How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 24 Last Forever Part 2

09.24 Last Forever Part 2

2018 

Lily, Barney, and Ted are at the bar waiting for Marshall to show up. Barney is spazzing.
Barney: The earliest I'll let anyone go home is 2am
Lily: 10pm
Ted: 9:45
Barney: 3am

Marshall tells them he's in line to be a judge again.
Ted: 1:45am
Barney doesn't want him to go. He doesn't think he'll ever meet someone and be like "you're the love of my life, everything I have is yours"

2019
Ted and Mother with Marshall and Lily at robot fight
Marshall asks if they'll ever get married
Mother: Someone got "judgey"

Ted: This one wants to be in a French castle
Mother: This one will take a White Castle. But he insists on a "wow factor"
Ted: You're all the "wow factor" I need. *kiss*

Barney comes in. He tried a "perfect month" and made a new playbook
Barney: That last girl, number 31.
Mother: Oh that's a pretty name, is it French?
Barney: She's pregnant
.......
Barney: My life is over
Mother: So where are you guys registered?

2020

Ted takes Penny to see GNB building
Robin shows up

He tells Lily and Marshall: And that was it
They're mad and compare it to a Sasquatch sighting
It's the birth of her ex husband's love child

It's a girl. "This is Ellie"
Barney falls in love with her. "You are the love of my life. Everything I have and everything I am is yours. Forever"

Ted walks into his living room and reproposes to the Mother.
Ted: Will you
Mother: Yes
Ted: Will you
Mother: Yes
Ted: W-
Mother: Yes
Ted: Will you marry me on Thursday? I called your office and you have nothing going on. Will you marry me on Thursday??
Mother: Yes. Aww same ring

Thursday
Lily: I can't believe it, it's Ted Mosby's wedding day!
Ted: Yes! After 7 years and 2 kids. Guys am I rushing into this?

Barney tells two young ladies to go home and put on decent clothes and call their parents.
Lily: Now I've seen everything
Marshall: Not everything
*Robin walks in*
Lily cried
Barney: Daddy's Home
Marshall. Judge Fudge? Running for state supreme court. You'll be calling me Fudge Supreme
Ted: you rsvp-ed no.
Robin: I did, but someone pretty persuasive talked me into it
Mother walks in.
She wants to get a picture of the gang all together.

Ted tells his kids that if he hadn't gone down that "long and difficult road" to get where he is now, he wouldn't be the same person. That the moment he met ther mom, he knew he was going to love her as much as he can for as long as he can.
<Montage of their life together>
That he carried the lesson (of loving her) all through their lives together. Even when she got sick. "What could be called the worst of times."

Present
(Thanking God, the universe, and anyone and anything else out there) "When I saw that beautiful girl on that train platform and that I had the guts to stand up and walk over to her and tap her on the shoulder and open my mouth."
Ted: Excuse me, hi I'm
Mother: The best man
Ted: You're Cindy's ex roommates
Mother: You're the professor. I took one of your classes. Econ 305

He tells her that she stole his yellow umbrella b/c he left it in Cindy's room. She says she bought it. He says his initials "TM, Ted Mosby."
Mother: Look again Ted Mosby, those are my initials. TM, Tracy McConnell

She tells him she went a dance club on St Patricks day. And left it. And never thought she'd see it again.

They talk in the rain under the umbrella



(Get ready, this is the beginning of the end)


Flashforward to old Ted sitting in front of his children. "And that kids, is how I met your mother."
Penny: That's it
Ted: That's it
Penny: No, that is not the reason you made us listen to this.
Ted: Oh really? Then what is it?
Penny: Let's look at the facts again. You made us sit down and listen to this story about how you met mom. Yet mom is hardly in the story. No, this is a story about how you're totally in love with Aunt Robin. And you're thinking about asking her out and you want to know if we're okay with it.
Ted: I can't believe this. I kep this story short and to the point and you guys completely missed it. The point of the story is that-
Penny: Is that you totally totally totally have the hots for Aunt Robin
Ted: No I don't
Penny: Yes you do
Ted: You're Grounded
Luke: Wow you're really into Aunt Robin
Ted: You're grounded too. Okay. Suppose I were interested in Aunt Robin in that way. It's not like I'd do anything about it. I got you guys to worry about.
Penny: Dad, we love Aunt Robin
Luke: Whenever she comes over for dinner, you guys are so obvoius
Penny: Come on dad, mom has been going for six years now. It's time.
Ted: What?  ijust call her up on the phone and ask her out on a date?
Kids: YES
Ted: And that's womething you guys want?
Kids: YES
*Calls*
He hangs up, says "four"

We see Robin at her apartment, she has four dogs. The door rings and she goes to the window to see hwo is outside.
Ted is standing there with the blue french horn

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 23 Last Forever Part 1

Please note, I do not plan on going over the previous episodes that I have missed. After watching these two episodes, I don't think I can rewatch any of it without feeling sad. Maybe after I process it.

09.23 Last Forever part 1

Part 1

September 2005
The gang is meeting Robin. Lily tells the boys if any of them wants to hook up with her, they have to marry her

Present
Marshall: The son of a bitch did it.

Ted talks about his moving to Chicago the next day. "Onwards and upwards." As he looks around the room, he sees The Mother up on stage playing her bass and stops talking.


I can't do it...I don't want to watch this. I had to pause on her face and cry. Okay..letting myself watching now. TEARS ALREADY TWO MINUTES IN!!!

Barney says hi to her "hey bass player!"
Tells her that he went out and got the girl "check it"
Barney wants to "have you met Ted" with the bass player
But Ted says he has to leave now.

Ted: Robin, it's been a major pleasure
Both: Major pleasure
*they hug*
Lily can't do it, Ted hugs Marshall
E.T. good bye with Lily. No hug
He hugs Barney
Ted: We licked the Liberty Bell
Barney: We did?

Ted gives Barney a high five so good it will be enough for the rest of their lives. A high-infinity
They go to opposite sides and high five. (Both hurt their hands "worth it")

Ted at train station. Old lady asks him if the lady with the bass guitar is pretty. She then tells him to go back and meet her. And then tells Ted what if the universe sends a sign. Then she asks one last question "this girl with the bass guitar, is that her?"
Ted: Just be cool lady, daaamnnn

24 hours later
Marshall and Lily walk into the bar to see Ted there. They expected him to be gone
He tells them he's not moving to Chicago because he met a girl
Lily: Who is this girl?
Ted: The bass player from the wedding band
Ohhhh ahhhhh
He call and asks her for a date and walks off while still on the phone with her.
Marshall is complaining to Lily about how Ted always finds a girl and moves too fast.
Lily has this knowing look on her face the entire time. (Pause and cry some more)
Marshall: He's fallen in love too many times now
Lily: Not like this, this is different

Present time
Ted: If I ever get married, I'm keeping it simple

2015
Barney: A hot air balloon?
Ted: Yeah I'm getting married in a 17th century castle in France

The Mother walks in to tell Ted that they can't get married in September because "when I do get married, I kinda want to fit in my dress"
He hugs her
Robin: What's going on?
Barney: She's getting a boob job

May 2016
Lily and Marshall are visiting with Barney and Robin. Baby Penny in the nursery.
Marshall: Can't believe you let Ted hang his jousting lance from the Renaissance faire on their bedroom wall
The mother: Yeah, that's Ted's
Ted *smiles*

They ask about Robin and Barney's trip to Argentina
Barney talks about his blog as his "business"
(This might be the part where they got "that drunk")
Robin asks if he wants an exit, right now at the 3 year mark
Barney: Before I answer that question, can we get really drunk and have sex?


They got divorced.
(WHAAATT?!?)


Barney noticed that Lily is about to have baby #3
Lily: Promise me that no matter what, we'll always be there for the big moments

October 2016
Marshall and Lily are living in the apartment. They talk about how Marvin and Daisy are sharing a room and when the third one is born, they can put the crib in the shower.
Marshall: How do we say good bye to something..memories
Cockamouse!!
Marshall: We have to move!

