Jenkins (How I Met Your Mother)
| "Jenkins" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 13 |
| Directed by | Neil Patrick Harris |
| Written by | Greg Gerard & Matt Zinman |
| Production code | 5ALH13 |
| Original air date | January 18, 2010 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Amanda Peet (Real Jenkins) |
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Amanda Peet (Real Jenkins)
Edward Flores (Male Jenkins)
"Jenkins" is the 13th episode of the fifth season of the CBS situation comedy How I Met Your Mother and 101st episode overall. It originally aired on January 18, 2010. The episode hit a season high with 10.52 million viewers and high overall ratings.
The episode is directed by starring actor and first-time director Neil Patrick Harris.
Ted and Marshall walk into a college bar, and Ted is worried about meeting his students there. Marshall goes to the bar often to maintain his skeeball high score. Marshall tells him that Jenkins, a particularly quirky co-worker who has been the subject of a number of funny office stories that Marshall has told the group about, will be joining them. Because Marshall neglected to mention Jenkins's gender, Ted pictures Jenkins as a goofy fat man, and is therefore taken by surprise when Barney announces his intention to sleep with "Jenkins." He finally gets a resolution when Jenkins arrives and turns out to be a woman.
The next day, Lily unexpectedly shows up at Marshall's workplace, and finds out that Jenkins is a woman. However, she is not jealous or upset that he neglected to tell her Jenkins' gender. Ted and Robin theorize that in every relationship, one person, is a "reacher", and one is a "settler", who settles for the less attractive partner. Marshall asks Lily to classify herself and she says "settler."
To prove that he can date more attractive women, Marshall plans to show Lily how Jenkins flirts with him. At his workplace, Jenkins kisses Marshall on impulse. Marshall runs home and apologizes to Lily, but she dismisses him as lying to make her jealous. Jenkins later apologizes to Marshall, saying she was drunk from a late-night drinking game. She plans to apologize to Lily, which Marshall eagerly urges her to. Lily calmly listens to Jenkins' apology, then proceeds to beat her up. Future Ted mentions that Marshall never tried to make Lily jealous again.
In a separate story, Robin encounters fans of her pre-morning news show. At the college bar, one of Ted's students compliments her for her work. The next day, she interrupts Ted's class to announce that she is the show's host. After she leaves, the class explains to Ted that Robin is so hesitant when she presents that her constant interjections of "but...umm" are the basis for a drinking game.
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