You guys will not believe what just happened.
On my way here, a taxi jumped the curb and it pinned this old lady.
And I just went into this, like, crazy adrenaline mode and I somehow lifted it off her.
Oh, my God. Ted, your wrist.
Oh, yeah, I guess it's a little swollen. I must've strained it lifting.
I believe our dear friend Lily was referring to your other wrist...
the one wearing the male birth control.
I was gonna go with "chastity bracelet."
- God, is it possible to love you more? - [Chuckles]
Really? Really? I just saved someone's life, and you guys are focusing on this?
Yeah, you know what, guys? Leave him alone.
- All right? He's a hero. - Thank you.
Do you think that your super strength came from wearing Wonder Woman's magic wrist cuff?
[All Laugh]
Yeah, I'll have you know that because of this cuff, I have a date.
With some hand lotion and the Internet?
It is possible to love you more!
She exists.
And she's right outside.
- Great. Bring her in. - You know what? It's so nice out.
Why don't we just all go for a walk?
It's pouring rain, Ted. I think it's pretty obvious she can't fit through the door.
She is a gorgeous, athletic woman.
"Athletic." Sideburns, no cans.
- She is hot. - So why can't she come in, Ted?
She can come in...
in six and a half months.
Wait. Are you saying she's...
Twenty and a half. [Clears Throat] Almost.
♪ ♪ [Upbeat Pop]
♪ ♪ [Man Vocalizing]
♪ ♪ [Ends]
- [Cell Phone Chimes] - [Murmurs]
Hold up, guys. She had to bounce. Um...
Flash mob broke out in front of a line...
of Korean-Mexican food trucks in Williamsburg.
The only thing that would make her more of a 20-year-old is an ironic form of transportation.
- She's roller-skating there. - [Chuckles]
Yeah, I don't know which is more pathetic...
That you're going out with a 20-year-old...
or that you bought a leather cuff to get a date with her.
I didn't buy this to get a date.
I just happened to be out, catching up...
- on some Saturday afternoon leather cuff shopping... - [Robin] Oh.
And she just happened to be a leather cuff saleswoman.
[All Groaning]
God, I am so glad I am done chasing bimbos.
Now that I'm engaged, that whole part of my life just seems sad and empty.
I don't want this to sound too harsh, Ted, but you disgust me.
Uh, until a month ago, your headboard had a lube dispenser.
- Uh, yeah. We got rid of that. Okay? - Yeah.
Anyway, speaking of engaged, check out what got back from being resized.
Oh, my God. Look at the size of that rock.
Barney, you don't start with the "I got caught cheating" diamond.
You give yourself room to grow.
- It's a family heirloom. - Yeah.
I got a few dirty looks from Barney's half sister over Christmas.
So I had to sit her down and explain very respectfully that she can suck it.
- [Chuckles] - Okay. I gotta bounce.
- Stop saying that. - This deejay from Dubai...
is spinning at an abandoned loading dock in Bushwick.
- I'm worried I don't have enough layers. - [All Groaning]
[Ted Narrating] So what if my friends thought it was doomed? I was still young.
And I knew that a night of partying with a girl over a decade younger than me...
- would be a total... - Disaster.
I mean, she's like an entirely different species. [Sneezes]
And I definitely didn't have enough layers.
[Ted Narrating] I didn't understand half the words she was saying.
To me, it all sounded like hipster Mad Libs.
Didn't you check your phone?
I just "means of contacting" you on "currently hot social networking site."
The show's been moved to "New York neighborhood you've never heard of."
Oh. Wow. My phone has a clock.
[Ted Narrating] And they subsist on a diet...
- of pointlessly weird combinations. - Ooh.
Hey, do you want to split a kimchi cupcake with bacon frosting?
They are the best here.
Uh, yeah. Yeah, that'll go great with my cucumber-jalapeño egg cream.
- Chug it! Come on. Come on. We gotta get going. - Right, okay.
[Ted Narrating] Then, later, at a club in Chinatown...
somehow located beneath a manhole cover, it got weird.
God, I just love those tiny gray hairs in your eyebrows.
Old men are so sexy.
- [All Groaning] - All right, to be fair...
some of those gray hairs were dried egg cream.
Turns out when you projectile vomit on skates, you roll right into the spray.
How old does she think you are?
So were you in Vietnam?
- [All Groaning] - Hold that groan.
- Charlie was everywhere. - [Helicopter Whirring]
- [All Groaning Loudly] - She's hot. She likes old guys. Don't judge me!
Anyway, when we got out on the dance floor, thi... I swear.
This is what all the 20-year-olds look like.
♪ ♪ [Electronica]
[All Groaning]
I wanna thank you for your service to this nation, Private.
- Colonel. - [Lily] Oh.
