Coming Back (How I Met Your Mother)

"Coming Back"
How I Met Your Mother episode
Lily reveals that James divorced.
Episode no.	Season 9 Episode 2
Directed by	Pamela Fryman
Written by	Carter Bays & Craig Thomas
Original air date	September 23, 2013 (2013-09-23)
Guest appearance(s)
Wayne Brady (James Stinson) Sherri Shepherd (Daphne) Roger Bart (Curtis)
Season 9 episodes
September 2013 – March 2014 "The Locket" "Coming Back" "Last Time in New York" "The Broken Code" "The Poker Game" "Knight Vision" "No Questions Asked" "The Lighthouse" "Platonish" "Mom and Dad" "Bedtime Stories" "The Rehearsal Dinner" "Bass Player Wanted" "Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra" "Unpause" "How Your Mother Met Me" "Sunrise" "Rally" "Vesuvius" "Daisy" "Gary Blauman" "The End of the Aisle" "Last Forever – Part 1" "Last Forever – Part 2"

Wayne Brady (James Stinson)
Sherri Shepherd (Daphne)
Roger Bart (Curtis)

"Coming Back" is the second episode of the ninth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 186th episode overall.

On Friday at noon, 54 hours before the wedding, Ted and Lily begin checking into the Farhampton Inn. The man at the front desk (Roger Bart) is towards Ted when he reveals he is at the wedding alone. Lily learns from Marshall that he missed his earlier flight and heads to the bar intending to drown her sorrows, even paying the bartender, named Linus, to constantly place another drink in her hand once it's empty.

Finding out their rooms aren't ready yet, Ted and Lily join Barney, Robin and Barney's brother James for drinks as Barney reveals a curse that was placed on the Stinsons in early nineteenth-century Russia, when two brothers ran over an old Gypsy woman, that would cause all Stinson men to constantly be desperate for sex, but believes the curse to be lifted due to James's successful marriage to Tom. However, when Barney leaves to speak to Marshall on the phone, James reveals that he and Tom are getting divorced due to James cheating on him. Horrified, Robin begs James not to drop the bombshell on Barney that weekend, feeling Barney's positive feelings about marriage come from James' relationship. James reluctantly agrees only for a somewhat intoxicated Lily to accidentally blurt it out anyway (prompting Ted to ban her from any more drinks, which fail due to Linus, the bartender). Barney immediately heads to the front desk and Robin, worried that he's freaking out and thinking about leaving, follows and begs him not to just head to a strip club. Barney promises he isn't, but had actually come to get the keys to James's room which he had prepared specially for him and Tom (including a banner reading 'Love is Awesome' and a life-size erotic cake of two naked men). Barney assures Robin that even if James is getting a divorce he still believes in true love thanks to her and doesn't plan on going anywhere.