Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Season 2, Episode 5: World’s Greatest Couple

“Hey, it takes two to cuddle!”

Lily crashes at Barney’s apartment and becomes an unexpected asset, while Marshall tries to adjust to not being in a couple.

Lily & Barney- Lily has moved into her new, tiny, crappy, and when Robin and Ted come over to see it they decide she has to stay with someone.  Ted lives with Marshall so he’s out, Robin has dogs and Lily’s allergic, and Barney flat refuses.  Barney comes home to find Lily on his couch and after she begs, he agrees to let her stay for only two days.  Lily and Barney come to an understanding about his apartment, that no thing in it is homey or inviting to women.  But when a woman he brings home just won’t leave (because she’s psycho) Lily’s arrival pushes the girl out the door because she thinks Barney’s married.  So Barney sees the benefit of having Lily around, and offers to let her stay.  While Barney has breakfast with a one-night stand, Lily comes in, horrified that her “husband” is cheating on her, causing the girl to beat a hasty exit.  Barney’s impressed with how well it worked so Lily suggests making the apartment look more like a woman lives there.  Lily and Barney have a great evening at home and end up falling asleep together.  The next morning Barney realizes that it’s like they’re in a relationship and wants to call it off, but Lily has gotten used to living that way.  So in order to get her to leave Barney ends up giving her some of the thing sthey bought, so her crappy apartment is very well furnished.

Marshall- Marshal is adjusting to being single because he loves doing all the things couples do, but can’t do them alone.  A friend of Marshall’s, Brad, just got dumped as well, so the two of them start hanging out.  Robin and Ted give Marshall a hard time about his man-dates with Bard, but Marshall just insists that they’re threatened because he’s single and doing couple-things.  Things between Marshall and Brad get weird because Brad keeps treating Marshall like a girlfriend, so Marshall decides after a wedding they’re going to, he’s calling it off.  But when Marshall meets up with Brad the next day, he finds out that Brad got back together with his ex, so he doesn’t need Marshall anymore.

The Mother- I love this episode!  I love watching Barney and Lily together because they tend to not get along.  And I love Marshall wanting to do all these things, but getting totally creeped out by Brad.

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