"Why is there something so attractive about a bad boy...and girl!"
lol, and I thought I was late last week. This week I started a new job, so forgive me? At least I managed to get this up before the next episode aired. That's...something.
Danny Tanner: It was the fall of 2009 and I was a Professor now. So I decided to change my look a little bit. And people were noticing.
Barney: Ah tweed! Textile of the eunuch!
Marshall: You know I've always wondered why those tweed jackets have elbow patches?
Barney: Because the people that wear them are always going "AH GEEZ, WHY CAN'T I GET LAID?"
The professor thing might just work on me, ngl.
Lily: So guys, Marshall and I wanted to invite you over to our place for a little couples night.
Robin: Uh, sure, why not!
Is it a little weird that Marshally/Lily are basically being like "Ok, let's all hang out...just not Ted. Because he's alone." lol :/
I only included this section because, "OMG RANJIT!!!!"
Also, lol, it amuses me when they make Alyson wear all these wigs in flashbacks due to her ever changing hair styles.
Lily: Welcome!
Marshall: Gouda!
Aw, Barney/Robin being all smiley and talking to each other just as they come to the door is cute to me. ♥
Lily: Nailed it!
Marshall: Best night ever!
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Barney: Worst night ever!
They're ridiculously adorable sometimes.
I love how in sync they are here with her shooting herself and him wiping her fake blood off of his face.
See THIS is how Barney/Robin would be coupley. LOL
Ted: Hey! How was the big couples night with Marshall and Lily?
Robin: Brutal.
Ted: Really? How?
Barney: It was like we were on a date with a sad chubby girl our mom made us call.
Robin: And they were so nervous that they weren't even making sense half the time!
It's funny because Marshall/Lily and Barney/Robin have hung out pretty much every day for the past 5 years, so really this shouldn't be a big deal.
But of course Marshall/Lily got it into their heads that it's not just regular hanging out, it's "special" hanging out, with expectations and everything.
In some ways it's kind of like Barney & Robin's relationship. They're focusing more on their fears/expectations of what they're supposed to be as a couple rather than focusing on just being awesome.
If Marshall/Lily just treated it like they were just "hanging out" (maybe with some extra appetizers) I'm sure it would have been great. Just like I'm sure if Barney/Robin didn't have all this outside coupley pressure to be "just like this" they'd have less issues. Well, I'm not saying they have actual "issues", but there's been some kind of problem come up in the last three episodes.
If both Marshall/Lily and Barney/Robin just relaxed a bit and stopped worrying about expectations, things would probably go a lot more smoothly.
Lily: Hey! Would you like a margarita?
Marshall: En Cabo esa Sammy Hagar eating a Belgian waffle!
lol riiiiight
Barney: And they kept shoving platters of food in our faces!
Ted: Let me guess? Did Marshall get like super intense about the cheese?
Robin: Yea! How'd you know?
Ted: Poor Marshall. Lily's this gourmet cook and all she lets Marshall do is pick out one sad block of cheese.
Lily: That's prosciutto wrapped melon...
Marshall: You guys are gonna want to get in on this Gouda!
Lily: That's seared scallops with a mango chutney!
Marshall: Seriously, don't stiff on the Gouda.
Lily: And that's lobster ravioli in a black truffle oil.
Marshall: Tock goes the Gouda crock!
Barney: Um, we didn't realize there was gonna be dinner. We sucked down a couple of tacos outside the subway.
Robin: PS, not sittin' great!
I know that taco joke was supposed to make us go "haha ew" but all I thought was "haha awww" because of THIS.
Sorry, it's one of their "things" now. Just like laser tag, scotch, and sandcastles are.
Barney: And if anything didn't go according to plan they would freak out!
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Lily: What do you mean the egg timer is broken? What are we gonna use for charades, sweetie?
Marshall: I'm working on it, darling. Ok, just stall them!
Lily: Now Robin, you work in television. We're experiencing some technical difficulties! haha you get that? haha so we're still laughing! haha right? Laugh Marshall! hahaha
Marshall: hahaha
Lily: hahaha
OIC YOU GUYS PLAYING WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE BACKGROUND!
And again, it's little things like this that make them "coupley". Not so much all of the other stuff.
