The Duel

Episode aired Nov 14, 2005
TV-PG
22m

IMDb RATING

8.0/10

5.1K

YOUR RATING

Jason Segel and Josh Radnor in How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Comedy Drama Romance

Lily moves in with Marshall and Ted, and when Ted suspects that he's being edged out of the apartment, he and Marshall decide to settle it like men.Lily moves in with Marshall and Ted, and when Ted suspects that he's being edged out of the apartment, he and Marshall decide to settle it like men.Lily moves in with Marshall and Ted, and when Ted suspects that he's being edged out of the apartment, he and Marshall decide to settle it like men.

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IMDb RATING

8.0/10

5.1K

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I like the bit where they called the coffee marker shocky because it shocked them

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An OK Episode

There was a surprise revelation in this episode (At least to me) that Lily doesn't actually live with Marahall and Ted.

Plot In A Paragraph: Lily officially moves into Marshall and Ted's apartment. Bringing up the question of who will get the apartment after Marshall and Lily get married. Both Ted and Marshall love the place and Barney and Robin believe that Marshall and Lily will slowly edge him out. Meanwhile, Barney feels that he has wasted too much time on dates that he knew were going nowhere, so he decides to invent the "lemon law" and use it on his dates of giving the date five minutes before pulling the plug on it or not.

This is an OK episode, which "How I Met Your Mother" has had a few of, usually where Neil Patrick Harris is in the back ground.

Trivia
The geeky guy that Robin tells Barney could be her soul mate is Martin Starr who played Bill Haverchuck in the 1999 Indie TV show Freaks and Geeks (1999).

Goofs
The old 'shocky' coffee maker is said to be rusty and cause electric shocks. The device shown in the episode, as all of them from its era, is made of aluminum. Aluminum does not rust. Moreover the electrical shocks story is also implausible. If, due to wear, heating coils have become exposed, pouring any liquid like coffee on them would cause a short circuit which would blow fuse or trip earth fault device. In any case, the lights would go out permanently, not just flicker.

Quotes
Ted: [During their sword fight] Look, here's why I should get the place: you and Lily, you get to be married. What do I get? Right? I get to be unmarried, alone, minus two roommates, and on top of that, I have to be homeless. Does that seem fair?
Marshall: Oh, boo-freakin'-hoo.
Ted: What?
Marshall: [Mocking Ted] "Woe is me. I'm not married yet. My ovaries are shrinking." Ted!
[Seriously]
Marshall: If you want to be married by now, you would be, but you're not. And you know why? Because you're irrationally picky, you're easily distracted, and you're utterly anhedonic.
Ted: "Anhedonic?"
Marshall: Anhedonic. It means you can't enjoy anything.
Ted: The hell I can't. I'm enjoying *this*.
Marshall: I know, this rules!