User:Appleorangebanana12/How I Met Your Mother- Season 2

Ted continues to tell his kids the story of how he met their mother. However, by this point, they've become frustrated at the whole story taking too long, and try to ask him to skip ahead to their mother's meeting, as "I feel like you've been talking for, like, a year." Ted and Robin are now a couple; meanwhile, a heartbroken Marshall tries to continue his life without Lily. After he endures numerous emotional breakdowns, Marshall's friends step in, and Barney, using sly catch phrases and pick up lines, encourages Marshall to date again. Later, Lily returns to New York after realizing she is not meant to be an artist, and reunites with Marshall, and resume planning the wedding.Marshall and Barney make a "slap bet" on whether or not Robin was involved in "adult films". Barney loses the bet, when everyone discovers Robin was a Canadian teen pop star known as Robin Sparkles in the early 1990s, with a hit single "Let's Go To The Mall". For losing the bet, Marshall is permitted to slap Barney in the face five times as hard as he can at any time in the future of Marshall's choosing, which he does twice during this season. It is also revealed that Barney has a gay, black brother (Wayne Brady), and that he believes that Bob Barker is his father, unaware that his mother lied to him, and takes a trip to California to be a contestant on The Price is Right to meet Barker. At the end of the season, Marshall and Lilly get married. At their reception, Ted reveals to Barney that he and Robin have been broken up for some time because of their conflicting aspirations regarding marriage and children. They did not reveal the termination of their relationship to avoid drawing attention away from Lily and Marshall's wedding. The season ends with Barney excited at the prospect of Ted and himself being single guys on the town again, and ends the season with Barney saying, "This is going to be legen- wait for it..."

Season 2, Episode 1- Where Were We?

The season begins with Marshall still heartbroken over his break-up with Lily. However, he realizes that he can still see her credit card activity, which leads to him discovering that she's back in New York. He goes to the hotel where she supposedly is, only to find that it isn't her, but an identity thief who stole her card, meaning that she's still in California. The gang tries to keep him distracted with baseball, strippers and even a shooting range.

Season 2, Episode 2- The Scorpion and the Toad

Barney teaches Marshall how to pick up women. However, Barney keeps stepping in and taking any women Marshall picks up for himself, causing friction between the two. Meanwhile, Lily's back in New York, but Ted doesn't believe her stories about how wonderful San Francisco was. He and Robin strike up a bet and then get Lily drunk, causing her to reveal that leaving Marshall was a huge mistake and she wants him back. Ted tells her that Marshall would take her back instantly, but to everyone's surprise he rejects her when she asks if they can get back together.

Season 2, Episode 3- Brunch

Ted's parents come to visit, and Ted warns Robin that his mother is always mentioning kids to girlfriends of his that she wants him to marry. When she doesn't say anything to Robin, she gets upset and confronts her. Meanwhile, Ted is furious when Barney shows him a photo of his dad making out with Wendy the waitress at MacLaren's, and his parents reveal that they've been divorced for a long time. Lily and Marshall, still fighting, try to seduce each other at brunch and end up having sex in the bathroom.

Season 2, Episode 4- Ted Mosby: Architect

After Robin and Ted get in a fight when she calls his job boring, Barney tells Ted that being an architect is a great way to pick up women. After testing it, Barney confirms that it's true. Upon hearing about Ted hitting on women, she follows him to find the truth, only to discover that Barney is the one doing it under Ted's name and Ted really is at work. The two make up and he shows her an outline for a building he designed.

Season 2, Episode 5- World's Greatest Couple

Lily's miniature apartment is infested with rats, so she asks Barney if she can stay with him. At first, he's resentful, but after discovering that he can pretend that she's his wife to get overly attached one night stands out of his apartment, he tells her to stick around. However, he freaks out and tells her to leave after they sleep in the same bed without having sex because he's convinced that this means they're in a relationship.

Season 2, Episode 6- Aldrin Justice

Lily gets a job at Ted's architecture firm, which leads to a fight between her and Ted when she steals a baseball to teach their boss a lesson. Meanwhile, Barney tries to have sex with Marshall's cougar law professor in order to improve her mood.