This is the second WTF face GIF of this episode. lol
Ted: C'mon, they just got excited. They've been looking for couple best friends forever. Plus, I'm sure they weren't that bad.
Robin: Show him!
Barney: This is a website Marshall already made about last night. It's called itwasthebestnightever.com.
Barney's face in the last cap in the first row is classic.
ITWASTHEBESTNIGHTEVER.COM
LOL MARSHALL'S FREAK OUT IS MY FAVORITE PART
♪ Jason Segal - IT WAS THE BEST NIGHT EVER
Barney: Needless to say, we've both changed our e-mail addresses.
Ted: I don't understand, if last night went so horribly, why do Lily and Marshall think it was such a hit?
Barney: I mean, we knew we were going to have fun tonight, but we had no idea how much!
Robin: Yea, tough luck every Saturday night I've ever had, because this one just blew ya out of the water!
Barney: Let's do it again! Soon!
Robin: Yea, we'll call you!
Ted: They're your friends, why would you just blatantly lie to them like that?
Robin: Well, that's what you say at the end of a crappy date!
Random girl: Hey Ted! Great time last night! Let's do it again! Soon! I'll, uh, call you!
Ted: Right?!
Robin: Who was that
Ted: I don't want to brag, but it seems chicks are really digging the whole professor thing. Last night she picked me up at the bar. And then...well she actually ended up falling asleep on the couch, but hey! That happens!
Barney: Uh, no it doesn't.
Ted: Sure it does. She was just exhausted from being turned on. But you heard her. She wants to do it again. Soon!
HAHA, OH TED! I love how he really thinks he's pimpin'.
Barney: Ted, let me ask you a question. Where does this girl live exactly?
Ted: Westchester. Why?
Barney: hahaha! Hee! Hehe! You're the sexless innkeeper!
Robin: Oh my god, you're right! He's totally the sexless innkeeper!
Ted: What the hell is the sexless innkeeper?
Barney: Ted, many a man...nay! Many a soul, has their own tale of the sexless innkeeper. Why I had a run in with one just last year. I even composed a poem about it. Would you care to hear it?
Ted: Not really.
Barney: Twas the night before new years
and the weather grew mean.
It was 3 in the morning,
and I was stranded in Queens!
Ted: Wait, if this was last year, why are you acting like it was Oliver Twist?
Barney: Ted, it's a poem!
I am so amused by the fact that NPH actually said "HEHE" here.
Robin is SO overly amused by Barney here. Again, this is not anything new and she's always been this amused by his insane tales, but it never fails to make me smile.
I must say that this is an actual phenomenon. I may or may not have done this in the past....
Barney: The tavern grew empty
The gaslights grew dim
The horse drawn carriages
were all but snowed in.
Last call was approaching
and my fortunes looked bleak
Then I turned to my left
and stifled a shriek
She had a peach fuzzed beard
and weighed sixteen stone
She gobbled up hot wings
and swallowed the bones.
I muffled a scream
and threw up in my mouth.
I asked, "Where do you live?"
And she said, "One block south."
I swallowed my pride,
and six shots of whiskey,
and prayed to the gods
that she wasn't too frisky.
Back in her cave
she prepared us a snack.
'neath her mighty hooves
the floorboards did crack.
But when she returned,
she found a sound sleeper.
And thus she became
the sexless innkeeper.
Barney: ...and so are you!
Ted: Wait, you're saying that girl just used me for a place to crash?
Barney: Ted, you mentioned that you lived right upstairs. She saw the tweed jacket, which basically says you're not interested in and probably not capable of having sex, and she thought, 'hey! Free lodging!'
Ted: No way! I'm not the sexless innkeeper!
Barney: Ted, that girl had no intention of ever hooking up with you.
Robin: Which is funny because usually it's the innkeeper that offers turn down service.
Hey! Free lodging!
There's another shorter high five GIF here
Lily: Hey guys! First of all, you can ignore all the e-mails and texts we've sent you.
Robin: We have. Go on.
Lily: Because we went ahead and booked that couples weekend for all of us in Vermont.
Robin: Wait, you guys were serious about that?
Marshall: Oh we'd never joke about B&B's, especially at the height of syrup season!
