How I Met Your Mother S08E09 – Lobster Crawl

How I Met Your Mother S08E09 – Lobster Crawl

Robin is determined to get Barney back no matter what it takes. Meanwhile, Ted fills in as Marvin’s nanny, leading Marshall and Lily to realize that Ted is using baby Marvin to replace his other baby...the GNB building.

While at MacLaren's, Lily notices Robin flirting with Barney and calls her aside to ask her about it. Robin denies flirting with Barney, as she is not interested in him. She tells Lily she made her intentions clear to Barney as she turned him down when he kissed her the other week, and Barney also realized that she was right (as he told her that he is done pursuing her). However, Lily realizes that it's the classic "Lobster situation", referring to the time Robin ate lobster when a doctor told her that she could never have it, as she is allergic to it. Since Barney told Robin that he is done trying to get her, Robin wants him back, as she always wants what she can't have.

Robin continues flirting with Barney, although her voice of reason tells her to stop, but she fails to get his attention. She later tells Lily that she has had a revelation; just like she never wanted lobster again after she ate them once, she needs to sleep with Barney one last time to get over him. Although Lily tells her that it's a bad idea, Robin decides to go through with it by devising a number of plays to seduce Barney but they all fail. She then decides to ask Lily for help, who tells her that although she doesn't agree with her sleeping with her trying to sleep with Barney, but she can't watch Robin make a fool of herself. She tells Robin to "get freaky" with a girl in front of Barney to get his attention, since it worked when she wanted to get Marshall's attention in Wesleyan. Robin then walks in MacLaren's with her co-worker Brandi and starts grinding with her, hoping to get Barney's attention. However, her plan backfires when Barney heads out with Brandi to have sex with her in the World Wide News studio.

The next day, Barney comes to MacLaren's and tells Lily and Robin that he didn't sleep with Brandi and spent the night thinking about how every thing he's done since his break-up with Quinn has been a cry for help and he has realized that he is searching for what he really wants in life, but he has no idea what that is, but he is going to figure it out. After Barney leaves, Robin feels guilty for obsessing over hooking-up with Barney while he is going through something like this, and she is going to give Barney the space and time to figure himself out. However, she shows up at Barney's apartment in lingerie. She tells him that it's okay that he doesn't know what he wants in life, as long as he knows what he wants that night. However, Barney tells her that he does know what he wants and looks at Patrice, who is sitting in his living room. He tells Robin, that last night he talked all night after he sent Brandi home, as Patrice was sympathetic to him. He also tells her that he is on a date with Patrice right now, leaving Robin shocked.

Meanwhile, while Mickey, Marvin's nanny, is under the weather, Marshall and Lily need a temporary nanny, and Ted volunteers as the semester is over and the New GNB headquarters is finished. He says that he is meeting a headhunter for his next project next week and can be Marvin's nanny until then. However, Marshall and Lily miss Marvin crawling for the first time, while he is with Ted, which upsets Lily but Marshall says that they will be able to see Marvin's other "firsts". However, Ted goes a little overboard when he buys Marvin all his winter clothes. When he tells Lily and Marshall that he cancelled his meeting with the headhunter and gave Mickey the month off as he is going to take Marvin for his first sleigh ride, they fire him. However, they later call him to apologize and ask him to meet at the swimming club he signed Marvin up for. When Ted gets there, they tell him that they found the scrapbook Ted made of Marvin's "firsts" and it reminded them of the scrapbook of made for the New GNB's building's "firsts". That project was his baby, and now that it is over and he is scared to move on. Ted tells him that that building is his biggest accomplishment and it's hard to let it go. Marshall tells him that they rescheduled his meeting with the headhunter to help him find his next project. Ted later apologizes for overdoing it with Marvin, especially taking him to see Santa (something that Marshall and Lily wanted to do). Marshall and Lily tell him that the forgive him, however a few years later, they take their revenge by taking Ted's baby daughter to see Santa when they are babysitting her.

When Barney gets ketchup on a tie he is wearing while eating a burger, he mourns the death of his tie, whom he named Cornelius. When he later wears a bib to eat lobster, he has an idea and produces bibs for men, to protect their clothing and and also look like a part of the attire they are wearing, naming them "Bro-Bibs".