Belly Full of Turkey
| "Belly Full of Turkey" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 9 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Chris Miller |
| Production code | 1ALH08 |
| Original air date | November 21, 2005 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Lyndsy Fonseca (Daughter) |
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Lyndsy Fonseca (Daughter)
David Henrie (Son)
Bill Fagerbakke (Marvin Eriksen Sr)
Suzie Plakson (Judy Eriksen)
Elizabeth Bogush (Amanda)
"Belly Full of Turkey" is the ninth episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on November 21, 2005.
It's Thanksgiving time, and Marshall and Lily visit Marshall's family in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Marshall plays a game of "bask-ice-ball" (a no-rules, brawling combination of basketball and ice hockey that the Eriksen family invented) with his father and elder brothers while Lily helps his sister-in-law and mother in the kitchen. The talk turns to babies, and Mrs. Eriksen reveals that her first-born son was almost twelve pounds at birth ("The doctor thought he was twins!"); this frightens Lily, who is dwarfed not only by Marshall but his entire family (at 6'4", Marshall is the shortest of his brothers), and she dreads the idea of trying to give birth to a baby that size. At dinner, Lily gets into an argument with Marshall and the Eriksens when she reveals she isn't going to change her surname after the wedding and doesn't want to raise their kids in Minnesota. Increasingly worked up, she drives off to a convenience store, where she is arrested for public urination. Marshall goes to the station, and finds out Lily was using a home pregnancy test. Lily tells him of her concerns about raising a family of "mayonnaise-guzzling giants in Minnesota", but Marshall, faced with the very real possibility of having a child, assures her that they are not going to settle down in Minnesota, and alleviates Lily's fears. Finally, Marshall and Lily discover that Lily isn't pregnant; they return to the Eriksen home, much relieved, and the Thanksgiving dinner concludes amicably.
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