Halloween and Farewell Apartment party on the roof
Marshall is Captain Ahab
Lily is White Whale
Barney is some rock star
Ted is Hanging Chad
The Mother is some old lady wearing an Al Gore sweater

Robin wants to leave because "the gang" is a couple about to have their 3rd baby, her ex husband hitting on younger women, and the guy she should have ended up with married to a beautiful woman who is the mother of his children.

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 20 Daisy

09.20 Daisy

Sunday

2pm

4 hours before the wedding

(Quick, spread the word! Wedding is at 6pm!)

Robin's mom talks about freaking out on the plane. She's duct taped to the seat and the breathing air bags are all down. She apparently opened the plane door while they were flying.
Marshall: I guess I'm almost a judge
Ranjit: That's great, can you get me a driver's license?
Barney: Drink the blood of your enemy

Billy Zabka saw Lily get into someone's car. The license plate said "AHOY!!!"
Barney gives himself the Saltine Challenge. 6 Saltines in 1 minute.
Lily calls Barney (Ted answers) and says he'll go up to meet the mom when he's done

Marshall: Do think think...
Barney: That the Captain moored his dinghy in Lily's lagoon? Yeah, definitely.
Ted: That's crazy, you'd never moor a dinghy in a lagoon
Zabka: I don't know Ted, in certain tidal conditions, if you're protected-
Marshall: Look it doesn't matter, today is Barney's wedding, just forget it
Barney: Do you want to go to the Captains house, punch him in the face real quick and come back to do the wedding?
Marshall: Would that be okay?
Barney: Ranjit get the car
Ranjit: Getting the car
*everybody gets up*

Barney: Me and the boys have to go teach someone some manners

Captain's house. he's singing with his cleaning crew. Doorbell rings. Marshall punches him.

Lily is drinking like crazy. "Thank you Linus"
Robin's mom talks about her dad and we see cut scenes of Barney who have done the same thing.

Captain is engaged to 'Boats! Boats! Boats!'
We find out Lily went to the Captain's house, went to the bathroom for a long time, and left.
Barney tells Lily they are at the Captain's house. Lily: I am so busted. Thank you Linus

Ted figures out that Lily has a secret because he sees Boats!Boats!Boats! chewing gum.
He enjoys the suspense
Barney: OH MY GOD WILL YOU JUST TELL US!
Ted asks about the Captain's powder room and about the potted plant. It is a daisy.
Ted: When Lily and Marshall are apart for an extended period of time, what is the one thing Lily always does?
Marshall: Cry?
Barney: Masturbate?
Zabka: Karate?
Captain: Go sailing?
Ted: No, when Lily and Marshall are apart for a long period of time, Lily...always....starts smoking again
He tells a story about Lily smoking since Marshall left for Minnesota but couldn't quit .And when they had a fight, she needed one but didn't have one.
Ted: It's 3am you need an easy pick and the only place that's open is 5 miles down the road. You have no car. What do you do? Go!
Zabka: Dirtbiking
Marshall: I can walk that far
Barney: Masturbate!
Captain: Take a boat
Ted: A boat? Dude, she got a ride in your car remember?
      Now, you're Lily, you just had a cigarett in your boss's powder room. What do you do with it? Throw it out the window? Flush it?
Marshall: No, she wouldn't do either of those things, she's an environmentalist
Ted: Stick it in your purse
Zabka: Marshall can find it there
Ranjit: Throw it in the trash can
Boats: The Captain would find it there
Captain: Hide it in a boat!
Ted: A boat? What? How would that even...
Captain: I don't know...I just like boats!
Marshall: Oh there's only one place she can hide it. A place that eventually, it would decompose and serve as a natural mulch
Ted: Now if I were to dig around, I would be sure enough to find....*digs* ....a pregnancy test....
Zabka: You could smoke those?

Flashback to actual. Lily throwing up on the train. Her telling Linus to give her non-alcoholic drinks she might  be pregnant. She buys a pregnancy test at the store. She uses the pregnancy test. She's pregnant again!
Marshall: Guys..we need to go back to the hotel
Barney: She peed on that and you touched it

Marshall: Lily, we're going to have a baby!
Lily: I told you guys I could keep a secret :'(

Barney hugs Robin's mom. "Oh he's nothing like your dad!"
Marshall: We have to search around for hospitals in Italy
Lily: We're not going to Italy
Marshall: Of course we're going to Rome. You gave me my dream
Lily says it might be a girl

Robin's mom: It's like flying. You're filled with mortal dread. But when you find someone, it's like flying. Do you have someone like that?
Robin: I do...


One year later...
Marshall (in Italian): Come on bro, don't bogart the Funyuns.
Lily: I'm not bogarting them. There's another bag in the kitchen
Marshall: Lily, my darling, I'm the one who boxed up those Funyuns and shipped them here from New York. So it would be nice if you didn't eat them all.
Lily: Who brings food to Italy? It's Italy!!
Marshall: Then why are you eating my Funyuns!
Lily: You don't want me to eat your Funyuns? Fine! Let's take the kids to the square for some gelato!
Marshall: Now you're talking! Mickey! Let's go get some Gelato!
Lily's dad: That's a great idea. I've got the kids in the stroller and everything! Principessa! (Marshall's mom shows up) We're going to get some gelato!
Marshall's Mom: Perfection!
Marshall: My beautiful children. Good morning, Marvin.
*He bends down to look in the carriage*
Good morning....Daisy.
Their baby is blotchy

Only two more episodes until the finale!

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 19 Vesuvius

09.19 Vesuvius

The year 2024. Farhampton Inn. It's snowing. Ted and the mother are talking at a table. Ted tells her a story of a "real snowstorm"

Flashback: Freshmen year of college. Marshall & Ted are roommates.
 The Mother already heard it: Drove home, 500 miles played, spooned to keep warm.

Ted: Okay, another story
Mother: Heard that one too. Took over bar, met a band, go hens!. they played for Lily at the airport

Ted: How about the time Marshall
Mother: Tried to put lights on Lily's grandparents' house, next door kid stole the ladder

Ted: So I've told you all my stories
Mother: I have stories. My college roommates and I went to a male strip club
Ted: And your friend Dong Nose got smacked on the nose with a dong

Mother: What about the story about
Ted: How Dong Nose got her name

Ted: I guess it's official, we're an old married couple....
*looks at each other*
Mother: Nice!
*high five then kiss*

Concierge comes by and tells them to have fun but don't break any lamps like Barney and Robin
The mother doesn't know this story!

Ted: OMG You don't know this one!

Story:
"Robin broke a lamp"
She's wearing a hockey uniform. Her little sister is also there playing as the goalie. (Tough girl alert!)

Ted sees Barney go into room 9
So he goes to the front desk to ask for the name of the person in room 9.
It belongs to a Miss Susan Tupp
Ted: oh boy....

Turns out Barney is trying to choose a suit for the wedding. There's about five racks filled with suits in the room.
"When I walk down the aisle"
That's the bride
"When everyone stands up"
That's also the bride
"The groom really gets boned in this whole wedding thing

Lily is showing Robin a scrapbook of Barney and Robin's journey
She's disinterested and sees "The Wedding Bride Too" on paper-per-view
"Best day ever!"

Flashforward:
Concierge comes over and ask if they were talking about The Wedding Bride Too
The mother tells him that the movie was Stella's husband and it's based on Ted
We see a scene from the movie
Ted: my friends made us to never watch this

Flashback:
Marshall, Lily, and Robin are laughing their butts off, drinking scotch, watching it.
Sidenote: I thought Lily and Marshall were mad at each other. Did that one tiny conversation where they're like "Let's go to Italy", "We have to stay here" solve everything?

Barney didn't like the suit Tim Gunn made
Ted picks a bunch of suits but Barney doesn't like any of them because they have sexual stories
Stuff about stuffing ladies and Playboy Mansion

Robin's grandmother tell a touching story about her wedding day and something about wildflowers
It's actually a touching story but I'm just going along with Robin's outlook right now

Ted yells at Barney to "SAY YES TO THE SUIT!!"
Barney: I can't! I can't!!

