Ted and Barney compete for a woman and once again, Marshall feels left out. Lily's miserable track record of setting friends up on dates is exposed. Robin gets dumped by a 6 year old.
New Roommates Ted and Robin become FWB's to solve their co-habitant disputes. Barney deals with his jealousy in an unhealthy release. Marshall struggles with reading magazines at work, which becomes a euphemism for the scatalogical.
Marshall and Barney try to keep Ted from finding out that his GNB project has been cancelled, Guy Ritchie style. Lily needs to know what Canadian celebrity Robin slept with, what he collected and what suggested sex act ruined the night.
At his father's gravesite, Marshall recaps adventures of NYE, where Lily informs Mickey about being pregnant, Ted and Barney open Puzzles in Ted's apartment and Robin gets an on-air position thanks to another Sandy mishap.
Barney has the tables turned on him when he decides to court Quinn/Karma and gets gaslighted and his pockets emptied. Robin becomes more captor than guest while staying with Marshall and Lily in Long Island.