How Lily Stole Christmas
| "How Lily Stole Christmas" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 11 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Brenda Hsueh |
| Production code | 2ALH11 |
| Original air date | December 11, 2006 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Harry Groener (Clint) |
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Harry Groener (Clint)
Michael Gross (Mr Mosby)
Cristine Rose (Mrs Mosby)
Moon Unit Zappa (Stacy)
"How Lily Stole Christmas" is the 11th episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on December 11, 2006.
Ted has decided to spend Christmas in his home this year with "his other family". He doesn't want to spend it with his mom and her new boyfriend, Clint; or his dad and his new 'girlfriend', microbrewing; or his super-religious cousin, Stacy, in Staten Island. While Lily decorates his apartment, Marshall says he must go to the law library to finish one last paper that is due that day. He refuses to look at any of the decorations as he leaves because the "winter wonderland" will be his reward for finishing the paper. After he leaves, Lily finds the old answering machine that was unplugged after Lily and Marshall broke up. Lily plays messages that are still on it, and hears a message from Ted to Marshall telling him to get over Lily. In this message, Ted calls Lily "a bad word...a very, very bad word" (implied to be either "bitch" or "cunt" - based on the fact that Ted usually replaces the word "bitch" with the word "beach," it is more likely the latter) which is substituted in future Ted's re-telling of the story with the word "grinch."
Lily asks why Ted would call her that word, and Ted reveals that he was trying to get Marshall to stop idolizing Lily even after they had split during the summer, and told Marshall at the time if he did not stop putting her up on a pedestal, he would never get over her. Ted asks Marshall to tell him one thing wrong with Lily. Finally Marshall gives in and he does and follows with making jokes about Lily along with Ted and Barney at the bar. Ted tells Lily that he was just trying to help Marshall and he refuses to to Lily because she was "kind of a grinch".
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