1. Pause vs. Unpause… Finally Lily and Marshall have the fight we’ve all been waiting for. (Where is baby Marvin? Apparently with a babysitter. She stays overnight with the baby? In a separate hotel room?) Since Marshall got back, their fight has been paused, but as the title suggests, in this episode they go at it (in the sexual way too but I’ll get to that later). Shit gets real when Marshall brings up Lily’s escape to San Fran (let’s be real, even the viewers are still pissed about that), and then she mysteriously leaves the hotel.
2. The greatest Marshall and Lily sex scene… However, while the fight is still paused, they have sex. Since Marshall knows the fight will be unpaused once they finish, this is basically the Olympics of Marshall and Lily sex. To make it last he thinks of road kill, bugs, nail clipping, and there’s a great picture of a bug with boobs. It doesn’t last long (on the screen), but I think it’s the most entertaining Marshmallow–Lilypad sex scene in the show (and there have been many).
3. Barney tells all… Barney gets so drunk the night before the wedding that he cannot stop telling the truth. Ted and Robin finally get to ask him all the questions they (and we) have been dying to know the answers too since this all started in ’05. What really happened between Barney and Mrs. Mosby? What’s the deal with the ring bearer? This was just classic HIMYM goodness, which has been lacking lately.
4. What “please” really means… Every time someone asks what Barney does for a living (whatever it is I hope they do at OCR because he makes bank), he simply responds with “please.” Turns out this actually is his job title: “Provide Legal Exculpation and Sign Everything.” But it’s not as idiotic as it seems because he’s gonna get back at the asshole who stole his old blonde girlfriend who took his virginity and then left him at a hippie coffee shop. I wonder if they are still together.
5. The baby is coming… The episode begins and ends with a flash–forward to 2017. Ted and The Mother are at the Farhampton Inn, awaiting the arrival of their second child, Luke. (We also learn that the daughter’s name is Penny; finally these guys no longer have to be “Daughter” and “Son” on IMDB!) The Mother killed the pregnant look (she’s so cute). Watching Ted and The Mother rocking married life is the show’s version of the light at the end of the tunnel. Basically the writers are saying “we are still dragging this out and this season might be painful, long or painfully long but we promise you this is going somewhere!”