- I gotta end this. - Yeah, seriously, Ted.
Pretending to be someone else just to get laid...
that's... [Sputters] Embarrassing.
- [Gasps] Your Highness. - Let's go.
Oh.
Ew. Marshall, take that off.
- What? I think it looks kind of cool. - Cool?
You look like one of those jerks who's in some lame band...
and rides a motorcycle without a helmet...
and has a wallet chain and neck tattoos and a drug problem.
Not a... a big one, just, uh, enough that he deals a little bit on the side.
And he can never, ever be true to one woman.
- Finish that damn pickle and do me! - [Moaning]
[Lock Turns]
[Sighs] Okay, you guys know how my mornings usually go.
- Why would we care how... - Usually, it's like this.
♪ ♪ [Orchestra: Light Theme]
- After you. - Oh. Thank you.
[Giggles]
- On the house, Robin! - [Bell Chimes]
♪ Take this bagel on the house ♪
♪ Have a paper on the house ♪
♪ I'd give you a house "on the house" if I could ♪
♪ You're so beautiful ♪
♪ Everything in life should be free ♪
♪ It's so wonderful to be me ♪ ♪
Ooh! [Giggles]
Wow. Do little bluebirds help you get dressed in the morning too?
♪ She's exaggerating ♪
♪ To make a point ♪ ♪
- But today was different. - ♪♪ [Theme Plays, Stops]
- That will be 3.75. - But I didn't have to pay yesterday.
- Okay, 7.50. - [Sighs]
Oh, honey, sweetie, baby.
It's the ring, Robin. The ring has power.
When a woman puts on an engagement ring...
it's like when Bilbo Baggins wears the one ring in The Hobbit.
- Okay. Can you say that again, but not in nerd? - Sure.
Uh, the ring is like the cloak that Harry Potter wears to sneak around Hogwarts.
- I don't speak virgin either. - The ring! It makes you invisible.
♪ ♪ [Ominous Theme]
[Voice Whispering] You're not precious.
[Hinges Squeaking]
[Gasps, Shouts]
Oh, good. You're awake.
Look, Ted, there's something we have to talk about.
Boundaries? Invasion of privacy? Losing your key privileges?
It's about the 20-year-old, Ted.
You have to bang her. For me.
Why do you want me to hook up with this 20-year-old? I thought I disgusted you.
Yeah, that was all an act.
Look, look, look. I love Robin.
And she's the only girl I wanna be with...
but my body is detoxing after years of one-night stands.
They don't make gum or a patch for this, Ted.
But, hey, billion-dollar idea alert. [Mutters]
That's okay. I'll just buy a new dream journal.
What-What-What... What are you looking for?
Your phone. There's gotta be some pictures of her in here.
Damn it. No! Those are all worthless.
I need some one-night stand material, Ted.
Oh, oh, here's your mom. Hello, Virginia.
Um, my mother's not one-night stand material.
Yeah, you're right. It wasn't night, and we weren't standing. Hey-oh.
- That didn't happen. - You're right. It didn't. [Clicks Tongue]
- You just winked. - No, I didn't. [Clicks Tongue]
- You just did it again! - Look, bottom line.
I need you to proxy-bang this girl for me.
Be my stand-in and put your gland in.
Hey, wow. That'd be good on a hat.
Barney, she's just using me for my gracefully aging body.
You're picking now to get some self-respect?
- You once banged a blind girl by pretending to be Sean Connery. - That was you!
[Imitating Connery] Yeah, that conquest was most enjoyable.
I'm sorry. To-To hook up with a girl, I have to connect with her at least a little.
Then find a connection. Just go simple.
Nothing about weird poets or buildings...
or any of those stupid articles you've ever e-mailed me...
with the subject line "Food for Thought."
Please, Ted. I need this.
Fine. You win. I'll bang a hot 20-year-old.
But I'm not gonna enjoy... Oh, who am I kidding? It's gonna be awesome.
Now turn off the lights and go.
[Grunts] Not all the way!
Hello. Yeah, three...
Okay, normally New York is the friendliest, most affordable city in the world.
Now it's as rude and expensive as San Francisco.
- Guys? - Oh, hey, that's life once you're engaged.
Oh, tell her, baby. Make it hurt.
I'll be at the booth.
My panties may or may not be on when you get there.
[Whispering] They won't be.
- What is going on with you guys? - It's the cuff.
It turns out that picturing me as a loser musician with a Vicodin addiction...
and a beat-up van I use to steal copper wire really turns Lily's crank.
Who knew?
Whoa. What... What happened to your wrist?
- Oh, it's an a-allergic reaction. - So take it off.
Robin, once you have a child, anything that gets you even remotely close...
to the possibility of sex is worth a few pus-filled blisters.