Lily: Saturday we've got apple picking, antiquing, and a haunted hayride!
Marshall: And then on Sunday we're up at 6am for the fall foliage hike! Now you better pack your long john's because it is cold up there!
AW, I totally ship Barney/Lily and Marshall/Robin in an AU non canon way.
Barney: Look, I'm sorry that we have been dodging your calls. But we respect you guys too much as friends to give you some song and dance, you guys deserve the truth. The US navy has found intelligent alien life at the bottom of the ocean. For reasons I can't explain, Robin and I have been tapped to lead the expedition.
Lily: Wow, Barney, that kind of sounds like the stuff you say to girls when you're too much of a coward to dump them.
Marshall: Yea. You know, that's exactly what it sounds like. But if that's true, that's awesome!
Lily: What's going on?
Robin: Look, all this coupley stuff, it's just not us! Barney and I are barely equipped to date each other, let alone you guys!
Barney: Plus, the alien thing!
Lily: C'mon Marshall, let's go.
Marshall: Let's go.
Barney: No, you know what...
Robin: No, Lily, I mean...
Marshall: No, you know what? I hope those underwater aliens are cold blooded. Because then you guys would get along just fine.
Barney: I think they bought it!
I LOVE HOW MARSHALL ALMOST LEGIT BELIEVES THE UNDERWATER ALIEN STORY! lol or at least he really wants to.
In the second row Barney totally knows he's got him, and in the first row Lily looks right at Marshall in an annoyed way because she knows what his reaction will be. heh.
Ted: Guys, Lily and Marshall haven't been to the bar all week. They're taking this really hard.
Barney: Ted, I could listen to this guilt trip all day. But don't you have to get back up to the inn? I mean, who's working the front desk?
Ted: Seriously, they're your friends. You gotta go apologize.
Barney: To your point, Ted, as an innkeeper, do you do that cheapy thing where you only change the linens upon request? I mean, I mean, I mean, how much water is that actually saving?
Ted: Robin, you know I'm right! Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away, usually it just makes it bigger.
Robin: You're right.
Ted: Thank you.
Robin: All that sexless-ness has made you wise!
Ted: For god's sake!
Barney: Mint on the pillow, Ted! And don't charge for wi-fi, it seems greedy!
Um Ted, Robin is probably worse than Barney is in terms of ignoring problems. She was never going to be any help here.
LOL I LOVE THE CAP OF TED ANGERLY LOOKING BACK AT THEM IN THE LAST ROW
Seeing his arm around her will never get old.
Danny Tanner: But eventually even Barney and Robin had to admit they owed Lily and Marshall and apology.
Robin: Hey! We wanted to say we're sorry.
Lily: Oh, I wish you had called. Listen, now's not a good time. But we'll call you!
Barney: Lily, wait!
Robin: We just wanted...!
UM HELLO ALYSON'S BOOBS
Marshall: Hey. Hey guys.
Robin: Hey!
Barney: Hey, long time no see! Have a seat!
Lily: Oh, we can't. We're here with Pie and Shay.
Marshall: Yea.
Robin: Oh, it's just we haven't seen you guys all week.
Barney: Hey, maybe all six of us could hang out!
Robin: Yea!
Lily: Oh, it might be weird. We're kind of on a double date. Wouldn't want you to feel like a fifth and sixth wheel.
Barney: Who the hell are these people?!
Lily: They just moved here from Hawaii! Pie is a total foodie and Shay, well...she's...
Marshall: ...Shay! Shay is just...
Lily: Anyway, we can't stay long. We were just going to grab a beer and then take these kooks for a boat ride around the city!
Robin: Wow, it sounds like this is getting pretty serious.
Marshall: Well, we don't want to jinx it, but it kind of seems like they might be 'the two'.
Robin: Who needs 'em!
Barney: Not us!
They're adorable
UM GUYS?!
WHY DON'T YOU STOP BEING SAD AND START BEING AWESOME INSTEAD!
THAT'S BARNEY STINSON 101
I mean, seriously! What is up with this moping? I know, I know, it's a gag.
And it is funny, but...Barney Stinson isn't a moper!
Robin: Hi. Two for dinner?
Hostess: Just the two of you?