Lily says she has another dress she'd like to wear and she'll go put it on right now

The Mother: Oh no, I know this story too

Lily shows up wearing her wedding dress (Looks great by the way)


Flashforward:
Ted: I'm just a boring old man spinning the same old yarns
Mother: Hey, I love your yarns
Ted: But?
Mother: You're the love of my life pooh bear, I just worry about you. I don't want you to be the guy who lives in his stories. Life only moves forward
Ted: So what happens next with Lily and the wedding dress?
Mother: *holds Ted's hand closer* Well, Lily brought the dress so she and Marshall could take better wedding photos. Yet another story I know. What kind of space would I have in my brain if I didn't know all this? Eh probably some state birds or some stuff.
*Ted kisses her hand*

Flashback:
Lily wants to use Robin's photographer. She also brought Marshall's tux.
"Fine!" "Fine!" "FINE!"

Barney: US Marines have to get married in uniform, I'll just go enlist. DUDE we can enlist together! That's the dream!
Ted tells him to put on the suit
It's too big but they don't seem to notice.
Barney: Where they stand up for me?
Ted: No they do that for her
Barney: They should, she's amazing
Ted tells some sappy stuff
Barney turns around and the suit suddenly fits (MOOOVIE MAGICC!!)
Barney: So....belts. *pulls out a huge rack of belts*

Barney and Ted walks in. Barney: Hey Lily, nice dress
Lily: So no one cares I'm wearing this dress
Ted: I care! *moves red wine*
Lily: This is the last time we're all going to be together


Future Ted: Sometimes it's better to just leave things unsaid

Marshall: Hey Ted, I don't want you to have to sit through this movie
Ted: Thanks Narshall. I saw it on the plane
Barney: Yeah Narshall. Right Narshall?
Ted: Man, take it down Swarley
Barney: It's supposed to be my special day

Movie: Jed and Narshall wake up in the snowy car and there's a Big Foot next to them
Robin goes out to get ice and runs into her mother in the hallway. *She starts crying*

Future Ted: And that's how it happened, even the surprise ending
The Mother: Is that really a surprise? I mean, what mother is going to miss her daughter's wedding?
Ted looks at her and looks like he's about to cry. The Mother takes his hand "oh hey, come on" *holds his hand* "did Barney really wear a scuba suit into the bar?"
Ted: he stole it. Walked right into a sporting goods store tried it on and walked right out. walked all the way home in it
They talk late into the night


Now, there's a theory that I read online that says The Mother is actually dead and that's why Ted started crying when she said the thing about missing a daughter's wedding. But the part where the concierge (I still can't remember his name) talks to Ted and The Mother shows that she's still alive enough for her to be seen. Also, what does Vesuvius have to do with this episode?

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 18 Rally

09.18 Rally

I watched this already and didn't have my computer with me so I couldn't write this up. And since I just wrote up the one for episode 19, I thought I'd do this one now.

Ted and Mother in a limo. She has her book release that night and they're going to the party. Ted chugs some champagne. She tells him that he's going to get drunk and she's not dragging home in that dress. He brings up a vow he made the morning of Barney and Robin's wedding.


Starts with Ted and Robin find Barney's legs tangled in a tree and spooning a  fire extinguisher.

Sunday

8am

10 hours before the wedding

Ted: Barney can't take a bad photo
*flashback to the episode about the photos*
Ted take a picture. Barney looks horrible
Ted: Guys, Barney may be dead
Marshall: I vow to never get that drunk in my life. And I will never break that vow as sure as I'm always going to have a full head of hair.

Year 2020
Lily and Marshall are in the bar looking at the tv. Marshall ran a campaign for New York Supreme Court Judge. Brad almost wins so Marshall starts drinking. Marshall ends up winning (slurs his acceptance speech): As your next commissioner of Gotham City, I vow to make Batman work harder. I say we shine that bat signal for even small stuff. Like uhh shoveling snow or if a police horse stumps out in the park. That's all.

Present
Ted mentions Stintson's Hangover Fixer Elixir
Barney tells a story: Colonial times. FDR. Barnot Stintsonheimer. (Ripping off Manhattan Project)
Magic forumla: Ginger, banana, Tantrum , Funions.
The thing actually works. But the secret ingredient. "Stintson family secret"

Ted: We know what Barney would want us to do; "Weekend at Barneys"
Robin: WE ARE NOT DOING WEEKEND AT BARNEYS
Lily: Ted and Marshall go get the ingredients. Robin wake him up. I'll go keep my mani pedi appointment at the spa
Robin: Bitch! You walk out that door and I tag in Zabka as my maid of honor

Ways they try to wake Barney up:
-Taking him outside. Accidentally throw him down the stairs and banging his head against the stair on the way up
-Robin's dad used have good methods. Such as: dunk head in ice water, watch scary bear videos, and cut his tie

Lily makes vow to never get that drunk
Wesleyan University 2030. Marvin goes off to college. "We got him out of the house! Drink up!"

Ted & Marshall got everything on the list. Except grease.
They ask the chef.
Ted: There's bacon. There's bacon grease
We find out Marshall is "Big Fudge" because he ate an 8 pound block of fudge once
Ted: Fine, I'll do it. I don't even know if I like bacon.
Marshall and the chef look at the camera

Robin & Lily:
Lily: We can make out?

Robin: Never ever getting that drunk again

Buenos Aires, Argentina 2016
Robin and Barney wake up on the floor.
Barney: Let's agree absolute silence for the rest of the day
*baby cries*
Barney: Every time, you want me to get her? (THIS HAS TO MEAN THEY HAVE A BABY RIGHT?)
Robin gets the baby. "Whose baby is this?"
Crazy lady comes in. "Drunk Americans"

Ted: HOW COULD YOU MOM
I really want bacon right now
Marshall: how about I help?
Ted growls at him

Ted goes crazy. "And that is the first and last time I ever ate bacon"

Robin & Lily
Lily: We've tried everything
Robin: Not everything. Lily Aldrin, let's make out
Lily: Are you sure?
Robin: Yeah baby, I'm sure. *slowly walks towards her*
*They kiss*
Barney wakes up *claps* more more more!
Lily: What is the secret ingredient in Stintson Fixer Elixir
Barney: The secret is nothing. It's a lie

Lily: Why did you lie?
Barney: I...love...you guys
Lily: He loves us? Let's go throw him down the stairs again
Everybody: Yeah!
Robin: remember those times?
They remember that Barney was trying to help them feel better each of those times. "Drink this, you're going to be okay."
Robin: it was a fake like Dumbo's feather
Ted: I wish there was something we could do. The wedding photos are in 20 minutes

Why do they all have lilies on the their lapel?

Barney: The whole day is going to be downhill from here.
Robin: That's what every bride wants to hear

Ted: Never again.

New Year's Day 2022
The Mother is in bed. Ted: Happy New Year
Gives her the Elixir.
Ted: Better drink it fast!
*Kids run in* "Mommy!"

Robin: I can't believe we kissed today. Too bad Ted and Marshall didn't get to see it.
Lily is over it and Robin wants more. The roles have reversed!

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 17 Sunrise

09.17 Sunrise

Sunday

5am

13 hours before the wedding

Robin and Ted search for Barney and discuss Ted's exes.
Barney pick up two young men and impart his "knowledge" onto them. Giving them a napkin with all the plays from The Playbook before leaving them.
Ted's top 5 best exes:
5. Stella
4. Zoey
3. The Slutty Pumpkin
2. Marshall that one time you guys pretended to be a couple when Barney was trying to sell the apartment
1. Victoria

Ted tells Robin that he and Victoria broke up after she left Klaus because she didn't want Ted to be friends with Robin anymore.

Throughout the episode, we see Barney talking to the two men while writing on yellow napkins with a sharpie.
Barney also teaches them the "have you met Ted" game

Ted tells Robin that he still loves her and that he's moving to Chicago after the wedding.

