Bro Code

 In popular culture, the Bro Code is an etiquette for males to follow. The term has been popularized by Barney Stinson, a character from the television show How I Met Your Mother. Oxford Dictionaries recognized Stinson as "the quintessence of a certain iteration of the contemporary bro".The Bro Code is a book written by How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, and one of the show's writers, Matt Kuhn. Published by Simon & Schuster, the book covers 150 rules written in articles of what "bros" should or shouldn't do.The book was penned by Barney Stinson and also credited with Kuhn. Kuhn also writes Barney's blog, a blog that Barney writes in the show. The book was first shown in the episode "The Goat".