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* WhatAnIdiot: InUniverse, everyone thinks Marshall is this for shaving only a small part of his head. Oddly enough nobody ever thinks of at least shaving the rest of it.[[note]]Marshall briefly suggests shaving the rest of his head, but it is quickly forgotten as they begin panicking, looking for a toupee and then later an authentic Native American headdress before settling on a hat.[[/note]]

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* WhatAnIdiot: InUniverse, everyone thinks Marshall is this for shaving only a small part of his head. Oddly enough nobody ever thinks of at least shaving the rest of it.[[note]]Marshall briefly suggests shaving the rest of his head, but it is quickly forgotten as they begin panicking, looking for a toupee and then later an authentic Native American headdress before settling on a hat.[[/note]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After Marshall cuts his hair he, Ted and Barney come up with increasingly terrible ideas of how to "solve" the problem while achieveing nothing. When Lily borrows a gardener's hat for him Marshall turns to the guys and points out how simple that was.
-->'''Marshall:''' ''Hat''. We thought of authentic Native American headdress before we thought of ''hat''.
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* NoodleIncident: Ted says he wouldn’t marry Marshall, not because he doesn’t want to, but because he made it a rule not to marry anyone he’s had a farting contest with. Marshall angrily asks if Ted is implying he can’t marry Lily now.
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* GagHaircut: Provides the page image.

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* GagHaircut: Provides Lily's cousin gives Marshall some awful frosted tips while styling his hair for the page image.wedding. He panics and ends up shaving straight through the middle of his hair, which obviously looks even worse.
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* CoolHat: Here it's finally explained why Marshall was wearing a hat for the reception, as it turns out that Lily managed to get it from a gardener. Marshall then points out that they didn't think of this before suggesting an ''authentic Native American headdress''.
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** Also, Marshall references the plot of ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' in the midst of his freak out over his haircut.
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* MyOwnPrivateIDo: Lily and Marshall privately get married by Barney before the official ceremony. Being outdoors surrounded only by close friends is much closer to the wedding they originally wanted as opposed to the messy, overblown wedding they ended up with.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Barney is determined to make the pregnant harp player his latest conquest. When he hears Lily says she's in labor, a thoughtful look appears on his face that makes it clear it's not a deal breaker.
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-->'''Marshall''' ''Hat.'' We thought of "authentic Native American headdress" before we thought of ''hat.''

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-->'''Marshall''' -->'''Marshall:''' ''Hat.'' We thought of "authentic Native American headdress" before we thought of ''hat.''
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* MundaneSolution/StatingTheSimpleSolution: The guys come up with a variety of outlandish ways to fix/hide Marshall's terrible haircut. Lily just gives him a hat.

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* MundaneSolution/StatingTheSimpleSolution: MundaneSolution[=/=]StatingTheSimpleSolution: The guys come up with a variety of outlandish ways to fix/hide Marshall's terrible haircut. Lily just gives him a hat.

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* CoolHat: Here it's finally explained why Marshall was wearing a hat for the reception, as it turns out that Lily managed to get it from a gardener. Marshall then points out that they didn't think of this before suggesting an ''authentic native american headdress''.
* DeusExMachina: After the gang realizes that the Wedding was ruined from the start, Ted suggests Lily and Marshall to have their real Wedding like they actually intended, with just the five of them in the outdoors. A gardener happened to have a hat they borrowed to cover Marshall's head and a random guy with an accoustic guitar just happened to be playing.
* HopelessSuitor: Scooter, Lily's ex-boyfriend, crashes the wedding in hopes Lily will be the RunawayBride with him. Too bad for him Lily doesn't agree.

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* CoolHat: Here it's finally explained why Marshall was wearing a hat for the reception, as it turns out that Lily managed to get it from a gardener. Marshall then points out that they didn't think of this before suggesting an ''authentic native american Native American headdress''.
* DeusExMachina: After the gang realizes that the Wedding was ruined from the start, Ted suggests Lily and Marshall to have their real Wedding like they actually intended, with just the five of them in the outdoors. A gardener happened to have a hat they borrowed to cover Marshall's head and a random guy with an accoustic acoustic guitar just happened to be playing.
* GagHaircut: Provides the page image.
* HopelessSuitor: Scooter, Lily's ex-boyfriend, high school boyfriend, crashes the wedding in hopes Lily will be the RunawayBride with him. Too bad for him Lily doesn't agree.agree.
* MundaneSolution/StatingTheSimpleSolution: The guys come up with a variety of outlandish ways to fix/hide Marshall's terrible haircut. Lily just gives him a hat.
-->'''Marshall''' ''Hat.'' We thought of "authentic Native American headdress" before we thought of ''hat.''
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* BavarianFireDrill: Barney, who discovers that using the line "It's for the bride" on the day of a wedding is the single greatest one in the world.

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* BavarianFireDrill: Barney, who Barney discovers that he can get anything he wants before the wedding just by using the line "It's for the bride" on the day of a wedding is the single greatest one in the world.bride".
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* StepfordSmiler: Lily said during the whole day that she wouldn't freak out by every mistake that can happen in her Wedding. She finally looses it near the end.

