The Restaurant: 2009 Jen asks 2009 Ted what he's going to order. We flash back to 2002, where Ted asks Jen if she'd like to share the oysters. When she says she'd love to, 2002 Ted says that's great, and then we get a split screen of both versions of Ted punning, "Because if you didn't, that would be mighty... shellfish." Wow, that's... bad. In another split screen, both versions of Jen say, "Wow, that's bad," because, as I've already mentioned, it is. Both versions of Ted then explain that that's why it's funny. And then it happens. 2009 Ted and Jen simultaneously say, "We've been on this date, before." After the break, Ted and Jen continue talking about how they've been on the same exact blind date before, in the same restaurant, and neither one remembers the original date going so well. Jen remembers Ted being a little snobby -- so I guess she's got full recall. Ted says he remembers that she dresses her cats up in weird costumes. Jen says, "They're not weir-- See? You're being snobby, again." Ted is flabbergasted. "Do you realizes what this means? Since our first date, we've done a complete lap of all the single people in New York, only to end up back here -- with each other." I say they're going to die alone. Jen agrees, but Ted points out that Jen has her cats. They laugh at the insanity of the premise. Writers -- take note. Then Ted asks why Jen thought he was snobby. She points to where they sat on their first-first date, and we flash back to...

2002: Perusing the menu, Ted chuckles and says, "Maine Lobster. They spelled Maine without the E. Good to know we're not getting the crappy understudy lobsters, right?" When Jen gives him a I'm-humoring-you look, Ted misses it and continues. "Tonight, the role of Pound-and-a-half Lobster will be played by..." 2002 Jen looks up from her menu. "I get it, Ted."

2009: Jen notes that pointing out spelling errors in a menu seems a little snooty. Ted had no idea. Jen wants to know Ted's memories of her -- aside from the cats. He tells her how he fully intended to pay, but was disappointed that Jen didn't do the check dance. Do guys these days expect the check dance on a blind, first date? I'm so glad I'm married. I'm no Rules Girl, and actually, I've never been on a blind date, but... really? School me, single ladies (and men, for that matter). My e-mail is open. I've also never had a first date where I did the asking. I think the asker should presume the evening is on him or her, and while it's cool for the askee to offer to split the bill, it shouldn't be a game ender. [Sounds fair. But where does that leave a mutually agreed-upon blind date, initiated by others? - Zach] Maybe askee didn't do the asking, because of finances in the first place, you know. I mean... if you've been seeing each other a while, it's different. You start to understand each others' lifestyles and finances and all that. Hilariously enough (to me), my husband took me out on our first date and forgot to bring money. Yep. I didn't know it though, because the chef happened by our table and he happened to be someone my husband had grown up with. He comped our bill for old times' sake. Later, we were going to a club, so Scott stopped at an ATM. It was there he confessed how he would have felt like a total ass, if not for the kismet of accidentally knowing the chef. So Bobby Murphy, wherever you are? Thank you. (In all fairness, I have to say I actually kind of fell for my husband because of his dorky admission and would have ponied up for the check if Murph hadn't happened by.) Back in 2009, Ted explains to Jen that guys like to wave the girl off, and act like a big shot. They decide they should retrace the rest of their first-first date to figure out what else they do wrong on first dates.