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*"The Ashtray"*
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First aired: February 18, 2013
Director: Pamela Fryman
Author: Carter Bays Craig Thomas
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When Ted receives an unexpected call from The Captain, the gang reminisces nigh their terminal awkward encounter with him.

Recap

While the guys are hanging out at his apartment, Ted notices that he has a message from The Captain on his answering auto, asking him to telephone call him back when he is free. Ted thinks that The Captain is mad, and it has to do with the last time he saw him which was a year and a one-half ago. He tells Marshall and Barney what happened that time.

A few weeks later on he and Zoey broke upwardly, Ted got dorsum together with Becky. Lily had invited him and Robin to an fine art gallery opening, which The Captain was as well attention. When The Captain approached them, he started behaving rudely by interrupting Ted while he was talking. The Helm introduces his fine art consultant Shelly. After Shelly left, The Helm invited them to his apartment to see a painting he had just bought. At The Helm's flat, thinking that he is still cross at Ted for dating Zoey, Ted begins to clarify himself, only The Captain took out a harpoon gun and pointed at at him. However, Ted told him that nothing happened between him and Zoey until after she and The Captain had carve up up, and took the gun from him. Notwithstanding, The Helm told him that he is non annoyed with him anymore and that he is in dear with someone else. Jokingly, he asked Ted non to steal this one from him. After everyone one had left the room, Ted looked at the picture of the thing that The Helm had said was his beloved, and was shocked to see that it was a picture of Becky.

Just as Ted finishes telling the story, he gets a call from The Captain who asks him for Robin'due south number. Ted asks the guys if he should give it to him. Marshall tells him to requite it; if The Helm wants to hook upwards with Robin, she will let him down easy and Ted will be on The Captain'southward good side. Barney agrees to this, proverb that Robin won't mind.

At the bar, Robin is aroused at Ted for giving her number to The Captain. She says that Ted probably doesn't recollect the night when they met The Captain at the art show that well equally he had shared "a sandwich" with Becky before that night. Robin tells the guys what happened at that nighttime.

At the gallery opening, The Captain was shamelessly flirting with Robin, making her feel uncomfortable. At The Captain's flat, when she went into his room, she saw him lying on his bed, waiting for her. However, seeing as The Captain was on a rebound, she told him to take some time to pull himself together and telephone call her in a year and a half. She also says that Ted told the story inaccurately; The Captain was only completing his sentences because he was too high to terminate them and that he didn't bespeak a gun at him but just had a remote command in his manus.

Marshall advises her that she should call The Captain and allow him down easy so he can move on with his life. Robin calls him, telling him that she is engaged. However, The Helm says that he really looking for Lily, and had gotten her and Robin's proper name mixed up. She asks Marshall who tells her to give Lily's number to The Captain, maxim that she won't mind.

At the apartment, it turns out that Lily does mind that they gave The Captain her number. She says that her past has finally caught up with her and explains what she ways.

Before the gallery opening, Robin had shots with her coworkers after a meeting at work and was drunk, and she was the 1 flirting with The Captain. Lily complemented the painting of an elephant which resulted in Shelly, The Captain's art consultant, questioning her taste in fine art. Seeing Lily'due south interest in art, The Captain invited them to encounter the painting he bought. Lily told The Captain that she thinks the elephant painting would look nice in his room and she likes it better than the one The Captain bought. However, The Helm says that it doesn't matter what she likes as she is "but a kindergarten teacher." Every bit The Captain was being a jerk, she decided to punish him and stole an expensive ashtray from his flat. Lily besides says that the picture show Ted saw was really of mag cover with a boat on information technology and at that place was just a small picture of Becky in the corner.

Marshall is shocked that Lily took the ashtray and asks the others to exit them alone as they are going to have a fight. He asks Lily to return the ashtray, simply Lily tells him that all her rulings are final and she is not taking the ashtray back. Marshall asks her why it bothers her then much that The Captain told her that he is "just a kindergarten teacher." Lily says that he was right; she is "just a kindergarten teacher." Although she has a degree in Art History and she was meant to practise something with it, she didn't. She forgot to pursue her dream and at present she is old and a mom and it'south just likewise late for her. Marshall tells her that it is non also tardily; she is going to quit her job and she is going to pursue her dreams. He promises her that her best days are ahead of her merely she says that there comes a point in life where that stops existence true. She apologizes to him for stealing the ashtray and tells him that she volition return it.

The side by side day, Lily goes to The Captain's apartment to render the ashtray just The Captain says that he didn't fifty-fifty realize information technology was missing. He takes Lily to his room and she is surprised to see the elephant painting hanging at that place. He tells her that he bought information technology the night of the gallery opening as he liked what she said about information technology. He tells her that he simply sold it for 4 meg dollars. In the year and a half since he bought it, the artist has get famous in the art world and she was the just one who saw it coming. He tells her that he wants to go back in the art game and offers her a job as his art consultant. At the bar, Lily tells the gang that she said yes to The Helm's job offering and they all celebrate.

Meanwhile, Barney keeps interrupting Ted, Lily and Robin when they are telling their versions of the story, maxim that he was at the gallery opening. When this gets out of mitt, Ted asks him why information technology so important that he be function of the story. Barney says that crazy stories are "his affair." The others take a passion that drives them and his passion is taking life and turning it into a serial of crazy stories and if they can do that without him then he doesn't know who he is anymore. To brand Barney feel meliorate, Ted and Robin say that Barney was at the gallery opening and they only didn't find him because he was in disguise doing one of his plays that had something to with art on Shelly. Barney says that his play worked on Shelly.

