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* AnAesop: It's a genuine Aesop, but turns into a SpoofAesop almost immediately.
-->'''Future Ted:''' That was the moment we learned that relationships take hard work, but eventually everything will work out.\\
'''Robin:''' [walks in, hot again]\\
'''Lily:''' Hey, where's Barney?\\
'''Robin:''' We broke up.\\
'''Future Ted:''' And that was the moment when we unlearned that other lesson we had just learned a few seconds earlier.
-->'''Future Ted:''' That was the moment we learned that relationships take hard work, but eventually everything will work out.\\
'''Robin:''' [walks in, hot again]\\
'''Lily:''' Hey, where's Barney?\\
'''Robin:''' We broke up.\\
'''Future Ted:''' And that was the moment when we unlearned that other lesson we had just learned a few seconds earlier.
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** Robin mentions that she and Ted have a [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E17TheFrontPorch pact to marry if neither is married by the time she is 40]]. When she tells Barney, his reaction suggests he already knew, so Ted or Robin may have told him off screen, though he could have been trying to save face.
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** Robin mentions that she and Ted have a [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E17TheFrontPorch pact to marry if neither is married by the time she is 40]]. When she tells Barney, his reaction suggests he already knew, so Ted or Robin may have told him off screen, though he could have been trying lying to save face.
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** Robin mentions that she and Ted have a [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E17TheFrontPorch pact to marry if neither is married by the time she is 40]].
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** Robin mentions that she and Ted have a [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E17TheFrontPorch pact to marry if neither is married by the time she is 40]]. When she tells Barney, his reaction suggests he already knew, so Ted or Robin may have told him off screen, though he could have been trying to save face.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Attempted by Barney, who asks to marry Robin if neither is married by the time she is 40. Robin says she already has that deal with Ted. Barney then asks to marry her if neither is married by the time she is 39. Robin laughs and they just walk out of the restaurant.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Attempted by Barney, who asks to marry Robin if neither is married by the time she is 40. Robin says she already has that deal with Ted. Barney then asks to marry her if neither is married by the time she is 39. Robin laughs and they just walk out of the restaurant. Her answer, if any, is not shown.
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** Robin mentions that she and Ted have a pact to marry if neither is married by the time she is 40.
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** Robin mentions that she and Ted have a [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E17TheFrontPorch pact to marry if neither is married by the time she is 40.40]].
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** Robin mentions that she and Ted have a pact to marry if neither is married by the time she is 40.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Attempted by Barney, who asks to marry Robin if neither is married by the time she is 40. Robin says she already has that deal with Ted. Barney then asks to marry her if neither is married by the time she is 39. Robin laughs and they just walk out of the restaurant.
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* HollywoodHomely: InUniverse, though Ted says she probably only let herself go a little but, the show uglies up Cobie Smulders a lot to show how unhappy he is.
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* HollywoodHomely: InUniverse, though Ted says she probably only let herself go a little but, the show uglies up Cobie Smulders Creator/CobieSmulders a lot to show how unhappy he is.
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* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Robin asks if anyone else just felt a chill moments before a de-fatted Barney walks into the bar, ready to hunt.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Alan Thicke lets slip that he and Robin worked together on ''Sandcastles in the Sand'' '''too'''. Barney takes off to find Robin Sparkles 3, a failed tv variety show.
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* InSpiteOfANail: Despite everything going wrong with Lily's plan, Barney and Robin understand how awful they are for each other and break up.
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* InSpiteOfANail: InSpiteOfANail:
** Despite everything going wrong with Lily's plan, Barney and Robin understand how awful they are for each other and breakup.up.
** Even though Lily completely screwed up and got an actor playing the robot from ''Series/LostInSpace'' instead of a stormtrooper, it would have worked. Robin also mistakes it for a stormtrooper and Barney has to prevent himself from launching into an argument about it.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Meg was always a little nuts, falling way too hard for Barney and forgiving him for getting her arrested for trespassing and being willing to take him back, they really dial it up for this episode, showing that she's also forgiven him for [[NoodleIncident the restraining order]] and knowing Alan Thicke's home address when she didn't even know he was going to be there.
** Despite everything going wrong with Lily's plan, Barney and Robin understand how awful they are for each other and break
** Even though Lily completely screwed up and got an actor playing the robot from ''Series/LostInSpace'' instead of a stormtrooper, it would have worked. Robin also mistakes it for a stormtrooper and Barney has to prevent himself from launching into an argument about it.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Meg was always a little nuts, falling way too hard for Barney and forgiving him for getting her arrested for trespassing and being willing to take him back, they really dial it up for this episode, showing that she's also forgiven him for [[NoodleIncident the restraining order]] and knowing Alan Thicke's home address when she didn't even know he was going to be there.
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* InSpiteOfANail: Despite everything going wrong, Barney and Robin understand how awful they are for each other and break up.
