Season 2: Episode 22: Something Blue

And, Ted, my boy, it’s going to be legen…wait for it…

At Lily and Marshall’s reception, Ted and Robin share some big news with Barney.

Lily & Marshall- Marshall and Lily are married, and decide to come up with a new last name because she’s not taking his name.  They’re also starving because they haven’t been able to eat anything, something always keeps interrupting them.  Lily’s eating strawberries and having a glass of champagne with each, so she’s a little buzzed.  Lily and Marshall cut the cake, and Marshall just wants to eat the cake, but Lily’s so drunk she falls over.  And so they leave for Scotland.

Lily and Marshall are headed back to the hotel (in Ranjit’s limo; see Limo), but Lily's so drunk that they end up stopping at Weinerburger to get some food.  And Marshall is so happy to be able to call Lily his wife.

Ted, Robin, & Barney- Robin and Ted are dancing and Ted comments that the wedding’s over so tomorrow they can start telling people.  Of course, Barney overhears and won’t let it go until they tell him what.  Finally, they break and tell him they have news, but they’re waiting until after the wedding to tell people because it’s big news.

It was Robin or Ted’s anniversary so they went to the restaurant where they had their first date (Blue French Horn anyone?), the waiter gives them champagne on the house and in the bottom of Robin’s glass is an engagement ring.  Barney’s response?  “Don’t get married.”  Robin freaks out and says no, and Ted says that it’s not his.  Turns out that it was supposed to go to a couple behind them.  (Fun fact, I heard somewhere that the guy worked on HIMYM and that the girl was his girlfriend, and that’s how he proposed.  Seriously.  Her reactions completely genuine because she had no idea!)  Robin tries to play it off, but Ted questions her reaction, because she was so resistant to his proposal.

Ted asks Robin where she sees herself in five years and she asks him right back.  He admits that in five years he probably wants to be married.  And Robin says that in five years she sees herself in Argentina or Tokyo, or Paris, she wants to be having an adventure.  And they realize their relationship has an expiration date.  Barney thinks they broke up, but the story’s not over.

They go to leave and the waiter realizes Ted’s the one who stole the Blue French Horn.  So they go to run away and run into a waiter carrying spaghetti and get it all over themselves.  They go back to Robin’s to get the Horn to take back to the restaurant and continue their conversation.  Ted asks why he hasn’t heard about Argentina before this, and she says that he never wants to live there so she never brought it up.  Ted says that he could go, and brings up that things in his life are perfectly in line at that moment and he could in fact do something like that.  So he tells her they should move to Argentina.  She laughs it off and he says that she’s afraid he’s not kidding.  So she agrees.  Poor Barney is horrified.  But the story’s not over yet.

Robin brings up that Ted wants to have kids, and he says that they could have kids anywhere.  Robin says kids were never part of her plan, but if she was going to have someone’s babies they would be Ted’s.  And then it comes up that Robin is potentially pregnant because they “risked it" and Barney realizes Robin’s only drinking water.  And completely freaks out.

The story’s not over yet.  They realize that they’re really all talk.  They were going to move in together and didn’t.  But they realize that they’re better apart.  So they broke up.  But they’re okay.

They went to tell everybody but Lily was so stressed over the wedding (See Something Borrowed) that they decided to wait until after the wedding.

Future Ted explains that even though they broke up, they both got what they wanted.  Robin would go on to live in Argentina and Morocco, Greece, Russia, and Japan.  And Ted met The Mother.  Barney tells Ted that as much as he joked about them breaking up, but they were really good together.  Ted says Robin wasn’t “the one” but Ted says he just wants to have fun.  And Barney ass if Ted could need a wingman, and Ted agrees.

The Mother- I love Horrified Barney, and Drunk Lily, and Amused Marshall.  I do like this episode because for once it’s a story mainly focused on Ted that doesn’t bore me to death.