Daisy (How I Met Your Mother)

"Daisy"
How I Met Your Mother episode
Episode no.	Season 9 Episode 20
Original air date	March 10, 2014 (2014-03-10)
Guest actors
Tracey Ullman (Genevieve) Billy Zabka (himself) Marshall Manesh (Ranjit) Kyle Maclachlan (The Captain) Chris Elliott (Mickey Aldrin) Suzie Plakson (Judy Eriksen) Laura Bell Bundy (Becky)

"Daisy" is the twentieth episode of the ninth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 204th episode overall.

Plot

At 2 p.m. on Sunday, four hours before the wedding, Robin asks her mother how she was able to make it despite a fear of flying. Genevieve says she somehow got over the fear despite panicking on board and accidentally opening the exit door, resulting in her being restrained to her seat by duct tape. Genevieve asks Robin more about Barney and immediately makes comparisons to Robin Sr. However, Genevieve's various descriptions of Robin Sr. rankle Robin and Lily because the similarities with Barney make Robin think she's about to marry someone like him.

Meanwhile, as Marshall discusses his upcoming judgeship with Ted, Barney, Ranjit and Billy Zabka, he admits he feels guilty due to Lily's desire to move to Italy as well as confused at her changing her mind while she was gone. Zabka claims he saw Lily leaving a nearby convenience store on a car that is owned by the Captain. The men go to the Captain's estate to confront him and discover he's engaged to Robin's old colleague Becky. The Captain insists that nothing happened between him and Lily, who came to use the powder room. When the Captain brings Ted a daisy he stores in the powder room, Ted uses the opportunity to analyze Lily's actions over the past several days.

Ted believes that Marshall's recent absence prompted Lily to smoke whenever she could and also remembers her efforts to keep secrets. Ted adds that her fight with Marshall made her smoke one last cigarette in the powder room, deducing that the cigarette may be in the daisy's vase and searches for it. The gang finds a used pregnancy test instead, with the result being positive. It is revealed that Lily paid Linus to serve her non-alcoholic drinks all weekend long because she threw up on the train to Farhampton and feared she might be pregnant, later buying the test kit at the store.

The men return to the Farhampton Inn, where Marshall reconciles with Lily over her pregnancy and tells her they are moving to Italy to let her pursue her dream. Barney is introduced to his soon-to-be mother-in-law, whom he happily embraces. Noting that Barney is a hugger unlike Robin Sr., Genevieve brings Robin to the balcony and tries to ease her wedding jitters.

The story flashes forward to Rome a year later. Seeing that Lily is eating too many of the Funyuns Marshall brought over from the US, he takes her up on a suggestion to treat her, their children, his mother Judy, and her father Mickey to eat gelato ice cream. It is revealed that Marshall and Lily's second child is a girl named Daisy.

Deleted scene

A scene cut from this episode explains where the pineapple, one of the show's running gags from "The Pineapple Incident", came from. The scene was released online by Buzzfeed.^[1] In the clip, The Captain has a pineapple on his porch, and explains to the gang the he practices the tradition of putting one outside as a "symbol of hospitality". This leads Ted to remember stealing an identical pineapple from The Captain's house in New York when he was very drunk.^[2]

Barney's Blog

Barney writes a complaint about the Mosby Boys Detective Agency with the Better Business Broreau.^[3]

Cultural references

The Captain quotes several passages from H.M.S. Pinafore.
Funyuns are shown again, being eaten by Marshall and Lily in Italy.
Billy Zabka asks if Lily does karate when she's mad, referencing his most famous movie, The Karate Kid. He also mentions dirt biking on the beach, another Karate Kid reference.
Ted calling the Mosby Boys is a parody of the teenage detective show The Hardy Boys.

Critical reception

Bill Kuchman of Popculturology raised the theory that based on the reveal that Lily and Marshall had a daughter, the ending of Vesuvius could be foreshadowing something happening to Lily, saying, "Maybe Ted isn't broken up in 2024 over the thought of his wife missing the future wedding of his daughter, Penny — maybe Ted is broken up over the thought of Lily missing the future wedding of her daughter, Daisy. ... We won’t know for sure what the ending of 'Vesuvius' really meant, but if this theory is right, HIMYM once again outwitted one of the biggest fan theories surrounding the show."^[4]

Donna Bowman of the AV Club graded the episode a B+.^[5]

Max Nicholson of IGN gave the episode 7.3/10, saying it was saved by an interesting shake-up for Marshall and Lily.^[6]

Kaitlin Thomas of TV.com said the Marshall and Lily plot did not hit all of the "right emotional beats." ^[7]

References

↑ "The How I Met Your Mother pineapple thing has been solved". The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
↑ Schaefer, Megan (September 19, 2014). "'How I Met Your Mother' Pineapple Incident Mystery Explained By Ted In New Video". International Business Times. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
↑ "Barney's Blog: The Mosby Boys". March 11, 2014.
↑ Kuchman, Bill (March 10, 2014). "'How I Met Your Mother' 'Daisy' Recap: Lily's Big Secret Revealed ... and a New 'Vesuvius' Theory". Popculturology.
↑ Bowman, Donna (March 10, 2014). "Daisy". The A.V. Club.
↑ Nicholson, Max (March 10, 2014). "How I Met Your Mother: "Daisy" Review". IGN.
↑ http://www.tv.com/shows/how-i-met-your-mother/community/post/how-i-met-your-mother-daisy-review-season-9-episode-20-139448610007/

External links

Daisy at the Internet Movie Database

How I Met Your Mother

Creators	Carter Bays Craig Thomas

Seasons	Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Season 8 Season 9

Characters	Ted Mosby Marshall Eriksen Lily Aldrin Barney Stinson Robin Scherbatsky The Mother (Tracy McConnell)

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