After Lily discovers that her apartment has been turned into a chinese restaurant, Ted invites her to move in with him and Marshall. Barney warns Ted that this is a bad idea, saying that they will edge him out, and Ted begins to get paranoid about this. He goes so far as to buy a large English phone booth in an attempt to mark his territory. This leads to a fight over the apartment between Marshall and Ted, with the two reverting to dueling using the swords they've had hanging on their wall for years.
Barney meanwhile invents a "lemon law" to dating, where they are allowed to leave a date within the first five minutes. Robin rejects this notion, and Barney dares her to sit through a full date with a nerd (Guest appearance from another Freaks and Geeks star.)
Lily shows up at the apartment right as a poorly crafted table breaks, and Marshall accidentally stabs Lily. Robin is alerted, and rushes to the hospitalthus ditching her bad date.
At the hospital Lily resolves the issue of who gets the apartment by saying she doesn't want it for her and Marshall because it's a "boy's apartment."
Notes
This was definitely a comic episode to balance out the previous episode which focused more on plot. We get to see the first of Barney's many creations for the dating world, "The Lemon Law" and we also get to see Marshall accidentally wound Lily yet again, similar to his hitting Lily in the eye with the champagne cork in the pilot. Barney once again sets out a challenge for Robin, and it's interesting to note how they interact. Robin is portrayed as Ted's love interest in this season, and she becomes Lily's best female friend, but she interacts with Barney just as much as them and far more then Marshall who she doesn't seem to have any special relationship with. It's hard to define this early relationship between Robin and Barney, but their interactions are definitely interesting. They're flirtatious, but neither of them really seem into the other, at least not yet. This also marks the first use of "Future Ted" to refer to a future version of oneself. I'm not sure if this was when people started referring to the voice of Bob Saget as Future Ted, or if he had always been referred to as such, but it definitely perpetuates it and creates a running theme throughout the series. We aren't the same people we were in the past, we're always changing.
Review
A good episode, that gets a bonus point for having a sword fight in it, because sword fights are awesome. The "lemon law" seems like a pretty good idea really, and I like this aspect of Barney's character that he creates these outlandish concepts. Still Robin's date was only kind of funny, and overall I believe HIMYM is capable of doing a lot better then this.
Ranking
7 out of 10. (Would be 6 without the bonus point.)
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