Plot

Just as Ted starts to settle into his new apartment alone, Barney tries to entice him into going out every single night. Meanwhile, Lily has a naughty dream about someone other than Marshall, and Robin finally becomes a famous news anchor.

For the first time in quite some time, Ted is living by himself, and he begins to relish the fact that his apartment is his castle where he can do as he pleases without having to answer to anyone but himself. Ted's peace is shattered by Barney, who, despite feeling that he is in love with Quinn and enjoying telling everyone that he is dating a stripper, wants to hang out with Ted in bro mode every night to make each - wait for it - legendary. Meanwhile, Lily has had another of her sex dreams which did not involve Marshall. Marshall doesn't mind Lily having these dreams as she always tells him about them afterward. But this time, Lily won't tell him about it. Marshall surmises that it's because she dreamed about one of their friends. He'll know who it is when Lily blushes in front of that person the bright vermilion color she blushed when she first uncomfortably tried to skirt Marshall's questioning to her about the dream. And Robin is lamenting the fact that despite being an on-air personality for a national news program, she still isn't famous. Her first eye in the sky traffic report might change that status, but not in the way she would have thought or wanted.—Huggo

Ted begins to get accustomed to his life alone in his apartment. He shares his experiences with Marshall, particularly being able to walk around naked with nobody taking offense, leaving the laundry basket in the middle of the living room and eating takeout food he saved for himself. Ted believes that the guy who stays at home by himself is practically a genius. He can sit around, watch TV, drink beer and eat ribs all the time. Barney seems excited that Quinn is a stripper and makes it sound like he is really happy about dating a stripper. Seeing an opportunity to excite Ted, Barney invites him to "make every night legendary" by doing many things like establishing a Mariachi band, ate everything on the menu and bringing a horse inside MacLaren's. Before long, Ted resists Barney's invitations and shuns his offer to bungee-jump off the Statue of Liberty or steal a mummy from the National History Museum or party with the mole people. Barney locks Ted out of the apartment to make him go out on the town, but Ted just heads down to MacLaren's to call his apartment superintendent for help. Ted tells Barney that all nights simply cannot be Legendary as that way no night will be truly Legendary. Plus, he says that he has had equal adventure in his life as Barney.

Ted and Barney get into an argument about who has earned more points with their antics in life using Barney's points system. Barney claims that he is 500 points ahead because he completed a dare of picking up a woman while wearing a dress. Remembering an earlier conversation from 2010, Ted takes up a dare to get a woman's number while wearing a sun dress.

When pressed by Ted, Barney admits that he needs to get his mind off Quinn during her shift at the Lusty Leopard. Every night from 9 PM to 4 AM, Barney's life is a living hell and he needs something to take his mind off it.

Meanwhile, Marshall is distraught upon learning that Lily has had a sex dream about someone else, lamenting that she has often told him about her dreams over the years. George Washington, Three way with Bill Cosby and Papa Smurf and so on. Lily has always told Marshall about her dirty sex dreams, but this time she held back. She blushed deep red, which means she dreamed about someone they know. As they go out on a fancy dinner date, he finds out that Ranjit (Marshall Manesh) is the one Lily dreamed about and confronts her on the road. Lily angrily leaves him and seeks advice from Quinn. Quinn offers that men do crazy things during pregnancy and should be ignored.

Later over dinner, Marshall and Ranjit talk about the dreams and Ranjit counsels him that part of being a good husband and father is remaining calm while everyone else acts crazy. Ranjit says that Marshall never gets to be crazy again as after the baby is born, it will be the baby's turn to be crazy. Marshall realizes that all the men in Lily's sex dreams were all great fathers. Back at the apartment, Marshall and Lily make up, though Lily keeps her wildest sex dreams a secret.

Although Robin has been promoted at World Wide News, she is disappointed that the front desk guard does not recognize her, while letting everybody else through without requesting ID.

Sandy Rivers asks her to deliver the night-time traffic reports from a network helicopter, where the pilot suffers a stroke. She successfully lands the helicopter with help from the ground as the incident is covered live (the other characters are also clued in to the footage).

Future Ted reveals that the incident made Robin an instant star - which resulted in her meeting Mayor Michael Bloomberg, appearing on Letterman, and having a special deli sandwich named after her. As she goes home, she receives a text message from Ted telling her that, even though they are not talking, he is glad to know she's okay.