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Romeward Bound

‘Romeward Bound’

Season 8, Episode 21 -  Aired April 15, 2013

The Captain offers Lily the opportunity to move to Remove and be his art consultant. Meanwhile, Ted and Barney obsess about a woman whose amazing body is hidden underneath a puffy coat.

Quote from Barney

Robin: Okay, what's going on? Why are you guys being so weird?
Barney: Ted says that Liddy has a ridonkulous body, but there's no way of verifying because she won't take off the coat!
Robin: Is that why it's so hot in here? Did you pay Carl to turn up the heat again?
Barney: Well, yes. But I was curious. I want to get that coat on the rack so I can see the rack that's under the coat.
Robin: My God. I have been wondering the same thing. I mean, she never takes that coat off. Whatever she's smuggling under there has to be thermonuclear. I bet she has WBDs. Weapons of bra destruction.
Barney: Thank you. This, this is why you're the coolest fiancee ever.

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Quote from Barney

Liddy: So, the big day's coming up. How are you guys feeling? I talked to the caterer, and the mini lamb shanks are gonna be amazing. Oh, by the way, I talked to the florist, and the violets are gonna be gorgeous.
Barney: [inner monologue] Okay, Barney. You can do this. Just say it. Say it. Say it.
Liddy: little ones and big ones...
Barney: Hey, Liddy, do you want to take off your coat?
Liddy: Sure.
Barney: [inner monologue] I did it! I proved to myself and everyone else that I have no desire to be with any other woman. I am completely immune to every other... Holy crap!
[later in the apartment:]
Robin: And it was, indeed, ridonkulous.
Barney: And we got to see it, all thanks to this lovely lady right here. Robin, thanks to you, I can now walk up to any girl and say whatever creepy, disgusting thing I want and totally get away with it. Man! I think I'm gonna like being married.

Quote from Ted

Barney: What are you looking at? The girl in the big coat?
Ted: We were in the same yoga class together. You know how sometimes you'll meet a girl and there'll be that one bewitching little detail that'll make you fall in love with her instantly? You know, a little freckle on the nose, the lilt of her laugh, the way she pronounces a certain word or phrase?
Barney: [unconvincingly] Sure, totally.
Ted: Well, in this girl's case, the bewitching little detail is the fact that she has just a "redonkulous" body.
Barney: Redonkulous?
Ted: Redonkulous!
Barney: I've only heard you use "redonkulous" to describe Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
Ted: Barney, this girl has the Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol of bodies.
Barney: Whoa.
Ted: Just wait till she takes that coat off.

Quote from Barney

Robin: Hi, guys. Barney, you remember Liddy.
Barney: I do? Yes! Libby.
Liddy: Liddy. We met when Robin hired me.
Barney: Robin hired you? Naughty girl. Okay. Okay, so how's this gonna go down? You two just gonna start, and I'll just jump in?
Robin: Uh, she's our wedding planner.
Barney: Of course she's the wedding planner! Good to see you again, Libby.
Liddy: Liddy.

Quote from Marshall

Lily: What is going on? What do you mean you haven't had a client in months?
Marshall: Ever since the Gruber case, we lost a lot of business. People got laid off. It's just me and Bernard now.
Lily: Where's Cootes?
Marshall: He's holed up in a bomb shelter in Colorado, waiting for the apocalypse and tending to his herb garden.

Quote from Marshall

Lily: So all those times I've called you in the past few months, when you talked about how busy you were, you were just lying to me?
Marshall: Technically, I never lied...
[series of flashbacks of Lily phoning Marshall at work:]
Lily: Hey, baby.
Marshall: Hey, baby, I can't talk right now. I'm working on a big case. Bye. [to Bernard] That is a big case.
[flashback:]
Marshall: Bad time, Lily. I got to focus on the client. Gotta go. Bye. [hangs up] Where were we?
Bernard: Chapter 19.
[flashback:]
Marshall: I can't talk right now, I got a lot on my plate. [hangs up] Well, let's dig in. If we start now, we can be done by lunch.
[flashback:]
Marshall: Now's not a good time, Lil. We got a lot of balls in the air right now. [hangs up]
Bernard: Okay, toss me the stapler.
[present:]
Lily: Unbelievable. Wait, when you said you were about to get reamed...
Marshall: Oh, right. That. No, sometimes, for fun, We throw reams of paper at each other. [paper flies] Bernard! Not a good time! Read the room!

Quote from Marshall

Marshall: I'm sorry, baby, I... I didn't want you to see me fail.
Lily: Damn it! Do you realize what you cost us by lying to me? The Captain is moving to Rome, and he offered to bring me along as his art consultant, but I turned it down, because I thought you loved your job.
Marshall: Oh, my gosh. If we lived in Italy, I could just spend my days taking care of Marvin and trying to make pasta and watching Italian Price Is Right. It sounds like a dream!

Quote from Barney

Lily: You can just make it out to Liddy Gates. That's L-D-D-Y.
Barney: L-I, two D's... double D... two D's... Y.

Well, here is the
final menu, as we discussed,

but let me be clear. You're
the boss, I'm here to serve you. So if there's anything you want me to remove, just tell me to remove it and it's gone. I'll remove anything you want.
Ted: That sounds like a sound policy.
Barney: Up to you, whatever you feel like.
Ted: That's a good... That's a good thing to know.
Barney: That's fine, you can remove whatever you want.
Liddy: I'm serious, and I won't be offended, you want it gone, I'll take it right off. Is it hot in here?
Barney: You know what?
Ted: It's not cold.
Barney: It's hot, it's sticky.
Ted: It's not... It's like Bikram, right? We're yoga buddies. [singsong] Yoga buddies.

Quote from Ted

Robin: So, Ted, when you say ridonkulous...
Ted: I can't even describe it. It'd be like trying to explain a rainbow to a blind person.

Quote from Barney

Ted: It was just too much. Indiana Jones wouldn't look at this body. This is a body that would melt a Nazi's face.
Barney: Oh, man, I want my face to melt. It's too bad Marshall isn't here.
Robin: Why Marshall?
Barney: 'Cause he could just say...
[fantasy:]
Marshall: Hey, Liddy, why don't you take off that coat?
Barney: [v.o.] And Liddy would be all...
Liddy: Sure, should I take my shirt off, too?
Marshall: No, the coat's probably enough.
[reality:]
Barney: And he'd get away with it. You know why? No stink.
Robin: You obviously haven't split a cab with him after basketball.
Barney: No, I don't mean "physical stink". I mean the pheromonal stink a guy gives off when he's desperate for action to a pathetic degree. You know, like Ted.
Ted: I have stink?
Barney: Bro, you dipped in stink.

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