How I Met Your Mother S08E06 – Splitsville

When Robin is hesitant to break up with Nick, Barney takes matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, Lily and Marshall are desperate for some private time.


Robin complains to the gang about not having sex with Nick for 3 days because he injured his groin playing basketball in Marshall's basketball team. Now that they aren't having sex, they are starting to talk more, which has made Robin realize how dumb Nick really is (although the gang already knew about that fact). Robin reconsiders her relationship with Nick. The next day Robin tells the gang at the bar that she tried to tell to him about breaking up, but failed, after seeing how hard Nick's abs are.

Barney, knowing Robin wouldn't do it, provides a solution. If Robin doesn't break up with Nick by 8:00 PM that day, he will send an online invitation about Robin spending a whole day with her annoying co-worker Patrice.

Marshall asks Robin to let him down easy because he needs Nick not to be an emotional train wreck for the basketball game. And Barney then suggests they go to "Splitsville", a dessert bar where everyone dumps their partners.

Right when Robin is about to break up with Nick, he gets a phone call that upsets him a lot. When he pulls it together he asks Robin what she was going to say, Robin crabs out and tells him to order anything he wants thinking a family member may have died.

The scene goes back to Marshall and Lily's apartment where Ted comes back from his first basketball match with the "T-Squares", a group of his architect friends. He lost to a team of accountants called "The Number Crunchers".

Robin sneaks into the bathroom and calls the gang and asks Barney to stop the invite, he refuses and says it goes live in 5 minutes unless he hears Robin dump Nick on speaker phone. So she keeps the phone on speaker and joins Nick again.

When she starts to talk, Nick interrupts her and tells her what the phone call was about. Apparently his doctor had called and told him that his groin injury was worse than he thought and that he can't play basketball for weeks. Marshall who can hear this through speaker phone is devastated. However, he says that now that his injury is going to take longer to heal, they can start having sex again. He seduces Robin and she is about to give in when Barney comes in and tells Nick that he is in love with Robin, so it gives Robin a reason to break up with Nick. Barney confesses his true feeling inside:" I am hopelessly irretrievably in love with her, more than she knows." which makes Robin and the gang (over the phone) look at him surprisingly. Robin then breaks up with Nick and he goes home with 2 women who have also just had their hearts broken. Future Ted states that that concluded "The Autumn of Break-Ups."

Ted then confronts Lily and Marshall about not having sex and they tell him that haven't had sex since before Marvin was born. So Ted takes Marvin out to give Lily and Marshall some alone time. When Robin and Barney are walking on the streets, Barney boasts about how he should get an award for best fake romantic speech. Robin tells him he was really convincing and he replies saying "I was just bro-ing you out" and that if he didn't buy it so quickly he might have had to kiss her. He leans in and they almost kiss when someone calls Robin and interrupts them. It turns out to be Patrice, who got the email and will totally come for 'Robin and Patrice's fun day". She ends the call and Barney says 'you know what I forgot to do' meaning he forgot to stop the email and Robin playfully pushes Barney.

Later, Ted is sitting at Splitsville with his architect teammates. They start saying that Ted is a great coach and that they all wanna stay friends. At that moment a bowl of ice cream is set for Ted only and he realizes they are gonna dump him and says that he will change and asks whether there is another architect replacing him as his teammates leave him at the restaurant.

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