LOL THE HOSTESS
aw hand holding ♥
It's so cute that when this starts Robin is looking at Barney like she's sad that he feels sad.
WELL SHE SHOULD, BARNEY IS NOT USUALLY SAD, THIS IS KIND OF CRAZY.
Barney being sad for more than 5mins at a time must mean the world is ending or something.
Well, ice cream is pretty damn awesome in and of itself, at least focus on that. lol.
Barney: Hey, why don't we call that weird couple down the hall from you? You know, with the ferrets! Maybe they want to come over and play taboo!
Robin: After midnight? No way! We can't tabooty call them, it's pathetic!
Ted: Hey guys.
Barney + Robin: *mumblemumble*
Ted: Barney, are you wearing sweat pants?
Barney: Maybe. But they're Armani.
Ted: Ok guys, I've got some bad news for you so I'm just going to go out and say it. You're a couple! And no matter how hard you try and fight it, couples need other couples. That's why you miss Marshall and Lily. And can't you just admit that?
The amount of touching here brings me a lot of joy. Her leg is on his leg and his arm is on her leg. aw.
I know the episode was set up like this on purpose, but I just always saw Barney as someone who always tries his best to put his best foot forward. And not to focus on the bad. If something is bad, he'll try his hardest to make it awesome.
And I don't know about the couples needing other couples thing applying to them. I always thought Barney & Robin would be like the anti-couple. I mean, it's not that they wouldn't enjoy hanging with Marshall/Lily in the same way they always did, but I can't see why just because they're having sex now they have to be interested in all these things that they thought were lame before. haha.
Barney + Robin: Ding!
On a shallow note, NPH looks INCREDIBLE in the rain! UNF
Robin: For charades!
Lily: How do we know you two won't hurt us again?
Robin: You don't!
Marshall: You know what? We have two very nice people up in that apartment who are perfect for us!
Barney: Then what are you doing standing out in the rain with us?!
Lily: Dammit! Why is there something so attractive about a bad boy...and girl!
Marshall: I think we can change them!
Lily: Come here you two!
Barney: We'll never sleep on the guoda again!
AW
Ted: Hey Barney, I got a little poem for you, wanna hear it?
Barney: Uh, not really.
Ted: Twas the night before this one.
I had hours to kill.
I sat in the tavern
grading parchments with quill.
Barney: With quill?
Ted: Barney, it's a poem!
A busty young lassey
flashed me a grin
Her garbs said classy
but her eyes whispered, 'sin'.
She said, "you're a teacher?"
I said, "Yes indeed."
She said, "I must have you!
I'm turned on by tweed!"
With haste we did scamper
to my chamber anon.
We fell to the couch
and bro, it was on!
I unlaced her bodice
our passions grew deeper
and thus ends the tale
of the sexless innkeeper.
Barney: No way! You made that up!
Random girl: Are you coming back to bed, Professor?
Ted: God, I love being single!
Robin: Barney, are you ready for brunch with Lily and Marshall?
Barney: What have I done?!?!?!
I have some mixed thoughts about this. I mean, on one hand it's kind of sad that Barney is having doubts about his relationship with Robin. But on the other, it's about the relationship, it's not about Robin. And he should feel this way.
Barney/Robin going to brunch and doing other coupley things with Marshall/Lily is just not them at all. It doesn't feel right.
I think ever since episode 2 of this season they've been all caught up in what kind of couple they're supposed to be, and not really focusing just on what they are. We really haven't seen them just be awesome together at all. I'm sure they were over the summer (when it was a secret)...but we didn't see any of that.
And I get it in a way. I mean, if Barney/Robin were just able to find their own way and be their own unique kind of couple...well, that's the end of the story, isn't it? That would be too easy, and the only way it would have happened like that would be if it were the last season.
It still would have been nicer if it we had more than one episode of Barney/Robin just being themselves with no outside influences at all. There's just been a bit too much meddling.
Previous Barney/Robin picspams:
Season 5:
5.01 - Definitions
5.02 - Double Date
5.03 - Robin 101
Season 4:
4.14 - The Possimpible
4.18 - Old King Clancy
4.19 - Murtaugh
4.20 - Mosbius Designs
4.21 - The Three Days Rule + 4.22 - Right Place, Right Time
4.23 - As Fast As She Can
4.24 - The Leap
Danny Tanner: It was the fall of 2009 and I was a Professor now. So I decided to change my look a little bit. And people were noticing.
