Deal.
Barney is conflicted when Ted and Robin become "friends with benefits" to avoid fighting with each other around their apartment.
This episode provides examples of:
- Anguished Declaration of Love:Robin: You know what a romantic [Ted] is? He can't separate the physical from the emotional. He's all like...Barney: I love you.Robin: Exactly. He's not like you, you know.
- Blatant Lies: Barney claims he didn't steal Feely the Share-bear while holding the teddy bear.
- The Cameo: One of the imaginary people from the magazines who talks to Marshall is Kim Kardashian, encouraging him to go read his magazine without guilt. Marshall thanks her by calling her "That person who is famous and my wife keeps telling me why, but I always forget".
- Camp Straight: Marshall calls one of the GNB employees he imagines judging him "I-can't-believe-he-has-a-wife-Donald".
- Curse Cut Short: After Barney reveals to Marshall, who just learned to be comfortable pooping at work, that he has a private bathroom.Marshall: SON OF A
- Friends with Benefits: The premise of the episode. Ted and Robin decide to solve all their roommate issues by having casual sex.
- Last-Second Word Swap:
- When Barney bursts into the apartment to confess to Ted that he has feelings for Robin, he finds out she is the one in the kitchen and quick changes his last word.
Barney: Ted! I love - TACOS!- This gem earlier:
Barney: You two slept together? That is awf— some. Awfsome.Robin: By the way, our little arrangement is off.Barney: Oh, that's awes— ful.Robin: What?Barney: That's awesful. - Oh, Crap!: Both Ted and Robin realize that their arrangement wasn't going as intended when Ted instinctively kissed Robin on the lips, like they used to do as a couple.
- Running Gag:
- Barney destroying old TVs whenever Ted and Robin had sex. To the point that when he runs out of TVs to break from the dumpster, he keeps buying one from the appliance store and then promptly goes into the same alley to break it.
- Also Marshall having trouble looking for privacy whenever he reads a magazine. It wasn't a euphemism for masturbation, it was actually going to the restroom while reading a magazine.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: Even before Barney could confess to Ted that he has fallen in love with Robin, Ted could notice. The main reason Ted decided to cut his arrangement with Robin was for Barney's sake.
- Therapy Is for the Weak:
- Barney has been told by Lily to go to a psychiatrist in dealing with his feelings for Robin. Barney doesn't want because it's like talking to a High-Class Call Girl, but without the sex. A dirty, skanky, surgically enhanced, Eastern European—
Lily: I got it.- He eventualy does seek help, just in the wrong place:
Barney: And then I stormed out. Why did I do that? I mean, maybe it goes back to my father issues, but I basically gave my best friend license to have sex with the girl of my dreams. I totally sabotaged myself. And now I'm smoking. Now I'm smoking.(camera pans out to reveal that he's actually talking to Lily's kindergarten class)Lily: Get Out!.Barney: But it's Feelings Hour and I'm holding Feely the Share Bear. And whoever's holding Feely the Share Bear gets to sit in the Share Chair. - Unusual Euphemism: "Reading a magazine" for having a bowel movement. Barney mistakes it as a euphemism for masturbation.
- Wham Shot: A comedic one. When Ted and Robin had sex after an argument and agrees not to tell anyone, this comes in mind:Ted: We tell no one, deal?Robin: Deal.Marshall: (at the door holding a magazine) Deal.
