Do I Know You?
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| First aired: September 22, 2008 | ||
| Director: Pamela Fryman | ||
| Writer: Carter Bays Craig Thomas | ||
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Ted and Stella get engaged, but Ted soon learns that he doesn't know anything about her. Meanwhile, Barney confesses to Lily that he's in love with Robin.
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Recap
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The episode starts with Future Ted telling his children that the longest pause in anyone's life is right after they propose to someone; Present Ted, during this pause, imagined all of Stella's possible responses ("No", "Oh, God no", laughter, "I already agreed to marry the quarterback from your high school", etc.), after which Stella gave her actual answer of "Yes". Then there is a brief summary of what has happened in the gap between Miracles and the current episode: Ted and Stella spend the summer happily engaged; Barney goes through physical therapy; and Marshall copes poorly with unemployment. The next scene has the gang in in the bar, while Robin expresses discontent with her nonprofound newscasting job, describing herself as a bogeyman with a teleprompter. In response, Barney laughs too hard at this joke.
The next day, Barney gets Lily to come over to his apartment and confides that he is in love with Robin. She agrees to help him if he will stop having one-night stands with bimbos. He then tries to call Robin but panics and leaves a high-pitched gibberish voice mail instead, followed by another awkward, unsuccessful phone call. Lily then sets Barney up on a dinner date with Robin, where he behaves quite unlike himself: not taking advantage of opportunities to make sex jokes, ignoring their waitress's generous cleavage, and being interested in the goings-on of Robin's day. Afterward, Robin gets April (their waitress) to go home with Barney by telling her that he is the second baseman for the New York Yankees. Barney then tells April that on any other night, he would try to convince her that he was a Yankee, but he can't because he is in love with the girl who just left. Then the camera goes back to Barney's apartment, where he has been telling Lily about what happened. Lily is sympathetic until April comes out of Barney's bedroom. He admits that he lied about not hooking up with April but that all the other stuff he said is true. Lily is disappointed and leaves. Barney then checks his watch and turns on Metro 1 News, affectionately watches a brief segment of Robin's newscast, and then goes back into his bedroom with a smile on his face.
Marshall asks Ted for some wedding shower gift ideas for Stella. He asks if Stella likes to cook, what her favorite color is, or if she has any hobbies, for which Ted doesn't know the answer to any of the questions. It is determined that Ted doesn't know Stella's eye color, so he says they are the color of the ocean after a storm, though he doesn't actually know what color that is. Ted later makes dinner for Stella and uses peanuts as the "secret ingredient", which, unknown to him, Stella is deathly allergic to. After they go to the hospital, Ted and Stella ask each other their "firsts" (first kiss, etc.) and Ted finds out that Stella has never seen Star Wars, his favorite movie of all time. Marshall is shocked when he learns this, saying that "nobody" hasn't seen Star Wars. They end up watching it and Ted concludes that it is the best movie ever and that if Stella dislikes it, he cannot marry her. The next night, Ted and Stella watch Star Wars, but Ted is really watching Stella to gauge her reactions. She mistakes this for foreplay and tries to kiss him, but he rebuffs her with "great scene, great scene". Eventually Stella asks him to leave the room for the time being, so she can watch the movie alone. When it is over, she tells Ted and Marshall she loved it. After an ecstatic Ted leaves, Stella then confides to Marshall that she hated it. Marshall is very concerned by this because Ted really, really loves Star Wars. Stella is convinced that she can pretend to love Star Wars for the rest of her life with Ted.
ContinuityEdit
- In this episode we learn that Molly, the girl who Ted lost his virginity to in First Time In New York, has the last name of MacKenzie.
GalleryEdit
- For a listing of all images on the wiki tagged as being from this episode, see Category:Do I Know You? images.
Memorable QuotesEdit
| Marshall: | She's never seen Star Wars? Ted, the only people in the universe who haven't seen Star Wars are the characters in Star Wars and that's 'cause they lived 'em, Ted. That's 'cause they lived the Star Wars! |
| Lily: | Barney, how can you be in love and still be sleeping with everything that moves? |
| Barney: | I'm sorry I don't follow you.That's like saying 'how can an ant lift fifty times its body weight, but root beer floats are still delicious?'. Are the two even related? |
| Lily: | Ask her something! |
| Barney: | (on the phone to Robin) How are you feeling today? |
| Robin: | Fine. |
| Lily: | Something personal! |
| Barney: | At what age did you first get your period? |
| Barney: | On a booty call you barely even have to talk. At 9:00PM you say, "Hey, babe, it's Barney. Are you busy tonight?" (girl answers) "Sweet, see you in a half an hour, can't wait." But the later it gets, the fewer words you need. "Barney! Busy? Sweet." And by 3:00 in the morning (Barney texts "?" random girl answers "!") |
| Lily: | A question mark? You got laid off a question mark? |
| Barney: | (giggles until Lily hits him) OW! It's not worse than your super-obvious codewords. |
| Lily: | Rhinoceros! |
| Marshall: | (with a big smile) We have to go! |
| Barney: | (after calling Robin, leaving a weird sound) She wasn't there. I left a voice-mail. |
| Lily: | You left a voice, but it wasn't male. |
Notes and TriviaEdit
Goofs and ErrorsEdit
- The opening crawl while Stella and Ted watch Star Wars is taken from the prequel trilogy not from A New Hope like Ted claims.
Allusions and Outside ReferencesEdit
- The exchange between Barney and his "booty call" at 3:00 AM is the transcript of the actual telegraphic conversation between Victor Hugo and his publisher Hurst and Blackett in 1862. Hugo was on vacation when Les Misérables was published. He telegraphed the single-character message "?" to his publisher, who replied with a single "!".
- Ted's reference to Stella's eyes as "the color of the ocean after a storm" is a slightly misquoted version of a line from the 1987 film The Princess Bride starring Carey Elwes and Robin Wright Penn. Buttercup (Robin Wright) describes Westley's (Cary Elwes) eyes as "like the sea after a storm".
- Ted and Stella watch Star Wars.
MusicEdit
- Waltz No. 7 in c sharp minor, Op. 64,2 - Frédéric Chopin
Other NotesEdit
GuestsEdit
- Sarah Chalke - Stella
- Heidi Herschbach - April
- Alonza Maxwell - Bartender
- Nicole Taylor - Sexy Blonde
ReceptionEdit
Donna Bowman of The AV Club rated the episode B+. [1]
Michelle Zoromski of IGN gave the episode 9 out of 10. [2]
Cindy McLennan of Television Without Pity gave the episode a A+ rating. [3]
References Edit
External LinksEdit
- Do I Know You? at the English Wikipedia
- Do I Know You? at the Internet Movie Database
- Do I Know You? at TV.com
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