TEXT: ["How I Met Your Mother", credits] [Title: The Year 2030] Narrator: Kids, when you're single all you're looking for is happily ever after. But only one of your stories can end that way. The rest end with someone getting hurt. This is one of those stories, and it starts... with a shirt. Daughter: A shirt? Narrator: Just listen... [The Year 2005] [The Apartment - Ted] (Ted in the closet taking out a shirt) Narrator: Because none of this would have happened if it hadn't have been for that shirt. Ted: (mouths) Wow. [The Bar - Barney/Lily/Robin/Marshall/Ted] (Ted enters) Robin: Nice shirt! Ted: Right? Right? Lily: Look at those colors! Green and brown together at last! Marshall: Hot top, Bro, is it new? Ted: That's the crazy part. I've had this shirt for, like, six years... Until this morning I wasn't into it at all, but now it's like my tastes have changed. Barney: Booger. Ted: Yes, hello, Barney. Robin: Barney's offering me fifty bucks to say some stupid word on a live news report. Barney: Not some stupid word, "Booger". Robin: But I'm not doing it, I am a journalist. Barney: What? Journalist? You do the little fluff pieces at the end of the news. Old people, babies, monkeys... that's not journalism, that's just things in a diaper. Robin: For your information, my boss is about to bump me up to the City Hall beat. Lily: City hall, Miss Thang! Robin: So I'm not going to jeopardize my promotion by saying "Booger" for fifty bucks. Barney: Of course not, because now you're saying "Nipple" and it's a hundred! (Whispers) Step into my web. Ted: (Sipping drink) Mmm... Who's bourbon is this? Lily: Ooh, I don't know. It
SUMMARY:
Ted's continuing search for 'The One' leads him to look into his past to rekindle old flames. Unfortunately, the woman he is thinking of is the same woman he broke up with years ago on her birthday, and she still holds a grudge. Meanwhile, Barney dares Robin, the anchor of Metro News One, to slip questionable words or phrases into her daily newscast in return for money. Despite this, Robin begins to appreciate the importance of her job more.