Despite their protests, he convinces them and they meet Barney's mother, Loretta, and brother, James, at the house in Staten Island.
Lily finds a basketball jersey, and Barney tells the gang that he was asked by the coach to quit the team because he was too good.
Barney accepts the delusions, until he and his brother find an un-mailed letter to a "Sam Gibbs", with a photo of them, with the words "your son" on the back.
James eventually snaps and yells at Barney, begging him to stop living in a fantasy world and accept that all the lies Loretta told them, like Bob Barker being his father, are false.
She said that while the episode had no real innovations aside from recurring characters and meeting relatives for the very first time, Barney's acceptance of the truth was not long in coming.
[3] DeAnn Welker of Television Without Pity gave the episode a C+ score, saying there was not much of a storyline for the other four main characters.