After Ted runs into an old girlfriend, he tries to make amends with her
since he cheated during their relationship. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily
make a bet with Barney that could force him to wear Marshall's ducky
tie.
Marshall has acquired a new tie with a duck pattern, which Barney despises because he finds the design unstylish. Now that Lily
is pregnant, her breasts have gotten bigger, so Barney wants to see
them; of course both Lily and Marshall refuse. The group decides to go
to Shinjitsu, a teppanyaki restaurant dinner, where Barney
insults the cooking style, claiming he can do all the techniques the
chef can do with ease. Marshall becomes angry and challenges Barney to
do every technique, with permission to touch Lily's breasts if he
succeeds. If Barney fails, he must wear Marshall's ducky tie for one
year.
Barney unnerves Marshall and Lily throughout dinner with suggestions
that he is as adept at cooking as he claims. When he offers to call off
the bet if he is allowed to see Lily's breasts for 30 seconds in the
alley, they accept until Marshall realizes that Barney has been
conditioning Marshall to associate Barney's sneezing with the desire to
go to "Shinjitsu" as part of a future scheme to use Marshall if Barney
wanted something from him. Lily and Marshall are confident they have won
the bet until after dinner, when Barney easily executes all but one of
the cooking techniques. In desperation, Lily flashes Barney, which
distracts Barney and prevents him succeeding at the final cooking
technique, catching a shrimp in his pocket. When the group returns to MacLaren's, Barney reluctantly begins wearing the ducky tie.
Meanwhile, during dinner, Ted relays the story of what happened when he ran into Victoria
again at the Architects Ball. Ted makes a long-awaited apology for
cheating on her, which Victoria accepts though she is no longer angry.
Seeing Robin,
she thinks that they are still together, but Ted tells her that they
dated for a year but are just friends now, she is surprised to learn
that Ted does not find it strange that he, Robin, and Barney hang out
every night, despite the fact that both Ted and Barney dated and broke
up with Robin. When Ted offers to help Victoria wash the dishes at her
bakery, he learns that she is going to be engaged to Klaus,
a classmate from Germany, and becomes upset when he learns that she had
gotten together with him a day and half after she and Ted broke up.
They wind up arguing, but begin reminiscing their time together after
Ted reveals he deeply regretted cheating on her and they had loved one
another; they end up sharing a kiss.
Future Ted states that Victoria had been right. They just didn't know it at that time.
Despite the kiss, Victoria realizes she wants to be with Klaus and
leaves to meet him for a trip in the Hamptons. Though he concludes the
story there with his friends, Future Ted reveals that he had asked
Victoria what she imagined their lives would be like had they stayed
together. Victoria had responded that Ted's relationships over the past
six years have failed because of Robin, telling him that she is a bigger
part of his life than he realizes. She also tells him that the three of
them (Ted, Barney and Robin) just hanging out as friends doesn't work.
Though Ted had not believed Victoria at the time, Future Ted reveals that she had been right. He just didn't
How I Met Your Mother S07E03 – Ducky Tie
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