Better the sores weep than I.
Hey, hold on. That slut just got here. How'd she get beer already?
- You see a ring on that finger? - Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Are you saying that this invisibility thing means I might not be able to get beer?
I was just getting used to the idea of having to pay for coffee and bagels and rent.
- Rent? - But not being able to get a beer? Unacceptable.
[Sighs] Excuse me.
Hot girl coming through.
♪ ♪ [Ominous Theme]
- [Bell Reverberating] - ♪♪ [Light Theme]
- Oh. Hmm. - ♪♪ [Light Theme Continues]
Three beers, please.
- [Bell Reverberates] - ♪♪ [Ominous Theme]
[Robin] Damn it, ring!
- Oh, yeah, baby. - Mm-hmm.
- Later, you should totally go out and buy a switchblade. - Mmm, sure.
While I'm out, maybe Daddy picks up some diapers and a little mild salsa...
- because we're low. - Oh. Mmm.
♪ ♪ [Ominous Theme]
[Robin] Well, you're right. I'm invisible.
[Lily Moans]
[Gulping]
[Ted Narrating] That night, the only person in worse shape than Robin...
was her fiancé.
[Shivering] Ted, I'm desperate.
Earlier today, I saw that wrist cuff, and I got a partial for Marshall.
Did you bang that girl yet?
Don't get your hopes or anything else up.
I tried to connect with her...
but everything just comes back to her weird fetish about how old I am.
Well, just go simple. Does she like TV?
No.
But I'll watch 60 Minutes with you as loud and as long as you want.
- Sports? - No.
But I bet you look super hot playing shuffleboard...
just slathered in Bengay.
- Well, does she like books? - No.
- But I bet you do. - Mm-hmm.
I bet you have a big... thick... pair of bifocals.
She doesn't have daddy issues. She has granddaddy issues. I'm ending it.
Ted, I beg of you. Don't quit on a body that won't quit.
Ooh, ooh, that'll go sweet on a bumper sticker.
That's going in the journal.
- Did you steal my dream journal? - No!
Now get back in there before all your teeth fall out...
and you're naked in front of Shaker Heights High School in a play you never rehearsed for.
Bastard!
We don't connect on a single thing. It's over.
- [Beeps] - It's not... G...
Look, Carly, I gotta tell you something.
I just... I don't see a future here.
Oh, my God. Are you dying?
Oh, that is so hot.
[Cell Phone Ringtone: Electronic Beeps]
Wait. Is that R2-D2?
Do you like Star Wars?
I love Star Wars.
- Me too. - [Sighs]
I mean, I've only seen the new ones.
- Close enough. - [Both Chuckle]
- So? - Yeah.
I knew it! I could feel it.
It's almost like we were hooking up with her together. You felt that, right?
- I couldn't have performed if I did. - Don't you see, Ted?
We had a bronnection.
[Clicks Tongue] All right, I gotta know what she looks like. Show me a picture.
Well, normally, I'm above such things, but it's been a while, and, uh, Teddy's braggin'.
- [Chuckles] - Uh, here she is.
Okay. Scrolling up.
- Oh, yeah, those are "plow me" heels. Nice. - Mm-hmm.
The knee bruise is encouraging.
Working our way up to those 20-year-old tatas.
Oh. Gravity's cruel grasp hasn't found you yet, my sweet perky miracles.
- [Chuckles] - Now let's get a gander at Dirty Girl's face.
- Mmm. - Hey.
Her face says, "Ready to bone." Am I right?
I say again, am I right?
That's my half sister.
Then you probably shouldn't scroll to the next picture.
No!
- That's my sister, Ted. - Well, look, I didn't know!
None of us even knew you had a sister until two years ago, including you.
Thi-This is just some crazy coincidence.
There are four million women in the city of New York, Ted...
and you sleep with my sister?
Why would the universe do that to me?
I don't know. It's not like you've ever treated women in such a way...
that would invite some sort of karmic retribution.
You banged my sister!
- My sweet, little, innocent... - Pierced.
Really? Where? Don't answer that!
Now I know why I felt everything you did to her last night.
It wasn't a bronnection. It was a sisnnection.
Oh, my God. Ted, did you...
- Big time. - Nice! High five!
Wait. No! No! Retraction five!
[Imitating Tape Playing Backwards]
Hey, hey, you're the one who begged for a proxy bang.
And while we're on the subject of family, I'm pretty sure you banged my mom. Mom beats sister.
I never banged your mom. [Clicks Tongue]
You... You just did the winking thing again!
No, I didn't. [Clicks Tongue]
Fine. Hey, Barney. Let me ask you something.
Were you, uh, feeling a little sore this morning?
Especially... [Whispering, Indistinct]
[Gasps] Friendship over!