Season 2, Episode 7- Swarley

Marshall begins dating Chloe, a woman he met at a coffee shop, and they hit it off. However, Ted and Barney tell him to break up with her because they both think she has 'the crazy eyes'. Lily, upon hearing about Marshall dating, tracks down Chloe and follows her to try to see what she looks like. Marshall begins to think Ted and Barney are right when Chloe keeps saying strange things, but they turn out to be true and related to Lily. At the end of the episode, Marshall and Chloe are about to kiss when Lily, who was hiding behind the sofa, jumps in between them and yells "STOP!". Lily and Marshall go outside to talk and end up kissing and getting back together. Meanwhile, Barney is irritated when the gang teases him after Chloe mispronounces his name as Swarley.

Season 2, Episode 8- Atlantic City

Lily and Marshall, now back together, are planning their wedding, but Lily realizes that everyone in Marshall's family hates her and they decide to elope to Atlantic City with the rest of the gang. This rekindles Barney's old gambling addiction when he tries to win them enough money to pay for their wedding. They're just about to tie the knot when they decide to put it off and have a real wedding.

Season 2, Episode 9- Slap Bet

A high-stakes bet begins between Marshall and Barney when Robin expresses how much she hates malls. Marshalls is convinced that she got married at the mall, and Barney thinks she was a porn star. Robin falsely confesses to having been married, so Marshall slaps Barney. However, it's later revealed that they were both wrong and Robin was actually a teenage pop star in Canada named Robin Sparkles who had a hit single "Let's Go To The Mall".

Season 2, Episode 10- Single Stamina

With Lily and Marshall engaged and Ted and Robin dating, Barney is the only single member of the group, so he invites his gay, black brother James to visit. James isn't the committed type either, so Barney is shocked and appalled when James reveals that he's actually engaged. Barney gets upset and the two argue, but finally he comes to terms with his brother settling down.

Season 2, Episode 11- How Lily Stole Christmas

It's Christmas time in New York, and every year Lily creates a 'winter wonderland' at the apartment. Marshall goes to the library to work on a paper, his reward being that he gets to come home to this when he's finished. However, Lily plugs in the old answering machine, only to hear a message that Ted had left Marshall over the summer that called Lily a terrible word. She gets furious and storms out, returning to her tiny apartment. Ted, equally angry, goes to Long Island to spend Christmas with his extremely religious cousin Stacey and her family, which is miserable. At the end, the gang goes to their house to rescue Ted and he and Lily make up.

Season 2, Episode 12- First Time in New York

Robin's teenage sister Katie comes to visit and brings her boyfriend along. Robin is disgusted and concerned when Katie says she's planning on losing her virginity. Ted steps in and takes everyone (except for the boyfriend) to the Empire State Building for a day, where they all tell the stories of their first times and manage to convince Katie not to sleep with him. However, when she tells her boyfriend she wants to wait, he breaks up with her. Meanwhile, Robin wants to tell Ted she loves him but is afraid because she's never done it before. She finally does, and he reciprocates.

Season 2, Episode 13- Columns

Ted's arrogant boss's design of a building is rejected by a potential client, but Ted steps in with his own design, and the clients love it. Ted becomes his old boss's boss, but now that he's under Ted, he insults him constantly. Irritated, Ted decides to fire him, only to chicken out because it's revealed that he's going through a divorce at the same time. When he finally does it, the man has a heart attack, which leads to everyone at work hating Ted. Lily and Marshall think they've finally found a way to pay for their honeymoon when Barney offers them $10,000 for Lily to paint him nude.

Season 2, Episode 14- Monday Night Football

After one of the bartenders at MacLaren's passes away, the gang is expected to be at the funeral. However, the funeral is at the same time as the SuperBowl, which is a group tradition. They decide to TiVo the game, and have to try to go 24 hours without hearing the score. Barney, having made a bet on the game, is desperate to know the results. He runs into Emmmet Smith on the street, but even he doesn't know the score. Everyone ends up finding out the score before the game, but they still watch.

