How I met Your Mother came back on Monday, and it rocked our socks as per usual. We got some great Barney/Robin moments (squee!) and lots of second hand embarrassment courtesy of Ted. A+ all around.
Ted is about to start his teaching job. The gang get him an Indiana Jones hat and whip (“Yeah, I have a whip guy” – Barney) which they take into the alley to play with. They have a convenient dummy set up with a cigarette in his mouth (“Tell him to ‘whip’ the habit! – Marshall), but as we see moments later, Ted has a lot to learn about the finer points of whip aiming. Poor Marshall.Robin and Barney have spent all summer keeping their relationship sex secret from the group, but are discovered making out, much to Lily’s delight. However, they refuse to admit that they are dating, and haven’t had “the talk” to define their relationship. So far this has led to a lot of confusion and even violence when Barney punches Robin’s date at a hockey game. (“I'm always punching guys, girls, I'll even punch a baby, I don't care” – Barney).
While Ted is off at his first day (more on that in a moment), Lily and Marshall take it upon themselves to force Barney and Robin into having the talk by locking them in Robin’s bedroom. Lily refuses to let them out until they have slipped a note under the door that defines their relationship to Lily’s satisfaction. They have some failed attempts (“We’re just seeing where this is going”) which were shot down by Lily, punctuated by Marshall with a loud crack of the whip (“NOT GOOD ENOUGH” – Marshal). Robin and Barney decide that they are both bad at relationships, but they are good at lying. So they tell Lily that they are going to be boyfriend and girlfriend. He says Robin is awesome, and she says Barney looks great in a suit, and our hearts melt because you know that they’re telling the truth, even if they don’t. Lily is satisfied, frees them from the bedroom (“GOOD ENOUGH” – Marshall with a loud crack of the whip). They leave hand in hand walking down the street on the way to grab brunch. When Ted points out to Lily that they were lying she responds, “No, they don't realize that they weren't lying,” and our hearts melt a little more.Throughout all of this we have been seeing Ted’s first day of teaching. He had been having recurring nightmares, which were spurred on by Ted not knowing what kind of teacher he should be – cool guy, or serious teacher. He spends so much time worrying about what kind of professor he’ll be that he forgets one vital thing: how the word professor is spelled. Ted stood at the chalk board slowly writing “PROF”, pauses, adds an “F”, looks around the class room to dead faces and one girl slowly shaking her head, and then changes that “F” to an “E”, receiving a small nod from that girl. We died.
Ted still hasn’t decided what type of Professor to be, so he has a split personality moment. “I’m Professor Mosby . . . but you can call me Ted . . . . Professor Mosby . . . . T-Dawg . . . . do NOT call me T-Dawg.” Finally, when a girl raises her hand, he decides to go with serious teacher and says that all questions should wait until the end of the lecture. That was an unfortunate choice, because she was going to tell him that he was in the wrong classroom.
The second hand embarrassment was almost unbearable, in the most delicious way possible. He went on for seven minutes about the glory of architecture, despite repeated clues that something was amiss. Finally the actual professor arrives, convinces Ted that he is in the wrong classroom, and Ted begins his run across the campus with the Indiana Jones theme playing in the background. The good thing to come out of this was that being 20 minutes late for his class forced him to just be natural and normal when he finally got there – he didn’t have time to over-think everything, and came off much less douchey, we are to believe. And somewhere – either in the economics class or Ted’s architecture class (now I’m not so sure which) is the Mother, we are told. So one step closer!
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