Purple Giraffe
| "Purple Giraffe" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 2 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by |
Carter Bays Craig Thomas |
| Production code | 1ALH01 |
| Original air date | September 26, 2005 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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"Purple Giraffe" is the second episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on September 26, 2005. The episode was written by Carter Bays & Craig Thomas and it was directed by Pamela Fryman.
Future Ted quickly recaps the time he met Robin (Cobie Smulders) and accidentally told her that he loved her. A week has gone by since that incident, and Ted (Josh Radnor), hoping to avoid any awkwardness between them, decides not to try to call her. However, he and Marshall (Jason Segel) find Robin in MacLaren's hanging out with Lily (Alyson Hannigan) who recognized her from the news. After Robin leaves, Lily lets slip that Robin told Lily that she was interested in Ted, but she's looking for something "casual" and he is not. Ted decides to try to be casual in his pursuit of Robin.
On Friday afternoon, Ted sees Robin on the news covering a kid stuck inside a crane machine at a bodega nearby, and sprints over to meet Robin. When Robin sees him, he casually says that he's buying dip for a party they're hosting and invites Robin as well. This puts Marshall in a bind, as he has a 25-page paper on constitutional law due on Monday that he hasn't even started (and he must also contend with Lily who is so happy to be engaged that she is always in the mood for love), but he gamely goes ahead with the party. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), meanwhile, tries to convince Ted to pick up a random girl at the party, since as a rule there is always one person at every New York City party who does not know anyone else, the perfect one night stand. Ted declines, so Barney finds said random girl and hooks up with her himself. In the end, Robin doesn't show up.
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