When Lily says, "Marshall Eriksen, put a baby in my belly," the Ghost-Babies of TV-Series-Blunders-Past rise up to stop the horror, or they would, were they not sons of blunders.

Marshall and Lily find Barney's doppelganger -- a brunette cabbie. Since they previously agreed to try to conceive once they found the fifth eerie match to their gang, Lily tells her eager husband, "Marshall Eriksen, put a baby in my belly," because talking like a four-year-old proves you're ready for parenthood. But the first doppelganger is just Barney scamming chicks. As is the next -- but Barney wouldn't mind them having a baby, and if the Barnacle thinks it's cool, we must feel the same, right? Yeah. Right. Bottom line: Lily still isn't ready, so they decide to wait. A couple of months later, Lily spots a Barney doppelganger outside the bar. When she drags the gang out to see him, there's little resemblance, but everyone realizes Lily is now ready to conceive, so they lie, because that's what friends are for.

In the predictable B-plot, Robin gets a job offer to anchor a news program, but it's in Chicago. After thinking long and hard, she decides not to take the job, but rather to stick around and see how things progress with Don. The only thing is, she doesn't tell Don this. The same network makes him the same offer, and he accepts. Brokenhearted, Robin leaves and returns to Ted's place. Nobody cares, because we never got to know Don. It totally would have been better with a ghost baby insurrection, am I right?

Thanks to friend and colleague DeAnn Welker for covering for me last week. If I'd known what was coming this week, I would have tried to weasel out of this weecap, too.

I'll hit all the details the weecap, including Ted's new 'do and whether it saved us all from agony, or progress. In the meantime, come on over to the forums, where we'll never tell you to put babies in our bellies.

After hitting up the forums, see why we think HIMYM should have quit while it was ahead.

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