TEXT: ["How I Met Your Mother", credits] [Title: The Year 2030] Narrator: So there was this one night, before I met your mother when I really wanted to go to the bar. Son: The bar? Big surprise! Daughter: You sure spend a lot of time in bars... Narrator: Well that's just what we did back then. (Shows picture of Ted) Narrator: Me. (Shows picture of Marshall and Lily sitting at a booth at the bar) Narrator: Marshall and Lily. (Shows picture of Barney using a payphone) Narrator: Barney (Shows picture of Lily and Robin, Pans in on Robin) Narrator: We all used to hang out at this one bar called "MacLaren's". (Shows picture of the whole gang in front of a camera) Narrator: But then one night. [The Year 2005] [In the Street - Ted/Lily/Marshall] (Ted and Lily on the phone walking with Marshall) Ted: (On Phone) Why don't we go to MacLaren's? Lily: (On Phone) Let's go to MacLaren's. Marshall: You guys talking to each other? Nobody's listening. Ted: What's wrong with MacLaren's? (Cut to Barney in Taxi) Barney: (On Phone) MacLaren's is bore, snore. Ted, tonight we're going to go out. We're going to meet some ladies. It's going to be legendary. Phone-five! (High-fives the phone) (Scene Freezes) Narrator: I had no idea why I hung out with Barney. (Scene unfreezes) Barney: You didn't phone-five did you? I know when you don't phone-five, Ted. Come on, we always go to MacLaren's. (Cut to Ted) Ted: Yeah, cause MacLaren's is fun... Barney: MacLaren's is this much fun. What I'm offering is the chance to have this much fun. Ted: See
SUMMARY:
Ted agrees to let Barney disrupt his routine by taking an impromptu trip to the airport with him that eventually leads the duo to Philadelphia and trouble with airport security. Meanwhile, Lily and Robin go out for drinks, but Lily becomes jealous when she is not as successful with men as Robin is, for which she blames her engagement ring. Marshall travels between both situations in an attempt to rectify the group's problems.