P.S. I Love You (How I Met Your Mother)

"P.S. I Love You"
How I Met Your Mother episode
Episode no.	Season 8 Episode 15
Directed by	Pamela Fryman
Written by	Carter Bays Craig Thomas
Original air date	February 4, 2013 (2013-02-04)
Guest appearance(s)
James van der Beek as Simon Tremblay Abby Elliott as Jeannette Dave Thomas as Chuck "Chuck" Gerussi Jason Priestley as himself Geddy Lee as himself Alex Trebek as himself Paul Shaffer as himself Luc Robitaille as himself Dave Coulier as himself K.d. Lang as herself Steven Page as himself Alan Thicke as himself
Season 8 episodes
September 2012 – May 2013 "Farhampton" "The Pre-Nup" "Nannies" "Who Wants to Be a Godparent?" "The Autumn of Break-Ups" "Splitsville" "The Stamp Tramp" "Twelve Horny Women" "Lobster Crawl" "The Over-Correction" "The Final Page – Part 1" "The Final Page – Part 2" "Band or DJ?" "Ring Up!" "P.S. I Love You" "Bad Crazy" "The Ashtray" "Weekend at Barney's" "The Fortress" "The Time Travelers" "Romeward Bound" "The Bro Mitzvah" "Something Old" "Something New"

"P.S. I Love You" is the 15th episode of the eighth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 175th episode overall.

Ted tells the gang that he found his destined love on the subway—they were both reading One Hundred Years of Solitude—but lost her at the next stop. Ted hopes to find her again, but Marshall and Lily are unsure of this; especially when he reveals he has written details he remembered about her. However, Ted indeed reunites with the woman, Jeanette, after a fire alarm at his Columbia building. He believes that it was destiny, since Jeanette had written down details she remembered about him; but couldn't figure out which class he was at until the fire alarm rang.

Skeptical of Jeanette's intentions toward Ted, Marshall explains that you can't force destiny, but instead let it happen, and he describes Lily's seemingly random choice of picking his door to knock on in 1996 at Wesleyan University. Marshall gets Ted to realise that it was unlikely Jeanette just happened to be at the fire alarm, so she must've been stalking him at that point and pulled it in order to meet him. Charmed by the sentiment, Ted explains his theory that a romantic advance could be "Dobler or Dahmer"; an act is only charming if the recipient finds it charming, making it "Dobler" (a reference to Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything), but if the recipient is creeped out by it, it's "Dahmer". He is charmed by Jeanette, therefore, her pulling the fire alarm is charming. Robin admits to the gang that she was once a stalker. When she refuses to tell Barney with whom she was obsessed until he admits that anyone can become obsessed, he breaks into her apartment and reads her teenage journals, and is puzzled by the cryptic phrase "PS I Love You".

While Barney flies to Robin's hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia to interview her ex-boyfriends, Ted asks Jeanette about her pulling the fire alarm to force them to meet, and she says it was because she "couldn't stand the idea of not meeting you", leaving Ted once again charmed at her. Marshall makes Ted realise that the fire alarm is actually a smoke detector, meaning to set it off, she would have to start a fire; Jeanette admits to this but still, Ted finds it charming. Meanwhile, Robin's co-star on the "Sandcastles in the Sand" video, Simon, reveals to Barney that a MuchMusic documentary show about musicians' lives off the stage, Underneath The Tunes, discussed Robin's career in an episode.

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