Just then, Barney dances in, and without even looking to see who's in the apartment, he insists Ted go to YouTube and enter the search terms: Robin Sherbatsky Morning Show Vomit. Suprisingly, the HIMYM Powers That Be -- who so like spoiling us with websites -- did not put up a vid. Some fannish soul tried, but had to adapt his/her approach so as not to get dinged for a copyright violation. Once Barney notices Robin, he morphs from excited toddler to concerned adult. "Oh, hey, Robin. Home so soon?" Robin moans. "Someone already put it on YouTube?" Barney says, "Yeah... someone." She doesn't catch on, but we all realize this proves Barney was lying when he claimed not to watch her show (which we already knew, but it's still nice to be right). He tries to change the subject. "So, uh... why you been throwing up? You pregnant?" Robin says, "Yeah, Barney. I'm pregnant." Barney skedaddles right out the door. The people in the forums are trying to fanwank that he went to set up a nursery in his apartment so that he could offer to raise her child with her and propose to her. Heh. Yeah. No.

After Barney's gone, Ted tries to find out the source of Robin's food poisoning, but she doesn't want to tell him, because he loves the place and it will ruin it for him. He agrees she shouldn't tell him, but later at MacLaren's, he browbeats her until she finally gives up the information. "It's Schlegel's Bagels." Ted is then, predictably, pissed off that he knows. "Schlegel's? Thanks a lot, Robin. Now I'm gonna have to try to find another place in New York that serves bagels." I'm sorry. I saw that joke coming a mile away and it just fell flat for me. We cut to...

Hypothetical Land: Saget!Ted narrates that if Robin hadn't told him where she got the tainted food, Ted would have turned right, not left, on that fateful morning. He would have gone to Schlegel's, then "gone home, worked on the old hat building and [his] kids might never have been born." Now, if that's what left some of you all with the mistaken impression that I think Stella's the mom (and I don't), I'll note here that Ted said it (not me) and he's careful with his phrasing, such that we don't have to think the woman who tapped Ted on the shoulder is the mother. We just have to think that meeting up with her was a crucial step in Ted's journey toward meeting the mother.