How I Met Your Mother: Dibsidy, Dibsidy, Dibsidy (recap)

By: Jen Smith
Fancast.com

How I Met Your Mother is always good for laughs, but tonight’s episode actually brought a tear to my eye. To say this is unprecedented is putting it lightly, because it was a grandiose romantic gesture that caused said tear. For anyone that knows me, they know I’m more of a “Robin” kind of girl—meaning that I find roses and poems nauseating, while picking up my beer tab or winning an arm wrestling competition will woo my pants off. The show is split up into three different stories: Barney & Ted, Marshall & Robin, and Lily. Stay tuned for the twist at the end that caused my about-face outlook on romance.

Marshall & Robin

Marshall and Lily have a love ritual. Every time she goes out of town, she brings back a six pack of beer for Marshall, and Marshall picks her up from the airport dressed like a limo driver. Well, this year is different. Lily didn’t want Marshall wasting the money on cab fare. Robin informs Marshall that knowing Lily, she’ll probably bring home the six pack anyway and secretly wishes that Marshall would keep their tradition. Upon realizing his mistake, Marshall drags Robin along to the airport to keep the cheesy gesture alive. Naturally, as people get older some of their little habits fade away. For example, Marshall and Lily used to tell each other everything they ate that day. Robin, being a robot, thinks it’s too cheesy and tells him to drop the ooey gooey love act. He gives a big speech about how all these mushy things are his way of expressing his love, and Robin eventually caves to the idea.

Barney & Ted

It’s the blizzard of the year, but that won’t stop Barney and his bro Ted from trying to score with a couple of college girls. After agreeing to meet the girls at MacLaren’s the next night, they’re almost cockblocked by the bartender, who wants to shut down early because of the storm. No problemo, they say. Ted and Barney decide to live out their dream of owning a bar by keeping the place open and closing down after the girls show up. Nothing will deter Barney, who has to finish his Party School Bingo game. The bartender agrees, not because they’re such faithful customers, but because they agree to serve hot chicks first. Unfortunately, the hot chicks bring their entire band. Marching band, that is. Barney and Ted race to keep up with the drink orders and quickly realize that having a bar kind of sucks. When they find out that the bartender is on his way back to MacLaren’s, they force everyone out despite their “no last call” rule. The guilt overwhelms them. What are they to do? Invite them all to the apartment, of course! Best. Bar. Ever.

Lily

On the plane home, Lily has apparently had a change of heart. The little old lady next to her has reminded her of the importance of tradition, but Lily’s already screwed. She didn’t buy the beer. But, when she finds out that the plane is arriving an hour early (An hour early? Does that ever happen?), she has enough time to go to the store and pick up a six pack of Seattle’s best brew. At the airport, she runs into Ranjit (the limo driver guy who’s been on several episodes) and he drops what he’s doing to drive her around. They make it to the store only to discover that they only have a keg. It’ll have to do because Marshall might be at the airport any minute.

The Big Reveal

Lily makes it back to the airport, but Marshall’s not around. However, we simultaneously see a split screen where Marshall is at the airport but Lily’s nowhere to be found. It turns out, the producers were playing mind games with us. This all happened over the course of three days. On Tuesday, Marshall went to the airport to retrieve Lily but her flight had been delayed. On Wednesday, Ted and Barney invited the marching band to the apartment. On Thursday, Lily made the mad dash for the beer. So here we are on Thursday and Lily’s all alone in the airport. Suddenly, the guy next to her starts playing a clarinet. Then two trumpets join in, and before you know it, Lily’s being serenaded by the entire marching band. Marshall appears and gives Lily a kiss she’ll never forget. It’s way romantic and totally untraditional (you hear that, guys? Roses don’t cut it anymore.). The only problem is that now Lily will have to buy a keg of beer and Marshall will have to provide a marching band whenever she goes out of town. But it would be totally worth it.