MacLaren's: Robin and Barney are sitting in the booth recording one of those cloyingly cute couples messages on his phone. When they're done, he calls over to Ted, who is still seated at the bar. "Leave an annoying two-person message on your answering machine? Check!" He mutters to Robin that it will probably cost him some dates, but I'm thinking it might land him one, if you know what I mean, and I think you do. When he turns to look over his shoulder closest to Robin, she fights her urge to recoil in disgust. "Barney, your ear's starting to smell." Barney says it's good and the camera pans to Ted at the bar. He's back to being a duke, which we can tell because he's sending back his turkey sandwich, because it's just not lean enough. Goodbye, wise-ass Ted. I think I'll miss you most of all. After the waitress glares at him and takes the sandwich back to the kitchen (to spit in it, yeah?), Robin and Barney approach Ted with their own list. Barney's still hunched over and holding onto his back as Robin explains: "This is a list of things you're too young to do. Go out and do each one of these things, and then tell me you still want to be an old man." Ted tells them that if they remove "colonoscopy" and "have sex with an old lady," it's nearly done. Barney nods and changes the stakes. If Barney finishes the Murtaugh list before Ted finishes the old man list, Ted has to TP Club Laser Tag with him and buy the toilet paper. If Ted finishes first, Barney will listen Ted's "six-hour survey of early 20th century American architecture." They repeat the Gentleman's Agreement and Huzzah act, which drives Barney to his knees in pain. He's holding his ear, even as he drops.













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