Belly Full of Turkey
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| “Belly Full of Turkey” | |
|---|---|
| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
 Lily stares at the huge turkey |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 9 |
| Written by | Chris Miller |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Production no. | 1ALH08 |
| Original airdate | November 21, 2005 |
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"Belly Full of Turkey" is the 9th episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on November 21, 2005.
[edit] Plot
It's Thanksgiving time, and Marshall and Lily are going to visit Marshall's family in Minnesota. While Marshall is enjoying a game of BaskIceBall (a combination of many sport put together that the Eriksen brothers play, although Marshall later tells Lily that he doesn't want their kids playing it because it is dangerous), Lily is in the kitchen. While helping in the kitchen, she hears how big the babies Marshall's siblings have had are, and begins to get scared thinking that she will have this huge baby (at 6'4", Marshall is the shortest of his brothers, and his sisters are also tall.). Finally, at Thanksgiving dinner, Lily feels completely scared, and runs off and buys a pregnancy test at a convenience store. Later Marshall finds out Lily has been arrested for public urination, and goes to the station to get Lily out and talk to her. Lily tells Marshall her concerns about raising a family of mayonnaise-eating giants in Minnesota, but Marshall assures her that they are not going to settle down in Minnesota, and alleviates Lily's fears. Finally, Marshall and Lily discover that Lily isn't pregnant, so they return to the Eriksen home, much relieved.
Meanwhile, Robin and Ted have no plans for Thanksgiving, and decide to help out at a soup kitchen. When they arrive there, they find Barney volunteering there already, and ask to help. After some pleading, they are allowed to help, but soon they find out that not all the food received as donations to the soup kitchen is actually distributed to the needy; many volunteers walk away with food, especially rarer food items. Ted, seeing that this is selfish, begins to distribute rare food items to the needy. Ted, Robin, and Barney are kicked out, and Barney (who was volunteer of the month) is pissed at Ted because Barney needed to volunteer there because he was arrested for public urination one night. In order for Ted to make it up to Barney, Ted and Robin agree to go to the strip club with Barney for Thanksgiving, and Ted, as an act of charity, pays for a stranger's lap dance.