Season 2, Episode 15- Lucky Penny

Ted misses a flight to Chicago to an interview for his dream job, which he realizes can be traced all the way back to a "lucky" penny he found on the subway. However, Ted ends up thankful that he didn't get the job, because he would've had to move to Chicago. Meanwhile, Barney and Marshall have a bet that Barney can't just run the New York Marathon without training, which he does.

Season 2, Episode 16- Stuff

Robin is annoyed upon discovering that a lot of Ted's furniture and possessions are from ex-girlfriends of his. She asks him to get rid of it, which he begrudgingly does. However, he discovers that her 5 dogs are all from ex-boyfriends of hers, so he asks her to get rid of them. She sends them to live with her aunt on a farm for him, but then is furious when she discovers that despite her doing that for him, he moved all of the things from ex-girlfriends back to his apartment. This leads to their biggest fight yet, but somehow ends with them deciding to move in together. Meanwhile, Lily forces the group to come to her bizarre play, which Barney insults. He and Lily make a bet that she'll be able to compliment him on any play he does, so they go to his play too. Lily loses the bet and gives up because Barney's play is too horrible.

Season 2, Episode 17- Arrivederci, Fiero

Marshall's 1988 Fiero dies just short of 200,000 miles, and when they take it to the shop they say that nothing can be done. This leads to the gang reminiscing about their memories in that car.

Season 2, Episode 18- Moving Day

Barney tries to talk Ted out of moving in with Robin, but he won't listen and goes forth with it anyway. He has everything in the truck except for a box of pot lids when Barney steals the keys and the truck. He calls Ted and tells him that if he wants the truck back, he has to meet him at MacLaren's and complete a set of tasks. Ted is furious but goes because he realizes that although he's only been there for less than an hour, he already knows that moving in with Robin was a huge mistake. However, Barney refuses to give the truck back, until Ted figures out where it is and kidnaps Barney and the girl he's hooking up with. Finally he lets them go, and he and Robin talk. They decide not to move in together.

Season 2, Episode 19- Bachelor Party

Marshall tells Barney specifically that he doesn't want a stripper at his bachelor party, and Marshall and Ted make plans for dinner, a wrestling match, etc. But Barney goes behind their backs and hires a stripper anyway. An accident leads to her breaking her ankle and the hotel room getting set on fire, so they have to go home early. Marshall is angry with Barney and says he doesn't want Barney to be his best man because Barney doesn't even want them to get married. Lily then tells a previously untold story about how when they were broken up over the summer, Barney flew to San Francisco, went to Lily and told her that she should get back together with Marshall because he's the love of her life, and bought her a plane ticket. Marshall isn't mad anymore and makes Barney and Ted co-best men.

Season 2, Episode 20- Showdown

The gang learns that Barney's mother told Barney as a child that Bob Barker of The Price is Right was his father. He still believes it to this day, and he's going on the show. He goes on and wins, but doesn't tell Bob as he had been planning to do because he realized that Bob wasn't really his father. He does win a lot of prizes, all of which he gives to Marshall and Lily for their wedding.

Season 2, Episode 21- Something Borrowed

It's Lily and Marshall's wedding day, but nothing is going as planned. To make matters worse, Lily's mom invited Lily's high school boyfriend Scooter, who is still madly in love with her and tries to convince her to run away with him. Marshall gets a disastrous haircut from Lily's cousin, which leads to him panicking and shaving the middle strip of his hair off. The gang is outside and decide to have the real wedding outside, how they wanted it in the first place. Barney makes it official. The indoor wedding is a disaster, but they remember the outdoor wedding as their real wedding.

Season 2, Episode 22- Something Blue

At Marshall and Lily's wedding reception, Barney overhears Ted and Robin talking about a secret that they have. Desperate to know, he (unsuccessfully) tries to convince them to tell him. However, after Marshall and Lily leave for their honeymoon, they reveal that they didn't want to say anything to take attention away from the newlyweds, but they've broken up. They'd broken up two weeks before when they asked each other where they saw themselves in five years. Ted said he wanted to be settled down and married, and Robin said she wanted to be in Tokyo, Paris, or Argentina doing journalism. They then realized that they're going different places and don't want the same things.