Cupcake (How I Met Your Mother episode)

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“Cupcake”
How I Met Your Mother episode
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 16
Written by Suzy Mamann-Greenberg & Maria Ferrari
Directed by Pamela Fryman
Guest stars Ashley Williams (Victoria), Sergey Brusilovsky (Tailor), Caroline Lagerfelt (Bridal Shop Lady)
Production no. 1ALH15
Original airdate March 6, 2006
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"Cupcake" is the 16th episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on March 6, 2006.

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[edit] Plot

Victoria has been offered a fellowship at a culinary institute in Germany, which makes Ted and Victoria consider their relationship and what they should do. Both are unsure, but said early on that long distance relationships never work; according to Ted, it's a lie teenagers use to get laid the summer before college, while Marshall and Lily both say that they are all talk and no sex (both adding "Kill me now." at the end of their statements). While Ted is off with Marshall and Barney, and Victoria is off with Robin and Lily, they make their decisions; Ted thinks she should go, while Victoria thinks she should stay. However, at dinner that night, they both change their minds after Victoria hands Ted a cupcake. They argue a bit and decide to break up. However, Marshall convinces Ted to spend one more awesome day with Victoria, using the analogy of "If you knew your leg was going to be chopped off the next day, would you lie on the couch and cry about it?" Ted and Victoria spend most of the day before she leaves having fun in bed, even though both of them said that they should do what they had wanted to do but never got around to doing. At the airport, Ted and Victoria decide to give long distance a try, both saying that it will work (even though the older Ted foreshadows that it won't).

Meanwhile, Marshall needs a new suit for an interview for an internship position at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Barney tells him that he will take Marshall to his tailor, and outfits Marshall with a very nice suit. At the same time, Lily is shopping for a wedding dress, but cannot find anything she likes. Victoria goes and gets one of the nice dresses from the front window, and Lily loves the dress. Although Lily never intended on buying it, she accidentally sat down in the free cake provided by the bridal shop, and then ripped the dress, partially ruining an $8000 wedding dress. Marshall gets the bill for the suit from Barney, and finds out that he must pay $4000 for it, but initially refuses an offer to come work for Barney. He turns to Lily and says he'll do whatever it takes, at which point Lily breaks down and reveals that she ruined the dress, and Marshall, seeing no other way to pay for $12000 of clothes in a timely manner, decides to go work for Barney.

In helping Ted and Victoria make their decisions, Marshall and Lily tell two versions of the same story. At one point, Lily went and took an art class over in Paris one summer. According to Marshall, Lily had met this strange guy named Gabriel, and thought he was moving in on Lily. Marshall went over to France, and told Gabriel to stay away from Lily. According to Lily, Gabrielle was a homely girl who was self-conscious about her mustache, and she and Lily were good friends, but suddenly she stopped talking to Lily about halfway through the summer, leaving Lily friendless. Neither of them know the other's story.

[edit] Cultural references

  • Ted hopes Victoria is referring to the Germany at Epcot.
  • Lily buys her underwear at Old Navy.
  • Robin calls Lily's dress that is short in front and long in back "the mullet of wedding dresses," referring to the haircut.

[edit] Continuity

  • The "Perfect Bride" magazine that Robin is reading in this episode first appeared in "The Wedding."

[edit] Barney's Blog

  • In his blog, Barney laments that Ted has missed the point of a long distance relationship by staying loyal to Victoria, as it can easily be used for a variety of pros with very few (if any) cons.

[edit] Errors

  • When Marshall is getting his suit tailored, he exclaims, "Barney, you speak Ukrainian?!?" after listening to the tailor and Barney banter back and forth. In fact, the dialogue was in Russian, not Ukrainian. An example is that Barney responds, "Da" to the tailor's question. If the tailor and Barney were speaking Ukrainian, Barney would have responded "Tak."

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