Ted's Top 5 worst exes:
5. Blah Blah
4. Boats Boats Boats
3. Karen
2. Zoey
1. Jeanette

Ted and Robin watch the sun rise together. They say their good byes and Robin floats away.

Throughout the episode, Marshall has conflict with his internal ghosts and learns to keep his and Lily's relationship, he as to stop using words like "winning" and "losing."


Only 7 episodes left of this great show. And then How I Met Your Father becomes a thing. (I've been seeing news articles about it pop up on my HIMYM feed.) Also, still waiting for Ranjit to show up again. And I'm wondering whose car Lily got into at the end of the previous episode.

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 16 How Your Mother Met Me

09.16 How Your Mother Met Me

In this episode, we look at big parts of Ted's life from the prospective of the Mother

Opening Title Sequence: Pictures of the Mother and her friends
September 2005: Barney says "have you met Ted?" And The Mother's best friend walks by them and gets a cab to go to the MacLaren's Pub on the East Side. Also the night of her 25th birthday. She's dating Max who gives her perfect presents. She picks up a call from him and finds out that he had died. She goes back to her apartment to see a box with a ukulele. "So your breakfast doesn't sing a cappella."

April 2008: St. Patrick's Day. She brings her yellow umbrella and goes to a club. She bumps into Mitch (the "naked-man" guy.) She offers her cello to him for the kids that he's teaching orchestra to. Naked man doesn't work...only works 2/3 times. She tells him that her goal in life is to "end poverty." She runs back to get her umbrella but it had closed and the next day, someone had stolen it.

September 2009: She tells Rachel Bilson's character (I looked it up, her name is Cindy) why she's taking economics. And that each person only gets one and she already got her one. Cindy says after "one" comes the "next one." And Ted walks in. She thinks she's in the wrong class and rushes out. Ted rushes right by her.

January 2010: Ted is in Cindy's room and notice the three things that belong to the mother. He also sees her heel and returns the yellow umbrella. Cindy talks about how Ted loved everything about the mother. And the mother mentions her calligraphy set, her coin collection, her chain mail corset from the Renaissance fair. Cindy kisses her after complimenting her

We see the Mother meet Darren who claims to be a fan of her band Super Freaconomics. Even better than Radio Hedgefund.

April 2012: The Mother meets Louis. He says "last time I was here, I thought this place was called Puzzles." The mother figures out the meaning behind the name. She leaves, Ted shows up wearing a green dress.
 She starts dating Louis and it shows her singing with her breakfast English Muffin.

Day before the wedding: The Mother sees the "Bass Player Wanted" ad. She talks to Lily some more and steals Darren's van. and picks up Marshall. She buys Ted a drink. Louis proposes to her, she goes outside to talk to Max, says good bye, rejects the proposal and gets a room at the Farhampton Inn where the concierge gives her a "perfect" room. Room #6
 She takes out her ukulele then goes out on the balcony and plays La Vie En Rose while Ted listens from the balcony right next door.
"Kids, I've heard your mom's rendition of La Vie En Rose many times over the years but that one will always be my favorite."
Ted goes inside and discovers Barney missing.

That ending makes this one of my favorite episodes of the show

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 15 Unpause

09.15 Unpause

In this episode, we finally find out what Barney's job is. (haha puh-lease)

Also, we see the birth of Ted's second child set in the Farhampton Inn 2017

Marshall attempts to postpone the big fight with Lily by feeding everybody drinks so that they wouldn't have to go back to their rooms.

Sunday

2:01am

16 hours before the wedding

Embarrassing souvenirs taken from Ted's childhood home

Barney gets Jabba drunk

Next level of drunkeness = truth serum drunk

Marshall has to "bang your wife for as long as you possibly can"

-Ted: What did you do to my mom? 

 Barney: I got thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double (what does that mean?)

-Robin: You walked into the bar wearing triple xray goggles

 Barney: Goggles didn't work

-Robin: Ring bear vs bearer

 Barney: bearer

-Barney: 6 and 3/64th inches

-Ted: Doves magic trick

 Barney: special dehydrated birds from China Town

-Marshall: Performance enhancement drugs?

 Barney: Here

-Ted: how much a year do you spend on suits

 Barney: one crapload. Also, Robin is massively wealthy. Worth 6 thousand craploads (Canadian craploads)

-Other answers: In one night, four. In one family, three. Yes, but not while she was secretary of state. Yes, but now while SHE was secretary of state. Just once, with a French male model (something about being lonely) only time to split a cab. Had sex in Ted's bed 14 times.

-Ted: What do you do for a living?

Barney: haha puh-lease

Ted: Tell us more about this job

Barney: Provide Legal Exculpation And Sign Everything. P.L.E.A.S.E.

 It means just sign stuff and we'll pay you 16 craploads a year

He also tells them that that he was working with the Fed

Meanwhile, Lily and Marshall fight
Lily: You went behind my back and (something something). That is worse than anything I've ever done to you

Marshall: You broke up with me and moved to San Francisco

Ted asks if Barney is okay with marrying Robin the next day. He says he now feels healed.

Lily runs out and gets into someone's car

2017
Ted tells us that his kids' names are Penny and Luke

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 14 Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra

09.14 Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmararra

Sunday

1am

17 hours before the wedding

We are getting much closer to the wedding. Just a few more episodes left!

Marshall tells Barney that in order to prepare for this next slap, he (Marshall) went to Shang Hai for a year to find slap masters and to master the technique that would make the slap over the top. He tells a story that some have conceived as racist (in articles I've seen on the internet.)

Something about a slap of a thousand exploding suns

"I have much gold"
Three masters of slapistry: Speed (Red Bird aka Robin), strength (White Flower aka Lily), and accuracy (The Calligrapher aka Ted)

Slap of a million exploding suns

Marshall informs Barney that the slap will happen below a willow tree, next to four women, and a tiger

Red Bird tells Marshall to slap a tree: The Fabled Slapping Tree of Gong Xing Forest

White Flower lives atop Slap Mountain which is shaped like a hand.

The Calligrapher lives in....Cleveland

SLAP NUMBAH FOUR

Guest starring Boys 2 Men singing the You Just Got Slapped song

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 13 Bass Player Wanted

09.13 Bass Player Wanted

Saturday

10pm

20 hours before the wedding

Previously, Marshall said that he could walk 5 miles to Farhampton Inn. This is where the episode begins, he walks with determination, music playing and narrative singing.

A car stops next to him and asks if he needs a ride "And that's how Marshall met your mother"

The group: The whole gang is here except there's one thing missing. "A bottle of $600 scotch"
"Also, where the hell is Marshall?"
Lily tells them not to choose sides. Barney says good because he chooses Marshall.
Ted distracts him by going to the bar.
Robin tells her it's only because Barney has a lot of public urination citations. (She looks proud of this)
"But don't worry, I'm on your side."

A guy sits down and Robin & Lily have a mental conversation. They talk about the guy hitting on them and wanting a threesome - Lily goes to a dark place. And the guys says thanks for having him in the wedding so perhaps he's one of Robin's cousins. But no, he has all his fingers and teeth.

Meanwhile, Marshall is thanking the mother for driving. And she's making very accurate guesses about his life which freaks him out. (Note that she's wearing driving gloves!) She locks the doors when Marshall tries to get out of the car. "No just kidding, I met your wife on the train. You must be Marshall." He's in the back hiding next to Marvin. "I was just checking on the baby"

Back to Robin and Lily and the guy. They're joking and laughing but they still don't know who the guy is. Strange how Ted and Barney still hasn't come back yet. Lily goes to the bar and tells Ted about the Farhampton liquor store and the lax security. Barney chimes in about how going to jail for a bro is "the dream." He and Ted have a whole talk about how many "the dream" Barney has so he can only pick one.
The mystery guy spills the beans about Robin hoping Marshall will get his way with the judgeship situation. And then he leaves.

