Season 1, Episode 18: Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M.

“Oh wow.  You just got burned.  Phonics style!”

Ted goes over to Robin’s after 2 A.M. against his and everyone's better judgment.

Continuing on from last time, when Robin called Ted at 2 A.M. to invite him over.  Future Ted explains how that day had started good and ended up crappy for Robin, leading her to call Ted.  Future Ted advises his kids that when it’s after 2 A.M.  to just go to sleep, because decisions after 2 A.M. are the wrong decisions.  But Ted agrees to go over, in the cab, though he has a debate with his sub-conscious who manifests as Victoria.  So he calls Marshall, who’s still with Lily and Barney.  All three of them know about the Robin-likes-Ted situation.  Marshall calls Ted back and tells him not to go.  Lily tells him Robin likes him, and he tells her he’s not going.  But, of course, he goes.  They talk and she asks him how the phone call with Victoria went and he lies and says they broke-up.  Robin tries to act sad, but she can’t help smiling and neither can Ted.  They have some lame small talk about how Ted got a new phone just like Robin’s.  Then Marshall, Lily, and Barney call and he tells them he lied and they tell him, emphatically, to go home.

Ted goes to leave, but their hug turns into more.  Before they can move to the bedroom, Ted grabs his phone and heads for the bathroom.  Ted has a conversation with Sub-conscious Victoria and he tells her he’s going to call Victoria and come out of the bathroom single, and Sub-conscious Victoria tells him what’s going to happen shouldn’t in the bathroom of the girl he’s going to sleep with.  Ted decides to call Victoria in the morning, but he also decides to sleep with Robin that night.  Then he realizes he grabbed the wrong phone.  And when he comes out of the bathroom, Robin is hanging up with his girlfriend.  She thought it was her phone, so she answered it.  Robin walks away, and Ted leaves and breaks up with Victoria in the cab home.