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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tons for future seasons.
** The five-word phrases people say and will come to regret that Future!Ted mentions include Marshall saying "I can jump that far", which he does in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E24TheLeap the Season 4 finale]], and Ted saying "I'm gonna win her back", which he does in Season 8. Marshall also does this [[OlderThanTheyThink just a season ago]] in the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E07Dowisetrepla Dowisetrepla]]", when he says "We should buy a place".
** After moving the party from [=MacLaren=]'s to their apartment, Barney and Ted discuss starting a band. Two seasons later, Barney lies to his father about the gang being a band.
** Two seasons later, the gang will once again talk about buying a bar, and Ted and Barney will open one called "Puzzles", where they indeed regret doing so. Also, as revealed in the final season episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS9E16HowYourMotherMetMe How Your Mother Met Me]]", the Mother's future boyfriend Louis apparently visited [=MacLaren=]'s while Ted and Barney were running it, thinking it was actually called "Puzzles".
** The five-word phrases people say and will come to regret that Future!Ted mentions include Marshall saying "I can jump that far", which he does in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E24TheLeap the Season 4 finale]], and Ted saying "I'm gonna win her back", which he does in Season 8. Marshall also does this [[OlderThanTheyThink just a season ago]] in the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E07Dowisetrepla Dowisetrepla]]", when he says "We should buy a place".
** After moving the party from [=MacLaren=]'s to their apartment, Barney and Ted discuss starting a band. Two seasons later, Barney lies to his father about the gang being a band.
** Two seasons later, the gang will once again talk about buying a bar, and Ted and Barney will open one called "Puzzles", where they indeed regret doing so. Also, as revealed in the final season episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS9E16HowYourMotherMetMe How Your Mother Met Me]]", the Mother's future boyfriend Louis apparently visited [=MacLaren=]'s while Ted and Barney were running it, thinking it was actually called "Puzzles".
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: How can you tell that the episodes take place over different days of the storm? Because on day 1, Marshall is wearing the exact same shirt he'd been wearing earlier at the bar, while Ted and Barney are dressed in different clothes.
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**seasons as well.
*** The five-word phrases people say and will come to regret that Future!Ted mentions include Marshall saying "I can jump that far", which he does in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E24TheLeap the Season 4 finale]], and Ted saying "I'm gonna win her back", which he does in Season 8. Marshall also does this [[OlderThanTheyThink just a season ago]] in the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E07Dowisetrepla Dowisetrepla]]", when he says "We should buy a place".
** *** After moving the party from [=MacLaren=]'s to their apartment, Barney and Ted discuss starting a band. Two seasons later, Barney lies to his father about the gang being a band.
** *** Two seasons later, the gang will once again talk about buying a bar, and Ted and Barney will open one called "Puzzles", where they indeed regret doing so. Also, as revealed in the final season episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS9E16HowYourMotherMetMe How Your Mother Met Me]]", the Mother's future boyfriend Louis apparently visited [=MacLaren=]'s while Ted and Barney were running it, thinking it was actually called "Puzzles".
** Tons for future
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*** The five-word phrases people say and will come to regret that Future!Ted mentions include Marshall saying "I can jump that far", which he does in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E24TheLeap the Season 4 finale]], and Ted saying "I'm gonna win her back", which he does in Season 8. Marshall also does this [[OlderThanTheyThink just a season ago]] in the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E07Dowisetrepla Dowisetrepla]]", when he says "We should buy a place".
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* AnachronicOrder: By the last third of the episode, Future!Ted clarifies that the three subplots happened in different days of the snow storm. Marshall and Robin's trip to the airport happens on Tuesday, Ted and Barney's subplot with the band happens on Wednesday. And Lily arrives on Thursday.
* ArtisticLicense: The image of the storm just prior to the opening theme song is spinning clockwise. In the northern hemisphere, storms spin counter-clockwise due to the Coriolis effect. The landmass shown underneath the storm is clearly North America (the Great Lakes can be seen).
* ArtisticLicense: The image of the storm just prior to the opening theme song is spinning clockwise. In the northern hemisphere, storms spin counter-clockwise due to the Coriolis effect. The landmass shown underneath the storm is clearly North America (the Great Lakes can be seen).