In the end, Barney is shown doing his play "The Royal Archduke of One thousand Fenwick" to hook up with Shelly. This, plus a argument to Lily proverb that Shelly was off with some archduke, leads the audience to believe that Barney probably was at the gallery with the others.

Continuity

Ted and Becky ate a sandwich. This is a metaphor for smoking Marijuana first shown in How I Met Anybody Else .
Lily stole The Captain's ashtray for beingness mean, similar she stole Hammond Druthers' baseball in Aldrin Justice .
When they showed The Helm leaving the voice message for Ted, his eyes are shown brighter. This was first shown in The Mermaid Theory .
Barney says "Daddy's home." He kickoff used this phrase in The Pineapple Incident .
The Playbook comes back.
Several of the items that Marshall and Barney brought into Ted's Apartment (shown in Bad Crazy ), are still in that location.
The gang making fun of Ted using erstwhile machines was also shown in No Pressure .
Becky's "Boats" commercial, seen in Canning Randy , is mentioned.
Lily'due south Stamp of Approval or simply general opinion appears to nonetheless exist one others value; the Stamp of Approval is introduced in The Stamp Tramp .
Barney'due south "happy guitar solo" was seen in Noretta .
Lily told Ted she was sad near abandoning her art-related dreams in Band or DJ?

Future References (Contains Spoilers)

Ted finds a movie on The Captain's desk-bound that has a picture of Becky in the corner. In Daisy , it is revealed that he is engaged to her.
Lily's new job as an art consultant will result in an offer to go live in Rome for a year in Romeward Bound .

Gallery

For a list of all images on the wiki tagged as being from this episode, see Category: The Ashtray images.

Memorable Quotes

Marshall:	You're gonna return that ashtray and you are gonna pray that he (The Captain) doesn't printing charges.
Lily:	I'm pitiful, all rulings are final. I am not taking it back.
Marshall:	Oh my god! Lily! What is the big deal?! So what if he said you're just a kindergarten teacher? Why do you let that bother you?
Lily:	Because he was right. I AM but a kindergarten teacher. And yeah, I accept a degree in Art History and I was meant to do something with it but I didn't. Somewhere along the line, I forgot to pursue my dream. And now I am old and I'm a mom and it's but as well belatedly for me.
Marshall:	Lily, it's non too late. You're gonna quit your job tomorrow and you're gonna get back and option up right where you left off with that art stuff. Look, I promise you, your best and your virtually exciting days are all ahead of you lot.
Lily:	I love you so much for saying that, but there gets to exist a indicate in life where that just stops being true. I am sorry I stole this (ashtray), I'll return it first thing in the morning time.

Notes and Trivia

Goofs and Errors

The flashback of Robin drinking with her co-workers earlier the gallery opening includes Mike, the camera homo from Come On, Get Upward New York! However, Robin quit working there and started working at World Wide News more than ii years (in False Positive ) earlier the events of this episode.
- Information technology is possible that since Mike was on Robin's hook, he followed her to Globe Wide News, like he followed her from Metro News 1 to Come On, Get Up New York!, when she started working there.
In the episode where Becky stars in the "Boats Boats Boats" ad, she was wearing a short pink wig just on this episode, she has her natural blonde pilus.
- It is possible she filmed two ads, i with pinkish pilus, one with blonde.

Allusions and Outside References

Marshall references Titanic when he talks about steering the Captain'due south boat and shouting "Iceberg directly ahead!".
Marshall says Lily's number is $iv One thousand thousand, a reference to Indecent Proposal.
Barney's play 'The Archduke of Grand Fenwick' references the volume/play The Mouse That Roared that is almost the fictitious Duchy of Grand Fenwick
Ted references the brusk story About Unsafe Game when looking at The Captain'southward ashtray.
The Captain uses his remote to record The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami. He thinks about recording "Floridon't" which is Season 3 Episode xv.
Lily says Ted just came out of a Snoop Dogg B-side.
Barney claimed that he and Ted went to an Art Garfunkel-concert.

Music

Turkish March - Mozart

Other Notes

This is the final episode of the series to feature Mike.

Guests

Kyle MacLachlan - The Captain
Laura Bong Bundy - Becky
Becky Baeling - Shelly
Ron Nicolosi - Mike

Reception

This episode received 8.86 million viewers.^[1]
Farihah Zaman of The AV Guild gave the episode a B. ^[2]
Max Nicholson of IGN gave the episode a seven.vii out of 10. He says that "this episode felt a lot similar a classic episode of HIMYM: no mother plot, no romantic arcs, simply straight fun. While it didn't quite succeed on every level, information technology did brand clever use of the Rashomon story structure and presented just enough callbacks to garner some well-deserved chuckles". ^[3]
Angel Cohn of Boob tube Without Compassion gave the episode a D. He says that "the entire 22 minutes of this episode could have been wrapped up in one easy phone call, or an off-handed bar scene with Lily saying, You'll never judge who offered me a job…". ^[iv]
The St. Petersburg Comic Review gave this episode viii out of 10 stars. ",,,kind of dry to bring the Helm back at this late date..."

References

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↑ http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-ashtray,92200/
↑ http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/xix/how-i-met-your-female parent-the-ashtray-review
↑ http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/testify/how-i-met-your-mother/the-ashtray.php

External Links

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