In this episode of How I Met Your Mother Barney is back to his same old ways and is on a mission to get a perfect week. The perfect week is an analogy to sports as many baseball pitchers can have perfect games where no batter was given a base. In this case Barney’s perfect week is to sleep with a new women everyday of the week and has often times fallen short of his accomplishment. He objectifies the women by only seeing them as a number often times mistakenly forgetting their name but uttering what number day they were. He makes it a mission to keep the streak alive and sleeps with any women he can find. It is put into a ESPN sports setting as Barney talks with a host about his perfect week. The male gaze is seen in the women Barney sleeps with as they are only seen as numbers under Barney’s belt to fulfill an utter meaningless accomplishment.
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