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* AnachronicOrder: By the last third of the episode, Future!Ted clarifies that the three subplots happened in different days of the snow storm.snowstorm. Marshall and Robin's trip to the airport happens on Tuesday, Ted and Barney's subplot with the band happens on Wednesday. And Lily arrives on Thursday.
* ArtisticLicense: The image of the storm just prior to the opening theme song is spinning clockwise. In the northern hemisphere, storms spincounter-clockwise counterclockwise due to the Coriolis effect. The landmass shown underneath the storm is clearly North America (the Great Lakes can be seen).
* ArtisticLicense: The image of the storm just prior to the opening theme song is spinning clockwise. In the northern hemisphere, storms spin
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* ContinuityNod: Ted and Barney uses {{Telepathy}}, which was established that the gang "uses" since Season 1.
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* EventTitle: The episode refers to the snow-storm that hit New York for three days.
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** The five-word phrases people say and will come to regret that Future!Ted mentions include Marshall saying "I can jump that far", which he does in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E24TheLeap the Season 4 finale]], and Ted saying "I'm gonna win her back", which he does in Season 8. Marshall actually also does this [[OlderThanTheyThink just a season ago]] in the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E07Dowisetrepla Dowisetrepla]]", when he says "We should buy a place".
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* GeekyTurnOn: Ted calls dibs on the girl who made a StarWars reference, [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack by comparing the blizzard with Hoth]].
* GrandRomanticGesture: Marshall and Lily's "airport pick-up" tradition, where one waits at the airport while the other brings back a six-pack beer. Despite promising each other that this year they would break tradition, both regret it and end up doing their parts to keep doing it (Marshall goes to the airport twice despite the snow storm, and Lily buys a keg because there wasn't any six-packs)
* GrandRomanticGesture: Marshall and Lily's "airport pick-up" tradition, where one waits at the airport while the other brings back a six-pack beer. Despite promising each other that this year they would break tradition, both regret it and end up doing their parts to keep doing it (Marshall goes to the airport twice despite the snow storm, and Lily buys a keg because there wasn't any six-packs)
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* GeekyTurnOn: Ted calls dibs on the girl who made a StarWars Franchise/StarWars reference, [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack by comparing the blizzard with Hoth]].
* GrandRomanticGesture: Marshall and Lily's "airport pick-up" tradition, where one waits at the airport while the other brings back a six-pack beer. Despite promising each other that this year they would break tradition, both regret it and end up doing their parts to keep doing it (Marshall goes to the airport twice despite thesnow storm, snowstorm, and Lily buys a keg because there wasn't any six-packs)
* GrandRomanticGesture: Marshall and Lily's "airport pick-up" tradition, where one waits at the airport while the other brings back a six-pack beer. Despite promising each other that this year they would break tradition, both regret it and end up doing their parts to keep doing it (Marshall goes to the airport twice despite the
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* MaleGaze: There's a scene at the beginning of the episode where a sweating Robin is only wearing a tank-top and very short shorts.
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** When coming to the bar during the snow storm, one of the girls makes a ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' reference, saying it's snowing like Hoth outside.
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* SnowMeansLove: Marshall still decided to pick up Lily despite a snow storm.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Robin is wrong about criticizing Marshall and Lily having over the top romantic gestures and rituals in their relationship, but she is right about them not being essential for every couple. Marshall is wrong about judging Robin as emotionless because she isn't the romantic type, but he is also right about traditions are fine as long as both like doing them.
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* AnachronicOrder: By the last third of the episode, Future!Ted clarifies that the three subplots happened in different days of the snow storm. Ted and Barney's subplot with the band starts in Day 1. Marshall and Robin's trip to the airport happens in Day 2, and Lily arrives in Day 3.
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* AnachronicOrder: By the last third of the episode, Future!Ted clarifies that the three subplots happened in different days of the snow storm. Ted and Barney's subplot with the band starts in Day 1. Marshall and Robin's trip to the airport happens in Day 2, on Tuesday, Ted and Barney's subplot with the band happens on Wednesday. And Lily arrives in Day 3.on Thursday.
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* DaddyIssues: Barney calls dibs on the girl who let's out that her dad was a drunk and abandoned her.
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* UndyingLoyalty: Just as Lily runs into Ranjit, who is picking up a client, he notices that Lily and Marshall are not following their tradition, so he leaves his client and rushes with Lily to get Marshall's beer.
