Season 7 - Episode 9
CBS (US)
It's a good old fashioned HIMYM flashback episode! Often the strongest episodes that the show produces, this is no different, being the best of season 7 so far.
The flashbacks hark to Hurricane Irene a few months previously. Ted has prepared a survival kit and plans to take the gang to his house in suburbs to wait out the storm. Ending up in Barney's apartment, a whole host of hijinks occur leaving everyone fighting among themselves. The end up is that Marshall and Lily conceive their baby in Barney's bathroom, before Marshall boogie boards through the windows of McLarens. A solid flashback story from the comedy show that does them best.
In the present, Barney wants rid of the Ducky Tie before he meets Nora's parents, and tries to cajole Marshall into using the last slap of the slap bet. Marshall allows Barney to remove the Ducky Tie in return for three slaps being added to the slap bet. Marshall quickly uses two of these, leaving two to go (is there another "Slapsgiving" forthcoming?). The episode ends with Barney and Robin kissing. The end of Nora and the start of the run to Barney's wedding?
The episode is funny and moving in equal measures. It fails to explain why Barney was wearing the Ducky Tie in a flashforward to the night Lily gives birth, but I assume that is still to come. If "Disaster Averted" is a sign of things to come this season, we could be in for a treat.
**** 1/2
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