Moving Day (How I Met Your Mother)

"Moving Day"
How I Met Your Mother episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 18
Directed by	Pamela Fryman
Written by	Maria Ferrari
Production code	2ALH18
Original air date	March 19, 2007
Guest stars
Rachelle Lefevre (Sarah) Ella Thomas (Girl #1)
Season 2 episodes
Where Were We? The Scorpion and the Toad Brunch Ted Mosby: Architect World's Greatest Couple Aldrin Justice Swarley Atlantic City Slap Bet Single Stamina How Lily Stole Christmas First Time in New York Columns Monday Night Football Lucky Penny Stuff Arrivederci, Fiero Moving Day Bachelor Party Showdown Something Borrowed Something Blue

"Moving Day" is the 18th episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother, originally broadcast on March 19, 2007.

Plot

Ted and Robin have decided to move in together. Initially Barney likes this idea, and asks Lily and Marshall if he can use the apartment to sleep with other women, since his apartment is a 23 minute cab ride away, and that has ruined several opportunities for him (women have fallen asleep on him, made up with their boyfriends, or even been arrested for indecent exposure). Barney then decides it is the wrong thing for Ted to do, and takes the moving truck (which has all of Ted's belongings, except one of the swords on the wall and a bunch of lids), and will not give it back to Ted until Ted completes a series of challenges. After having some "bro time" with Barney, Ted cannot get the truck back, but once he returns to Robin's apartment, he realizes where the truck is (behind the bar and being used as a second apartment for Barney), and gets it back from Barney. However, at the same time, Ted and Robin have realized that moving in together was not a good idea, since Robin was not excited of the idea of Ted moving all of his things in to her apartment, and always suggested that he should put his stuff in her basement storage area. Also, unbeknownst to Ted, Robin smokes and has a subscription to Guns and Ammo. They decide that it is best for Ted to move back in with Marshall and Lily.

Marshall and Lily were initially excited that Ted was moving out, since they would now have the place all to themselves. They enjoy lounging around naked and having sex on the couch, but soon find out that things have changed a lot. Ted took all of his stuff, which included the microwave, a lot of the food, the towels, and other things Marshall and Lily did not realize that Ted owned. Marshall decides to try being the provider, but after forgetting toilet paper after he got a lot of other things they now needed, realizes that he and Lily need Ted to survive. Although Lily is against the idea of them marrying Ted, she also realizes how much they need Ted, and when Ted comes back and tells them that things did not work out and he is moving back in, they give Ted a group hug and tell him not to leave.

Music

• The Solids - "Soap on Your Skin" ^[1]

Continuity

• Robin and Ted's opposing opinions about guns, established in "Where Were We?", are referenced again when Robin tries to cancel her subscription to Guns and Ammo because of Ted moving in with her.
• Barney reveals to Ted in this episode that Robin occasionally smokes. He knew this fact because of their night out in "Zip, Zip, Zip". Later in "Something Borrowed" Robin has a pack of cigarettes that she shares with Lily, who stresses about her wedding. Robin's, and subsequently the gang's, smoking habit becomes the focal point of season five's "Last Cigarette Ever".

Cultural references

• Barney's line "I'll be at the snack shack eating our victory onion rings Han style . . . Solo!" references the character Han Solo from the Star Wars franchise.
• When Barney's date Sarah says that she won't get into a moving van because she has seen Silence of the Lambs, she refers to a scene in that film in which a serial killer kidnaps a young woman by asking for her help in lifting a sofa into a van.
• Barney's top ten list is a reference to the Late Show Top Ten List.
• Barney describes Ted's outfit as "a little bit Ellen DeGeneres", referring to the comedian and talk show host.
• In the pilot episode of Doogie Howser, M.D. Neil Patrick Harris wears a suit with sneakers.
• Marshall is wearing an Arizona State University T-shirt.

Critical response

References

1. ^ http://www.beawesomeinstead.com/how-i-met-your-mother-music/

External links

• Moving Day at TV.com
• Moving Day at the Internet Movie Database