Moving Day (How I Met Your Mother episode)

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“Moving Day”
How I Met Your Mother episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 18
Written by Maria Ferrari
Directed by Pamela Fryman
Production no. 2ALH18
Original airdate March 19, 2007
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"Moving Day" is the 18th episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on March 19, 2007.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Ted and Robin have decided to move in together. Initially Barney likes this idea, and asks Lily and Marshall if he can use the apartment to sleep with other women, since his apartment is a 23 minute cab ride away, and that has ruined several opportunities for him (women have fallen asleep on him, made up with their boyfriends, or even been arrested for indecent exposure). Barney then decides it is the wrong thing for Ted to do, and takes the moving truck (which has all of Ted's belongings, except one of the swords on the wall and a bunch of lids), and will not give it back to Ted until Ted completes a series of challenges. After having some "bro time" with Barney, Ted cannot get the truck back, but once he returns to Robin's apartment, he realizes where the truck is (behind the bar and being used as a second apartment for Barney), and gets it back from Barney. However, at the same time, Ted and Robin have realized that moving in together was not a good idea, since Robin was not excited of the idea of Ted moving all of his things in to her apartment, and always suggested that he should put his stuff in her basement storage area. Also, unbeknownst to Ted, Robin smokes and has a subscription to Guns and Ammo. They decide that it is best for Ted to move back in with Marshall and Lily.

Marshall and Lily were initially excited that Ted was moving out, since they would now have the place all to themselves. They enjoy lounging around naked and having sex on the couch, but soon find out that things have changed a lot. Ted took all of his stuff, which included the microwave, a lot of the food, the towels, and other things Marshall and Lily didn't realize that Ted owned. Marshall decides to try being the provider, but after forgetting toilet paper after he got a lot of other things they now needed, realizes that Marshall and Lily need Ted to survive. Although Lily is against the idea of them marrying Ted, she also realizes how much they need Ted, and when Ted comes back and tells them that things didn't work out and he's moving back in, they give Ted a group hug and tell him not to leave.

[edit] Cultural References

  • Barney's line "I'll be at the snack shack eating our onion rings Han style . . . Solo!" references the character Han Solo from the Star Wars franchise.
  • At the end, Barney does a list of the top ten names for the rental truck, which is a reference to the Late Show with David Letterman (another CBS show), as David Letterman commonly does top ten lists for various events in a comical manner. According to him, the best names for the truck were:
  • A video of the scene extended was posted on the How I Met Your Mother MySpace page[1] where Barney continued to give more names:

[edit] Continuity errors

  • In the previous episode, it is revealed that Barney cannot drive a car. However, in this episode, he drives away with Ted's truck. He only got to the bar, so thus he didn't go very far.

[edit] Quotes

  • After Ted tells Barney to return his truck
    Barney: This isn't Barney. But I heard that guy's awesome.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/21/extended-dirty-scene-from-how-i-met-your-mother/
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