How I Met Your Mother Quotes

Context

This line was first said in the fifteenth episode of How I Met Your Mother, "Game Night" (2006), by Barney Stinson, played by Neil Patrick Harris.

If you watch the show How I Met Your Mother, it may seem like Barney says this line at least once every episode.

Barney uses the phrase as an exclamatory statement; it instructs people to put on a suit, often figuratively, so they are going out on the town with class.

The first time we encounter this quote, Barney is reading it on a flyer while he's walking the streets of New York, distraught because his girlfriend just dumped him.

Yeesh, what a tragic backstory for such a lighthearted quip.

Where you've heard it

How I Met Your Mother became one of the hottest comedies of the decade, lasting 9 seasons, so it was inevitable that Barney's saying would catch on eventually. Unless, somehow, someone else was using this catchphrase before Barney Stinson made it famous, when you hear someone exclaim this line, you're probably in the presence of a fan.

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

The idea of going out on the town and getting the ladies might sound like a great time, but honestly, who wears a suit to a bar anymore?

Well, unless we're talking birthday suits. Now that's a whole different story.