Ted: Hey. You guys want a drink?
Robin: I'll just have a water.
Ted: Mm, technically, water is a drink.
Robin: Really, Professor? You drink it? Is that how water works? Because I was just gonna smear it on my skin and hope that I absorbed it.
Barney: Or you could, you know, pour it over your shirt.
Ted: What's with you?
Robin: You're always correcting people.
Barney: You totally do that!
Marshall: That's absolutely right.
Robin: Right? I never noticed it before, and now it's literally driving me crazy.

Ted: Okay, maybe so, but it's no worse than you using the word "literally" in every other sentence.
Barney: He's right. Don't they teach vocabulary in Canada?
Marshall: They literally don't. They literally don't.
Robin: Shut up, Marshall. That's nothing compared to your thing of singing what you do all the time.
Marshall: What?
[flashback:]
Marshall: [singing] Paying my bills using return address labels From a charity that I haven't given money to Writing a check 'cause now I feel guilty The Salivation Army does not fight fair.
[another flashback:]
Marshall: [singing] Heading down to the basement today With my laundry and a roll of quarters But I'm back too soon 'cause I left the detergent and the fabric softener.

Lily: You see, all three right there.
Ted: Well, technically, "awesome" wouldn't be a catchphrase. If anything, it's more of a catchword.
Robin: I literally want to rip your head off.
Ted: You mean "figuratively"!
Robin: No, I literally mean "literally." Literally, literally, literally.

Robin: Oh, my God, Lily, what are you eating, gravel?
Marshall: Oh, I know, right? It sounds like cufflinks going up a vacuum cleaner.
Lily: Well, why don't you sing about it?
Marshall: [singing] Because I don't sing about everything I do.
Robin: No, no, sometimes you just sing nonsense sentences like a stroke victim, and what's worse, they're catchy. [singing] Apple, orchard, banana, cat dance, 8663 See? We know that one because once you sang that for, like, three hours. What the hell is that?
Marshall: That's my password. AOBCD8663.

Barney: There's another one. It's called "Golden Reliever," where this dog...
Lily: Yeah, we can guess.

Future Ted: [v.o.] Three years later, I ran in to Cathy and she was doing well.
Cathy: Ted?! Oh, my God, I haven't seen you in so long! How long has it been? Three years? No, four. No, three, 'cause I went blonde and then I went back 'cause I was having too much fun. You know, it's true what they say: blondes have more fun. Oh, my God, I'm being so rude. Ted, this is my fiancé. Yes, I'm engaged. Ted, this is Daniel. [Cathy uses sign language] Daniel, this is Ted. [Daniel understands and offers his hand for Ted to shake]
Ted: [signs] Great, great, nice to meet you. You guys seem perfect for each other.
Cathy: Oh, my God. I know, right? Totally, it was like love at first sight. Hey, we should go out sometime. Are you seeing anyone? Because we could double-date. That...? No, it's not weird. We can go have brunch out the street. I know this place. Do you guys like popovers?
[Ted signs "She sure can talk a lot, huh?" to Daniel]
Cathy: Because I love popovers. They're like croissants, but they're a little bit less flaky and they're kind of round. Hey, they have strawberry jam.