"The Playbook"

Thanks for the post, Jennifer Mcconnell
Even though I thought the break up of Robin and Barney on "How I Met Your Mother" was a cop out by the writers so they could rely on tried and true formulas instead of developing the show and characters in a new direction to reflect their maturity, I still really enjoyed "The Playbook" episode. It's one of those episodes I've seen countless times on http://www.cannonsatellite.com TV and never get tired of. In part due to hot chick Sarah Wright playing Claire. The episode revolves around a book that Barney wrote -- though he alleges it was written by his forefathers around the time of the American Revolution -- that consists of all the elaborate schemes that Barney has thought up in order to score chicks. Lily, disgusted by the very idea and upset that Barney uses one of his plays, called the "Lorenzo Van Matterhorn," to bamboozle the friend she had planned to set Ted up with, steals the playbook in order to expose all it's secrets.
Barney returns in scuba gear and proclaims he will use one final play that he calls, "The Scuba Diver." When the gang can't find the play in the playbook, they share Barney's playbook with Claire in hopes that she can find out what it is. When the elaborate details of "The Scuba Diver" are revealed to the gang after Barney and Claire have left for coffee, you can't help but see a similarity in how the show itself is written and connected through little details.