- In the aftermath of Ted and Zoey's break-up, Ted is having second thoughts. He is freaking out about an issue with the GNB headquarters, and historically when Ted freaks out about something, he turns to dating an old girlfriend if only for something comfortable and familiar, however bad returning to that relationship ended up being. When Barney and Robin find out that Ted is going to meet Zoey to get back together with her, they have to try and figure out where that meeting place is so that they can stop him. Beyond piecing together this puzzle, Barney and Robin's quest leads to them discussing their own relationship. Meanwhile, Lily has come down with a case of food poisoning from some soup. Marshall eats the soup three hours later, which means that his symptoms of excessive vomiting will start three hours later than Lily's did. Marshall has a job interview with a major environmental law firm in a few hours, and he is just hoping that he can make it through the interview without vomiting. Ted and Barney argue about which of them will have the pleasure of pushing the button when the Arcadian gets imploded. And one of these situation is the starting point for an imminent trip to the altar.—Huggo
- Robin and Barney bond when they intervene in Ted's relationship...until they run into Nora. Marshall and Lily watch a ticking clock as he fears that he soon will be the victim of food poisoning. Meanwhile, Ted performs his Best Man duties at a very important wedding.—CBS Publicity
- With the Arcadian, Barney and Ted argue who is going to press the button to blow up the building. Ted mentions that he ran into Zoey after breaking up and she asked to get coffee, which Robin and Barney say is a signal that she wants to get back together. Zoey doesn't have a job and is sharing her apartment with 2 unemployed youth, who she is sure are selling drugs.
The episode flashes-forward to September 2011. Marshall is feeling down, so Lily decides to get them both some of their favorite soup (they have already had food poisoning from this place thrice, but the place offers a free gallon of soup every time you get sick from their food), but Lily gets ill and begins throwing up in her kindergarten class. Desperate to stop Marshall from eating any, she runs from the school to their house, where she stops him before he takes a spoonful of his third bowl.
Marshall has a business meeting with a prospective employer and has figured out the time when he'll begin vomiting. He knows that he will begin vomiting right in the middle of his interview. Marshall knows he has 3 hours to finish the interview and return to his home. He prepares just in case the vomit comet hits him early, pads himself up at the knees, borrows an adult diaper from an elderly neighbor and lines the inside of his suitcase with plastic wrap. At the interview, the lawyer has just come from a protest at an industrial plant dumping raw sewage into the river. He eats greasy food and shows Marshall clips of all the environmental disasters that they are fighting at their firm. Somehow, Marshall makes it to the end of the interview, but notices that his 3 hours are up. Marshall blurts out that he has food poisoning, and he is likely to start exploding from vomit at any time. He runs out of the meeting room.
He comes home and lies down to get some rest before his "countdown" finishes. He wakes up the following morning to find out that he was not ill, and Lily is pregnant.
Ted is distraught about the lighting for the new building (The contractor provided him 2 choices for a light-bulb and asked him to choose carefully as the building will get 50,000 of the chosen specimen) and decides that these warrants getting back together with a recent ex-girlfriend, Zoey. Ted had left his phone in the bar with Robin and Barney, as he went to met Zoey. This way Robin finds out that Ted is getting back together with Zoey, which she believes is a bad idea. Robin says that Ted had gotten back together with his ex-girlfriends for the flimsiest excuses. He was out of canned cream and got back together with Natalie for 3 months. Got back together with Karen for 9 months, as he didn't have anyone to apply sun burn cream on his back. Wanted to get back together with Robin, as the Pandas at the local zoo hooked up and were having a baby.
Ted decides to meet Zoey and buys an orchid like he first did, but Barney and Robin stop him. While on their way to stop Ted, they have a tender moment between themselves, but decide they need to move on. Barney lets Ted press the button to blow up the Arcadian, and Barney meets Nora again, and asks her to coffee, which Nora accepts. Robin becomes upset as she sees that Barney wants to get back together with Nora.
The episode flashes-forward to the wedding first seen in "Big Days", where Ted and Marshall are sitting outside the church, and Ted is then called in by Lily. Ted goes inside to check on the groom, who is Barney.
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