They think Santa’s how Satan spells his name when he wants to trick us.
Ted, Lily, & Marshall- Ted opts out of spending Christmas with any of his family and instead decides to spend it with his other family. Marshall has a paper due and leaves to work on it while Lily finishes decorating the apartment as a winter wonderland. She finds their old answering machine, which Ted and Marshall unplugged after she left (because it reminded Marshall of how she used to leave messages) and they plug it back in. But when she plays back the messages on it, there’s one from Ted to Marshall in which he calls her a Grinch. Only, Future Ted explains, he didn’t say “Grinch” he said a very, very bad word. Lily’s pissed and Ted tries to excuse it away, but she won’t accept it. Future Ted says that he’d gotten Marshall to badmouth Lily in an effort to get over her and it had gotten out of control. But Ted won’t apologize.
Later, Ted finally goes to apologize and take Lily a beer, like they used to do in college, but when he gets to the apartment Lily and all the decorations are gone. Ted calls her and finds out all the decorations are at Lily’s apartment now.
So Ted runs out to the Bronx to talk to Lily and on the way gets a call from Marshall who is psyched to come home to the decorations. Right after that he gets a call from his mother who got a call from Lily and is horrified at what Ted did. Ted shows up at Lily’s apartment and Ted apologizes. Lily calls him on his fake apology and it comes out that Ted thinks she should have apologized to him as well as Marshall because she walked out on both of them. They keep fighting and Ted leaves to spend Christmas with his super-religious cousin’s family.
Marshall comes home with a package for Lily and tells her how he got it. It was supposed to be delivered but got lost and rerouted, so he tracked it down to the truck and ended up helping the driver deliver all his packages before Christmas.
Lily opens the box and it’s the exact Easy-Bake Oven she wanted when she was little. She asks Marshall how he knew, and he tells her that a month previously Ted told him what Lily told him 8 years previously.
Ted’s having a horrible time at his cousin’s when everybody shows up so Lily can apologize. They forgive each other and go home to have Christmas.
The Mother- I have reservations about this episode. It’s funny but frustrating. And there’s not nearly enough Barney.
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