How I Met Your Mother S08E21 – Romeward Bound
When The Captain asks Lily to move to Rome for a year to be his art
consultant, she fears that Marshall will resent her. Meanwhile, Ted and
Barney become obsessed with a girl who is hiding her amazing body under a
puffy coat.
At the bar, Lily tells Ted and Barney about The Captain’s offer. Ted asks her if moving to Rome is something she wants to do, and she tells her that she does, recounting her time in Paris during her freshman year. He asks her how does Marshall feel about this and she replies him that she hasn’t told Marshall yet since he really loves his job. But Ted says that Marshall also loves Italy. Lily calls Marshall but before she can say anything, Marshall tells her that he can’t talk as he is working on a big case and hangs up. Lily then fantasizes what moving would be like: she would be out all the time with The Captain, while Marshall would be at home taking caring of Marvin and making pasta. Missing Lily and feeling lonely, he would fall for an Italian woman. Lily then calls The Captain and declines his offer as he can’t ask Marshall to abandon his career. Lily then laments that her dream job as an art consultant is over. She then leaves to visit Marshall at work.
When Lily enters Marshall’s office building, she is surprised to see it completely deserted. Lily asks Marshall about this, and he tells her that ever since the Gruber Pharmaceuticals case, the firm lost a lot of business and people got laid off, and there is only one other guy in the office. Lily is outraged when she realizes that Marshall was lying when he told him he was busy, every time she called him. Marshall apologizes, telling her that he lied as he didn’t want her to see him fail, but Lily tells him that his lies cost them job offer from The Captain. Marshall is shocked when Lily tells him about The Captain’s offer and quickly leaves to convince The Captain to offer Lily the job again.
While Lily is at the apartment with the others, she gets a call from The Captain. He tells her that Marshall convinced him to offer Lily the job again, but Lily declines it again. The others are surprised at this, asking her why she turned it down again. She tells them that she is afraid that she will screw up and The Captain’s will fire her, she will become unemployed and Marshall will leave her for an Italian woman. She doesn’t want to throw away her comfortable life in New York. Ted tries to convince her that that won’t happen, but she asks him to leave it. Ted then texts Marshall to come home as Lily turned down the job again.
Sitting at the stairs of their apartment building, Marshall and Lily discuss the job offer again. Lily tells him that she is scared and her previous experiences of living away from home haven’t been great. Marshall tells her that if he can move from Minnesota to New York, then she can move to Rome. But Lily says that they don’t have any friends there and they don’t even speak the language. However, Marshall assures her that they can do this. Lily then decides to accept the job offer.
Meanwhile, at the bar, Barney sees Ted looking at a girl in a big puffy coat. Ted tells him that they take a yoga class together and she has a “ridonkulous” body. When Lily comes to the bar, she wonders why it’s so hot in the bar and Barney tells her that he paid Carl to turn the heat up to get that girl to take off her coat. Lily is shocked at Barney behavior as he is engaged, but Barney says that he is engaged to Robin who is cool with this, and there is nothing wrong with looking at other women. However, instead of taking off her coat, the girl wears a scarf, which frustrates Barney. Just then Robin walks in and greets the girl. They walk over to the gang’s booth and Robin asks Barney if he remember Liddy, the wedding planner she hired. Both Barney and Ted behave strangely around Liddy, which Robin notices. She asks Barney about this, and Barney tells her. To their surprise, Robin tells them that she is also wondering why Liddy never takes her coat off. Robin asks Ted why he didn’t ask Liddy out. Ted tells her that he almost did the first time they met, but he was left speechless when she took off her coat and he saw her body. Barney laments about Marshall not being here; being in a committed relationship, he could ask girls to do anything without being weird. Robin then says that Barney should ask Liddy to take her coat off, as he also in a committed relationship. With some hesitation, Barney asks Liddy to take her coat off, which she does. Robin and Barney are then left speechless when they see her body.
While, Ted and Barney are alone at the bar, Barney says that he can’t wait to see Liddy on his wedding day, as she won’t be wearing her coat. However, Ted asks him to be careful. Barney asks him what he means and Ted replies that he hasn’t been acting like a guy who is getting married in three weeks. He thinks that Robin is cool, but she isn’t that cool. Barney retorts by sarcastically saying that he would know this as he knows Robin better than him, her fiancé. Ted tells him what he would be like if he was getting married in three weeks, but Barney interrupts him by saying that Ted is not the one getting married, he is and Robin is marrying him, not Ted. Ted then apologizes for overstepping and gets up to get the next round.
Later, when Barney enters his apartment, he sees Robin on the couch wearing a big coat. He then turns up the heat to get it off her.
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