Oh, yeah.
Who's your "guitar-player-biker who couldn't find mild salsa...
that said 'Screw it' and went medium" bad boy?
[Lily] Oh.
Marshall, your hand!
[Ted Narrating] Okay, I'm pretty sure it wasn't that bad...
but this is how Uncle Marshall likes to tell the story.
Oh, yeah, no. That's the cuff.
I'm woozy, and I can't flex my fingers.
[Sniffs] And the rotten-fish smell is getting stronger.
But I'm learning to compensate with my left.
Is that why last night, when I asked you to honka-honka me...
- you only honka'd me? - I didn't think you noticed.
Snap's been jealous of Crackle all day.
Just take the cuff off.
No, but, baby, then all the sex will stop.
Marshall, you don't need a cuff for me to find you sexy.
All you have to do is smile, and I'm ready for you to hop on Pop.
- Thanks, baby. - Mmm.
Are you too woozy to do it one last time before we seek emergency medical attention?
Only one way to find out.
I'm sorry, bro. I totally overreacted.
You think? I can't believe you're allowed to ship a dead possum.
He died? That possum was supposed to be an olive branch.
Are you sure he's not just playing dead?
He smells like Marshall's hand.
And wait... You-You forgive me?
Absolutely. Hey, I got a couple cee-gars. Get over here!
All right, so where are those cee-gars?
- We'll break 'em out in a minute. - [Knocking]
Hey, Barn.
- Ted? - Barney, what is your sister doing here?
Nothing, bro. Or should I say "bro-in-law"?
♪ ♪ ["Wedding March"]
Congratulations! You're marrying my sister!
And you spared no expense, ya big crazy.
You know what? I love Barney, but this ring thing sucks.
Some gross guy just brushed up against my rack and then apologized.
And I think he really, really meant it.
Oh, sweetie, I know it's nice to be groped by strangers...
but nothing beats the rush you get when that one special person looks at you.
It's true.
Like here in this bar, there's only one thing that I see.
And I see her brighter and more clearly...
than anything else in this world.
You know what that is?
That's love.
And possibly alcohol mixed...
with some very powerful antibiotics.
And that's how Barney sees you.
And I know that's how you see Barney.
[Clears Throat] I'd like to start the service...
with a passage from Ted's dream journal.
"Drowning. Gasping for air. No escape."
- Wait. Is that about Vietnam? - It's about Whole Foods.
Barney, we are not getting married.
And those aisles are too narrow.
But you two have to get married.
Otherwise it's just a cheap, meaningless, disgusting one-night stand.
Wait. Just to be clear...
you're saying you're opposed...
to cheap, meaningless, disgusting one-night stands?
- Yes! - Barney, don't you see?
Your detox is done! You're over one-night stands!
Oh, my God. You're right. I'm free!
Yeah. So if you think about it, but not too much...
it's actually good that Carly and I hooked up.
Yeah, it's really good.
I mean, this guy goes at it like he's still in his 50s.
Mmm.
Hey, have a cigar, ya big crazy! [Chuckles]
All right, don't try to make this okay. You still slept with my sister.
Promise me you will never, ever do that again.
I promise. [Clicks Tongue]
- You just winked. - No, I didn't. [Clicks Tongue]
- You did it again! - No, I didn't!
- You swear, right? - Yeah, of course.
- [Clicks Tongue] - [Barney Stomps Foot]
[Ted Narrating] That night, even though she still couldn't get a beer...
Robin realized the true power of the ring.
[Man] ♪ So you got the morning I got midnight ♪
♪ You are patient I'm always on time ♪
- ♪ Oh, what would I do without you? ♪ - Hey, Robin?
Did you ever figure out how you're gonna get a drink at the bar now that you're engaged?
- Oh, sure. I know a way that's gonna last forever. - ♪♪ [Continues]
- Scotch on the rocks? - Coming right up.
♪ What would I do without you? ♪
♪ Oh, what would I do without you ♪ ♪
- Now, before you say anything about the hat... - ♪♪ [Continues, Instrumental]
This new girl's ass... [Loud Whisper] is phenomenal.
♪ ♪ [Ends]
- [Game Beeping] - [Lily] Hey, Marshall, you gotta see this.
The catalog must've mixed up my order.
You won't believe the jeans they just sent me.
- Oh. - Hilarious, right?
- Totally. - [Chuckles]
You look like some suburban mom who drives a minivan...
filled with stale Cheerios and empty juice boxes.
- [Chuckles] - Probably makes...
- chili mac and Frito pie for dinner. - Ew.
Smells like that menthol cigarette that she snuck...
while she was waiting to pick her kids up from hockey practice.
- Get over here! - Ooh. [Moans]