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* AnachronicOrder: By the last third of the episode, Future!Ted clarifies that the three subplots happened in different days of the snow storm. Ted and Barney's subplot with the band starts in Day 1. Marshall and Robin's trip to the airport happens in Day 2, and Lily arrives in Day 3.
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* GeekyTurnOn: Ted calls dibs on the girl who made a StarWars reference, [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack by comparing the blizzard with Hoth]].
* GrandRomanticGesture: Marshall and Lily's "airport pick-up"tradition. tradition, where one waits at the airport while the other brings back a six-pack beer. Despite promising each other that this year they would break tradition, both regret it and end up doing their parts to keep doing it (Marshall goes to the airport twice despite the snow storm, and Lily buys a keg because there wasn't any six-packs)
* GrandRomanticGesture: Marshall and Lily's "airport pick-up"
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* ForeignFanservice: The woman Lily pictures Marshall leaving her for is implied to be European.
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* EuropeansAreKinky: The woman Lily pictures Marshall leaving her for is implied to be European, and a {{statuesque|Stunner}} MsFanservice one at that.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: The woman Lily pictures Marshall leaving her for is a {{statuesque|Stunner}} blonde.
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** The five-word phrases people say and will come to regret that Future!Ted mentions include Marshall saying "I can jump that far", which he does in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E24TheLeap the Season 4 finale]], and Ted saying "I'm gonna win her back", which he does in Season 8. Marshall actually also does this [[OlderThanTheyThink just a season ago]] in the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E0Dowisetrepla Dowisetrepla]]", when he says "We should buy a place".
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** The five-word phrases people say and will come to regret that Future!Ted mentions include Marshall saying "I can jump that far", which he does in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E24TheLeap the Season 4 finale]], and Ted saying "I'm gonna win her back", which he does in Season 8. Marshall actually also does this [[OlderThanTheyThink just a season ago]] in the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E0Dowisetrepla "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E07Dowisetrepla Dowisetrepla]]", when he says "We should buy a place".
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* SpoilerTitle: Played with. The title alludes to the SequencingDeception reveal, but is vague enough about it that the audience is still taken aback.
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* SpoilerTitle: Played with.PlayedWith. The title alludes to the SequencingDeception reveal, but is vague enough about it that the audience is still taken aback.
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* TemptingFate: According to Future!Ted, the "five-word phrases people say and will come to regret".
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* TemptingFate: According to Future!Ted, Future Ted, the "five-word phrases people say and will come to regret".regret".
* WildTeenParty: Ted and Barney organized one to hook-up with two college-aged girls. Doing so made said college students repay them by helping Marshall on his GrandRomanticGesture for Lily at the end of the episode.
* WildTeenParty: Ted and Barney organized one to hook-up with two college-aged girls. Doing so made said college students repay them by helping Marshall on his GrandRomanticGesture for Lily at the end of the episode.
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** Barney quotes Closing Time by Music/{{Semisonic}} after last call at [=MacLaren=]'s.
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** Barney quotes Closing Time "Closing Time" by Music/{{Semisonic}} after last call at [=MacLaren=]'s.
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** The flashback where Barney gets the idea to buy a bar, Ted and Barney are playing ''Tabletop/{{Monopoly}}''.
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* BrokenStreak: Subverted. Both Marshall and Lily ultimately decided not to break their "airport pick-up" tradition.
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* CutApart: Marshall and Lily rushing to meet each other at the airport. It is then revealed that each of them came on different days.
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* EventTitle: The episode refers to the snow-storm that hit New york for three days.
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* EventTitle: The episode refers to the snow-storm that hit New york York for three days.
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* TemptingFate: According to Future!Ted, the "five-word phrases people say and will come to regret".
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* TemptingFate: According to Future!Ted, the "five-word phrases people say and will come to regret".
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* BrokenStreak: Subverted. Both Marshall and Lily ultimately decided not to break their "airport pick-up" tradition.
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** The five-word phrases people say and will come to regret that Future!Ted mentions include Marshall saying "I can jump that far", which he does in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E24TheLeap the Season 4 finale]], and Ted saying "I'm gonna win her back", which he does in Season 8. Marshall actually also does this [[OlderThanTheyThink just last season ago]] in the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E0Dowisetrepla Dowisetrepla]]", when he says "We should buy a place".
