20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About How I Met Your Mother

4. Barney Could Never Use Chopsticks

We know the producers like to plan ahead. They had the whole idea of Ted and Tracy meeting at a wedding way back in Season 6, just over halfway through the show's run, while The Robin naturally required a lot of forethought. But it's not just in the series' defining arcs that they were setting things up for a long time.

Since Season 1 the always suave Barney struggled with chopsticks, never able to eat with them in the various times the gang went Chinese. Just another funny character trait, right? Wrong. In Season 7 episode Ducky Tie it's revealed Barney has been conditioning Marshall in an elaborate scheme to see Lily's boobs, which involves his ineptness with chopsticks. From this evidence he's been plotting it since 2005, which is impressive commitment even for him.