TEXT: Ted's kitchen Ted from 2030: Kids, when it comes to love, the best relationships are the ones that just come naturally. Ted: My first solo batch. Victoria: Um, I think those need to stay in the oven a while longer. Here's a professional tip. If it's still runny, it's not a cupcake. It's a beverage. Ted from 2030: Yeah, well, things with Victoria were fun, and easy, and uncomplicated. It was pretty great. (Barney arrives, while Marshall is coloring his butt) Barney: Um, are you coloring in your butt? Marshall: I have a big interview coming up, and my suit has holes in it. I can't sew, I don't own Navy boxers, so, yeah, I'm coloring in my butt. Barney: So wear another one. Marshall: I don't have another one. I'm flat broke. My only other suit options are track or birthday. Barney: Dude, you show up to an interview in that, even the hippie lawyers from Granola Mountain Earth Pals will hackey sack you straight out the door. Marshall: Okay, it's the National Resource Defense Council, and it's my dream job. Except it's only an internship, and I won't be getting paid. Mostly getting people coffee. But the people I'm getting coffee for... their bosses are going to save the world. Barney: Okay, tomorrow... oh, and I should mention this is going to rock your world-- tomorrow I'm taking you to my personal tailor. Marshall: A tailor? Barney, I make negative $300 a week, and I need every negative penny of that for my wedding. Barney: Relax, my guy does everything for one third the cost. And there is no way you're getting married in that sarcastic-quotation-marks "suit." Tomorrow, noon, my tailor. Marshall: No thanks, dude. (Barney grabs Marshall's pants and tears them apart) Noon? Barney: Noon. See you then. The Bar Victoria: Hey, girls. Robin and Lily: Hey. Victoria: Hey. I'm on my way to meet Ted. It'
SUMMARY:
Just as things are going well between Ted and Victoria, the latter is offered a surprising but incredible opportunity to be a fellow at a culinary institute in Germany. As the couple discuss the viability of long-distance relationships, Marshall and Lily reminisce about the time when Lily was studying art in Paris, but in telling their story, they discover that neither knew the whole truth.