Crawl, you son of a me!

It’s the holiday season…and that means more clothing from Barney’s entrepreneurial line, of course. From the man you get your suitjamas and duck ties, Barney Stinson brings you…brobibs. For your business-casual, preppy, and “brobin Williams” looks!
And then there was the thing about Ted missing a project in life, Robin not getting what she wanted, and Barney and Patrice, but. Those come second to the brobibs.

Yet, even brobibs don’t quite top the very end of the episode, where we have another “a few years later” sneak peek. More on that in a minute.

After lamenting many an episode ago Ted didn’t have any “firsts” to his name—besides convincing Marshall to date Lily, a pretty important first—Ted redeems himself by witnessing many of baby Marvin’s own “firsts.” Unfortunately, these were sans Lily and Marshall…repeatedly. Such instances included a camera mishap and Santa misfortune.

Meanwhile, Robin finds herself in the trap of wanting what she can’t have, because Barney had the “last word” at the close of their relationship.
Uh, “relationship.”
After plowing through several plans (in delightful script font, I might add) to get her Barney-fix just one more time, she discovers he truly seems to have moved on…right over to Patrice. Finally. Someone asks Patrice!

Which leaves us with the episode’s closer. Ted makes sure there aren’t any grudges for taking Marvin’s first “meet with Santa,” and Lily and Marshall promise. Until, that is, we flash-forward and see Ted leaving his own daughter in the care of Aunt Lily and Uncle Marshall…to which his first is re-stolen in kind. Quaint, but that doesn’t answer the burning question: who is the mother? When will we meet her?

Ehem. I might take an HIMYM break for tomorrow’s program schedule…or re-watch the entire season one more time. Either way, I certainly can’t take my mind off the program. Until next Monday!