Marshall thanks the mother for picking him up. She said she had to stop "for the cutest hitchhiker ever!" And Marshall thinks it's him but "oh you're talking about Marvin."
She mentions that she'll be going back to the city after dropping them off because of their devil-like lead singer, Darren. He'll go up to two friends and ruin their friendship. They're always left asking "how did we get here?" *He goes up to Ted and Barney*

Ted and Barney connects with him. "He'll tell a tragic backstory usually from an animated kids film" "It's often Bambi.....sometimes he'll throw a little Lion King in there." Then he'll get something friendship threatening.

The mother tells Marshall about her band "Super Freakonomics" because he mentions his lawyer band "The Funk, The Whole Funk, and Nothing but the Funk" She tells him she's leaving because she saw a "bass player wanted" ad online for her own band so she quit. Marshall tells her to take revenge which she did thanks to "Aldrin justice" *they high five*
"You should take his van and run my husband over"
She says that she can't handle confrontation "Yes you can!" "You make some good points"

Robin and Lily make up, Darren show up and ruin it again. And then he goes to Barney & Ted to spill the secret about Ted moving to Chicago.
"At least tell me you're not moving until next year or something"
"It's not until....Monday"
"It'll be easy to say good bye knowing how little I mean to you"

Robin tells Lily that she was never on Marshall's side, just didn't want to love her best friend.
She pulls out Marsh-pillow and holds the arms while Lily beats it up.

Ted apologizes to Barney. "I swear on my mother's--no I swear to God---no, I swear to Hef"
*Gassp* "Don't take that name in vain!"
Ted hands Barney a bottle of the missing scotch and tells Barney that he stole it for him
"$600 bottle, Ted that's grand larceny! You really could go to jail for this!"
"That's the dream!"
Barney: Lilly and Marshall will only be gone a year. We'll still see each other all the time. You, me, Robin...Oh..I'll miss you

Marshall arrive and he tells her that at the reception, he'll yell "The lead singer sucks skunk junk!'
Marvin's first words: Skunk Junk
"For the record...his first word was mommy"

The mother talks to Linus and gives him her speech to Darren. He says that "his mother was eaten by a barracuda" "Gaahhh that's Finding Nemo!! ..That's new"
She orders the Kennedy package

We see Lily still beating up Marsh-pillow and Marshall show up with Marvin in his arms. They pause and kiss and embrace.

Darren bumps into Ted while he's pouring the scotch. He gets punched in the face.
At the same time, the mother is talking about karma and how Darren's karma will never be coming to him. "I guess he'll never get that knockout punch"
She laughs at Darren and he quits the band "The best man just punched me for no good reason"
"Linus, whomever that best man is, I would like to buy him a bottle of your finest scotch"
And kids, that's the first drink your mother ever bought me.

Marshall tells Barney he got him a wedding gift. He demands Marshall hand it over now.
It's the fourth slap!!!


More of the mother means we are closer to the end. The wedding (according to the time given) will be Sunday at 6pm. Which means, we are getting that much closer to Ted meeting the mother and the series being over. 
Grab your tissues boys and girls, it's going to be a bumpy ride!

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 12 The Rehearsal Dinner

(Last week's episode was so much of a filler that I didn't even write about it)

09.12 The Rehearsal Dinner

Saturday

8pm

22 hours before the wedding

We zoom in on a cute cow stuffed animal that has a sign "Let's get this party started"
Barney is handcuffed to a pole and asks the security guy in the room to push the button on the cow.
Robin is wearing a strapless gold dress and very angry.
She tells Barney she's mad because she should be at the rehearsal dinner but instead, she's in a laser tag security office waiting for Barney to be arrested.

A few months ago:
Barney has a brilliant idea:
"Laser tag rehearsal dinner"

"Name one bad idea I've ever had"
"Gluten free edible panties"
"Hot dog on a stick on a bun"
"Inflatable sex toy life raft"
"The breast augmentation channel"
"Single malt scotch tape"
"The time you ran for mayor"
"The only poll I care about is in my pants"

They make fun of Canada

Something about Ted playing piano at their rehearsal dinner dressed as Liberachi

Barney got Robin back for the bachelor party by saying he'll leave her. And he asks her to move out.
Inside a suitcase on a bed is 4 fat golden retriever puppies.
Robin lays down the law "no more surprises"

Barney thinks Robin is throwing a laser tag dinner.
Lily sucks at keeping secrets.

Ted didn't really learn the piano.
Barney left the Inn and went to laser tag.

Lily tells Ted & Robin about Marshall's judgeship
Ted gets mad

"A marriage needs to be built on honesty and trust and all that Lily and Marshal crap"
Ted tells Lily a secret and then hands her a microphone
"Ladies and gentlemen, there's been a change of plans:

Barney gets out of the handcuffs
He hands Robin a pair of ice skates
and it starts snowing inside the room.
Barney presses the "let's get this party started" button and the walls lift up
Standing outside the room are all their friends from the party and there's snow outside. (Because they're at an ice rink)
Ted is wearing his Liberachi costume.
The security guard is actually an ice skater.
Alan Thicke sings (so does Barney's brother)

"I love you!"

Robin: I thought you hated Canada
Barney: Of course not, I love Canada!
*He lists a bunch of things that came from Canada*
"Barney Stintson, instant mashed potatoes, and best of all: You"
*they kiss*
Ted goes by on a rolling piano (playing it)

This was definitely not a filler episode. Marshall didn't appear at all. Perhaps it was because he was the only one in the previous episode. This episode showed even more the love between Robin and Barney. It was sweet. I was getting so frustrated during the episode but the end made it all worth it.

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 10 Mom and Dad

09.10 Mom and Dad

Saturday

3pm

27 hours before the wedding

James, Barney's brother, finds Barney & Robin someone to officiate their wedding: Reverend Gibbs.
Barney's dad, Jerry, arrives at the hotel. Barney sees Loretta (his mom) and Jerry being pleasant and think "They're in love! My mom and dad are getting back together again!!"

Barney gives Ted a signed Wayne Gretzky photo for him to hide until he can give it to Robin.
Ted doesn't lift a finger to stop Barney from getting his parents together.

Marshall and Daphne are bonding over the 500 miles song. 
Marvin is driving??

Robin tells Barney that Jerry is married so it's not going to happen.
Barney: So what? Marriage is just a piece of paper.
Robin: I'm a lucky gal.
"Why did you pause?!"
His plan is to get then stuck in the elevator and they'll rekindle their relationship.
Elsewhere, Jerry's wife is being driven away by Ranjit

Daphne blows up at Marshall.

Barney lowers wine/champagne and candles down to Jerry and Loretta in the elevator.
On an iPod, the song "bang, bang, bangity bang" is playing.

Oh no! Someone spilled calligraphy ink on the Gretzky photo.
Detective Mosby is on the scene.
"Really? Like that case from 8 years ago you still haven't cracked?" *shows flashback from a week ago of Ted looking a board labeled "The Pineapple Incident"*
Suspects: Billy Zabka, a bellhop, and Robin's cousin Claude.

Barney and James fight over who their mom is getting back together.
<Cue black & white musical number>
*slap fight ensues* "My dad would win in a fight" "No, my dad would win in a fight!"

Zabka's alibi: he was in a massage
Bellhop: didn't even know Ted complained about him
Claude: has ink on his hand but it was from saving a reefed squid. (true story)

Marshall finds out Daphne's daughter called her and told her not to show up.
Something about oranges, a speeding ticket, Trekkies, and more oranges. 
"Kids, they don't understand logic. Kids understand who shows up"

Barney and James agree to drop the issue. Barney finds a replacement 30 year old Scotch. But he drops it when he sees James's dad making out with Loretta.
Barney: Get your damn hands off my mom!
James: Ger your damn hands on my mom!
Sam Gibbs: One on one off?
Turns out, they got back together after James got reunited with his father.

Ted tries to accuse Lily of spilling the ink, she punches him and shows that she's been using the ink remover.
The picture now has a clean spot with a "W" in it.

