How I Met Your MotherDowisetrepla
Original Air Date: November 5, 2007
KP – TwoCents Head Writer
Yeah, I don’t know what the title means either, or how to pronounce it for that matter, but I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough, now won’t we?
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How I Met Your Mother
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Original Air Date: November 5, 2007
KP – TwoCents Head Writer
Yeah, I don’t know what the title means either, or how to pronounce it for that matter, but I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough, now won’t we?
As Barney is telling Ted about the breasts of last night’s conquering, Lilly and Marshall are trying to have a nice romantic candle-light dinner in the same apartment. Then we have clips of Ted, Barney and Robin getting in the way of Lilly/Marshall private time. But what really put Marshall over the edge? Ted left the top off the peanut butter jar. According to Marshall that is the “sort of inconsiderate, immature, jackassery (my new favorite word)” that makes him feel like he’s living in the Real World house and not the early cool years with jobs but Hawaii and after. This makes Marshall announce it’s time for Lilly and Ted to move out. Of course buying a new place may be an issue with Lilly’s clinical shop-a-haulicism.
They decide to go look at a place they find in the paper. It’s in a part of town called, wait for it…. Dowisetrepla, which, according to the snooty real estate agent (Maggie Wheeler – you know Janice on “Friends”. OH MY GAWD) is THE up and coming neighborhood. Marshall says “Let’s get it!”
Marshall’s vision of a family there? A rock band with his sons and himself on the drums. Lilly’s vision? Daughters painting for exhibits at the Met. Debt be damned, they both decide to buy it and chug down some champagne at the bar. Wendy the bartender (Charlene Amoia) seems to be getting a lot more screen time lately.
At the loan office, Lilly is forced to put her social security number in to the calculations and they are approved for a loan at EIGHTEEN percent. Ouch. The Loan Officer shows Marshall Lilly’s credit card debt. Again I say – OUCH.
Ted, using his scary Hardy Boys/Encyclopedia Brown (come on, who else remembers this book series?)/CSI skills, goes through the clues in the apartment that prove Lilly and Marshall had a big fight there. The final clue brings them to dial the last number called on the phone – Divorce Attorney! Even Barney can’t take it. But he’s not crying, there’s something in his eye.
The plan? Lilly will get divorced on paper so Marshall can go for the loan all by himself. Marshall won’t let it happen – not even on paper. Awwww. They got the place anyway at 18%. OUCH. Getting out their cab at the new apartment, Lilly and Marshall encounter an AWFUL smell. The cab driver says, no worries, they stop the plant on the weekends. “What plant?”. This whole neighborhood is “Downwind of the sewage treatment plant.” Squish those words together kids and what do we have? (insert yet another fun Picture Pages like image in this show) … wait for it…. Dowisetrepla.
This episode had a funny “what should’ve been said” theme throughout – you can watch that on your own though. Also, a side story had Barney using the apartment to sleep and run with a new girl, but wasn’t too interesting.
Beware the Slapbet Countdown!! It’s Coming! (provided the writer’s strike doesn’t stop it.)