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• Ted tries to choose a appointment for the Architect's Ball, an embarrassing Cyberspace video could cost Marshall a new chore, and Barney makes a bold move to prove to Nora that he's a changed human being.

• Immediately after his drunken spree at Punchy'due south wedding, Marshall learns that he is ane step away from landing his dream job working in ecology lawyer Garrison Cootes' law firm. That last step is for them to do a background check to make certain that there are no unseemly skeletons in his closet. Feeling that that drunken spree may accept cost him the chore and thus vowing never to go boozer again, Marshall does his own Internet search to find whatsoever of those skeletons. He finds ane video, posted by a college colleague named Pete Durkenson, of Marshall doing a supposed fraternity prank called Beercules. Believing that video could cost him his dream job, Marshall tries to track down Pete to get him to remove the video. Finding a seemingly still immature Pete may get Marshall into even more trouble. Meanwhile, Nora finally agrees to meet with Barney, who tries to do whatever he tin can to make her believe he'south a changed man, even if it takes a marathon in an all-dark diner. And Ted decides to start dating once more, using his cover story in New York magazine as a come-on to pick-upwards women. He manages to state two women who are potential girlfriend candidates. He has to effigy out which he will take to the prestigious (at least in his own mind) architect's ball to seal the bargain. If Robin has her way, she will exist the one he takes to the ball if only and then that she tin can meet Lenny Kravitz, who Ted mentions e'er attends the issue.

• Afterwards the chore he is applying for plans to practice a background bank check on him, Marshall tries to delete embarassing videos of him from college; Barney begins to admit all of his lies to Nora, and he then tries to testify how much he truly cares for her; Ted begins dating 2 girls at once in social club to assistance discover "the one."

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• Marshall'southward still hungover after Punchy's wedding ceremony, and decides, "Sweeping declaration: I am never getting drunk once more as long equally I alive." Onetime Ted tells us that Marshall'southward "sweeping declarations" typically don't pan out -- and nosotros see a wink of a drunk Marshall the next day, announcing, "I did it again."

  Barney walks into the apartment on crutches with a fake cast on his leg, saying he'due south going for more sympathy points with Nora by telling her he barbarous of the stage during a performance of "Man of La Mancha," because she likes musicals. He doesn't understand why the gang doesn't think he should lie to Nora -- who is mad at him for lying.

  Ted announces that he met a woman at a newsstand when she recognized him from the New York mag cover. He says it was a kind of moment of destiny -- i you couldn't manufacture. Or and so he idea. Nosotros then see that Ted spent the day at the newsstand, introducing himself to women while holding the mag in his hands.

  "16 moments of 'pure destiny' in one day," he declares. "And of those 16, 10 were unmarried. Of those 10, 7 liked what they saw. Of those seven, four were women. Of those four, two gave me their real number -- and I accept a date with both of them."

  Marshall gets a call from Garrison Cootes (guest star Martin Short), a partner at one of the biggest ecology law firms in America. It'south a dream job. Garrison tells Marshall the business firm is "very interested," and as long as aught unseemly turns upwards during Marshall's background check, he'south good to go.

  The adjacent night, Barney meets Nora for coffee and he's wearing a neck caryatid, challenge he hurt himself during a one-man performance of "Fiddler on the Roof." She looks over his shoulder and says, "Wow, that woman has fantastic tatas." Barney whips his head around to await and Nora decides to leave, despite Barney's claim that he feels he has to lie virtually things because she's way improve than him. He's still distracted by the potential of the tatas backside him, though, and she leaves.

  Ted gets back to the apartment subsequently two fantastic dates. One adult female was amazing and smart and funny, and the other was nice simply also reached for the check. He decides they "both move on to the next round." Lily wonders if Ted should date both women and Marshall says he can appointment them both until he gets to tertiary base. And then Marshall finds something about himself online that concerns him. It'southward a video of him streaking through a college news report, calling himself "Beercules."

  Pete Dirkinsen, a guy whose frat Marshall was pledging, created the website. Marshall says he always regretted it because frats are stupid and elitist, and he afterwards realized that Pete wasn't really in one.

  Ted realizes there'due south problem alee when he gets an invitation to a big builder gala and he has to choose which women he'll accept, because information technology's a guarantee he's getting to 3rd case. He asks Lily to get his legal pad: It'southward pros and cons list time. And everyone thanks -- really.