Jerry is speaking to the police about a suicide note that his "wife" left on his bed.
"I'm going to...wait for it...kill myself"

Lily uncovers more of the picture.
Ted finds out Billy Zabka wasn't actually at the massage, he bought it for Barney's dad and signed his name.
Lily discovers that it is actually Zabka's picture under the spilled ink.
"Zabka-tage"
Lily's second tackle of the weekend.

Marshall delivers Daphne to her daughter's school.
Her daughter spots her, smiles, and starts a speech on "oil is the future!"
Marshall slowly backs out when they start chanting "drill baby drill"

Robin tells Barney that he has her. Jerry has Cheryl. And James is going through a divorce so he needs a mom and dad.

Billy was going to give the Gretzky to Barney and claim that he got the replacement one for him.
He keeps 200 signed headshots of himself in his trunk.
People kept throwing popcorn at him.
Yesterday: Barney asks him to be his best man. Billy's mom: You can come to Thanksgiving this year!
Billy: I thought if Ted screwed up again, I could be the best man.
Ted tells Barney a lie. Barney: Billy rules, Ted drools. Stinson out!

Loretta and Sam get stuck in the elevator and Barney lowers the tray with champagne into the elevator and tells them to consummate.
James is in the elevator.
<Fade out with "bang bang" playing>

Elsewhere: 
Cheryl: are we almost there?
Jerry jumps on the car and tells Ranjit to give back his wife.

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 9 Platonish

09.09 Platonish

Saturday

11am

31 hours before the wedding

Robin can't stop crying because her mom isn't to attend the wedding. She doesn't know how to stop crying (challenge accepted!)
Diapers and samosas

Flashback:
"major craving for mojito"
"private joke ....seven years later"
Barney says no two people in the world are platonic
Except Marshall and Robin
Challenge for Barney: Get a girl's number while talking like a dolphin
Ted and Marshall are at a basketball game, Marshall says "Robin says she's still in love with you" to get a reaction from Ted to prove they are not platonic.
Challenge #2: Pick up a girl while wearing a garbage bag
"I'll be Glad to"
Challenge #2.2: You also can't use the letter 'e'
Challenge #3: Redhead, bar. Robin tells her that Ryan Gosling wants her so don't talk to any other guy
Barney tells her that he's Ryan and had to get plastic surgery because he's a method actor.
Challenge #4: Pick up diapers (for Lily) and samosas (for Robin)..........while picking up a girl!
Some unknown number keeps calling Ted, he finally picks up and it's Hammond Druthers.
While in line for diapers, Barney sees a target. She turns around and it's THE MOTHER!!
She has a boyfriend and heard him call her a target. She tells him he's sad and she puts her hands on his arms, looks him in the eyes, and says: It's going to be okay, you're a good guy. You will get through this." Druthers is offering Ted a job in Chicago. He says no. A lot.
The mother tells Barney that "I think you are sad because you were in love and you messed up."
(And that's how Barney met your mother)
Ted sees Robin eating olives and she tells him that she changed her mind about olives (she used to hate them.)
He doesn't take the job in Chicago but the door is always open.
Barney asks the mother if she thinks she and her boyfriend will go the distance. She says she doesn't think she's met the right guy yet.
Barney: I wonder if I know anyone to set you up with. *thinks about it* I'm drawing a blank

The mother asks Barney "do you want to keep playing or do you want to win?"
She tells him that he needs to go all out for this and spend all his time on it then she leaves.
Ted realizes that he and Robin are not platonic, they're more "platonish" if that's a word
We see Barney looking at his playbook. He flips through it, goes to the last page,and writes "The Robin" (in very nice cursive.)
Ted is talking to Marshall and says that neither he nor Robin are going anywhere, what's the rush to go and get her right now? He can take her time

Present day:
Barney tells them that he didn't know what that girl was, but he had one challenge and one challenge only: Get Robin Scherbatsky to fall in love with me.
Robin looks at him, says "challenge completed" and kisses him.
The camera pans onto a sad looking Ted.




Since we get to slowly see how each member meets the mother, now that we've seen Lily and Barney's meets, it means we are one step closer to Ted meeting her. I just looked it up, Episode 14 is slapsgiving 3 and episode 16 will be "how your mother met me." And those episodes won't be until next year, 2014. I can only imagine how emotional the ending of this show will be. These people have wormed their way into our hearts. Also, where has the mother been staying this whole time? Didn't she arrive on the train with Lily?

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 8 The Lighthouse

09.08 The Lighthouse

One of the hightlights of my week, I can't wait for this show every Monday. What will I (and the fandom) do once it is over? Perhaps rewatch all of the episodes again and relive it all!!

Saturday

9am

33 hours before the wedding

So they definitely skipped the night time sleeping part of the weekend, that's good and bad because it means less episodes.

Saturday morning brunch. Awkward high-five between Barney and Loretta (his mom).
Robin shows up with the blouse she won at the poker game. "oh hell no!"

Ted wants to go to the lighthouse but Curtis wouldn't let him go by himself
Lily is drinking already in the morning
Marshall and Daphne crash at Ted's childhood home with Clint and Virginia 
Words like 'judge' and 'court' get Lily mad. "thank you Linus"

Things that they know about Robin's mom: Terrified of flying, got stung by a jellyfish, makes the best scrambled eggs. 

'gavel' "thank you Linus"
Lily tells Ted to take Cassie to the lighthouse and stop looking for the perfect girl
'trial' "you're slipping Linus" "we're running out of glasses"
Clint hitchhiked in Marshall and Daphne's car
Loretta makes delicious scrambled eggs and everyone else at the inn ask for them too

Robin's mom: drives a pickup truck, takes baths, may be too fat for a conventional american bathtub,

Daphne and Marshall bond over hating on Clint
Ted and Cassie make it up the lighthouse

Cassie: What do we do now? Fall in love or something?
Ted *throws up*

Robin tries to make eggs
"where is the egg opener?"
"i'll just prescramble them" *shakes eggs*

Loretta says that she's worried what Robin will feed her grandchildren if she can't even make eggs
Barney: mom, Robin can't have kids
To my recollection, Robin never told anyone about it, it was just a very sad episode but she didn't tell anyone
They talk about the fact Robin can't have kids
Last fall, Barney and Robin were at an (literally) underground club and then after they leave, Robin tells Barney that she can never have kids. He hugs her. (awww)
Lambo-cuzzi patent pending

Daphne lectures Marshall about not being able to get things his way because Daphnes of the world are always taking charge of things
Marshall flips a switch and drives off leaving Clint behind
He plays his music "I will walk 500 miles"

Robin's mom: won't be at her daughter's wedding
Loretta hugs Robin and lets her call her mom
Robin: Your eggs are great by the way

Ted says that the lighthouse was breath taking but it was with the wrong girl
What if he only gets so many lighthouses a lifetime?
Two years later....Ted is there with the mother (awwwwwww) 
The Mother: It's like traveling back in time
Ted: That's what I said!!
The Mother: wow it's beautiful up here, I don't know how you can improve a day like this
Ted: Well, I'm gonna try. *unhugs her and starts to kneel down* Will you...
The Mother: Yes
Ted: You didn't let me..
The Mother: Yes
Ted: marry me?
The Mother: Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes! *kiss & hug* YES! 
 I'm crying right now at this...

Clint...still meditating...opens his eyes and sees himself abandoned at the side of the road


This was an interesting episode, everything was crammed in. Lily had to deal with Marshall's judgeship news by herself and she did it by drinking. Ted had to go up to a lighthouse with Cassie and they don't even like each other. Daphne and Marshall were both mad at each other and Clint was bothering them. The only real plot of the episode was Robin and Loretta. They get to bond and it showed us even more that Barney and Robin belong together. One thing though, it showed us Ted and the mother being together. That's always something we want to see. Less than 30 hours to go till the wedding!!

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 7 No Questions Asked

09.07 No Questions Asked

We see the kids again!

Friday 

11:30pm

42.5 hours before the wedding

Marshall complains to Daphne about Daphne texting Lily when he didn't have his phone. She calls angered - not about the text, but about the fact that they got the room with the ghost in it.
"We got 13?!?"

