For the character of the same name, see Jenkins (character).

“Jenkins”
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First aired: January 18, 2010
Director: Neil Patrick Harris
Writer: Greg Malins
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Lily doesn't react the way Marshall would expect when she is introduced to a female coworker. Ted's students use Robin's morning show as a drinking game.

Contents 1 Recap 2 Continuity 3 Gallery 4 Memorable Quotes 5 Notes and Trivia 5.1 Goofs and Errors 5.2 Allusions and Outside References 5.3 Music 5.4 Other Notes 6 Guests 7 Reception 8 References 9 External Links 10 Comments

RecapEdit

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Future Ted discusses the three places a 30 year-old New Yorker shouldn't be caught in: New Year's Eve in Times Square, Rockefeller Center during the holiday season, and any college bar. Ted and Marshall walk into a college bar, and Ted is worried about meeting his students there. Marshall returns to the bar on a regular basis to maintain his skeeball high score.

Marshall then announces that they'll be meeting Jenkins, a co-worker, at the bar. He had told the gang a collection of hilarious stories about Jenkins, Ted imagining him as a fat funny-man. Barney then interjects with his desire to sleep with Jenkins, and Ted is surprised to find that Jenkins is a woman.

The next day, Lily unexpectedly shows up for lunch with Marshall, and finds out that Jenkins is a woman. However, Lily is not at all jealous. Ted and Robin explain that it isn't Marshall's loyalty, but in every relationship, there is a "reacher" (a person who reaches for someone beyond their level of beauty), and a "settler" (a person who settles for someone below their level of beauty). Flabbergasted, Marshall forces Lily to classify herself as one or the other, and she, after much hesitation, says "settler."

In an attempt to get Lily jealous, Marshall plans to show her how Jenkins flirts with him. While inviting Jenkins to go out again, this time with Lily, she kisses him. Marshall runs home and apologizes to Lily, who jokes that she's going to go punch Jenkins in the nose, when she obviously thinks he's just lying to make her jealous. Jenkins later apologizes, saying she was drunk from a late-night drinking game (see below), and plans to apologize to Lily, which Marshall knows will prove he is not just a "reacher."

Lily calmly listens to Jenkins' apology and promptly punches her in the nose, and continues beating her up, as Future Ted mentions that Marshall never tried to make Lily jealous again.

Meanwhile, Robin encounters fans of her pre-morning news show. When she met the boys at the college bar, one of Ted's students comes over to tell her that he's a big fan of her work. Full of pride, she interrupts Ted's class the next day to loudly announce that she is the host of the show. After she leaves, the class explains that they are fans because her show comes on as their night of drinking is coming to an end, and her interjection, "but...umm" is the basis for a drinking game (whenever Robin says this, the students take a drink).

Ted and Barney test this game the next night, watching Robin's show, and get thoroughly drunk. After Robin continues to brag about her wide viewership, Ted explains the drinking game. That night, his class invites him out to join their game. Robin gets her own back and decides to repeat the phrase "but...umm" excessively, prompting those playing the game to drink every time. In another bar, Jenkins is also playing the same drinking game and is still drunk the next morning when she kisses Marshall.

During the next day's class, Robin interrupts again, startling the hungover group with a megaphone.

ContinuityEdit

• Jenkins and Marshall bond over the fact that they both are from Minnesota and the fact that they both love the Minnesota Vikings. Marshall's love for the Vikings is revealed in Little Minnesota.
• Scotty makes a reference to Ted being an Econ professor. Ted accidentally taught an Econ class, thinking it was an Architecture class, in Definitions.
• Robin's habit of saying "but...umm" can be seen again in Of Course.
• Barney's interest in girl-fights was shown in previous episodes. (Happily Ever After, The Goat, Intervention)
• Marshall is terrible at keeping lies such as in Miracles.
• Marshall often refers to himself as "Big Fudge", like he did when talking about himself as the skeeball record holder.