Barney: Ah tweed! Textile of the eunuch!
Marshall: You know I've always wondered why those tweed jackets have elbow patches?
Barney: Because the people that wear them are always going "AH GEEZ, WHY CAN'T I GET LAID?"
The professor thing might just work on me, ngl.
Lily: So guys, Marshall and I wanted to invite you over to our place for a little couples night.
Robin: Uh, sure, why not!
Is it a little weird that Marshally/Lily are basically being like "Ok, let's all hang out...just not Ted. Because he's alone." lol :/
I only included this section because, "OMG RANJIT!!!!"
Also, lol, it amuses me when they make Alyson wear all these wigs in flashbacks due to her ever changing hair styles.
Lily: Welcome!
Marshall: Gouda!
Aw, Barney/Robin being all smiley and talking to each other just as they come to the door is cute to me. ♥
Lily: Nailed it!
Marshall: Best night ever!
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Barney: Worst night ever!
They're ridiculously adorable sometimes.
I love how in sync they are here with her shooting herself and him wiping her fake blood off of his face.
See THIS is how Barney/Robin would be coupley. LOL
Ted: Hey! How was the big couples night with Marshall and Lily?
Robin: Brutal.
Ted: Really? How?
Barney: It was like we were on a date with a sad chubby girl our mom made us call.
Robin: And they were so nervous that they weren't even making sense half the time!
It's funny because Marshall/Lily and Barney/Robin have hung out pretty much every day for the past 5 years, so really this shouldn't be a big deal.
But of course Marshall/Lily got it into their heads that it's not just regular hanging out, it's "special" hanging out, with expectations and everything.
In some ways it's kind of like Barney & Robin's relationship. They're focusing more on their fears/expectations of what they're supposed to be as a couple rather than focusing on just being awesome.
If Marshall/Lily just treated it like they were just "hanging out" (maybe with some extra appetizers) I'm sure it would have been great. Just like I'm sure if Barney/Robin didn't have all this outside coupley pressure to be "just like this" they'd have less issues. Well, I'm not saying they have actual "issues", but there's been some kind of problem come up in the last three episodes.
If both Marshall/Lily and Barney/Robin just relaxed a bit and stopped worrying about expectations, things would probably go a lot more smoothly.
Lily: Hey! Would you like a margarita?
Marshall: En Cabo esa Sammy Hagar eating a Belgian waffle!
lol riiiiight
Barney: And they kept shoving platters of food in our faces!
Ted: Let me guess? Did Marshall get like super intense about the cheese?
Robin: Yea! How'd you know?
Ted: Poor Marshall. Lily's this gourmet cook and all she lets Marshall do is pick out one sad block of cheese.
Lily: That's prosciutto wrapped melon...
Marshall: You guys are gonna want to get in on this Gouda!
Lily: That's seared scallops with a mango chutney!
Marshall: Seriously, don't stiff on the Gouda.
Lily: And that's lobster ravioli in a black truffle oil.
Marshall: Tock goes the Gouda crock!
Barney: Um, we didn't realize there was gonna be dinner. We sucked down a couple of tacos outside the subway.
Robin: PS, not sittin' great!
I know that taco joke was supposed to make us go "haha ew" but all I thought was "haha awww" because of THIS.
Sorry, it's one of their "things" now. Just like laser tag, scotch, and sandcastles are.
Barney: And if anything didn't go according to plan they would freak out!
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Lily: What do you mean the egg timer is broken? What are we gonna use for charades, sweetie?
Marshall: I'm working on it, darling. Ok, just stall them!
Lily: Now Robin, you work in television. We're experiencing some technical difficulties! haha you get that? haha so we're still laughing! haha right? Laugh Marshall! hahaha
Marshall: hahaha
Lily: hahaha
OIC YOU GUYS PLAYING WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE BACKGROUND!
And again, it's little things like this that make them "coupley". Not so much all of the other stuff.
This is the second WTF face GIF of this episode. lol
Ted: C'mon, they just got excited. They've been looking for couple best friends forever. Plus, I'm sure they weren't that bad.
