Stuff (How I Met Your Mother)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Stuff
Series = How I Met Your Mother
Season = 2
Episode = 16
Airdate = February 19, 2007
Production = 2ALH16
Writer = Kourtney Kang
Director = Pamela Fryman
Guests = Taylor Hoover (Jeannie Radford), Diana Gettinger (Alison Moses), Ashli Ford (Lauren Stein), Terryn Westbrook (Staci Rawnsley), Evan Mann (Zack Greco), E. E. Bell (Mystery Man), Jason Lopez (Floppy-Haired Guy), Rick Malambri (Hot Guy)
Prev = Lucky Penny
Next = Arrivederci, Fiero

"Stuff" is the 16^th episode in the second season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on February 19, 2007.

ummary

Ted has been recently confusing his memories of events with Robin with events with his previous girlfriends. To hide this, he repeatedly claims that he shared all of these experiences with his sister, so Robin does not get jealous. When he tells her this, she claims that he doesn't need to hide his ex's, as they are both mature adults. However, when Ted reveals that a number of his items were given to him by old girlfriends, Robin is less calm, and tells Ted to get rid of these things. Ted disagrees, so they ask Marshall, Lily and Barney their opinions. The group sides with Robin, and Ted eventually agrees to get rid of the gifts. However, when talking later, Robin reveals that her five dogs are actually all gifts from ex-boyfriends. This sparks the fight again, as Ted starts to see her dogs as the actual boyfriends. Feeling that this might be unfair, Robin agrees to give her dogs to her aunt for a while, to make Ted feel better. However Ted, seeing that Robin kept gifts from her old partners, decides to keep his, even though he had said he had thrown them away. This causes a big argument, after which they decide to move in together

Meanwhile, Lily forces the whole group to come to her play, despite protestations from Barney. The play is shown to be extremely long and dull, and all four of them hate it, though Barney is the only one to actually tell Lily his honest opinion. Lily argues that friends are supposed to be nice to each other, and challenges Barney to make a better play, which he accepts. Barney then performs a one man show designed to get back at Lily, during which he repeats the word 'moist' (a word that Lily was shown to hate earlier in the episode), sprays the audience with a water pistol, dresses as a robot and plays the recorder terribly. Lily eventually gives in, and the group decide to leave. Barney however still wants to perform a second act, which is so bad, Marshall slaps him for the second time, thanks to the slap bet.

Notes

* Lily hates the word "moist." The exact same quirk is shared by Joy Lass on the show Dead Like Me.
* The name of Barney's one-man play is "Suck It Lily."

Music

* The Stooges - "I Wanna Be Your Dog"

Continuity

* In this episode, Barney receives the second of the five slaps that Marshall may give him for losing a bet in "Slap Bet."

External links

* " [http://www.tv.com/how-i-met-your-mother/stuff/episode/973751/summary.html Stuff] " at TV.com
* " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0943657/ Stuff] " at the Internet Movie Database