- As the search for Mrs. Right continues, Ted woos his dermatologist Stella -- but her receptionist, Abby, seems more interested in him.
- Ted visits a tattoo removal clinic to get his butterfly tattoo removed and he's attracted to his doctor, Stella. She warns him that he will have to go through ten one hour sessions and it it will be very painful. Ted understands and he wants to go out with her, but she can't, as long as Ted is her patient and it's a violation of AMA rules. In addition, she tells Ted up front when he suggests that they can go out when the sessions are over, the answer will be no. Ted is convinced that he can change that no into a yes after ten sessions. During these sessions, Ted tries to charm Stella, but it appears it's not working. One ploy he tries is to be very nice to Stella's receptionist, Abbey, but Stella still says no and Abbey is attracted to Ted. When session ten arrives, and the tattoo removal is complete, when Ted asks her once again, we find out why Stella can't go out on a date with him. Ted, upset that this isn't going to happen, finds a way so they can go out together.—goleafs84
- For Ted, it's love at first sight with his dermatologist, Dr. Stella Zinman, who will be removing his butterfly tattoo in a series of ten weekly sessions. But after what he thought was going to be their first date, she tells him that she ethically can't date patients. Ted is willing to wait until after his tenth and final weekly session to ask her out, which he so tells her. He is therefore heartbroken when she promptly and assertively tells him that she will say no to his date request when that time comes. After speaking to his friends about the issue, Ted figures that he has ten weeks to try and make Stella change her mind. As the weeks pass and as one ploy after another fails, he thinks that working through Stella's naive receptionist Abby might do the trick, but Abby has other thoughts on her mind. Unknown to Ted, his friends are working behind the scenes trying to help him. At the end of week ten, Ted asks the question and Stella gives him her answer... sort of.—Huggo
- Ted (Josh Radnor) is at the clinic to remove his tattoo, where he is attracted to his doctor, Stella (Sarah Chalke). They agree to go to a movie, Plan 9 from Outer Space (which Stella insists is the worst movie ever made), but Ted does not realize Stella had brought her friends along with her, and it was not a date. Ted tells one of the friends that he thought it was a date, and the news reaches Stella. Stella says that as per the AMA rule, she is not allowed to date patients. At the next session, Ted suggests waiting till his ten sessions are over before asking her out, but Stella tells him she will still say no (even though she is not married, has no boyfriends, is not a lesbian, and doesn't only date black guys). Barney says women take only 8.3 secs to decide if they will sleep with a man. Ted still feels that over ten weeks, she will start to like him, so decides to keep trying. Ted screams like a little girl due to the pain from the laser.. His friends believe it is not going well for him. Even though the first five sessions go well (2nd session Ted tells her about himself, 3rd session they speak only French, 4th session Ted makes her laugh so hard she falls off the chair, 5th session Ted juggles), Stella confirms her answer is still no.
Ted decides that being nice to the receptionist, Abby (Britney Spears), would be a good way to let Stella see his good side, but instead, Abby starts to show interest in him. Upset that this didn't work, Ted tries using a self-help book he saw in Stella's clinic. When he tries talking to her about this, she reveals it isn't her book, and she detests it, while Abby confirms that Ted was reading the book in the reception.
Robin (Cobie Smulders) suggests Ted give up on Stella and instead focus on Abby (its nail the receptionist time). Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) agrees, as he made an appointment with Stella to check what she was like, and discovered she had a condition where she is only attracted to men with mustaches (Folicula Felia). Although Ted does not believe him, he still tries to grow a mustache, which Stella laughs at (a year earlier, Barney had made a ten-dollar bet with Ted that he could get him to grow a mustache).
Upset, Ted says he gives up, but Lily (Alyson Hannigan) tells him to try again, as Stella is interested in him, though she says she has not been to see her. It is then revealed that Marshall (Jason Segel) had gone to see Stella to talk up Ted, and found out Stella had a crush on him. Happy that Stella is interested in him, Ted asks her out after his last session, but she says she does not have time for dating because she has a daughter.
After a while, Ted realizes she didn't actually say the word 'no', just that she didn't have time, and so decides to take her out on a "two-minute date" - to dinner at a table at the cafe next door to her practice and "the important parts" of Manos: The Hands of Fate at the electronics store two doors down (which Ted claims is the worst movie of all times), with help from Ranjit (Marshall Manesh). The date goes well, and Stella promises to call if she ever has time. Finally, Abby sees Ted outside the clinic holding flowers he tried to give to Stella, and chases him down the street (thinking that Ted got those flowers for her). She is then seen at the reception telling Barney about how he toyed with her emotions, after which they go out to have sex.
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