Robin: Show him!
Barney: This is a website Marshall already made about last night. It's called itwasthebestnightever.com.
Barney's face in the last cap in the first row is classic.
ITWASTHEBESTNIGHTEVER.COM
LOL MARSHALL'S FREAK OUT IS MY FAVORITE PART
♪ Jason Segal - IT WAS THE BEST NIGHT EVER
Barney: Needless to say, we've both changed our e-mail addresses.
Ted: I don't understand, if last night went so horribly, why do Lily and Marshall think it was such a hit?
Barney: I mean, we knew we were going to have fun tonight, but we had no idea how much!
Robin: Yea, tough luck every Saturday night I've ever had, because this one just blew ya out of the water!
Barney: Let's do it again! Soon!
Robin: Yea, we'll call you!
Ted: They're your friends, why would you just blatantly lie to them like that?
Robin: Well, that's what you say at the end of a crappy date!
Random girl: Hey Ted! Great time last night! Let's do it again! Soon! I'll, uh, call you!
Ted: Right?!
Robin: Who was that
Ted: I don't want to brag, but it seems chicks are really digging the whole professor thing. Last night she picked me up at the bar. And then...well she actually ended up falling asleep on the couch, but hey! That happens!
Barney: Uh, no it doesn't.
Ted: Sure it does. She was just exhausted from being turned on. But you heard her. She wants to do it again. Soon!
HAHA, OH TED! I love how he really thinks he's pimpin'.
Barney: Ted, let me ask you a question. Where does this girl live exactly?
Ted: Westchester. Why?
Barney: hahaha! Hee! Hehe! You're the sexless innkeeper!
Robin: Oh my god, you're right! He's totally the sexless innkeeper!
Ted: What the hell is the sexless innkeeper?
Barney: Ted, many a man...nay! Many a soul, has their own tale of the sexless innkeeper. Why I had a run in with one just last year. I even composed a poem about it. Would you care to hear it?
Ted: Not really.
Barney: Twas the night before new years
and the weather grew mean.
It was 3 in the morning,
and I was stranded in Queens!
Ted: Wait, if this was last year, why are you acting like it was Oliver Twist?
Barney: Ted, it's a poem!
I am so amused by the fact that NPH actually said "HEHE" here.
Robin is SO overly amused by Barney here. Again, this is not anything new and she's always been this amused by his insane tales, but it never fails to make me smile.
I must say that this is an actual phenomenon. I may or may not have done this in the past....
Barney: The tavern grew empty
The gaslights grew dim
The horse drawn carriages
were all but snowed in.
Last call was approaching
and my fortunes looked bleak
Then I turned to my left
and stifled a shriek
She had a peach fuzzed beard
and weighed sixteen stone
She gobbled up hot wings
and swallowed the bones.
I muffled a scream
and threw up in my mouth.
I asked, "Where do you live?"
And she said, "One block south."
I swallowed my pride,
and six shots of whiskey,
and prayed to the gods
that she wasn't too frisky.
Back in her cave
she prepared us a snack.
'neath her mighty hooves
the floorboards did crack.
But when she returned,
she found a sound sleeper.
And thus she became
the sexless innkeeper.
Barney: ...and so are you!
Ted: Wait, you're saying that girl just used me for a place to crash?
Barney: Ted, you mentioned that you lived right upstairs. She saw the tweed jacket, which basically says you're not interested in and probably not capable of having sex, and she thought, 'hey! Free lodging!'
Ted: No way! I'm not the sexless innkeeper!
Barney: Ted, that girl had no intention of ever hooking up with you.
Robin: Which is funny because usually it's the innkeeper that offers turn down service.
Hey! Free lodging!
There's another shorter high five GIF here
Lily: Hey guys! First of all, you can ignore all the e-mails and texts we've sent you.
Robin: We have. Go on.
Lily: Because we went ahead and booked that couples weekend for all of us in Vermont.
Robin: Wait, you guys were serious about that?
Marshall: Oh we'd never joke about B&B's, especially at the height of syrup season!
Lily: Saturday we've got apple picking, antiquing, and a haunted hayride!
