Top 10 Best Concepts and Theories from How I Met Your Mother

One of the reasons we love 'How I Met Your Mother' is because of its beloved character's crazy, smart and hilarious concepts and theories for relationships, dating, and everyday life.
The Top Ten
1 The Hot-Crazy Scale

A graph concept created by Barney that indicates the hotter a woman is, the crazier she becomes. Vice versa.

2 The Naked Man

Created by a date of Robin's, Mitch, 'The Naked Man' is a concept used on dates as a last minute resort to get the girl to sleep with you. It's quite simple, make it back to your date's home, wait for them to leave the room, strip down naked, and "two out of three times" she or he will put out.

3 8-Second Rule

The '8-Second Rule' states: a woman will know if she is going to sleep with a man within eight seconds of meeting him.

4 Lemon Law

A Barney created "law" that indicates that "from the moment the date begins, you have five minutes to decide whether you're going to commit to an entire evening, and if you don't it's no hard feelings, just good night, thanks for playing, see you never."

5 The Mermaid Theory

Created by Barney, The Mermaid Theory states that you will eventually want to sleep with anybody if you spend enough time with them.

6 The Olive Theory

A theory concepted by Lily and Marshall that states: a couple has high compatability if one person loves olives and the other hates them.

7 Date-Time Continuum

A rule made by Barney that states you should not plan things with your current partner for a date that is further away then the time you have been dating for.

8 Crazy Eyes

A theory stated by Barney, Lily, Ted, and Marshall that if a woman has the crazy eyes, she's well.. Crazy.

9 Pause Function

A concept used by Marshall and Lily during arguments, where they put the fight on pause and post-pone it to a later time.

10 Chain of Screaming

This is another idea by Barney that indicates that if somebody has been yelled at, they need to then yell at somebody else in order for them to be recover from it. This eventually causes a the "Chain of Screaming".

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