  Nora tells Barney she doesn't appointment guys who prevarication to her. He agrees not to prevarication to her over again. She asks him if he'south ever successfully gotten a adult female in bed past lying to her. He says yeah. Asked if information technology'due south happened more than once, he says, "if we're splitting hairs, and so, technically there was a plurality to the times I've lied to women for sex-having purposes."

  She asks what the lies were.

  Marshall tracks downwards Pete, who is in the middle of "Edward 40-hands." He has a twoscore-ounce canteen of beer duct-taped to each of his hands. He tells Marshall the simply way he's removing the video is if Marshall either gives him $iv meg or helps him pee considering he has bottled duct-taped to his hands. Marshall says no to both, and Pete says they can't exercise business organization together.

  Meanwhile, Barney is reciting the many, many lies he's told women. She finally asks what "the lowest ane" was. He so says he one time pulled "the soul man," maxim, "at that place was a beautiful girl who simply dated black guys --" And the adult female in the booth behind him turns and says, "Barnelle?! I knew information technology!"

  Back at the flat, Ted'south however struggling to pick one woman. Robin, nevertheless convinced the gala is going to be dull, tells him he knows he likes one more than the other -- which means he should choose "the other." When Ted tells her Lenny Kravitz is going to be there, Robin suggests it'due south also soon to narrow his choice down to i of the two women and he should just accept a friend -- her. Ted decides the pros-and-cons list isn't cutting it. He's going to need a color nautical chart. Robin and Lily loftier-five and they all first chanting, "Colour nautical chart! Color chart!" Really.

  Marshall begs Pete to get rid of the video. Pete reluctantly agrees to take the video down -- if Marshall can beat out him in a game of Pete'south choosing. Marshall says he doesn't want to play "Edward 40-hands," and Pete says he was going to propose darts, "but Edward forty-hands it is!"

  Barney's yet going through his list of lies to women when Nora decides to go abode and take an xi-hour shower. He tries to convince her all those lies are the old him. "You make me desire to change," he says. She asks how she knows that'due south non a prevarication. He say he'll testify it by sitting in the diner until he gets a 2nd appointment with her. She decides to leave, and he tells her he won't go anywhere -- it's a 24-hr diner.

  Dorsum at the flat, Jessica is alee on Ted's color nautical chart, but the other girl is all the same in the equation because she reached for the cheque on their date. Robin comes out of her room wearing a slinky black dress and telling Ted that she never got to wear it considering that big event he said he'd have her to "fell through." It was his uncle's funeral, and it didn't happen because he made a miraculous recovery.

  Drunk Marshall and so staggers through the door and declares, as we saw earlier, "I did information technology again!" He says it'southward "not a reference to my electric current state of inebriation." He and then shows them a video of Marshall standing naked in the streets of New York simply that night, telling his new potential employer to "bow downwardly to Beercules!"

  Lily calls Pete, who tin't answer because he has bottles duct-taped to his hands. Lily leaves a bulletin telling Pete to have downwardly the video because she knows three girls who dated him in college and girls tell each other everything -- "every tiny item." Ted asks if Pete has a trivial wee-wee, and Lily says she has no idea.

  Marshall'due south worried that his inability to command his wild side makes him unprepared to exist a dad. Barney wakes up from his sleep in the booth backside them. He explains he's waiting for a 2d date with Nora. Ted realizes he wants that. He doesn't want to choose between two girls, he just wants to be ridiculously devoted to one.

  The next day, Marshall gets a call from Garrison Cootes, saying they did the groundwork check and they'd dear to have him join the firm. Garrison and so asks Marshall to wear wearing apparel to work, "OK, Beercules?"

  Ted winds up taking Robin to the gala and she's eager to encounter Lenny Kravitz. Ted points at him upward on phase. It's an old guy named Leonard Kravitz, who Ted again calls "a rock star." Ted says Leonard is going to be giving him famous, 90-infinitesimal lecture on "cross beams." Robin says she's going to go find one and hang herself from it.

  Old Ted tells the kids, and us, that you tin't talk yourself into falling in love. "When it's existent, you lot know pretty quickly and with absolute certainty," Onetime Ted tells us every bit we run across Nora show up at the diner, where Barney is still sleeping. Old Ted says he'd forgotten that, but he was "well-nigh to be reminded." That'south when he looks beyond the gala room and sees Victoria setting up trays of cupcakes. She looks over and sees him.

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