One month earlier:
Marshall finds out that the Farhampton Inn was featured in a tv show about real ghost stories. There was a captain with a hook that died in the room and became a ghost there. 

Lily complains about the room to the night clerk and he just uses the ghost as an excuse not to let her change rooms. 

Robin and Barney discuss the thing(s) that will happen when they leave the church after the wedding. Barney has 100 doves that will fly up and Robin has gun enthusiasts from her family who will fire a 21 gun salute.

That night, Ted opens Lily's window and stands there with a hook. 
Earlier that night, Marshall called Ted and asks him to delete Lily's previous text "no questions asked."
(Ted was stuck in a mail box and needed Marshall to bring a drill "no question asked.")
While Marshall is trying to explain to Ted that her door isn't locked, Ted comes up with the idea to shimmy up the drain pipe outside her window and sneak in. Lily catches him and then tells him to sing her a lullaby while she falls asleep. While singing, Ted looks for the phone. Suddenly, he hears someone saying "Cold. So cold."

Turns out it's Barney in the vents because Marshall called him (before Ted) and told him "no questions asked" while Robin and Barney were discussing the issue with the doves and the guns. (Barney needed Marshall to rush to the Macy's in Harrods Square and bring pants, underwear, sanitizer, gloves, and a garbage bag.) Instead of doing that, it was Marshall who signed Barney out when he swallowed a bunch of real life Lucky Charms items. He sneaks into the air ducts when Marshall is talking about the unlocked door.

Robin sneaks in with the room service cart (caviar and lobster.) Marshall called Robin after Barney went into the ducts. (Robin's "no questions asked" was when she needed him to meet her in an alley and talk about a giant trout that he caught with his dad. As he was holding out his arms to show how big, Robin lands in his arms and tells him to run. Robin and the people chasing her are wearing different colored skin tight body suits (unitards).)

As the three people run off into separate directions, Robin and Barney come back to the room and discuss how they are both lone wolves and they need to do something about it. So they should:

Robin: roam together
Barney: hunt together
Robin: lure pray into a tight corner and
Both: snap it's limbs with our powerful jaw and watch the light drain from it's eyes


Courtney Dove. Kurt Kooban. Names of doves that Barney named.


Ted asks Marshall why he didn't just ask Lily to delete the text "no questions asked."
He replies that he's never done that because he's never kept anything from her.
Teds hands Lily the phone and tells her that he took the judgeship.
She says she doesn't believe in ghosts and that she doesn't know if anyone has ever died in their room, but someone is going to. <cue evil laugh>

Ted's no question asked: He was sending a letter to a woman he saw at the drug store. He heard her give her address to the pharmacist. (Mailed it!)


The episode was part filler part moving the plot along. It showed us Barney and Robin compromising more which is definitely good for the plot. But it also showed too many "no questions asked." Although funny, it was a waste of time. I know we all just want to see the mother already! But Marshall finally got to tell Lily about the news, and that is great. (For us not Marshall dun dun dunn...)

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 6 Knight Vision

09.06 Knight Vision

Friday

9pm

45 hours before the wedding

3 hours since the previous episode. I'm guessing that this episode and maybe the next episode will be the last one that is set on Friday.

It's the end of the first day of the wedding weekend. Ted and Barney are discussing finally getting Ted laid. Barney says that the girl you're with at Friday drink night is the one you get stuck with the whole weekend. Barney starts talking about Indiana Jones and how Ted will choose wrong. So Barney says that he spent all of the previous day picking out prospects for Ted. And Robin helped ("It was either that or writing our vows. Ugh gag!")

Sophia: Robin's college roommate. A bit of a screamer in the sack.
Cassie: Daughter of Barney's mom's best friend. (Yay she's played by that girl from Pitch Perfect and True Blood! I love her! She's so pretty!)
Grace: New co-worker

Barney suggests Sophia. "I strongly feel that you should strongly feel her." *Robin high-fives Barney* Aww

Cassie interrupts and introduces herself.
Lilly sees the minister and tries to make him like her.
Marshall didn't prepare for telling Lily about getting the judgeship yet.
Cassie tells Ted that she's tired of the routine of flirting and then ending the night with meaningless sex. Ted (lies) and says "yeah me too." She suggests that they have the meaningless sex first and then flirt later. Is this every guy's dream or what? Is she just that desperate?
Cassie gets a call right when they're starting to make out and about to get it on. She gets a call and finds out she gets fired and everyone hates her. She starts to cry (poor Ted.)

Lily gets back from talking to the minister and says that she just told him the story of how she and Marshall met. He walks away angry. Lily finds out that Barney and Robin stole their cute-meet story!!

Ted finds out Cassie's boyfriend recently broke up with her and he says "why don't you tell me about him?" BIG MISTAKE! He tries to move their conversation to the dining room so that he can move onto Sophie after awhile but end up bumping into Cassie's parents in the dining room.

Daphne talks Marshall through how to talk to Lily. They go through a bunch of different scenarios.

The Reverend tells Barney and Robin that they need to stop breaking the 9th amendment (lying).

Robin: I love that you had to sleep with more than 250 women before deciding I was your favorite
Barney: And I love that we had to keep having sex with each other even when we were dating other people
Robin: And I love that your marriage proposal involved strip club, lying to me, and pretending to bang a woman that I hate (shut up Patrice!) for two months.
Barney: I love that we keep a running tally of all the rooms we've had sex in
Robin: I love that two weeks ago, we put this room on that list. (In the Reverend's office)
-Reverend looks shocked and...dies?-

Ted and Cassie are in bed and Ted tells her that she is in such a bad place that she should just take it easy. Cassie releases Ted and tells him to go find someone else.

Lily tells Ted that he and Cassie are the couple of the weekend.

Grace shows up and Ted dives in!

Wedding at Bernies!

Thanks to Cassie, Ted didn't end up with anyone the whole weekend. But because of that, Ted would get a chance to meet the mother.

Earlier in the episode, Marshall found out that Daphne was the lobbyist for a big oil company. And when he and Daphne were arguing, she texted Lily with the news about Marshall's new job.


In my opinion, this was very much a filler episode. But it does add a few hours onto the plot line. We are almost at the "How Your Mother Met Me" episode. One step closer!!

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 5 The Poker Game

09.05 The Poker Game

Friday

6pm

48 hours before the wedding

A few hours went by in the last episode.

Marshall and Daphne:

    CHICAGO! Marshall talks about a great pizza place. Daphne says "it's just pizza, we're not stopping." Marshall describes what the pizza tastes like, starting with the first bite. Basically sounds like a love story. I'm craving pizza, I've been wanting pizza for so many weeks. Why did the place close down if it was so good? Rats. "WE'RE NOT STOPPING!"

Poker Game:
     Poker game was coming to an end. Tim Gunn: Out. Lily: Busted. Marsh-pillow: fluffed and turned down.
     Lily was angry at Ted because Ted was talking about being great at giving wedding gifts.

     James gives the couple a gift: Don't get married. It comes in his and hers. "Don't get married." "Don't get married." Robin asks Barney to tell James to stop "crapping on their wedding." He literally drew the word "marriage" and a down arrow.  James talks about something about it's great being gay right now. Robin cons James out of his wedding ring.
James brings in their mother
   Barney asks Ted and Lily for help. How does he choose sides? "Robin lets me do sex to her!" "I have to spend eternity in my mother's mausoleum!"
 Lily says Happy life = happy wife.
    Robin cons Barney's mom out of her blouse. Robin keeps winning because of the Stinsons' very obvious bluff. "Hey I'm hungry. Wanna get some bluff-alo wings? Raise you 20." Something about an "all you can eat bluff-et" "bluff-berry muffin."
 Barney: Woman, as your bride-groom, I command you.
 Robin: You uh...wanna take back that I command you thing?
 Barney: Please, can I?
      Robin wants Barney on his side. Barney cares about his family.
    Turns out: everyone was in the room when Barney and Robin was having that conversation.
 Barney finds out that James was a terrible husband to Tom. He realizes that he's now part of a team. But then...he tells James and his mom that he's not part of their family anymore "because Robin said so!"

