“Somebody’s got a crush on you.”
“Somebody thinks you’re me!”
Barney gets a new name and Marshall goes on a date, which causes Lily to face her feelings.
Everyone- The guys are at a coffee place (not as fun as the bar) when Ted points out that the coffee girl (played by the gorgeous Morena Baccarin) put a heart by Marshall’s name. Marshall says that she does always laugh at the [lame] joke he makes all the time. But as he doubts, Ted points out that his cup doesn’t have a heart, when Barney says the same thing, he notices that his cup says “Swarley.” So the guys start calling him Swarley (and Swarlz). So Marshall asks her out and she gives him her number.
Ted goes over to Robin’s to tell her about Marshall and when Lily shows up and invites them all over for a party the next night, they have to break it to her that Marshall has a date. She says they’ve been broken up for 6 months so she’s fine with it. The next night Ted and Barney run into Marshall and Chloe (coffee girl) at the bar. When she goes to the bathroom Marshall tells them how much he likes her, and they tell him she has crazy eyes. Barney tells them about a hot girl he met who had crazy eyes that he ignored, and he almost ended up having a threesome with her and a stuffed bear. Creepy. Marshall refuses to believe it but later that week (?) Marshall gets a call from a scared Chloe. She says that a midget guy has been following her, screaming at her. And she just keeps sounding crazier, saying that the guy had a hump and a limp, and that the police didn’t believe her.
But Marshall pushes on and invites her up to his apartment after a date. Everything seems to be fine, until Marshall finds a broken picture of him and Lily and think that Chloe broke it. He looks into her eyes to see the crazy and she starts to lean in to kiss him. And that’s when Lily jumps over the back of the couch to stop them.
So we flash back to Lily’s side of the story. Three days previously, after finding out about Marshall’s date, Robin and Lily meet at the bar where Lily is freaking out over the date. She goes to the coffee shop to check Chloe out (and talks to Tom Lenk who played Andrew on BTVS) but finds out Chloe just left. It starts raining as she goes after Chloe, so Lily throws her coat over her backpack (hump) and hunches over (midget). Lily runs into a pipe (limp) and starts yelling at Chloe to get her to turn around. Eventually, she does and Lily is crushed to find out she’s hot. She meets up with Robin at the bar and they head upstairs to call Barney Swarley some more, where Lily notices that the picture of her and Marshall is no longer up. Lily sneaks back into the apartment that night and puts up the picture so Marshall will feel guilty, but Marshall comes back and she knocks the picture over and hides behind the couch. Finally, she just can’t take it anymore and jumps. She embarrassedly leaves and Marshall finds her crying on the front steps. Lily confesses everything and Marshall realizes Chloe’s not crazy. But rather than go back up, Marshall stays out with Lily and realizes Lily’s crazy, but he loves her. And the two get back together. Everyone goes out for a drink to celebrate, but when they get back to the apartment, they find Chloe has torn the apartment apart “looking for her keys.” She leaves and everybody goes about their business.
The Mother- I love this episode! I love Swarley. I love Chloe. I love hunchback, limping, midget Lily. Isn’t Morena Baccarin just gorgeous? If you get a chance, watch her on Firefly, you’ll totally fall in love with her.
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