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How I Met Your Mother: Ted Mosby -- Architect
Ted and Robin are both worried that they just had their first fight. It was over, well, a penis shaped building in Spokane.
Robin complains that the fight didn't end at all and so she went to the salon. The problem is that he has been complaining about work for too long. Too much repetition - and she critiques "Field of Dreams" to top it all off. Basically she has never been in such a serious relationship.
Marshall has an idea for taking Ted to a great party. Ted is worried that perhaps his job is boring. He randomly approaches a woman and she takes an instant liking to him.
Robin and Lily come in and the bartender gives Lily yet another free drink. Robin wonders where Ted is and a random woman asks if she is referring to the awesome Ted Mosby - and we have a little flashback of Ted being awesome - and he ended up taking a woman to the party. Lily wonders why she isn't upset and Robin says she assumes the woman is overweight.
Robin and Lily arrive at the party and are asked to sign a legal release form and they ask about Ted and we get yet another Ted the Awesome flashback. Someone asks Marshall where Lily is and he sits everyone down and tells them he and Lily broke up and they legally analyze the situation. It seems that after this Ted and Marshall leave the party and go to a dance club. Robin calls Marshall and he tells Robin that Ted is at work. Robin gets this notion based on this that Ted is cheating on her.
Robin and Lily come to the club and the bouncer doesn't know who they are looking for until Robin mentions Ted's name and we get our third awesome Ted flashbook. Marshall is concerned that Ted giving a random woman a piggy back ride might not look good. The bouncer offers to trade information on where the woman lives in exchange for Robin's purse and they agree. Robin says she will kick this woman's ass and steal her purse. They go to the woman's apartment and see it is unlocked. Suddenly Robin realizes that she is the problem - she made the nicest guy in the world a cheater - and they enter the apartment, which has a bead filled entry.
They find Barney tied up to the bed and ask how this all happened. They go back to the beginning of the story where Ted is talking to the original person in the bar and it seems that Barney has been calling himself Ted Mosby all night long. We go through every single flashback and it has been Barney alllllll along. Barney leaves a form letter for the woman.
Walking home, Robin thought about her relationship with Ted and then poked into his workplace with those exquisite coffee cups that I think you can only get in New York - the blue ones that have the greek style writing that say "We are Pleased To Serve You" or what not. Robin tells Ted that she loves being the person he complains to. He offers to show her the building and they joke about it. He then shows her what he thinks the building should look like. Future Ted tells his children that this is the first building he ever designed - they saw it in the future when they visited Spokane. I'm not sure how realistic this is because I don't think most people ever visit Spokane. Moreover, why would a Spokane company hire a NY architecture firm when they could get people out of Seattle.
At the end we find out what the form letter said. Suffice it to say that it involves Barney being a ghost who can only materialize once a decade.
Posted by Gordon on October 10, 2006 2:56 AM
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Of course you think Field of Dreams was slow and boring. You're a woman. Field of Dreams was about so much more than a woman gives it credit for, and I think every man out there understands Ted, Marshall, and Barney's reaction to Robin's undignified and harsh comment regarding this classic.
-- Posted by: Jack at January 31, 2007 10:49 AMDoes anybody know the song that is playing when Ted shows Robin the building ? It starts out with a lyric like "I'm not an architect but..."; that's all I remember except I'm looking for it now....anyone? Thanks!
-- Posted by: Dennis at September 8, 2007 5:24 PMI also found field of dreams boring, and I'm a guy.
Don't sexist Jack.
-- Posted by: Edward at June 2, 2010 7:12 AM I'm not sure how realistic this is because I don't think most people ever visit Spokane. Moreover, why would a Spokane company hire a NY architecture firm when they could get people out of Seattle.
-> maybe you would visit it if you designed a big skyscraper there? sounds like a pretty good reason. plus for a big project (especially with a daring design like the original penis building) it's not uncommon to look nationally for an architect.
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I agree with Robin about Field Of Dreams, It was slow and boring.
This was a great episode. All through the episode I kept thinking that Ted was acting so much like Barney, hehe.
I made a quiz for this episode too. Its pretty challenging but there are some easy ones in there too.
http://www.tvtriviaquiz.com/howimetyourmother.htm
Enjoy :D
-- Posted by: Sophie at October 11, 2006 10:14 PM