    Robin returns the blouse back to Barney's mother but she tells Robin to keep it because "you may have won the battle, but I'm going to win the war." "You're on b*tch."

Wedding Gifts and Thank You Notes:

 Flashback: Lily and Marshall going through their wedding gifts and find out that Ted never gave them one. They drop a lot of hints and Ted never gets it. When Ted gets married to Stella, they give him a wrapping station (huge hint!) In return, Ted sends a giant box with a tiny thank you note in it.
    Thus, Lily was mad at Ted.

    Ted tells Marshall that he got them a coffee maker. Ja'cuse!

 Flashback: Ted dropped hints of giving a thank-you note for the wedding present. (Parallel!!) I love seeing things from two points of view! Cue the slutty pumpkin standing in the back!

     Ted Tells Lily that he did get them a gift: a coffeemaker. Lily says that they did send a thank you note for the coffeemaker that was from Stuart and Claudia.

    Turns out, Stuart ripped off Ted's name from the gift and wrote his name on it. But never fessed up because that was a turning point for him and Claudia. Flashback: Claudia said she was ready to leave him. She had her bags packed, got a plane ticket, sent topless pics to to his brother.
     Claudia isn't even the one in the shower when Lily knocked on the door.

    Ted buys Marshall a pizza from the great place that he was talking about earlier as a gift (they were on the phone apologizing to each other for their behavior and dropping hints.)
   Marshall sends a thank you note FOUR months later.


Preview for next week: Something about the 9th Commandment. I'm trying to find it but can't seem to figure out what it is.


On another note, episode 16 of this season is called "How Your Mother Met Me". This is what we've all be waiting for!!

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 4 The Broken Code

Episode 09.04 The Broken Code

Friday

3pm

51 hours before the wedding

     An hour after when the previous episode started. (Does this mean every episode is 1 hour and that we get 50+ episodes for this season? Ha, a girl can hope)
     Episode 4 begins right where we left off on episode 3. "I saw you and Robin at the carousel" *Ted drops scotch* [I scream].   They start crying at the fact that Ted dropped the $600 bottle of scotch.
IT'S THE RETURN OF MARSH-PILLOW!! No wait!! It's Marsh-pillow 2.0!!! The pillow now has arms and an iPad with Marshall webcamming on it! Wow this is creepy beyond creepy. (Not that a body pillow dressed in your husband's clothes wasn't creepy to begin with...). It's beauty....wait for it....ful!
     Hey there's Patrice! Robin comparing Lily's performance of her Maid of Honor duties vs Ted's performance Best Man duties. (Ted wins by a landslide because ROBIN HAS NO GIRLS!)
     Does anyone else think that Barney is secretly angry at Ted for holding hands with Robin in the rain? He's asking him to rewrite all the place cards, and move into a supply closet, and rewrite all the place card again. And then....Barney has the best man poker game without him! Because Ted broke the Bro code ("I am pleased to announce that the Bro Code has replaced the Gideon bible in select hotels throughout the country")
     Robin is making fun of girls being lame and silly. This makes Lily cry. Robin is such a dude! LOVE IT! Robin hasn't gone to the gym in forever because she can eat a pint of ice cream at night and wake up having lost weight except in her boobs. [Hey me too! Except for the boobs thing...]

     Barney and his history lessons. Love it!
     Bro code 104: Nothing can happen between a bro's mom

"I'm also pleased to announce that the Bro Code is in select airlines across the country and [some German country]"
Marsh-pillow makes Ted and Barney hold hands on the beach. It's [not] weird. 
[It starts raining]: Now it's weird
Revelation: *gasp* Ted still has feelings for Robin! (DUH! We all knew that)
Lily imagines Robin having lesbian tendencies with a new friend she just met. She gets jealous and scares her off. Robin loves Lily for her psycho-ness.
Ted swears on the Bro Code that he will move on and live with the fact that things will always be a little weird between him and Robin but not let it get in the way of anything.
Marsh-pillow joins in on the Best Man Poker Game. (He wins)

It's the return of Weekend at Barneys!!!!



It was a bit of the filler episode. I know that the mother isn't going to be in every episode of the season, but I really wish they had more of her. She's really cute!

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 2 Coming Back

09.02  Coming Back
     It begins again with the time and date

Friday

12pm

54 hours before the wedding

    I guess only one hour has passed in the previous episode

 Mr. Mosby only needs one key? Aww, ohhhh, so sorry.....

Introduce Linus (thank you, Linus). Details: Lonely Lily.$100 bucks. Kennedy Package. Bottomless alcohol.

Sherri Shepherd as Daphne. Her character is rude and annoying, but I'm sure people love her. So I'll just say nothing.

Herm: You want a car? You get a car!

True tale of the Stinson curse. Moscow 1807: Hornier. Hornier. Hornier. Hornier.
Barney and James: Awesome guitar solos. Anniversary bros. Only successful marriage that helps Barney believe in true love is Tom and James. Barney did a "love is awesome" thing for James' and Tom's anniversary.

Barney and Robin: Bondage five! He doesn't run!

Continuity: It's for the bride. Robin loves chocolate marzipan, trick question, she likes maple candy because she's Canadian. (anyone else catch that?)

Cute moment: Ted and the mom are there one year later at the Farhampton Inn and he tells her that he promised to bring her there. <3 Doing the crossword....Vesuvius!

-Mother: One year ago today, you hadn't even met me
 Ted: I know, but I knew I would. And now it's a year later.
 Mother: And here I am.
(I'm dying at this adorableness. I'm glad Ted finally found someone to be perfect with)

And if you're wondering what Barney and Robin did with all that anniversary stuff, they put it in Ted's room!


Recap: First episode was about Ted possibly ruining the wedding by giving Robin a necklace. And Lily meeting the mother. Second episode, poor Ted is all alone. And Robin gets confirmation that Barney is definitely IN this while Lily deals with the possibility Marshall might not be there. Marshall gets stuck with Daphne.

How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Ep 1 The Locket

09.01 The Locket
     We start off the episode with simple words to set up the rest of the season:

Friday 

11 am 

55 hours before the wedding 

     The gang starts off in three separate locations showing us the different story lines of the episode. Here are the three plots: Lily and Ted, Marshall and Marvin, Barney and Robin. Here's a brief look at how it begins:

Lily and Ted
     Lily complains about Ted's slow driving and Ted pulls out his "driving gloves." In my opinion, they're kinda cool. But only if you're riding a motorcycle and you're a big, white man with an awesome mustache....

Barney and Robin
     The couple is looking as cute as ever being in love and all mushy talking about their wedding. That is...until they start talking about their wonderful family members.

Marshall and Marvin
     Marshall enters into the episode by saying "I'm going to ruin this wedding."


     Marshall talks about ruining the wedding because he still hasn't told Lily about the judgeship. Judy, his mom, posts a picture announcing to the world that Marshall is going to be a judge. Flash to Lily and Ted, Lily doesn't check the picture and she fights with Ted and ends up taking the train to Farhampton. Meanwhile, Barney and Robin are listing 'wild card' family members (not including the ring bear. You mean ring bear-er right Barney?)
    Continuity: Barney is one-quarter Canadian. He and Robin find out they have a "cousin Mitch" in common. Ranjit please pull over for a second. *commence the hurling*

Lily is on the train with the mother!!

AND THEY BECOME FRIENDS

p.s. do they look alike or is it just me?

     Lily tells the mother about Ted. They have so much in common already. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. (Lady Tedwina Slowsby)
    Barney and Robin are sharing "Creepy Telepathic Murder Thoughts." It's a soul mate thing....right? LOL

Favorite/Notable quotes:
-Robin: You and I share no DNA whatsoever
  Barney: Let's change that
-Barney: Our wedding is going to be legendary
  Robin: No wait for it?
  Barney: I've got you, I don't have to wait for it anymore
-The mother: I know I'm just a stranger on a train whom you tried to bite, but do you want a hug?
-JUST CLICK ON OPTIONS