Future Ted: [v.o.] In May of 2009, I was on the verge of scoring my first big client as an independent architect. I was willing to do anything to make it happen.
[flashback to Ted meeting two men wearing cowboy hats:]
Man: [Texan accent] Here's what we want, son. It's real simple. We're opening a restaurant called Rib Town
and we want it to be shaped like a cowboy hat.
Future Ted: [v.o.] Anything.
Ted: A cowboy hat? That's brilliant. I love it! I mean, nothing says delicious like the inside of a cowboy hat, right? Look, I'm telling you, I'm your guy. I think I was born to design this building. I just... I see it.
[later, back at the apartment:]
Ted: I don't see it. I don't see it. I don't see it.