Robin tries to keep her younger sister from losing her virginity while on vacation in New York, which causes everyone to reminisce about their first times.Robin tries to keep her younger sister from losing her virginity while on vacation in New York, which causes everyone to reminisce about their first times.Robin tries to keep her younger sister from losing her virginity while on vacation in New York, which causes everyone to reminisce about their first times.
- Tourist in Line
- (uncredited)
- Daughter
- (uncredited)
- Son
- (uncredited)
- Tourist Man
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLucy Hale (Katie) was dating David Henrie (Son) at time of filming this episode
- GoofsDuring Ted's last flashback, Molly gets out of the bed wearing jeans followed by a shot of her putting the jeans on.
- Quotes
Barney Stinson: Watch your step when you get up kids, 'cause I'm about to drop some knowledge. Relationships are like a freeway.
Marshall Eriksen: Wait a minute. A month ago you told me relationships were like a traveling circus.
Barney Stinson: No, this is new, this trumps that. Freeways have exits, so do relationships. The first exit, my personal favorite, is six hours in. You meet, you talk, you have sex, you exit when she's in the shower.
Robin Scherbatsky: So, every girl you have sex with feels the immediate need to shower? Actually yeah, I get that.
Barney Stinson: [ignoring what Robin just said] The next exits are four days, three weeks, seven months - That's when you guys
[pointing at Ted and Robin]
Barney Stinson: are gonna break up, mark your calendars.
Ted Mosby: Hey!
Robin Scherbatsky: What?
Barney Stinson: Then a year and a half, eighteen years, and the last exit: death, which, if you've been with the same woman for your entire life, it's like "Are we there yet?"
- ConnectionsReferences Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
- SoundtracksAlways Love
Performed by Nada Surf
Cobie Smulders doesn't get too many opportunities to shine in the early seasons of How I Met Your Mother. Ted is the main character. In late season 1 and early season 2, the story focuses a lot on Marshall and Lily. And Neil Patrick Harris as Barney steals every scene he's in. In this episode however, Smulders gets to play a bigger role as new layers are added to the character she portrays, Robin. Robin is highly uncomfortable throughout the episode, about her sister's plans as well as about getting more serious with Ted. Which is interesting to see, since she's usually portrayed as a very tough person. We see a subversion of the old rom-com cliché that only the guy has to work on his flaws to make a relationship work. Here it's Robin who has to get out of her comfort zone. This is done well by the actress and also once again by the writers.
Apart from the main storyline, this episode is rather strong on the continuity front. We see a flashback to Marshall and Lily having sex for the first time with Ted in the top bunk, which was referenced in the pilot. Lily's high school boyfriend Scooter is mentioned for the first time since his introduction in "Best Prom Ever". And Barney's true story about his first time hearkens back to his not-so-awesome years we were introduced to in "Game Night". Later in the series, the story lines of Barney getting his heart broken by Shannon and him losing his virginity to his mother's divorced friend Rhonda even get connected.
Still only a 7 out of 10 in my (br)opinion, because it's overall not quite as funny as what we're used to from the series. Especially the gag with "random suicidal guy" fell a bit flat to me, partly due to his overacting. I also don't particularly like it when Ted is portrayed as an insufferable pathetic architecture nerd. This gets worse as the series progresses, to the point where his character is sometimes reduced to this trait. Here it's still tolerable, as it is probably the first time in the series and you can forgive him for getting too excited about spreading his knowledge about the Empire State Building. Besides, for the second episode in a row, there's an uncensored mention of pot smoking, which old Ted would avoid in front of his kids in later episodes. Again justifiable, since old Ted could have come up with the sandwich metaphor halfway through his story.
All in all, it's nice to see the relationship of Ted and Robin move forward. The highlights of the episode however are certainly Barney's fake stories.
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- Feb 20, 2016
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- Runtime23 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
- 16:9 HD