How I Met Your Mother Quotes
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Source: How I Met Your Mother
Speaker: Barney Stinson
"Legen—wait for it—dary!"
It's going to be legen—wait for it, and I hope you're not lactose intolerant because the second half of that word is—dary!
Context
This line was first said in third episode of How I Met Your Mother, "The Sweet Taste of Liberty" (2005), by Barney Stinson, played by Neil Patrick Harris.
Barney Stinson has a tendency to overuse the word "legendary." Thankfully for fans of How I Met Your Mother,he twists, changes, and manipulates this phrase in ways you never thought possible over the course of the hit sitcom's nine legen—wait for it—dary seasons.
Where you've heard it
You hear this, or a version of it, any time someone decides to split a word using another word or phrase. It's called tme—wait for it—sis.
Okay, it doesn't always work. We'll leave it to the experts.
Pretentious Factor
If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.
Unless you're super creative, this gets old ri-freaking-diculously fast.