GalleryEdit

For a listing of all images on the wiki tagged as being from this episode, see Category:Jenkins images.

Memorable QuotesEdit

Jenkins:	I'm so sorry I kissed you yesterday.
Marshall:	That's okay.
Jenkins:	And I'm sorry I had sex with you in the elevator.
Marshall:	That wasn't me.
Jenkins:	Oh, good grief, that's two awkward conversations I have to have today.

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Ted:	Well, it would be great to finally meet the famous Jenkins, after all those stories.
Barney:	Yeah, and there's about to be one more story: I'm gonna bang Jenkins.
Ted:	What!?
Barney:	You heard me.
Ted:	You... you want to have sex with Jenkins?
Barney:	With Jenkins, on Jenkins, near Jenkins, you name it. I want to wear Jenkins like a sock!
Ted:	But you're... Haven't you... I'm... Really?
Jenkins:	Hey, guys!
Marshall:	Ted, this is Jenkins.
Ted:	Ohhhhhhhhh!

—Ted finds out that Jenkins is a woman

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Barney:	It’s funny, I had a drinking game based on Robin. But it was actually on Robin. I poured peach schnapps in her bellybutton…
Ted:	Dude, we agreed we wouldn’t do this.
Barney:	Sorry, you’re right. She didn’t like it anyway. Said it woke her up.

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Notes and TriviaEdit

Goofs and ErrorsEdit

• Barney breaks The Bro Code by failing to inform Ted about a 'girl-fight', as outlined in The Goat.
  • If Barney knew Ted would not be able to witness the fight he did not break The Bro Code as it also states "the spotter Bro is responsible for documenting and relating details of the girl fight via pictures, video etc." and Barney can be seen recording the fight with Lily's phone.
• In The Chain of Screaming, Barney says that Blauman quit his job and later died, however, in this episode he introduces Jenkins to Marshall.

Allusions and Outside ReferencesEdit

• When Jenkins is asking Marshall if he is a Vikings fan and he is concerned that she may be out to get him, he says his wife "doesn't have money, but what she does have is a very special set of skills" in reference to Liam Neeson's character in Taken.
• Neil Patrick Harris, who directed the episode, portrayed Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers (1997).

MusicEdit

• Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber
• Kaboom - Ursula 1000

Other NotesEdit

• Edward Flores, the actor who portrayed Male Jenkins, also played the role of Food Guy from Mosbius Designs.
• Neil Patrick Harris makes his directorial debut. This is especially unusual for the show, as Pamela Fryman directed the majority of the episodes before this. ^[1] Of the previous 100 episodes 95 were directed by Fryman and 5 were directed by Rob Greenberg, making Harris only the third different person to direct an episode of the show. Harris summarized the experience describing it as "Equal parts overwhelm, education, and exhilaration." ^[2] Harris' role is smaller in this episode due to directional duties.
• International Airdates: Australia: June 17, 2010 on Channel 7; United Kingdom: August 19, 2010 on E4
• Ted's student Betty is wearing the same argyle sweater that Robin wore in Shelter Island.
• Ted is called an Econ professor and in Definitions he starts teaching in the Econ 305 classroom.

GuestsEdit

• Amanda Peet - Real Jenkins
• Edward Flores - Male Jenkins
• Taran Killam - Blauman
• Marieve Herington - Betty
• Lucky Davis - 8 Year Old Kid
• Timothy Brennen - Novelist
• Andrew Caldwell - Scotty

ReceptionEdit

Donna Bowman of The A.V. Club rated the episode with a grade B⁺.^[3]
Brian Zoromski of IGN gave the episode 8.5 out of 10. ^[4]
Cindy McLennan of Television Without Pity rated the episode with a grade B⁺. ^[5]

References Edit

External LinksEdit

• Jenkins at the English Wikipedia
• Jenkins at the Internet Movie Database
• Jenkins at TV.com

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