How I Met Your Mother: 10 Shadiest Things Barney Has Ever Done
3. The Ducky Tie Bet
At first, this doesn't necessarily seem like an extremely awful thing, considering some of the other things that Barney has done, including convincing a woman that he needed her to suck poison out of him in a rather specific place. However, the fact that he was trying to touch a married woman's breasts because her pregnant hormones are making them bigger is just gross.
The bet starts with Barney telling everyone that he can do what a chef at a hibachi grill can do, but even better. Marshall decides to bet that Barney can't do a specific set of things, and if he can he is allowed to touch Lily's boobs. However, if he fails he will have to wear the ugly ducky tie for an entire year.
Seeing as Barney wears a suit at all times, these are pretty big stakes for him. This was all a ploy created by Barney months in advance in order to get the opportunity to touch Lily inappropriately. Especially seeing as he spends most of his time on the show hitting on her and alluding to them having sex, we are not surprised that he would hatch a plan like this.
We are surprised however that he would hatch a plan like this in order to touch his best friends wife in such a way that she did not want, making this much more uncomfortable than intended. Not cool Barney, not cool.