How I Met Your Mother – “The Pre-Nup” recap
Everyone’s in love during the summer: Barney and Quinn, Ted and Victoria, Robin and Nick, and of course, Lily and Marshall. Fast forward to October, the “autumn of break ups.” The episode starts with Barney getting advice from a co-worker to get a pre-nup. Barney starts to worry, and gives Quinn the pre-nup. Quinn decides to read the pre-nup before signing.
Quinn begins to read the pre-nup and sees that it doesn’t just contain terms in case of divorce, but ways she must behave during the marriage. Like paying $2,000 for every pound gained. Quinn continues to read the degrading list Barney came up. As everyone tells Barney how crazy his pre-nup is, he asks the three other men the daring question, “But can you tell me there’s nothing in any of your relationships you’d want to change, no behavior you’d want to outlaw? No terms you’d want to renegotiate?”
The three men decided it’d be a brilliant idea to bring this us to their significant others and admit that indeed there are some things they’d change. This makes the women beg the question, “LIKE WHAT?” (Are guys really that dumb?)
Marshall would change how strict Lily is about rough housing with the baby. Nick would change that Robin gets turned on by watching herself on TV. While Robin is telling the other girls about this, they all tell her, “Never speak of this.” Really, don’t. That’s weird. Ted would change that Claus lives with him and Victoria. And he did, he kicked Claus out, leaving Victoria feeling like it wasn’t “their” apartment anymore. The girls rally together, and Quinn makes a pre-nup of her own for Barney.
Quinn, Robin, Lily, and Victoria go to Barney’s office to give him his rules. Barney tells the guys via text, and they all show up at the office as well. Looks like a boys vs. girls fight is about to break out. Quinn’s list includes wearing a shock collar around his… thing… whenever he checks out another woman. The couples begin to argue. The sensible lawyer in the room breaks it up by sharing some knowledge with all. “Enough! You all have someone who loves you and you’re all screwing it up, over what? Who has the most power? That’s not love. Love is trusting someone enough to tell them what’s really bothering you,” he screams.
So, Marshall admits that he felt like Lily thought she was a better parent when she was overbearing. Ted says that he’s scared they’ll never escape the past. Nick was worried that Robin wasn’t attracted to him. Barney and Quinn don’t reveal their real problems, and so we are lead to believe they will be the first victim to the autumn of break-ups.
The two realize they don’t trust each other, and off to splitsville they go. The episode ends in the future with Barney explaining that his wedding will be “Legen… wait for it…dary.” He tells his lawyer he doesn’t need a pre-nup and in walks Robin. Awwwww.
Another lackluster episode in my opinion. Can we just find out who the mother is already?
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