The Pineapple Incident
"The Pineapple Incident" | |
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How I Met Your Mother episode | |
Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 10 |
Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
Written by | Carter Bays & Craig Thomas |
Production code | 1ALH08 |
Original air date | November 28, 2005 |
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"The Pineapple Incident" is the tenth episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on November 28, 2005 on CBS. It is the highest viewed episode in season 1 and the second highest overall episode during the nine seasons of How I Met Your Mother. It had some of the best fan reception of any How I Met Your Mother episode to date.[1][2]
Plot
At MacLaren's,
Ted calls Barney, thinking that he might know what happened the night before but finds him sprawled in their bathtub. Barney recounts that Ted reappeared at the bar around 1 a.m., but when he began to call Robin again, Barney lit Ted's coat on fire. After some more time spent at the bar, he put Ted back into bed, although similarly has no idea who the mystery girl is. Ted finds that someone wrote on his arm, saying to call the number if Ted was found passed out somewhere. Ted calls the number and reaches Carl, who fills in some more of the story: Ted again returned to the bar at 3 a.m., but Carl refused to serve him. Ted told Carl the meaning of the word "karaoke" and that he wanted to go see some penguins at the zoo, then suddenly called someone and told her come over and do something "crazy". Based on this information, Marshall, Lily, and Barney believe that the mysterious girl in Ted's bed is actually Robin, but as Ted goes to wake her up, Robin calls and tells him she is coming over to discuss the previous night.
The girl in bed, Trudy (
Production
Carter Bays later admitted he learned a lesson from this episode to not write themselves into a corner. The line "we never found out where the pineapple came from" was something they never should have said.[3] The mystery of the pineapple was solved in a deleted scene from the season 9 episode "Daisy". The scene was released online by BuzzFeed.[4] In the clip, The Captain has a pineapple on his porch, and explains to the gang that he practices the tradition of putting one outside as a "symbol of hospitality". This leads Ted to remember stealing an identical pineapple from The Captain's house when he was very drunk.[5]
References
- ^ "The Top 10 How I Met Your Mother Episodes". IGN. 2014-04-07. Archived from the original on 2017-09-24. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ ""How I Met Your Mother" Episodes Rated By IMDb User Rating". IMDb. Archived from the original on 30 September 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ Brian Ford Sullivan (2010-08-01). "Live at the Paley Center For Media: "How I Met Your Mother"". The Futon Critic. Archived from the original on 2013-01-11. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
- ^ "The How I Met Your Mother pineapple thing has been solved". The A.V. Club. 19 September 2014. Archived from the original on September 21, 2014. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
- ^ Schaefer, Megan (September 19, 2014). "'How I Met Your Mother' Pineapple Incident Mystery Explained By Ted In New Video". International Business Times. Archived from the original on September 22, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
External links
- "The Pineapple Incident" at IMDb