Something Blue (How I Met Your Mother)

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"Something Blue" is the 22nd and final episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on CBS on May 14, 2007.

Plot

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Marshall and Lily's wedding reception is in full swing, but they cannot eat there because food is being taken right out from under them while relatives congratulating them just before they can get a bite. Lily also gets drunk and misses in her attempt to feed Marshall some cake. When they finally get to the limo to their honeymoon, which is driven by Ranjit, Marshall asks to stop at a fast-food restaurant so that they can get something to eat. At the restaurant, Marshall begins to fully realize that Lily is his wife, and his realization makes him very happy.

At the reception,

On their first anniversary, Ted and Robin went to the restaurant where they had

Ted and Robin then reveal that after they had sex that night, they realized that their relationship was not heading in a direction either of them wanted to follow, and that they could no longer pretend that these issues did not matter to them. After exactly a year of dating, Ted and Robin broke up on amicable terms. This further stuns Barney, who wondered why he had not heard. Through a flashback to the episode "Showdown", they explain that they decided to hold off announcing the breakup because of Lily and Marshall's impending wedding. As Robin is asked by a little boy for a dance at the wedding reception, Future Ted then reveals that they eventually both got what they wanted out of life; Robin went on to travel the world, while Ted met his future wife.

Ted then gets a drink from the bar and a cigar from Barney, who tells him that even though he had always joked about him and Robin breaking up, he thought that they were a good couple. Ted agrees, but says that they were not headed in the same direction, and needs to take a break from searching for "The One" for a while, telling Barney that he will need him as a wingman again. An overjoyed Barney declares the summer is going to be "Legen—wait for it..."

Critical response

In his episode review at

Staci Krause of IGN gave the episode 9.3 out of 10.^[3]

References