Marshall: And then on Sunday we're up at 6am for the fall foliage hike! Now you better pack your long john's because it is cold up there!
AW, I totally ship Barney/Lily and Marshall/Robin in an AU non canon way.
Barney: Look, I'm sorry that we have been dodging your calls. But we respect you guys too much as friends to give you some song and dance, you guys deserve the truth. The US navy has found intelligent alien life at the bottom of the ocean. For reasons I can't explain, Robin and I have been tapped to lead the expedition.
Lily: Wow, Barney, that kind of sounds like the stuff you say to girls when you're too much of a coward to dump them.
Marshall: Yea. You know, that's exactly what it sounds like. But if that's true, that's awesome!
Lily: What's going on?
Robin: Look, all this coupley stuff, it's just not us! Barney and I are barely equipped to date each other, let alone you guys!
Barney: Plus, the alien thing!
Lily: C'mon Marshall, let's go.
Marshall: Let's go.
Barney: No, you know what...
Robin: No, Lily, I mean...
Marshall: No, you know what? I hope those underwater aliens are cold blooded. Because then you guys would get along just fine.
Barney: I think they bought it!
I LOVE HOW MARSHALL ALMOST LEGIT BELIEVES THE UNDERWATER ALIEN STORY! lol or at least he really wants to.
In the second row Barney totally knows he's got him, and in the first row Lily looks right at Marshall in an annoyed way because she knows what his reaction will be. heh.
Ted: Guys, Lily and Marshall haven't been to the bar all week. They're taking this really hard.
Barney: Ted, I could listen to this guilt trip all day. But don't you have to get back up to the inn? I mean, who's working the front desk?
Ted: Seriously, they're your friends. You gotta go apologize.
Barney: To your point, Ted, as an innkeeper, do you do that cheapy thing where you only change the linens upon request? I mean, I mean, I mean, how much water is that actually saving?
Ted: Robin, you know I'm right! Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away, usually it just makes it bigger.
Robin: You're right.
Ted: Thank you.
Robin: All that sexless-ness has made you wise!
Ted: For god's sake!
Barney: Mint on the pillow, Ted! And don't charge for wi-fi, it seems greedy!
Um Ted, Robin is probably worse than Barney is in terms of ignoring problems. She was never going to be any help here.
LOL I LOVE THE CAP OF TED ANGERLY LOOKING BACK AT THEM IN THE LAST ROW
Seeing his arm around her will never get old.
Danny Tanner: But eventually even Barney and Robin had to admit they owed Lily and Marshall and apology.
Robin: Hey! We wanted to say we're sorry.
Lily: Oh, I wish you had called. Listen, now's not a good time. But we'll call you!
Barney: Lily, wait!
Robin: We just wanted...!
UM HELLO ALYSON'S BOOBS
Marshall: Hey. Hey guys.
Robin: Hey!
Barney: Hey, long time no see! Have a seat!
Lily: Oh, we can't. We're here with Pie and Shay.
Marshall: Yea.
Robin: Oh, it's just we haven't seen you guys all week.
Barney: Hey, maybe all six of us could hang out!
Robin: Yea!
Lily: Oh, it might be weird. We're kind of on a double date. Wouldn't want you to feel like a fifth and sixth wheel.
Barney: Who the hell are these people?!
Lily: They just moved here from Hawaii! Pie is a total foodie and Shay, well...she's...
Marshall: ...Shay! Shay is just...
Lily: Anyway, we can't stay long. We were just going to grab a beer and then take these kooks for a boat ride around the city!
Robin: Wow, it sounds like this is getting pretty serious.
Marshall: Well, we don't want to jinx it, but it kind of seems like they might be 'the two'.
Robin: Who needs 'em!
Barney: Not us!
They're adorable
UM GUYS?!
WHY DON'T YOU STOP BEING SAD AND START BEING AWESOME INSTEAD!
THAT'S BARNEY STINSON 101
I mean, seriously! What is up with this moping? I know, I know, it's a gag.
And it is funny, but...Barney Stinson isn't a moper!
Robin: Hi. Two for dinner?
Hostess: Just the two of you?
LOL THE HOSTESS
aw hand holding ♥
It's so cute that when this starts Robin is looking at Barney like she's sad that he feels sad.
