Slap Bet [SEP] series
Slap Bet
"Slap Bet" is the ninth episode in season 2 of the popular sitcom "How I Met Your Mother". The episode, originally titled "Robin Sparkles", first aired on November 20, 2006. The episode received highly positive reviews and features in several lists of the best "How I Met Your Mother" episodes in the series. The episode led to two recurring jokes and storylines in the show: "Robin Sparkles", Robin's teenage pop star career, and the Slap Bet,
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- Eric Goldman of IGN gave the episode 8.5 out of 10. He describes the slap bet as one of the funniest running jokes of the series. Goldman was also impressed by how well Neil Patrick Harris took the slap, describing it as "like Biff Tannen taking a punch from George McFly".
- "Entertainment Weekly" put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "After winning permission to slap Barney in a bet, Marshall