lack of responsibilities like Shannon, stating he dodged a bullet with that life. He then states he had sex with Shannon after the talk. Barney proves it to a skeptical Lily by showing the gang and Victoria a video of the encounter on his phone. Barney says Shannon gave her number, but he declares that he won't call her, as revenge for her leaving him. He leaves overzealous by his actions, while Marshall states Barney wins the game, something everyone agrees with. At the end, Ted talks to Victoria about the night and she reveals that she got over it, and Ted bought Robin a new doormat. Continuity
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What game do they play in How I Met Your Mother?The Poker Game (How I Met Your Mother)
What is Marshall's game night game called?Marshall : [about the game he invented] It's called, "Marshgammon". It combines all the best features of all the best games: Candyland, I Never, Pictionary... Robin Scherbatsky : Backgammon, obviously.
What is the game Barney plays in Atlantic City?Xing Hai Shi Bu Xing (行还是不行) (Translated as Deal or No Deal?) is a game Barney plays in Atlantic City, Good Crazy, and The Bro Mitzvah.
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