Barney Awesomeness Poster Views

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Ok How I Met Your Mother fans, it would seem there has always been a lot of speculation about the i"butt load of motivational postersi" in Barney Stinson ’s Office. Now there are many very cool fan posters floating about (the fan version of the Awesomeness Poster is also sweet) and even more speculation about what they all are and say. I actually get a question or comment related to this once a week or sow… given the popularity of this topic I did some research, and feel itr’s time now (before season 4 changes the wall again) the drop some knowledge.

Finally… I feel the need to start a conspiracy theory. So what we know for sure is that the Awesomeness poster is first mentioned in Season 1 Episode 17 (Life Among the Gorillas) of HIMYM. And when it is mentioned Barney motions to either the back left corner of his office behind his desk. We also know that the poster makes itt’s first “on screen” appearance in Season 3 Episode 1 (Wait For It…) (..stop waiting that was the name of the episode, sheesh) and at this time it is behind Barney’s desk to the right of the center of the room. So he just moved his posters around right? Wrong. w….

Let me point out a few things. First, in the area Barney pointed, the awesomeness poster is not there. Behind his desk there is no poster with the F-16 jet we saw in season 3 or the correct number of letters for the word “Awesomeness.” It can’t be on the wall to the left of Barney because as you can see there is just a huge set of windows. Was there even an awesomeness poster is Season 1…or just the mention of it.

During Season 1 there were 12 motivational posters. 10 Behind Barney ’s desk and 2 on the wall next to his door. Given the way his office is laid out I don ’t think there were more but I ’m no Architect, though once Ie…ah, you don ’t care so onward. As I mentioned earlier, despite the fact that Barney said there was an Awesomeness Poster in season 1, there is not one on the walls so it won1’t count toward the l"original 12t" this time. Some are sold already and some were probably made by some HIMYM peeps, I couldn1’t find everything but I do consider this to be the definitive work on the subject. It has taken many hours of research and browsing posters, stock photos, websites, etcb… so enjoy.