Do I Know You?
| "Do I Know You?" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Carter Bays, Craig Thomas |
| Production code | 4ALH01 |
| Original air date | September 22, 2008 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Sarah Chalke (Stella) |
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Sarah Chalke (Stella)
Heidi Herschbach (April)
"Do I Know You?" is the first episode in the fourth season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 65th overall. It originally aired on September 22, 2008.
Future Ted tells his children that the longest pause in anyone's life is right after they propose to someone; Present Ted, during this pause, imagines all of Stella's possible responses ("No", "Oh, God no", "I already agreed to marry the quarterback from your high school", etc.), after which Stella gave her actual answer of "Yes". Ted and Stella spend the summer happily engaged; Barney goes through physical therapy; and Marshall copes poorly with unemployment. At McLaren's, Robin expresses discontent with her newscasting job, describing herself as a bogeyman with a teleprompter. In response, Barney laughs too hard at this joke.
The next day, Barney gets Lily to come over to his apartment and confides that he is in love with Robin. She agrees to help him if he will stop having one-night stands with bimbos. He tries to call Robin but panics and leaves a high-pitched gibberish voice mail instead, followed by another awkward, unsuccessful phone call. Lily sets Barney up on a dinner date with Robin, where he behaves quite unlike himself: not taking advantage of opportunities to make sex jokes, ignoring their waitress's generous cleavage, and being interested in the goings-on of Robin's day, especially when she admits her insecurities about possibly applying for a potentially better job at a rival news station. Afterward, Robin gets April (their waitress) to go home with Barney by telling her that he is the second baseman for the New York Yankees. Barney tells April that on any other night, he would try to convince her that he was a Yankee, but he can't because he is in love with the girl who just left. At Barney's apartment, he tells Lily about what happened. Lily is sympathetic until April comes out of Barney's bedroom. He admits that he lied about not hooking up with April but that all the other stuff he said is true. Lily leaves, disappointed. Barney turns on the TV to Metro News 1, affectionately watches a brief segment of Robin's newscast, and goes back into his bedroom with a smile on his face.
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