Lets start at the beginning, Barney meets a girl at MacLaren’s who is ranting about commitment, and he declares to “love” commitment and would “marry it if he could”. When discussing the girl with Ted, he describes her as perky, and not fake. Ted calls him out on talking about her boobs, and Barney replies “Si” only to reveal that he wasn’t speaking Spanish, but was referring to her bra size, that was quickly followed by a What up! Then we see a few scenes where Ted/Robin/Barney are annoying Marshall and Lily. Marshall has finally had enough, and yells he and Lily are getting their own place. Lily attends a “Shopoholics anonymous” meeting to revisit her credit problem. She introduces herself as being victim to an addiction of buying things. I’m going to be frank, it was sort of cheesy. Not very funny, at all.

Marshall regrets three things in his life (counting wanting to buy a house, which Marshall declares to be better than renting), we see back into his past, bringing up a time when we jumped off of a roof, and when he shaved part of his head before his wedding, which is awesome continuity. During the tour of the apartment the realtor asks Marshall if they want the apartment or not and Marshall replies “Well it is kind of out of our price range, plus, we’ve only started looking”. Bob Saget voices in “That’s what he should of said“, and we find out that Marshall really said “We love it, and we really want it!”. Barney tells the realtor he wants to buy the apartment and that he’ll come back later to check it out. The realtor tells Marshall that another couple has looked at the apartment and wants it as well and he retorts: “Oh right, another couple, pfsh, that is the oldest trick in the realtor’s book, I’m not buying that!“. And once again, he should of said that. Instead, we get pure 100% Marshall comedy with this: “Oh no! Another couple, don’t sell it to them, sell it to us…we’ll give you SO much more money!”. They decide to get the apartment and go to MacLaren’s to celebrate by buying a huge novelty bottle of champagne. In this next part of the show, Barney takes the same girl from earlier back to the apartment, just to get laid. Marshall and Lily go to get a loan for the house, and Phill Lewis (Suite life of Zack and Cody) guest stars as the banker. Lily tries to dodge telling Marshall about her debt by getting the loan in just his name, but they’re married, so it has to be a joint loan, and it comes out into the open…Marshall finds out about the debt.

In the morning, Barney tells the girl that he “loves her” and that he would love to meet her mom. She goes to shower, and like usual, Barney leaves. Back at the apartment, Ted suspects a fight has occurred and he goes into this really lame Hardy Boys investigation about the fight that Marshall and Lily had, and concludes that they fought about peanut butter. He grabs the phone and hits redial, the last number dialed was a divorce lawyer. Lily finds Marshall at MacLaren’s drinking the huge bottle of champagne (still funny) and tells him that if they get a divorce on paper, they can get the apartment much cheaper, but Marshall says no, because he loves her, and he’ll deal with her bad as well as her good. The group all does a “Should of said” moment together that wasn’t very funny. (Marshall is really the only one who has the personality to make it work: Big, but fuzzy inside).

We conclude with Marshall and Lily arriving at their new apartment in Dowisetrepla, opening the door to the cab, Marshall screams and is disgusted by a rancid smell, which the cabbie points out is because they are “down wind of the sewage treatment plant” and those words pop up on screen and boil down to “Dowisetrepla” which I thought was hilarious. As horrified looks creep onto their faces and they realize their mistake they let out a final “uh-oh.”

The Good (in order of goodness):

• Marshall’s “…Is what he should of said” jokes
• Barney’s “I was talking about her bra size” joke
• The continuity coming from last season
• And the giant bottle of Champagne

The bad (in no certain order):

• Everyone else trying to pull off the “…Is what he should of said” jokes, (it never worked the same)
• The plot line of this episode wasn’t horrifying, but it wasn’t good enough to make the good list, it was rather dull, and while moving the season forward, didn’t catch my interest very well.
• The shopoholics meeting.
• And finally, Ted’s Hardy Boys adventure.

My rating on this Episode: I give this episode a “What-up!” (What-up! This episode could have been much better.)

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