How I Met your Mother – Season 8 Premiere Recap

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Before recapping the first episode of HIMYM’s eighth season, here’s a quick recap of how season seven ended. Ted attempted to run away with Victoria, Marshall and Lily are officially parents, and Barney proposed to Quinn. The episode ended with a flash forward of Barney’s wedding, where SURPRISE (not really) Robin is the bride.

The season premiere starts with Ted recounting what happened at Barney and Robin’s wedding. In the flash forward, Robin asks to see Ted. Robin tells Barney, “I can’t go through with this wedding.” Robin wonders if she can climb out the window and Ted tells her that the climbing back in is the hard part.

Flash back to May 2012. Barney, Quinn, and Robin are visiting Lily, Marshall, and the baby. Lily and Marshall are clearly tired from just becoming parents. Quinn asks Lily and Robin to be her bridesmaids; they both say yes. Meanwhile, Ted convinces Victoria to go back and leave a letter for her ex-fiance explaining why she’s leaving. While Victoria struggles to write the letter, the two exchange some cheesy lines about how he stole the greatest girl in the world and she says he didn’t steal anything, she CHOSE him. (blah blah blahhhhh). She then tells Ted he has to give Claus the note because she can’t climb back into the room after all it took for her to leave.

Back at Lily and Marshall’s, Barney reveals Quinn has no idea that he and Robin dated. Barney wants to make sure that Quinn never finds out. But Lily accidently spills the news later. Barney then tells Quinn, basically, everything that has happened on HIMYM in a minute, to try to explain. But Quinn walks out anyway.

Ted has a hard time getting back inside to deliver Victoria’s letter to Claus. Ted finally leaves the letter, and heads back to the car. He quickly realizes he left his keys in the room, where the door locked behind him as he left. When Ted goes back to try to get his keys, he sees Claus leaving. Ted finally climbs up to the bedroom, and decides if he takes back Victoria’s letter, leaving Claus’, she will be free from blame.

Robin assures Quinn that she doesn’t want Barney back, and that she has a boyfriend named Nick, who we briefly meet at MacLaren’s. And everything is now okay with Quinn and Barney (booo). At the bar, Robin tells Barney that its a little upsetting to see how easy it was for him to just erase her from his past. He quickly pulls out some keys and tells Robin “622 West 14th street.”

The episode ends with Claus telling Ted why he decided to leave Victoria. She was the one he “almost” wanted. They exchange some german words, but ultimately Claus tells Ted that he will know instantly when he finds what he wants. Robin goes to the address Barney mentioned, where she finds a box filled with memories of their relationship. The last scene shows the girl with yellow umbrella at the Farhampton stop where the episode began.

Lily and Marshall remind everyone why we all love them by being absolutely adorable throughout the episode. Ted continued to be annoying with his “I-will-never-find-the-one-and-when-I-do-how-will-I-know” romantic attitude. The episode was a little lackluster. Nothing happened that we didn’t already know, except for the location where Ted ends up meeting his future baby mama. The only redeeming part of the episode was Barney handing Robin the keys to his storage space, because obviously everyone ships those two.

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