Ted: Ted waffles between his desire to move on with the nice, if overly friendly, girl from his office to his crush on Robin. And since the girl is nice she recognizes the crush and moves away politely.
Marshall: Marshall got to make the triumphant return at the end to Bon Jovi saving the night and establishing that the world will always end up right for Marshall and Lilly.
Lilly: Lilly calls Marshall from the limo without a cell phone and reaches him. Mainly she was gone changing her shoes this episode.
Robin: Clearly likes Ted and has for a while, at this point in the run they did need to give her a hundred millionaire boyfriend, because the couple's separation at this point would seem quite artificial. She also sang Bon Jovi acapella.
Barney: Barney is driven to be psyched by the throbbing start of Bon Jovi's 'You Give Love a Bad Name' and then gives a wistful speech when he loses the mix cd.
Guests: Bon Jovi could be considered a guest star, Ranjeet as always bats a thousand, and a bald hipster Not Moby made irresponsible gun use as funny as Robin would make it years later.
MVP: Barney gets credit for Bon Jovi, so Barney
Season count:
Ted - 2
Marshall- 2
Ranjeet- 1
Barney - 3
Lilly - 2
Guest (Ellen the matchmaker) - 1
Continuity:
- Ted hides the fact that he met Ranjeet on the night of their successful/disastrous first date in the pilot
Wait for it: 0 (2)
Have you met....: 0 (8)
Barney: Barney ends up with Natalia at the end of NYE, I may be giving to much of the benefit of the doubt, but I am going to call this a confirmed, 2 confirmed, 1 possible
Up next: Does Ted have a 'plus one'
