The Duel (How I Met Your Mother)
| "The Duel" | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 8 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Gloria Calderon Kellett |
| Production code | 1ALH07 |
| Original air date | November 14, 2005 |
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"The Duel" is the eighth episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on November 14, 2005. The episode was written by Gloria Calderon Kellett and directed by Pamela Fryman.
Lily (Alyson Hannigan) takes Robin (Cobie Smulders) over to her apartment (which she herself has not been to in three months) while they are out, only to find that it has become a Chinese restaurant called Madame Chew's House of Dumplings, decorated with her belongings. They are told by the hostess (who recognizes Lily from the photos she left) that the landlady died and Lily didn't have a written lease. Lily and Robin immediately head over to Ted (Josh Radnor) and Marshall's (Jason Segel) apartment to explain the situation, and Ted tells Lily that she is welcome to live with them, since she practically already does. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) warns Ted that things will change with Lily officially living at the apartment, and that eventually they will force Ted out. Ted does not believe him, but after he finds "Shocky" (his very old coffee pot that always gave him an electric shock) in the garbage and replaced by Lily's coffee pot, he begins to think Barney is right. He feels even more threatened when Marshall tells him he wants to hang Lily's painting where the two swords hang. In order to try to reclaim his territory, Ted begins to label all of his food and then orders a life-sized English phone booth for the apartment. He begins to argue with Marshall about who should get the apartment, which leads to a duel with the swords that hung on the wall. Events become tragic when a coffee table collapses under Marshall's weight, and he stumbles backward and runs Lily through the shoulder. After she is patched up at the hospital, Lily tells them that she does not want to live there once she and Marshall are married because it is a "boy apartment."
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