Bass Player Wanted
| "Bass Player Wanted" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 9 Episode 13 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Carter Bays & Craig Thomas |
| Original air date | December 16, 2013 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Andrew Rannells (Darren) |
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Andrew Rannells (Darren)
"Bass Player Wanted" is the 13th episode of the ninth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 197th episode overall.
At 10 p.m on Saturday, 20 hours before the wedding, Marshall starts walking to the Farhampton Inn with his baby son Marvin in tow. He starts out full of but quickly runs out of steam. Just as he is about to give up, a woman driving a van stops by and offers them a lift; it is Ted's future wife; and, as Future Ted notes, that's how Marshall met her. Marshall and The Mother talk along the way and The Mother starts telling him excessive details about his life—only to admit she already knows everything from meeting Lily earlier in the day.
Meanwhile, at the Farhampton Inn, Lily, Ted, Robin and Barney sit around longing for their bottle of Scotch—and for Marshall. A man suddenly swings by Lily and Robin and confidently tries to get to know them better and flits to Ted and Barney from time to time. However, it is the beginning of a dispute between the two women, as their conversations with the stranger lead to him claiming that Lily wants to ruin Robin's weekend by lamenting all the time about Marshall's new job and the plan to go to Italy. Robin explains that she wanted Marshall to take up the judgeship and avoid losing Lily as her best friend. To make up for their dispute, she encourages Lily to use Marshpillow as a punching bag.
The man's conversations with Ted and Barney also results in them arguing as well. When the man suggests Ted try Gazzola's Pizza while in Chicago, Barney is shocked to discover that Ted's moving to Chicago to take up a new job; he is even outraged at learning Ted is leaving the day after the wedding. Embittered at what he feels Ted is trying to diminish their friendship, he storms out. Ted makes it up to him by presenting him a 30-year-old bottle of Glen McKenna he stole from the liquor store (through earlier advice from Lily). Barney appreciates Ted's efforts to get him a bottle (even if he is arrested for theft), but comes to the realization that Ted wants to start anew in Chicago to get away from Robin. They hug and admit they will miss each other.
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