- When Robin is hesitant to break up with Nick, Barney takes matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, Lily and Marshall are desperate for some private time.
- Nick has sustained a groin injury, which means he has to lay off sex. It's during this time that Robin, who now has to talk to him while spending time with him, realizes that he's not the brightest light in the world, and perhaps she should break up with him. Her friends are on opposite sides of whether she should do so. Barney feels she should since they are obviously not compatible. Marshall and Lily on the other hand think she should ride out the non-sex stretch and things will be back to normal between the two of them when Nick is physically well again. Lily's belief is based on her need to live through Robin vicariously. Marshall's is because Nick is the star player in his after work basketball team, and believes he will quit the team if Robin breaks up with him. One side goes to an extreme to make sure Robin does what he wants. Meanwhile, non-athletic Ted has too formed his own ream in the same basketball league, although Ted's team of architects focuses their energies on something besides basketball.—Huggo
- Robin states that she has not had sex with Nick in days and sex was the only thing that was keeping Robin attracted to Nick. Robin says her drought was because Nick had a groin injury from being a ringer with the Force Majeurs, Marshall's lawyer team in the Midtown Professionals Basketball League (MPBL). Marshall got very intense about the league after losing to a team of accountants. However, that is the least of Robin's worries: she has seen that Nick is dumb and does not catch on to her hints that they should break up. Nick was doing the crossword and got confused on the 4-letter word for cut "Nick". Marshall doesn't want Robin to dump Nick as that would throw him off his game and Nick is the star player on Marshall's team. Barney presents her with an ultimatum: She must break up with Nick by 8pm or he will post an online invitation about Robin going out with her annoying co-worker Patrice (Ellen D. Williams) for a whole day called the "Robin and Patrice's BFF Fun Day". Barney suggests that the breakup take place at Splitsville, a nearby cafe where-true to its name-couples go to break up.
During the date, Robin tries to tell Nick that they're breaking up and puts her phone on speaker so Lily, Marshall, Ted and Barney can hear the breakup as it happens. Barney says that the invite to Patrice goes live in 5 minutes, unless Robin dumps him. However, Nick gets so despondent because his doctor called about an MRI scan on his groin-the injury is enough to put him out of action for the season. Marshall is angry at the degree of the injury because he was banking on Nick to lead the Majeurs to the playoffs. When Nick's amorous gestures sway Robin from breaking up, Barney marches down to the cafe and proclaims his love for Robin. It is too much for Nick, who cries so hard about a broken heart, he even attracts the attention of two crying women who were just dumped. Barney and Robin walk down the street and she thanks him for helping with the breakup. Barney admits that he was just covering for her being his bro and the whole thing with Nick was just an act. However, because he forgot to put down the invite, Patrice calls up Robin and their special day pushes through.
Meanwhile, Marshall works out inside the apartment, while Lily is aroused by sexual images of a ringer that another MPBL team, the Number Crunchers, used against the Majeurs and even imagines an orgy involving Barney, Robin, Nick and the two women he picked up. Disgusted with her sexual fantasies, Ted asks Lily what she was doing. Lily admits that she and Marshall have not had sex in months because Marvin cries whenever the two get intimate anywhere. Ted takes out Marvin for a stroll while Marshall and Lily get down to business.
Ted also plays in the MPBL with his team of architects, the T-Squares. They don't practice anything and spend all of their time in "bonding". As playing coach, he brags about a crazy buzzer beater shot against the Crunchers. However, the shot was not allowed as the ball went out of bounds, and the Crunchers win the game, 112-0. Ted later meets up with his teammates, who promptly throw him off the team by ordering a banana split for him.
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