Reluctantly, Robin breaks the news to Barney that besides counting Gaby Allen twice, there was another error on his list. He assigned number 138 to two different women in a row. Barney says, "Wait, so, that means Pauline wasn't 199. Pauline was 200? [...] Petra was supposed to be 200! Gorgeous, feminine, doesn't-wear-a-weight-belt-in-bed Petra!" Ted pats Barney on the back and tries to congratulate him for reaching his goal of 200. "You should be proud. You should be tested, but you should be proud. Who cares if Pauline doesn't pose for bikini pictures in magazines?" Barney says that Pauline does. "She's gonna be in next week's issue of Muscle Sexxy. And like many of the ladies in that magazine, sexy has two Xes and one Y."

And what does that have to do with Ted's journey? Well, that's the reason Ted stopped at the newsstand that fateful morning -- to get an eyeful of Pauline in Muscle Sexxy. We see him, and by his reaction, let's just figure that Pauline isn't Ted's type, either. Saget!Ted tells us that if Current Ted hadn't spent a "full minute" at that newsstand, in order to check out the picture of Barney's 200th, he would have "cut down 77th and gotten to that corner a minute early. [He] would've gotten the bagel, done some work, and [his] kids might never have been born." So, why did he have cut down 77th and give a buck to the homeless man, anyhow? Well, to learn this we flash back to...

GNB; Early In Marshall's Tenure: Marshall walks into the GNB Graphics office and introduces himself to Fran (Kit Pongetti, who plays "Lady" on Scrubs). Marshall's adorably polite as he asks for her help in preparing some charts and graphs for his big presentation. Fran is friendly and helpful. "Honey, this is the graphics department. We can make as many graphs, as many charts, in as many colors, on as many kinds of paper as you want." Marshall's in ecstasy. I know the feeling. My husband Scott cracks, "That's you," and by that he means Marshall. I love charts and graphs (especially charts). Finally, Marshall says, "Oh, Fran. Oh, Franny, Franny, Fran. We are going to have some fun." And we cut to...

MacLaren's: Marshall breaks out a chart ranking the Presidents in order of how dirty their names sound. He's got: Johnson, Bush, Harding, Polk, Filmore, Pierce, LBJ, Hoover, Bush and Clinton, in that order. Heh. We cut to the apartment. Marshall's holding up a poster of what looks like MasterCard logo, only the circles are red (on the left) and blue (on the right). [It's a Venn diagram, so-called chart-lover. - Z] The left-hand circle is labeled: "People who are breaking my heart." It overlaps with the right hand circle, which is labeled: "People who are shaking my confidence daily." The purple area where they intersect is labeled, "Cecilia". Best gag of the night. And it's even better that some of you were too young to get it on your own. Also? I have better insurance. Ahem. Barney, Ted, Robin and NOBODY roll their eyes at him and we cut to MacLaren's. Marshall's shows the gang and NOBODY a pie chart of his favorite bars, and then a bar graph of his favorite pies. Whee! The gang is silent. We cut to the apartment. Marshall enters with some new charts, to find Ted, Robin, Barney, and NOBODY standing under the INTERVENTION banner. LOVE! They're calling him out on the use of charts, graphs and all forms of visual data representation. Fortunately, Marshall's brought along his chart of their reactions to his charts and graphs, as well as a chart of their projected reactions.