Future Ted: But I didn't get it. More months passed. His hints got more desperate.
[flashback to a few more months after the wedding:]
Marshall: Happy Halloween.
Ted: What are you supposed to be?
Marshall: Well, I'm a wedding present, Ted. How could you not get me a wedding present? I mean, how could you not get that I am a wedding present? Get me? A wedding present. Get me a wedding present.
[later that night, at MacLaren's:]
Marshall: Why isn't he getting it?
Lily: I don't know, why didn't you get the message to dress up like a pregnant teenager, home skillet?