How I Met Your Mother S09E09 – Platonish
In a flashback episode, Marshall and Lily ponder the future of the Ted
and Robin, while Ted is out with Marshall gets a call from an old
"friend". Meanwhile, Barney accepts a series of challenges to pick up
girls from Lily and Robin.
Saturday 11:00 AM, 31 hours are left before the wedding. Barney, Ted, and Lily are at the Farhampton Inn lounge trying to comfort Robin who is crying over the news that her mother is not attending the wedding. Barney takes this as a challenge to cheer her up, saying he always finishes his challenges. At this Lily states that this isn't completely true since Barney never got them diapers and samosas.
To explain, the gang flashes back six months prior to the fall of 2012: Lily and Ted are at the bar discussing Ted's feelings for Robin, which are, as Ted insists, purely platonic. At this, Barney arrives and gives them a definition of platonic whereas neither he nor Ted are platonic with Robin, since two people being single are never platonic if there is a chance that they could hook up the next twenty minutes. Thinking of that, Barney claims that he just knows two truly platonic people (being Marshall and Robin who would not even kiss if they could save their or Lily's lives with that kiss).
Being bored, Barney takes a challenge from himself to get some blond girl's number and goes off. When Robin arrives, Ted also has to leave to watch a basketball game together with Marshall. Barney returns to the table with a challenge completed, which brings Robin and Lily to the conclusion that Barney always makes up own creative challenges that are easy to complete. Lily dares him to take up a challenge that she and Robin will choose. As Barney completes the first one, they keep on playing and giving Barney challenges for a bigger part of the night. By the end Barney got some woman's numbers while speaking like a dolphin, wearing a garbage bag not using the letter E and by making a girl believe he is Ryan Gosling.
Seeing that Barney has passed all their challenges, Lily asks him to buy her a pack of diapers and samosas for Robin - and pick up another woman in the process. At the drugstore, Barney tries a play on a woman, but the woman rejects him and tells him he is a sad person but that everything will be alright because he is good guy. Barney calls her a weirdo but he eventually goes back to her to ask her what she meant.
Meanwhile, Marshall and Ted are watching a game between the Washington Generals and the Harlem Globetrotters. As they watch, the two begin to talk about Ted's feelings for Robin. Marshall states that Ted still has feelings for her and asks why Ted is not leaving, because in 20 minutes he could be happily ever after with Robin. Ted thinks that Marshall only wants to win the bet he has with Lily, denying the fact he wants Robin back. Both think about how this getting back together within 20 minutes could look like, involving the blue french horn in Ted's version. Ted doesn't want to pursue Robin again, saying she does not change her mind on that. At some point in this conversation, Ted's old boss Hammond Druthers (from Aldrin Justice) calls him up and offers him a job in Chicago. Ted steadfastly refuses the offer despite Hammond's pleading, but says he will think about it.
Outside the drugstore, the woman and Barney are sitting on a bench talking about his failed relationship with Robin and how he regretted not trying harder to make it work. The woman asks him what he wants - playing around or winning the game, and Barney has to admit that he wants to win. When Barney says he can easily win back Robin within 20 minutes, the woman declares that if he really loves Robin and wants her back, he will have to give it all his attention, all his time, all his thoughts - otherwise he won't win this important game. The woman leaves and Barney runs off, leaving the diapers and samosas at the bench where they sat. Future Ted reveals that this woman was the mother and that's how Barney has met her.
Back at the apartment Ted sees Robin eating olives, reminding her that she does not like olives - recalling a scene from their first meeting. Robin saying she changed her mind, making Ted call Hammond rejecting his offer, believing he can still turn things around with Robin after seeing she has changed her mind about disliking olives. Later at MacLaren's, Ted admits he and Robin only share a "platonish" relationship if that exists. Marshall asks if Ted is now pursuing Robin, but Ted says that he will take things slowly since he is not going anywhere and she is not going anywhere, so there is no need to rush, it will happen when it happens. While Ted and Marshall are having this conversation, the scene cuts over to Barney who returned to his apartment, opening the last page of his playbook and starting to draft "The Robin".