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* InSpiteOfANail: Despite everything going wrong, wrong with Lily's plan, Barney and Robin understand how awful they are for each other and break up.
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* AnAesop: It's a genuine Aesop, but turns into a SpoofAesop almost immediately.
-->'''Future Ted:''' That was the moment we learned that relationships take hard work, but eventually everything will work out.\\
'''Robin:''' [walks in, hot again]\\
'''Lily:''' Hey, where's Barney?\\
'''Robin:''' We broke up.\\
'''Future Ted:''' And that was the moment when we unlearned that other lesson we had just learned a few seconds earlier.
-->'''Future Ted:''' That was the moment we learned that relationships take hard work, but eventually everything will work out.\\
'''Robin:''' [walks in, hot again]\\
'''Lily:''' Hey, where's Barney?\\
'''Robin:''' We broke up.\\
'''Future Ted:''' And that was the moment when we unlearned that other lesson we had just learned a few seconds earlier.
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* EpicFail: Lily comes out of retirement to break up Robin and Barney, but, apart from Alan Thicke showing up, everything goes wrong.
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* EpicFail: Lily comes out of retirement to break up Robin and Barney, but, apart from Alan Thicke showing up, everything goes wrong.wrong and Barney and Robin don't fight.
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* InSpiteOfANail: Despite everything going wrong, Barney and Robin understand how awful they are for each other and break up.
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* EpicFail: Lily comes out of retirement to break up Robin and Barney, but, apart from Alan Thicke showing up, everything goes wrong.
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* HollywoodHomely: The show uglies up Cobie Smulders a lot to show how unhappy he is.
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* HollywoodHomely: The InUniverse, though Ted says she probably only let herself go a little but, the show uglies up Cobie Smulders a lot to show how unhappy he is.
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* TheBusCameBack: Meg, the woman Barney hooked up with when Marshall and Lily were buying their apartment, returns to spark an argument between Barney and Robin.
* CallBack: The back and forth between Ted and Lily about throwing away the porn exactly mirrors the back and forth she and Robin had about the battery operated recreational fake penis Robin bought for her bridal shower.
* CallBack: The back and forth between Ted and Lily about throwing away the porn exactly mirrors the back and forth she and Robin had about the battery operated recreational fake penis Robin bought for her bridal shower.
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* FatSuit: NPH puts on a series of ever bigger fat suits to represent how unhappy he is in his relationship.
* HollywoodHomely: The show uglies up Cobie Smulders a lot to show how unhappy he is.
* ShoutOut: Barney asks, if he's dead, for Ted to take his body to the Hamptons and recreate ''Film/WeekendAtBernies''.
* HollywoodHomely: The show uglies up Cobie Smulders a lot to show how unhappy he is.
* ShoutOut: Barney asks, if he's dead, for Ted to take his body to the Hamptons and recreate ''Film/WeekendAtBernies''.
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* ContinuityNod:
** Marshall and Ted try to convince Lily to break Barney and Robin up, [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E17TheFrontPorch but she is still regretful after her fight with Ted about that]].
** One of the strategies Ted tries is to freak Robin out [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E22SomethingBlue with an engagement ring]] inside her glass. A sign that she and Barney are not being themselves is the resignation in their reactions.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Right after Robin reveals to the gang that she and Barney are broken up, Barney doesn't take long to revert to his old womanizing self.
** Marshall and Ted try to convince Lily to break Barney and Robin up, [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E17TheFrontPorch but she is still regretful after her fight with Ted about that]].
** One of the strategies Ted tries is to freak Robin out [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS2E22SomethingBlue with an engagement ring]] inside her glass. A sign that she and Barney are not being themselves is the resignation in their reactions.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Right after Robin reveals to the gang that she and Barney are broken up, Barney doesn't take long to revert to his old womanizing self.
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* BlatantLies: According to Future!Ted, he "accidentally" dropped the suitcase with the porn while he was "getting rid of it", the "Archisexture" tape bounced into the walls and landed on the VCR player.
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* BatmanGambit: Lily's elaborate plan to have everything wrong with Barney and Robin's relationship to show up at their date.
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* BatmanGambit: Lily's elaborate plan to have everything wrong with Barney and Robin's relationship to relationship show up at their date.
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: A variation. Somehow, Barney knew where Marshall would be sitting when he, Ted and Lily were watching the tape.
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: A variation. Somehow, Barney knew where Marshall would be sitting when he, Ted and Lily were watching the tape.
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When it becomes apparent that Barney and Robin are unhappy in their relationship, Ted and Marshall enlist Lily's help to break them up.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* BatmanGambit: Lily's elaborate plan to have everything wrong with Barney and Robin's relationship to show up at their date.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* BatmanGambit: Lily's elaborate plan to have everything wrong with Barney and Robin's relationship to show up at their date.
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