Ted: This is the first episode (of many) that show for all the romantic notions of one Ted Mosby, he really isn't all that great a guy sometimes and telling a girl he wants to be with that self respect is over rated, is... troubling.
Marshall: OK, when Ted was first showing the group his new old shirt, he says 'Hot top bro, is it new?' Now I accept a lot out of TV friendships and dialog that simply would not happen in real life, but no man has, will, ever, should write down that sentence. But he is right, ineffable is a very good word.
Lilly: Lilly started out strong by asking if it was yesterday already and giggling at the word booger. The rest of the episode she was Ted's break up coach for how to make a woman feel, which was funny and true except for the fact that no one in her entire life has ever broken up with her. But still her hitting Ted per syllable is always funny.
Robin: Robin's life finally comes front and center. We see her having issues with her career and her place on a tiny news station doing tiny news and sneaking the word 'nipple' on the air and eventually giving in to honking her own breasts on the air. Before she was able to do Barney's ultimate dare she realizes that as easy as it is to be jaded by your job, someone else always thinks it is fantastic and so you owe it to them to do your best... and then she fell in horse shit... and it got in her hair.
Barney: Barney doing the Ickey shuffle with a weird foley tap sound for his shoes was very funny except for the fact that there is no way that anyone at that table would care about Ickey Woods. Ted grew up in Cleveland, Marshall Minnesota and their team allegiances should be set. They went to school in Connecticut and if the characters in this show are just two years older then me, it makes them ten or eleven, when the Ickey shuffle was a national phenomenon for 9 weeks and then the Bengals lost to the Niners. Funny callback to a long forgotten fad, just not with this crew. Goonies references make more sense. Also, I do now yell "FRIENDSHIP OVER" over trivial things.
MVP: It was a battle between the ladies, but Lilly chuckling at booger and providing the voice for this episode beats falling down.
Season count:
Marshall- 1
Ranjeet- 1
Barney - 1
Lilly - 1
Continuity:
- Years later when Ted would account for the times he was in a fight, he did not account for this beat down. Maybe it was because it was done by a girl, maybe it gets folded into the break up, but clearly this was more then a frustrated punch on the arm from an ex.
Wait for it: 0 (2)
Have you met....: 0 (5)
Barney: Talked about the various types of sex that women give when breaking up but no girls were mentioned. So we still stand at, 1 confirmed, 1 possible
Up next: Ted gets a date with the girl from Glee
