Milk (How I Met Your Mother episode)

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“Milk”
How I Met Your Mother episode

Ted imagines his wedding without Robin.
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 21
Written by Carter Bays & Craig Thomas
Directed by Pamela Fryman
Guest stars David Henrie (Son), Charlene Amoia (Waitress), Lyndsy Fonseca (Daughter), Eric Allan Kramer (Rorschach), Brenda Isaacs-Booth (Tracy), Nate Torrence (Butterfield), America Olivo (Beautiful Woman)
Production no. 1ALH20
Original airdate May 8, 2006
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"Milk" is the 21st episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on May 8, 2006.

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[edit] Plot

The episode opens with a celebration for Ted's 28th birthday in the bar. Barney presents his gift to Ted, which is the "Greatest Pickup Line of All Time." The next morning, Ted gets a call from Love Solutions, the matchmaker service that Ted had signed up for in "Matchmaker," saying that they have found him a match. He goes and asks what is happening, since he thought that Love Solutions no longer existed. Ted finds out that it has merely changed hands, and has found him a perfect girl who meets all of the standards on his checklist. He asks them to set it up. Meanwhile, Barney wants Marshall to help him wage a battle of pranks against Clark Butterfield, a man who is Barney's target in such pranks. Marshall is appointed to help Barney with the mischief. Lily has found out about an art fellowship in San Francisco, and decides to apply, even though it could ruin the wedding plans. However, she must call Ted when a tire on Marshall's Pontiac Fiero goes flat. She tells Ted that she is still having doubts about marrying Marshall and wants to see if she can get into this art fellowship and see what happens. Ted tries to convince her not to go to the required interview in New Haven, but Lily does anyway, leaving Ted on the side of the road quite far from town. Ted calls Barney, but then tells him it was a joke because he does not want Marshall to know why he was out in the middle of nowhere. Robin eventually comes to get Ted, and takes him back to the bar so that he can be there for his date with the perfect woman. However, Ted decides that he doesn't want a perfect woman anymore; instead, he wants Robin.

[edit] Barney's "Greatest Pickup Line of All Time"

(Barney approaches a woman)
Barney: "Excuse me, has anyone ever told you" (pauses suddenly)
Barney: "Oh My God!"
Unsuspecting Woman: "What?"
Barney: "Call an ambulance!"
Unsuspecting Woman: "What's going on?"
Barney: (to girl) "J-just try not to speak, here, sit down. Just don't talk, don't talk."
(Barney seats her at a table and sits across from her)
Waitress: "Is she OK?"
Barney: (to waitress) "I'm serious, call 911!"
Unsuspecting Woman: "What's wrong, what's the matter?"
Barney: (to girl) "Shh, Shh, just don't move, don't move, just try, here, have some water." (to waitress) "Water!"
(Waitress brings a glass of water)
Barney: (to girl) "Here, drink this."
(Barney then pulls out a flashlight and starts checking her left eye)
(Paramedics arrive)
Barney: (to paramedics) "Oh, thank God you're here!"
Unsuspecting Woman: (slightly furious tone) "What is going on?"
Barney: "I think there might be some internal bleeding, probably some, some fractures, and we gotta get her to the hospital."
Unsuspecting Woman: "What are you talking about?"
Barney: (to girl) "You've had a terrible fall."
Unsuspecting Woman: "No, I haven't."
Barney: (to girl) "Really? Because I could swear you fell straight out of Heaven, Angel! Ding!"
Unsuspecting Woman: (surprised look on her face)
Barney: (starting chant out of the side of his mouth) "Give him your number! What? Give him your number!"


Note: Although it worked for Barney in the episode, Robin has doubts about this line and whether it is actually a good pickup line.

[edit] Music

[edit] Trivia

  • The fake paramedics who help Barney with his "greatest pick-up line of all time" are played by the show's creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.
  • Nicholson, Hewitt & West are three dorms at Wesleyan. Hewitt (the partner who Marshall's dad knew) was also Ted, Marshall, and Lily's freshman year dorm. The name Clark Butterfield continues the play with Wesleyan dorms. Clark Hall is a freshman dorm, and the Butterfield dormitories are a group of three dorms.
  • Marshall is the only one not shown making a mistake in this episode - the central theme of this episode. Ted made the mistake of drinking the bad milk, Lily touches the hot plate at Ted's birthday celebration and went to the interview for the art fellowship, Robin got the highlights that made her look like a tiger, and Barney's mice got loose from the cardboard box. However when Ted drinks the sour milk, Marshall mentions that it "got him too."

[edit] Cultural References

  • Ted says that his ideal woman should be a bass player like Kim Deal or Kim Gordon.
  • When Robin tells Ted she got highlights, Ted asks "For your dental practice?," which refers to the magazine Highlights, which is typically seen in family-oriented waiting rooms.
  • Ted takes a line from Tony the Tiger, telling Robin that her new highlights (which she thinks make her look like a tiger), look "grrr-eat!"
  • Robin's highlights are done in a "Rachel haircut," spoofing HIMYM's alleged similarity to Friends.

[edit] Continuity

  • Love Solutions, which Ted signed up for in "Matchmaker," finally finds Ted a match.
  • Ted is impressed that his Love Solutions match loves Otis Redding. In "Mary the Paralegal" Ted rants about how great Victoria is because she likes the same disc of Otis Redding's Greatest Hits.
  • Ted's voice-over narration states that there was a goat in his bathroom on his 30th birthday. The 17th episode of the 3rd season, called the The Goat, misled viewers into thinking it would be about the goat before Ted remembered, at the end of the episode, that the incident with the goat was on his 31st birthday.
  • Ted asks Barney to pick him up after he becomes stranded, implying that he would need to drive, however it is revealed later that Barney is terrified of driving, in which case Barney would have to do that with a cab.

[edit] Barney's Blog

  • Continuing his war with Clark Butterfield, Barney posts an open letter about Clark Butterfield, presumably that he had emailed to every one of Butterfield's co-workers at Nicholson, Hewitt & West. In the letter, Barney paints Clark as a very giving man, willing to take his entire firm out to a meal after work, and generally doing charitable things that would have taken up a lot of his time. Barney even goes so far as to "reveal" the charity work Clark is presently doing or going to do in the future. Obviously, Clark would have no choice but to do these things, or come off in an awful light.

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