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We're Not From Here

‘We're Not From Here’

Season 3, Episode 2 -  Aired October 1, 2007

Robin grows tired of the person she became in Argentina, not to mention the boyfriend she picked up. Ted and Barney pretend to be tourists to pick up women. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily write letters to each other in case one of them dies.

Quote from Barney

Lily: Ooh, here he comes. Switch to big words.
[Gael comes in]
Barney: Within a triad of solar periods, you'll recognize your dearth of compatibility with your paramour and conclude your association.
Robin: My journey was transformative and I reassert my commitment to both the aforementioned paramour and the philosophies he espouses.
Gael: What are we talking of? Baseball?
Barney: This is all gonna return to masticate you in the gluteals. Support my hypothesis, Ted.
Ted: I'm just jubilant my former paramour's jubilant.

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Quote from Robin

Robin: Quick announcement. I am so glad that you're here, fellow travelers. A couple rules... Not even rules. Let's call them guidelines for harmonious living. Guideline for harmonious living number one, the kitchen sink is for dishes, the toilet is for pee-pee. G.F.H.L. number two, marijuana is illegal in the United States, even when baked into a blueberry muffin that someone might mistakenly eat for breakfast right before they leave for their job as a TV Newscaster. "This just in: Look at my hand, how weird is my hand?" is not an appropriate thing to say on the air. And number three... I... [all cheer]. And number three is please keep the noise to a minimum. I have to take a nap. I'm still pretty baked.

Quote from Barney

Ted: Where are we even going anyway?
Lindsay: 148th and Brook Avenue.
Ted: A hundred... on the south of Bronx at this time of night? We're going to get killed.
Barney: Ted. I think these local New Yorkers know more about the city than we do, so relax. We're in very capable hands.
[later, Ted and Barney talk to a police officer as sirens wail:]
Ted: There were three of them, at least two guns. They took all our money.
Barney: Well, I only had traveler's checks.

Quote from Robin

[In the middle of the night, Robin goes out to her crowded living room where people are playing drums:]
Robin: All right, everyone out! I said everyone out!
[Robin goes to her bedroom, gets her gun and returns to the living room. The drumming stops]
Man: [Australian accent] All right, we're living, we're leaving, okay. Michael Moore was so right about Americans.
[Robin returns to her bedroom]
Robin: [yells] I'm Canadian!

Quote from Marshall

Lily: Okay, I'm done. But I really don't want you reading this unless, you know, something happens. Can you swear to me you won't open it?
Marshall: Totally. What does it say?
Lily: Marshall, I'm serious.
Marshall: Okay. I promise I won't, I won't open that until you're dead.
Lily: Okay.
Future Ted: [v.o.] And through 22 wonderful years of marriage, Marshall kept his promise.
[A bald Marshall sits at a desk in the year 2029:]
Future Ted: Until November 1 of last year when, sadly... [Marshall opens the letter]
Lily: [v.o.] "Busted! I knew you'd read this. You suck, Marshall, you totally suck."
Marshall: That's it? I suck? Lily!
Lily: [enters] Yes, you suck. You said you wouldn't read it and you did.
Marshall: Well, you didn't keep your promise either. I don't see any dirty pictures in here.
Lily: Oh, fine, I'll take the dirty pictures.
Marshall: I don't want 'em now.
Lily: What is that supposed to mean?
Marshall: What?! Nothing. Nothing. You're beautiful. I would love the photos. Have I told you how beautiful you look?

Quote from Robin

Future Ted: [v.o.] So, after Robin and I broke up, she needed some time away. Away from her normal home, her normal life, and it turns out, her normal self.
[flashback to Robin in Argentina with Gael:]
Robin: I was just so uptight in New York, you know? I mean, down here everybody shares everything. It's like we're all one big shimmering ball of positive energy. I wonder if anyone's ever thought that before.
Gael: Here. Eat. If we run out of fish I will catch more with my hands. [drums playing]
Robin: A drum circle! They're different every time. Let's go watch!

Quote from Ted

Robin: And here I am at the drum circle.
Barney: Whoa. Are you topless? Ted, check this out.
Ted: Seen 'em.

Quote from Lily

Lily: Man, this is like "Where's Waldo" of exposed genitalia. Except that it's really easy to find Waldo.

Quote from Lily

[Marshall opens Lily's letter to him:]
Lily: [v.o.] "M., Atm Pin Code: 5-4-5-9. Teacher's pension account: A-3-9-3-2. Cancel Vogue. L."

Quote from Barney

Barney: That guy...
Ted: Yeah. That guy. Look at how easy he has it.
Barney: Well, you and me, we have to bend over backwards to get a woman to, well, bend over backwards. But that guy... every woman in the bar is hanging on his every slightly mispronounced word. And why?
Ted: He's better looking than us.
Barney: No! Because he's from out of town.
Ted: Mmm.
Barney; With an accent and an innocent smile, you don't even have to try.
Ted: Yeah. Plus automatic out, you're leaving in a couple of days. God, I wish we were tourists.
Barney: Yeah. Actually... You know where I've been meaning to visit?

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