sentences: "Business Insider" noted that the episode received the second-best rating of any "How I Met Your Mother" episode on IMDb, surpassed only by the 9th season episode "How Your Mother Met Me".In 2018, TheRinger.com listed this episode at #52 in its list of the best 100 television episodes to have aired since 2000, and was the only episode of How I Met Your Mother to have made the list.