Lily moves into Barney's apartment. Marshall starts hanging out with his recently single friend Brad, but begins to worry that Brad is getting too into him.
This episode provides examples of:
- Bedmate Reveal: Lily in Barney's bed. No, they didn't do it. Provides the page image.
- Bromance: Marshall's friendship with his newly single friend, Brad. They start doing all the things they miss being able to do as part of a couple (brunch, Broadway plays)... but then it starts to get weird.
- By Wall That Is Holey: Lily trying to pull out her Murphy bed destroyed the wall much to her Lithuanian neighbor's agitation.
- Call-Back: Looks like Lily got the second apartment from the second episode of the season.
- Double-Meaning Title: If Ted and Robin counts, this is also the premise for Marshall and Brad in their blatant
Ho Yay Bromance and Barney and Lily pretending as a married couple. - Frank's 2000 Inch TV: Barney has two in his apartment. They are so big that Lily initially thinks he doesn't own a television, as she has mistaken them for the wall.
- Insane Troll Logic:
- Merging two everyday things together makes it feminine. Like breakfast + lunch = brunch, or horse + horn = unicorn.
- Barney's logic that him letting Lily change his apartment, staying in with her on a Friday night to watch Letterman, and falling asleep in bed with her without them having sex means that they're in a relationship.
- The Makeover: Lily womanning up Barney's apartment.
- Porn Stash: Barney's apartment, and in full display. With professionally done lighting effects.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Barney and Lily get into this arrangement, with her moving in and basically being a couple but without the romance or sex.
- Stepford Smiler: Lily tries very hard to seem excited about her new apartment.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: This almost happened to Barney after some chick wanted to stay indefinitely in his apartment despite his attempts to tell her that it's just a one night stand and she's in a bachelor pad with an open porn collection. She only left when she thought Lily was his wife.
- What, Exactly, Is His Job?: The first time Lily asks this. When she was amazed on how Barney got his wall-sized plasma TV, which he got from a Japanese contractor, she asks this trope. Barney's response:Barney: Heh, please!