WELL SHE SHOULD, BARNEY IS NOT USUALLY SAD, THIS IS KIND OF CRAZY.
Barney being sad for more than 5mins at a time must mean the world is ending or something.
Well, ice cream is pretty damn awesome in and of itself, at least focus on that. lol.
Barney: Hey, why don't we call that weird couple down the hall from you? You know, with the ferrets! Maybe they want to come over and play taboo!
Robin: After midnight? No way! We can't tabooty call them, it's pathetic!
Ted: Hey guys.
Barney + Robin: *mumblemumble*
Ted: Barney, are you wearing sweat pants?
Barney: Maybe. But they're Armani.
Ted: Ok guys, I've got some bad news for you so I'm just going to go out and say it. You're a couple! And no matter how hard you try and fight it, couples need other couples. That's why you miss Marshall and Lily. And can't you just admit that?
The amount of touching here brings me a lot of joy. Her leg is on his leg and his arm is on her leg. aw.
I know the episode was set up like this on purpose, but I just always saw Barney as someone who always tries his best to put his best foot forward. And not to focus on the bad. If something is bad, he'll try his hardest to make it awesome.
And I don't know about the couples needing other couples thing applying to them. I always thought Barney & Robin would be like the anti-couple. I mean, it's not that they wouldn't enjoy hanging with Marshall/Lily in the same way they always did, but I can't see why just because they're having sex now they have to be interested in all these things that they thought were lame before. haha.
Barney + Robin: Ding!
On a shallow note, NPH looks INCREDIBLE in the rain! UNF
Robin: For charades!
Lily: How do we know you two won't hurt us again?
Robin: You don't!
Marshall: You know what? We have two very nice people up in that apartment who are perfect for us!
Barney: Then what are you doing standing out in the rain with us?!
Lily: Dammit! Why is there something so attractive about a bad boy...and girl!
Marshall: I think we can change them!
Lily: Come here you two!
Barney: We'll never sleep on the guoda again!
AW
Ted: Hey Barney, I got a little poem for you, wanna hear it?
Barney: Uh, not really.
Ted: Twas the night before this one.
I had hours to kill.
I sat in the tavern
grading parchments with quill.
Barney: With quill?
Ted: Barney, it's a poem!
A busty young lassey
flashed me a grin
Her garbs said classy
but her eyes whispered, 'sin'.
She said, "you're a teacher?"
I said, "Yes indeed."
She said, "I must have you!
I'm turned on by tweed!"
With haste we did scamper
to my chamber anon.
We fell to the couch
and bro, it was on!
I unlaced her bodice
our passions grew deeper
and thus ends the tale
of the sexless innkeeper.
Barney: No way! You made that up!
Random girl: Are you coming back to bed, Professor?
Ted: God, I love being single!
Robin: Barney, are you ready for brunch with Lily and Marshall?
Barney: What have I done?!?!?!
I have some mixed thoughts about this. I mean, on one hand it's kind of sad that Barney is having doubts about his relationship with Robin. But on the other, it's about the relationship, it's not about Robin. And he should feel this way.
Barney/Robin going to brunch and doing other coupley things with Marshall/Lily is just not them at all. It doesn't feel right.
I think ever since episode 2 of this season they've been all caught up in what kind of couple they're supposed to be, and not really focusing just on what they are. We really haven't seen them just be awesome together at all. I'm sure they were over the summer (when it was a secret)...but we didn't see any of that.
And I get it in a way. I mean, if Barney/Robin were just able to find their own way and be their own unique kind of couple...well, that's the end of the story, isn't it? That would be too easy, and the only way it would have happened like that would be if it were the last season.
It still would have been nicer if it we had more than one episode of Barney/Robin just being themselves with no outside influences at all. There's just been a bit too much meddling.
Previous Barney/Robin picspams:
Season 5:
5.01 - Definitions
5.02 - Double Date
5.03 - Robin 101
Season 4:
4.14 - The Possimpible
4.18 - Old King Clancy
4.19 - Murtaugh
4.20 - Mosbius Designs
4.21 - The Three Days Rule + 4.22 - Right Place, Right Time
4.23 - As Fast As She Can
4.24 - The Leap