At this point the scene flashes back to the Farhampton Inn, Barney declared that from that night on, his one and only challenge was "to get Robin Scherbatsky to fall in love with him". Now inspired by Barney, Robin stops crying and smiles at him. Robin declares he has completed his challenge to cheer her up and get her to fall in love with him. Then she kisses him, while Ted is visibly touched and sad at this point.
To explain, the gang flashes back six months prior to the fall of 2012: Lily and Ted are at the bar discussing Ted's feelings for Robin, which are, as Ted insists, purely platonic. At this, Barney arrives and gives them a definition of platonic whereas neither he nor Ted are platonic with Robin, since two people being single are never platonic if there is a chance that they could hook up the next twenty minutes. Thinking of that, Barney claims that he just knows two truly platonic people (being Marshall and Robin who would not even kiss if they could save their or Lily's lives with that kiss).
Being bored, Barney takes a challenge from himself to get some blond girl's number and goes off. When Robin arrives, Ted also has to leave to watch a basketball game together with Marshall. Barney returns to the table with a challenge completed, which brings Robin and Lily to the conclusion that Barney always makes up own creative challenges that are easy to complete. Lily dares him to take up a challenge that she and Robin will choose. As Barney completes the first one, they keep on playing and giving Barney challenges for a bigger part of the night. By the end Barney got some woman's numbers while speaking like a dolphin, wearing a garbage bag not using the letter E and by making a girl believe he is Ryan Gosling.
Seeing that Barney has passed all their challenges, Lily asks him to buy her a pack of diapers and samosas for Robin - and pick up another woman in the process. At the drugstore, Barney tries a play on a woman, but the woman rejects him and tells him he is a sad person but that everything will be alright because he is good guy. Barney calls her a weirdo but he eventually goes back to her to ask her what she meant.
Meanwhile, Marshall and Ted are watching a game between the Washington Generals and the Harlem Globetrotters. As they watch, the two begin to talk about Ted's feelings for Robin. Marshall states that Ted still has feelings for her and asks why Ted is not leaving, because in 20 minutes he could be happily ever after with Robin. Ted thinks that Marshall only wants to win the bet he has with Lily, denying the fact he wants Robin back. Both think about how this getting back together within 20 minutes could look like, involving the blue french horn in Ted's version. Ted doesn't want to pursue Robin again, saying she does not change her mind on that. At some point in this conversation, Ted's old boss Hammond Druthers (from Aldrin Justice) calls him up and offers him a job in Chicago. Ted steadfastly refuses the offer despite Hammond's pleading, but says he will think about it.
Outside the drugstore, the woman and Barney are sitting on a bench talking about his failed relationship with Robin and how he regretted not trying harder to make it work. The woman asks him what he wants - playing around or winning the game, and Barney has to admit that he wants to win. When Barney says he can easily win back Robin within 20 minutes, the woman declares that if he really loves Robin and wants her back, he will have to give it all his attention, all his time, all his thoughts - otherwise he won't win this important game. The woman leaves and Barney runs off, leaving the diapers and samosas at the bench where they sat. Future Ted reveals that this woman was the mother and that's how Barney has met her.
Back at the apartment Ted sees Robin eating olives, reminding her that she does not like olives - recalling a scene from their first meeting. Robin saying she changed her mind, making Ted call Hammond rejecting his offer, believing he can still turn things around with Robin after seeing she has changed her mind about disliking olives. Later at MacLaren's, Ted admits he and Robin only share a "platonish" relationship if that exists. Marshall asks if Ted is now pursuing Robin, but Ted says that he will take things slowly since he is not going anywhere and she is not going anywhere, so there is no need to rush, it will happen when it happens. While Ted and Marshall are having this conversation, the scene cuts over to Barney who returned to his apartment, opening the last page of his playbook and starting to draft "The Robin".
At this point the scene flashes back to the Farhampton Inn, Barney declared that from that night on, his one and only challenge was "to get Robin Scherbatsky to fall in love with him". Now inspired by Barney, Robin stops crying and smiles at him. Robin declares he has completed his challenge to cheer her up and get her to fall in love with him. Then she kisses him, while Ted is visibly touched and sad at this point.
Post a Comment