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** The five-word phrases people say and will come to regret that Future!Ted mentions include Marshall saying "I can jump that far", which he does in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E24TheLeap the Season 4 finale]], and Ted saying "I'm gonna win her back", which he does in Season 8. Marshall actually also does this [[OlderThanTheyThink just last a season ago]] in the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E0Dowisetrepla Dowisetrepla]]", when he says "We should buy a place".
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* SequencingDeception: It's not revealed until the end that each of the three plot lines take place in three different days.
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* SequencingDeception: It's not revealed until the end that each of the three plot lines take place in three different days. That being said, the episode has a SpoilerTitle.
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** The bar montage and accompanying Kokomo allude to similar scenes from Roger Donaldson's 1988 film, ''Film/{{Cocktail}}''.
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** The bar montage and accompanying Kokomo [[Music/TheBeachBoys Kokomo]] allude to similar scenes from Roger Donaldson's 1988 film, ''Film/{{Cocktail}}''.
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* SnowMeansLove: Marshall still decided to pick up lily despite a snow storm.
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* TemptingFate: According to Future!Ted, the five-word phrases people say and will come to regret.
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* StrongerThanTheyLook: Ranjit lifted a keg of beer using one arm.
* TemptingFate: According to Future!Ted, thefive-word "five-word phrases people say and will come to regret.regret".
* TemptingFate: According to Future!Ted, the
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* ArtisticLicense: The image of the storm just prior to the opening theme song is spinning clockwise. In the northern hemisphere, storms spin counter-clockwise due to the Coriolis effect. The landmass shown underneath the storm is clearly North America (the Great Lakes can be seen).
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* ArtisticLicense: The image of the storm just prior to the opening theme song is spinning clockwise. In the northern hemisphere, storms spin counter-clockwise due to the Coriolis effect. The landmass shown underneath the storm is clearly North America (the Great Lakes can be seen).seen).
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Future Ted recounts three different stories that took place three different days during a big storm in New York.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* ArtisticLicense: The image of the storm just prior to the opening theme song is spinning clockwise. In the northern hemisphere, storms spin counter-clockwise due to the Coriolis effect. The landmass shown underneath the storm is clearly North America (the Great Lakes can be seen).
* BrickJoke: The woman Lily pictures Marshall leaving her for if she doesn't bring him a six-pack is a CallBack to what 15 year-old Marshall's description of his future wife in a letter to his future self, which Marshall will find in the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E10TheWindow The Window]]".
* ContinuityNod: Ted and Barney uses {{Telepathy}}, which was established that the gang "uses" since Season 1.
* EventTitle: The episode refers to the snow-storm that hit New york for three days.
* FemaleGaze: The man Marshall pictures Lily leaving him for displays his abs.
* ForeignFanservice: The woman Lily pictures Marshall leaving her for is implied to be European.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tons for future seasons.
** The five-word phrases people say and will come to regret that Future!Ted mentions include Marshall saying "I can jump that far", which he does in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E24TheLeap the Season 4 finale]], and Ted saying "I'm gonna win her back", which he does in Season 8. Marshall actually also does this [[OlderThanTheyThink just last season ago]] in the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E0Dowisetrepla Dowisetrepla]]", when he says "We should buy a place".
** After moving the party from [=MacLaren=]'s to their apartment, Barney and Ted discuss starting a band. Two seasons later, Barney lies to his father about the gang being a band.
** Two seasons later, the gang will once again talk about buying a bar, and Ted and Barney will open one called "Puzzles", where they indeed regret doing so. Also, as revealed in the final season episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS9E16HowYourMotherMetMe How Your Mother Met Me]]", the Mother's future boyfriend Louis apparently visited [=MacLaren=]'s while Ted and Barney were running it, thinking it was actually called "Puzzles".
* GrandRomanticGesture: Marshall and Lily's "airport pick-up" tradition.
* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: PlayedForLaughs when Marshall thinks Robin hit on him, which is obviously not the case.
* IOweYouMyLife: How the band felt for Ted and the gang.
* MaleGaze: There's a scene at the beginning of the episode where a sweating Robin is only wearing a tank-top and very short shorts.
* ShoutOut:
** The image of the storms shown in the cold opening imitate the exact weather conditions of The Perfect Storm of 1991.
** Barney quotes Closing Time by Music/{{Semisonic}} after last call at [=MacLaren=]'s.
** When coming to the bar during the snow storm, one of the girls makes a ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' reference, saying it's snowing like Hoth outside.
