Slap Bet
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| "Slap Bet" | |||||||
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 9 |
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| Written by | Kourtney Kang | ||||||
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman | ||||||
| Guest stars | Candace Kroslak (Girl #1) Rachel Specter (Girl #2) Courtney Abbiati (Girl #3) Wayne Nickel (Reverend) Timothy Prindle (Mr. Johnson) |
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| Production no. | 2ALH09 | ||||||
| Original airdate | November 20, 2006 | ||||||
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"Slap Bet" is the 9th episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on November 20, 2006. This episode was originally titled "Robin Sparkles."
[edit] Plot
Ted, Marshall, Lily, and Barney find out that Robin does not want to go to a mall, and Robin doesn't want anyone to know why she's averse to malls. Ted tries to guess and in doing so reveals that he was trapped under a fake boulder at a mall in Ohio when he was 9. Marshall believes that Robin was married in a mall in Canada, while Barney believes that Robin did pornography in Canada. They agree to a slap bet (where the winner of the bet slaps the loser as hard as he possibly can) and appoint Lily as the slap bet commissioner. Ted thinks both ideas are ridiculous, but tries to find out if she's married. Robin tells Ted that she is married, having married a guy in a mall. Ted promises to keep it a secret, but then tells Marshall and Lily. Seeing as he's won, Marshall slaps Barney, but Barney still investigates the subject.
However, shortly after that, Marshall uses his law-school access to search a legal-records database. He tells Ted that there is no record of a marriage license for Robin in Canada—but he informs Ted that Robin has had several tickets for parking illegally. Ted, after asking Robin a bunch of questions, gets Robin to tell him that she's not really married, but she won't tell him why she's afraid of malls. Marshall also tells Lily of his findings, and Lily, as the slap bet commissioner, informs Barney and allows him to slap Marshall 3 times (one slap because Marshall lied, and two for being prematurely slapped).
Barney then reveals that he has found a video with Robin in it from a man in Malaysia, and it will be posted on MySpace shortly. He refers to Robin as "Robin Sparkles", to which she is surprised and questions him as to where he heard that name. Ted is no longer interested in finding out Robin's secret, but Robin later insists that it is time for the secret to be revealed. Barney plays the opening part of the video, in which Robin (dressed as a schoolgirl) pleads a teacher not to give her detention seductively. Barney, for the sake of Robin's dignity, pauses the video and says that he has proved his point, and then slaps Marshall. Robin asks Barney why he slapped Marshall, and Barney tells her about the bet (not including the fact that Marshall thought she was married in mall) that Barney thought that she had done porn earlier in her life. Robin then reveals that the video is not porn, and plays the video. Instead of a porn movie, the younger Robin looks at the camera, exclaims that she will sing a song, and thus the music video starts for "Let's Go To the Mall", Robin Sparkles' (as she was called) minor hit in Canada as a teenage pop star. She performed in malls all over Canada, and was forced to live off of Orange Juliuses and Wetzel's Pretzels. While everyone finds the video highly amusing, Lily points out Barney that he did not win the slap bet, and Marshall says, "It looks like someone suffered from premature slapulation." Lily then gives Marshall the right to slap Barney either 10 times immediately in succession or 5 times available to Marshall for all of eternity, pending Barney's preference. Barney chooses the five slaps (which Ted considers a "horrible call", because Barney must now live with the constant fear of being slapped). Robin tells Ted that she's actually glad Ted knows her secret now; they kiss; and Marshall slaps Barney, proclaiming, "That's one". They all continue to enjoy the video, and Marshall menaces Barney.
