How I Met Your Mother in New Jersey
This week we were treated to another fun filled episode of How I Met Your Mother.
Ted feels like he’s spending all his time traveling between New York and New Jersey to see Stella, but he is confident that once they are married, that will all change, because they will be living in his New York apartment. But then he becomes aware that Stella assumes he will move to New Jersey after they are married. There’s just one little problem with that. He hates New Jersey. (He even has a shirt proclaiming so.)
Even so, he convinces the gang to come to New Jersey with him to hang out there. Unfortunately, Stella can’t get a sitter and they are forced to spend the evening in her basement (and the only beer Stella has on hand is some she bought several years back when she was pregnant with her daughter, Lucy).
At this same time, Robin is going through a crisis. Believing she had obtained a network job, she quit her hated anchor job to start in her new position, only to discover that all she had was a chance to try out for the job. She panics and gives in, against the advice of the others, calling her old boss and asking for her job back. He tells her if she can be there by 11 pm, she can. Seeing that she only has 30 minutes to get back from New Jersey, a seemingly impossible task, she rides Lucy’s bike - even straight down the aisles of the subway trains - and makes it just in time. Her better sense kicks in, though, after about two minutes, when she is delivering the first news story and she quits for good.
Also part of the fun story line, was Barney, who after making some stupid comment, tried to get a hand bump. No one would oblige him, so he was forced to hold his hand out for the entire evening. (When he did finally get that coveted bump, but not until he had tied his arm up by a rope to the ceiling, he made another stupid remark and found himself again holding up his hand for a slap that wasn’t coming.)
After lots of anguishing over the possibility of having to live in New Jersey, Ted finally realizes that being with Stella is more important than living in New York, and he tells her so.
For me, probably the funniest part was when Lily said that Marshall had hated New York when he came there 8 years ago, but that now he loves it. However, as soon as she says that, Marshall goes into this whole passionate diatribe about how much he hates New York and loves New Jersey. When he’s done, with one look from Lily, he meekly replies, “I was just kidding.”
Ah, the power of women.
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