** The marching band on the show is actually a small portion of The Spirit of Troy, also known as the University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band.
** The bar montage and accompanying Kokomo allude to similar scenes from Roger Donaldson's 1988 film, ''Film/{{Cocktail}}''.
** The flashback where Barney gets the idea to buy a bar, Ted and Barney are playing ''Tabletop/{{Monopoly}}''.
** Barney hitting on a girl in the band's flute section may be an ActorAllusion to Creator/AlysonHannigan's infamous flute scene from ''Film/AmericanPie''.
** The song the band played at the end is ''Auld Lang Syne''
* SnowMeansLove: Marshall still decided to pick up lily despite a snow storm.
* AStormIsComing: The beginning of the episode highlights the incoming snow storm.
* TemptingFate: According to Future!Ted, the five-word phrases people say and will come to regret.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* ArtisticLicense: The image of the storm just prior to the opening theme song is spinning clockwise. In the northern hemisphere, storms spin counter-clockwise due to the Coriolis effect. The landmass shown underneath the storm is clearly North America (the Great Lakes can be seen).
* BrickJoke: The woman Lily pictures Marshall leaving her for if she doesn't bring him a six-pack is a CallBack to what 15 year-old Marshall's description of his future wife in a letter to his future self, which Marshall will find in the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E10TheWindow The Window]]".
* ContinuityNod: Ted and Barney uses {{Telepathy}}, which was established that the gang "uses" since Season 1.
* EventTitle: The episode refers to the snow-storm that hit New york for three days.
* FemaleGaze: The man Marshall pictures Lily leaving him for displays his abs.
* ForeignFanservice: The woman Lily pictures Marshall leaving her for is implied to be European.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tons for future seasons.
** The five-word phrases people say and will come to regret that Future!Ted mentions include Marshall saying "I can jump that far", which he does in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E24TheLeap the Season 4 finale]], and Ted saying "I'm gonna win her back", which he does in Season 8. Marshall actually also does this [[OlderThanTheyThink just last season ago]] in the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E0Dowisetrepla Dowisetrepla]]", when he says "We should buy a place".
** After moving the party from [=MacLaren=]'s to their apartment, Barney and Ted discuss starting a band. Two seasons later, Barney lies to his father about the gang being a band.
** Two seasons later, the gang will once again talk about buying a bar, and Ted and Barney will open one called "Puzzles", where they indeed regret doing so. Also, as revealed in the final season episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS9E16HowYourMotherMetMe How Your Mother Met Me]]", the Mother's future boyfriend Louis apparently visited [=MacLaren=]'s while Ted and Barney were running it, thinking it was actually called "Puzzles".
* GrandRomanticGesture: Marshall and Lily's "airport pick-up" tradition.
* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: PlayedForLaughs when Marshall thinks Robin hit on him, which is obviously not the case.
* IOweYouMyLife: How the band felt for Ted and the gang.
* MaleGaze: There's a scene at the beginning of the episode where a sweating Robin is only wearing a tank-top and very short shorts.
* ShoutOut:
** The image of the storms shown in the cold opening imitate the exact weather conditions of The Perfect Storm of 1991.
** Barney quotes Closing Time by Music/{{Semisonic}} after last call at [=MacLaren=]'s.
** When coming to the bar during the snow storm, one of the girls makes a ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' reference, saying it's snowing like Hoth outside.
** The marching band on the show is actually a small portion of The Spirit of Troy, also known as the University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band.
** The bar montage and accompanying Kokomo allude to similar scenes from Roger Donaldson's 1988 film, ''Film/{{Cocktail}}''.
** The flashback where Barney gets the idea to buy a bar, Ted and Barney are playing ''Tabletop/{{Monopoly}}''.
** Barney hitting on a girl in the band's flute section may be an ActorAllusion to Creator/AlysonHannigan's infamous flute scene from ''Film/AmericanPie''.
** The song the band played at the end is ''Auld Lang Syne''
* SnowMeansLove: Marshall still decided to pick up lily despite a snow storm.
* AStormIsComing: The beginning of the episode highlights the incoming snow storm.
* TemptingFate: According to Future!Ted, the five-word phrases people say and will come to regret.
