This episode is funny and has cute moments, but from fifteen years in the future, a lot of it feels like it’s striking the wrong tone. In...

The episode opens with the guys hanging out in a coffee shop where two main things happen. 1. The barista has a crush on Marshall and he...

There are three couples in this episode competing for the title. Robin and Ted - things are going great for them. So great, in fact, that...

At the opening of this episode, Ted is telling the guys and Robin is telling Lily that they’ve had their first big fight as a couple. Ted...

The episode begins with Marshall casually looking at Robin’s butt as she walks away, and while Marshall is super embarrassed about it,...

The episode starts with Ted telling his kids that this is all leading up to meeting their mother (it is - dating Robin is actually an...

Once again, Ted opens this episode with an ominous teaser. “Life was good. But everything was about to change.” He’s telling us the...

This episode opens at the bar, where we learn that Ted is turning 28. He gets some food and Lily feels the need to touch the plate to...

This episode opens up with Lily and Marshall rushing to book their dream wedding venue. They have this really funny scene where they are...

First scene in this episode is Ted talking about how much he loves Victoria, then it smash-cuts to Marshall talking about how much he’s...

This is the only episode in the entire series to start with “previously”s. It shows some background info: Ted is in a long-distance...

This episode starts on Marshall as a kid, reading a book about an anthropologist studying gorillas. Then he takes her seminar and she...

This episode opens up with Ted and Victoria being kind of adorable in their new relationship. We cut to Marshall coloring up his butt so...

Tonight, we’re talking about unlikeable characters. Barney has been a jerk from the beginning, his behavior is almost entirely...

Ted and Victoria are actually only on screen together for 122 seconds total throughout this entire episode.

This "Yes, but... No, and..." trick is a good way to check your Try/Fail cycles and keep tension in your story.

Warning: once you know about Bottle Episodes, it's impossible to stop seeing them everywhere.

Ted starts doing shots of something mysterious and then remembers nothing. He wakes up with a pineapple.

There are two different storylines in this episode: Lily's story, and Barney's story.

So our lesson this week is a What Not To Do lesson.