Back at the apartment, Robin tries to help the others pack, but they get sentimental over every item destined for a box. When Ted brings out a photo from their first day at the apartment, Marshall and Lily ooh and ah, while Robin says, "See that is exactly the type of crap you should be trashing." Like her relationship with Ted. She doesn't keep any photos, saying they're like love letters, yearbooks or someone's ashes -- they just take up space. Robin, I knew you were a pragmatist, but I never realized you were a Vulcan. "Besides, Stella's not going to let you keep half this junk." When Ted asks why she wouldn't, Lily and Robin laugh at him. Lily says, "Oh, sweetie, here's the thing that guys only learn after they move in with a woman: all of your stuff is stupid." As an example, she notes that includes anything they've purchased at a Renaissance Faire, and Ted produces his flail, which is not like the Supernatural fans' flail, and looks way different from what I think of as a flail, but I guess it would do the trick.
Marshall mentions that since they're not getting the security deposit back, he'd like Ted to reimburse him for his half, because he says Ted treated the apartment the way John Bonham treated his central nervous system. That seems unlikely to me, but I'm letting it slide because I'm so happy this show is back in form, and because Marshall presents a couple of good examples: the wall Ted destroyed while installing book shelves to hold all his volumes of the encyclopaedia (which Ted pronounces en-cyl-cloh-PAY-dee-ah), and the hole he put into the ceiling with the aforementioned flail he won at the Renaissance Faire (ren-NAY-sance). Marshall really starts lawyering Ted, telling him he's also responsible for any damage Robin caused while they were dating. Robin objects to the idea that she caused any damage, so Marshall refreshes her memory. "Do you remember that night you drank the twelver of Molson and you got all super-Canadian?" Super Canadian, heh. More polite than any American diplomat! Able to understand the metric system! Look! Up in the Great White North! It's Beaver tail! It's Poutine! It's Super Canadian! Marshall removes a metal plate from the wall which was covering a hole, and we...












