Warning: Full spoilers from the episode to follow.
If you thought we'd seen the last of Barney's Playbook, then you would be gravely mistaken. While his beloved tome was thought gone for good, Barney had been dreaming up new and "brilliant" plays -- one in particular involving beach, booze and bodacious babes: "The Weekend at Barney's" (essentially a Weekend at Bernie's riff, but with getting laid somehow). Of course, since Barney's conversion to monogamy, those brilliant plays would all go to waste -- that was unless he could once again live vicariously through Ted. The only problem with that? Jeanette.
Not surprisingly, though, Ted and Jeanette's relationship was faced with new peril when Jeanette trashed Ted's apartment over a mistaken spam email. This paved the way for a temporary breakup and an opportunity for Barney to manipulate Ted into abiding by his other one rule: "New is always better." From there, Barney revealed to Ted that he never actually destroyed the original Playbook (merely the ceremonial copy), thus allowing Ted to move on from Jeanette and try out some plays for himself.
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