Continuity
- Barney states that men who have had at least one relationship with a prostitute are 75% more likely to have success in future relationships, then concedes to Marshall that he made that statistic up. However, in "Brunch", Ted observes that Barney always uses 83% when making up a statistic.
- Marshall uses his catchphrase "lawyered". He does that every time he wins an argument.
- Mary makes a joke about Sandy Rivers "putting his hair on" in the mornings. It is revealed in "Bad News" that Sandy's hair is a toupee.
- Ted allows Barney to drink from his water glass, even though in "Little Boys" they discuss how Ted is afraid of catching germs from Barney. This is shown in both episodes when Ted asks Mary if she has slept with Barney and is relieved to find out she hasn't, and in "Little Boys" when Barney comments they have never "shared a woman".
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Famous quotes containing the word continuity:
“Only the family, society’s smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be “strangers in a strange land,” who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.”
—Salvador Minuchin (20th century)
“Every society consists of men in the process of developing from children into parents. To assure continuity of tradition, society must early prepare for parenthood in its children; and it must take care of the unavoidable remnants of infantility in its adults. This is a large order, especially since a society needs many beings who can follow, a few who can lead, and some who can do both, alternately or in different areas of life.”
—Erik H. Erikson (1904–1994)
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)