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* StepfordSmiler: Lily said during the whole day that she wouldn't freak out by every mistake that can happen in her Wedding. She finally looses loses it near the end.
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* WhatAnIdiot: InUniverse, everyone thinks Marshall is this for shaving only a small part of his head. Oddly enough nobody ever thinks of at least shaving the rest of it.

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* WhatAnIdiot: InUniverse, everyone thinks Marshall is this for shaving only a small part of his head. Oddly enough nobody ever thinks of at least shaving the rest of it.
it.[[note]]Marshall briefly suggests shaving the rest of his head, but it is quickly forgotten as they begin panicking, looking for a toupee and then later an authentic Native American headdress before settling on a hat.[[/note]]
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* WhatAnIdiot: Marshall shaving only a small part of his head. Oddly enough nobody ever thinks of shaving the rest of it.

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* WhatAnIdiot: InUniverse, everyone thinks Marshall is this for shaving only a small part of his head. Oddly enough nobody ever thinks of at least shaving the rest of it.
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* CoolHat: Here it's finally explained why Marshall was wearing a hat for the reception, as it turns out that Lily managed to get it from a gardener. Marshall then points out that they didn't think of this before suggesting a ''native american headdress''.

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* CoolHat: Here it's finally explained why Marshall was wearing a hat for the reception, as it turns out that Lily managed to get it from a gardener. Marshall then points out that they didn't think of this before suggesting a ''native an ''authentic native american headdress''.




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* WhatAnIdiot: Marshall shaving only a small part of his head. Oddly enough nobody ever thinks of shaving the rest of it.
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-->'''Marshall''': My hair! Look at my hair! She ruined my hair! I look like one of Music/TheBackstreetBoys!

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-->'''Marshall''': My hair! Look at my hair! She ruined my hair! I look like one of Music/TheBackstreetBoys! the Music/BackstreetBoys!
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* DeusExMachina: After the gang realizes that the Wedding was ruined from the start, Ted suggests Lily and Marshall to have their real Wedding like they actually intended, with just the five of them in the outdoors. A gardener happened to have a hat they borrowed to cover Marshall's head and a random guy with an accoustic guitar just happened to be playing.
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--->'''Marshall''': Did you smoke?
--->'''Lily''': ''(Lying)'' No!
--->'''Robin''': ''(To Barney)'' Wow. First lie of the marriage. That was fast.

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--->'''Marshall''': -->'''Marshall''': Did you smoke?
--->'''Lily''': -->'''Lily''': ''(Lying)'' No!
--->'''Robin''': -->'''Robin''': ''(To Barney)'' Wow. First lie of the marriage. That was fast.
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* TakeThat: After Lily's cousin dyes Marshall's hair:
-->'''Marshall''': My hair! Look at my hair! She ruined my hair! I look like one of Music/TheBackstreetBoys!
-->'''Barney''': You totally do. And not even the good Backstreet Boys, the older, lame dance move, comeback tour Backstreet Boys.
-->'''Ted''': ([[TranquilFury indignant]]) ...the ''good'' Backstreet Boys?
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--->'''Marshall''': Did you smoke?
--->'''Lily''': ''(Lying)'' No!
--->'''Robin''': ''(To Barney)'' Wow. First lie of the marriage. That was fast.
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* CoolHat: Here it's finally explained why Marshall was wearing a hat for the reception, as it turns out that Lily managed to get it from a gardener. Marshall then points out that they didn't think of this before suggesting a ''native american headdress''.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Barney, who discovers that using the line "It's for the bride" on the day of a wedding is the single greatest one in the world.


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* {{Bridezilla}}: Lily did a remarkably good job at subverting this trope when everything went wrong during her wedding day. However season four flashbacks reveal her to have been quite the bridezilla during the months leading up to the wedding.


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* HopelessSuitor: Scooter, Lily's ex-boyfriend, crashes the wedding in hopes Lily will be the RunawayBride with him. Too bad for him Lily doesn't agree.
* ShoutOut: Lily and Marshall's improvised wedding has a lot of things in common with Chandler and Monica's wedding in Series/{{Friends}}: They are married by the most promiscuous member of the group (Barney and Joey), with their best friends, who were also a couple before that day, as Best Man and Maid of Honor (Ted and Robin and Ross and Rachel).
* StepfordSmiler: Lily said during the whole day that she wouldn't freak out by every mistake that can happen in her Wedding. She finally looses it near the end.
* TemptingFate: Lily was willing to accept that a Wedding can't be always perfect. Right after it, ''everything'' that can go wrong happens at the same time (Scooter crashes the wedding, Brad tackled the photographer, Marshall gets the worst haircut, her harpist was in labour, the flowers were not going to arrive until they were in the middle of the ceremony, her "special" panties were missing, etc.).
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* BrickJoke: Robin sneaks Lily outside to have a cigarette to calm down. When she and Marshall have their first kiss, he immediately asks her if she's been smoking.
* CallBack: Lily and Marshall sneak off into the bathroom at the reception to have their "first time" as a married couple. Ted is there, just like the ''first'' first time.
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* TraumaticHaircut: Lily's cousin gives Marshall horrific highlights just before the wedding, he then flips out and shaves a chunk of his head in a panic.
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When Lily and Marshall's special day comes, nothing goes as they'd hoped, and the gang steps in to make things better.

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