Stuff (How I Met Your Mother)
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 16 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Kourtney Kang |
| Production code | 2ALH16 |
| Original air date | February 19, 2007 |
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Terryn Westbrook (Staci Rawnsley) |
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"Stuff" is the 16th episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on February 19, 2007.
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[edit] Plot
Ted has been confusing his memories of events with Robin with those involving his previous girlfriends. To hide this, he repeatedly claims that he shared all of these experiences with his sister, so Robin does not get jealous. When he tells her this, she claims that he doesn't need to hide his exes, as they are both mature adults. When Ted reveals that a number of his possessions were given to him by old girlfriends, Robin is less calm and tells Ted to get rid of these things. Ted disagrees, so they ask Marshall, Lily, and Barney for their opinions. The group sides with Robin, and Ted eventually agrees to get rid of the gifts. Robin later reveals that her five dogs are actually all gifts from ex-boyfriends. This sparks the fight again, as Ted starts to see her dogs as the actual boyfriends. Feeling that this might be unfair, Robin agrees to give her dogs to her aunt for a while to make Ted feel better. Ted, seeing that Robin kept gifts from her old partners, decides to keep his, even though he had said he had thrown them away. This causes a big argument, after which they decide to move in together.
Lily forces the whole group to come to her play, despite protestations from Barney. The play is long and dull, and all four of them hate it, though Barney is the only one to actually tell Lily his honest opinion. Lily argues that friends are supposed to be nice to each other and tells Barney that, if he were in a play, she would watch it and have only good things to say about it. Barney sees this as a challenge and puts on his own one-man show. When the show begins, it is clear the show (titled Suck It, Lily) has been designed to get back at Lily. During in the show, he repeats the word "moist" (a word that Lily was shown to hate earlier in the episode), sprays the audience (in particular Lily) with a water pistol, dresses as a robot, and plays the recorder terribly. Lily eventually gives in and admits she has nothing nice to say about his show, and the group then decide to leave. Barney, however, still wants to perform a second act, which is so bad that Marshall uses his second slap to shut him up.
[edit] Music
- The Stooges - "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (not on DVD)
[edit] Continuity
- In this episode, Barney receives the second of the original five slaps that Marshall may give him for losing a bet in "Slap Bet".
- Marshall uses Bilson's game shown in "Life Among the Gorillas" of giving two fictional scenarios and asking Barney to choose between them by saying 'What do you do? Go.'
- The name of Barney´s play is "Suck it Lily". This can be seen in the playbill in the background right before the act starts.
- Lily eventualy ends up destroying Marshall's "Joey Buttafuoco's paints". This is shown in the season 6 episode "Glitter".
[edit] Cultural References
- In discussing Marshall's preference for parachute pants, Robin refers to Joey Buttafuoco and the shooting of his wife while Ted brings up Bell Biv Devoe. The pants and Lily's hatred of them are later referenced in the Season 6 episode "Glitter".
- When Barney mentions the clutter of Ted's apartment he compares it to the likeness of the restaurant Bennigan's.
- Ted is wearing a sweater with the coat of arms of the Swiss city of Geneva on it, he will wear it again in episode "The Chain of Screaming".
- Barney's play features him singing a parody of the song Love of My Life by Queen.
[edit] External links
- Stuff at TV.com
- Stuff at the Internet Movie Database
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