How I Met Your Mother: 3.19 ‘Everything Must Go’ Recap
May 13, 2008 by Chandra
Original Air Date: May 12, 2008
This episode is all about Lily and Marshall selling some of their stuff to raise the funds they need to get the slanted floor in their new apartment fixed, as well as Barney and Abby (Guest Star Britney Spears) getting revenge on Ted for dumping them both.
When still-jobless Marshall learns it’s going to cost $1500, much more than the estimate, to repair the floor in his and Lily’s new apartment, he decides she needs to sell some of her expensive clothes online since his dowdy clothes aren’t the kind of things people would actually pay money for.
After setting up lilyandmarshallselltheirstuff.com (a real website that I’ve been unable to access — must be a lot of server traffic), Lily — reluctant to get rid of her nice clothes, no matter how eager Robin is to buy them — comes up with the alternative plan of selling three of her colorful, abstract paintings for $500 each within a week.
She has no success at first because, as Marshall is scared to admit to her, they’re not like “real” paintings by “real” artists. Thus, Lily is almost ready to give up when a G-CWOK (gay couple without kids) saves the day. They happen by and buy one of her paintings for the entire asking price.
How I Met Your Mother: 3.17 ‘The Goat’ Recap
May 4, 2008 by Chandra
Original Air Date: April 28, 2008
It’s just a few days before TED’s 30th birthday, which will become known forever among the gang as The Day of the Goat, and we meet up with BARNEY and ROBIN the morning after they’ve slept together. Ashamed, both agree to carry on as usual, as if nothing ever happened.
Unfortunately, that’s easier for Robin to do than Barney, and he becomes consumed with guilt for sleeping with his best friend’s ex. His solution to get rid of his angst is to hire unemployed MARSHALL to be his lawyer after confessing the secret. Barney then instructs Marshall to find a loophole in the so-called Bro Code that he’s broken. If Marshall succeeds, Barney will be off the hook.
Marshall is not successful, however, because the Bro Code, written by Barney’s own ancestor, is ironclad. Barney’s next move is to find a misstep that Ted made before him. Yet, that doesn’t work either because Ted has always been an excellent bro.
Meanwhile, LILY is forced to adopt Missy the Goat when a farmer brings it to her class and scares all the children by telling them he’s taking the animal to be slaughtered after he leaves. The graphic details about where meat comes from come leaves Lily with no choice but to rescue the animal, and she takes it to the apartment until the animal rescue people arrive.