Everything Must Go (How I Met Your Mother)
| "Everything Must Go" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 19 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Jonathan Groff & Chris Harris |
| Production code | 3ALH19 |
| Original air date | May 12, 2008 |
| Guest stars | |
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Britney Spears (Abby) |
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| Season 3 episodes | |
"Everything Must Go" is the 19th episode of the third season of the CBS television show How I Met Your Mother and 63rd overall. It originally aired on May 12, 2008.
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[edit] Plot
Marshall and Lily learn that it will cost $1,500 to fix the slanted floor in their new apartment. Marshall suggests that they sell some of Lily's designer clothes to raise money on the web on a site called lilyandmarshallselltheirstuff.com. Lily counters that it should be named "guyforceshiswifetodressinagarbagebagforthenextthreeyears.com" (and, to their surprise, the site already exists), and instead suggests selling some of her paintings. After many failed attempts to sell one painting, it is finally bought on the street by a G-CWOK (gay couple without kids), an integral demographic in the art world. A thrilled Lily calls the G-CWOK later that night about hosting an art party to sell more of her paintings, but is devastated to learn that the couple only bought her painting because of its vintage and valuable frame; when Lily asks if she could at least have her painting back, she learns that the couple had thrown it away.
Marshall and Ted confront the "G-CWOK", which leads them to a nearby veterinarian's office. The veterinarian tells them that he took the painting out of the dumpster and hung it up in one of his examination rooms, excited over finding a free painting. However, he was surprised and excited to find that Lily's painting had a soothing, almost hypnotic effect on the dogs being examined (birds, on the other hand, do not get the painting at all). The veterinarian offers to buy more than enough of Lily's paintings to pay for fixing the slanted floor.
Meanwhile, Barney is still plagued by the mysterious woman who has been informing his conquests of his true intentions, leading to a slap from whomever he is attempting to seduce. However, he is onto the saboteur and follows her from the bar and to a taxi. Upon confronting her, he discovers that it is Abby, Stella's secretary, who is in love with Ted and was subject to one of Barney's one-night stands.
The two reconcile after learning of their mutual hatred of Ted, who has "dumped" Barney as a friend and ignored Abby in favor of Stella. They plan to destroy Ted by showing how terrible he is to others when he is in a relationship, but Abby thinks her fake relationship with Barney is more than just a ruse, especially when he proposes to her in front of Ted.
[edit] Music
Radiohead - "(Nice Dream)"
I'm From Barcelona - "The Painter"
[edit] Continuity
- The mystery woman sabotaging Barney's attempts to pick up women was first introduced in "The Bracket", leading Barney on a wild goose chase to discover her identity, but there's a problem in the continuity. In "The Bracket", the woman who approaches Lily has wavy hair, but here the woman's hair is straight, plus their voices are different.
- This is Britney Spears' second appearance in the series; she first appears in "Ten Sessions".
- Lily and Marshall first purchase their new apartment in "Dowisetrepla", and discover the slanted angle of its floor in "No Tomorrow".
- The cafe where Lily displays her "art" is the same cafe that Marshall, Ted & Barney hung out in the season two episode "Swarley".
- Marshall continues to attract homosexual men, such as in the 4th episode of season 3, "Little Boys", and the season 2 episode "Single Stamina".
[edit] Cultural references
- In the first scene, Barney's scam to pick up a woman has him in the role played by Roy Scheider in the movie Jaws, and refers to Richard Dreyfuss' character in Mr. Holland's Opus.
- After Marshall tells Lily she needs to sell her designer clothes and telling her he already made a website, Lily suggests it should be called guy forces his wife to dress in a garbage bag for the next three years instead, which is an actual website.
- When Marshall, Lily and Robin make fun of Ted because he never wears his red cowboy boots, they use movie themed puns "The Good, the Bad and the Fabulous" (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), "The Magnificent Kevin" (The Magnificent Seven) and "No Country for Straight Men" (No Country for Old Men).
- The doctor (Larry Wilmore) is named "Dr. Greer" possibly in reference to Dr. "Doc" Greer of G.I. Joe.
- The G-CWOKs stated that the frame of Lily's painting was "an original Anton Kreitzer." Anton Kreitzer was the name of Norm's alter ego in the "Cheers" episode "The Two Faces of Norm."
[edit] External links
- Everything Must Go at TV.com
- Everything Must Go at the Internet Movie Database
- Charity Folks.com and Lily and Marshall Sell Their Stuff.com auction of memorabilia from the show to benefit Children's Hospital Los Angeles - site no longer related to the show. Archived copy of Lily and Marshall Sell Their Stuff.com thanks to the Internet Archive
- "Guy Forces His Wife To Dress in a Garbage Bag For the Next Three Years" - website mentioned in the episode
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