HIMYF Midseason Finale: How Neil Patrick Harris’ Real-Life Daughter Was Used – Looper

In typical Barney fashion, when Sophie crashes her car into his SUV he assumes she’s a vindictive former lover. He begins reading a long list of possible Playbook ideas he could’ve used on her before she cuts him off, insisting they’ve never met. When she tries to offer Barney $50 for the damage to his car, he has a better solution: if she tells him a juicy story about her love life, she won’t have to pay him a dime. 

There are several “How I Met Your Mother” characters who have appeared on the spin-off, but Harris previously reasoned that a Barney cameo on “How I Met Your Father” may never happen. “Barney’s antics, his overt delusions of grandeur, would likely get everyone in trouble,” he told Hilary Duff in his Wondercade newsletter interview with her (via TVLine). “So, unless he’s changed his ways or joined a nunnery (insert an insert joke here), not sure if it’s in anyone’s best interest.”

He may not have joined a nunnery, but, seeing as how Barney is in the suburbs driving an SUV and wearing a shock device that goes off when he says anything inappropriate, it’s safe to say he’s working on being a better person. While Sophie suggests meeting his father is what helped him change, Barney sets her straight: it was his daughter who changed his life.