- Lily moves in with Marshall and Ted, and when Ted suspects that he's being edged out of the apartment, he and Marshall decide to settle it like men.
- Lily moves in with Ted and Marshall and although it was Ted's idea to ask Lily to move in, he starts to worry that the apartment changes too much with Lily there. Another issue for Ted is who will keep the apartment after Lily and Marshall got married. In the end, a real fight starts between Ted and Marshall over the apartment.—Sa
- Ever since she and Marshall got engaged, Lily has basically been living at the guys' apartment. She hasn't even been back to her own apartment in about three months. But things change when she finds that her old apartment is no more (as she had no formal written lease), and has been converted into a Chinese restaurant. So Lily officially moves into Marshall and Ted's apartment. This brings up the question of who will get the apartment after Marshall and Lily get married. Both Ted and Marshall love the place - Ted specifically loving it just the way it is - and they have always put off talking about this issue. Barney and Robin believe that Marshall and Lily will slowly edge him out due to sheer numbers. When Lily starts to put her own stamp on the place, Marshall and Ted really do have to come up with a way to decide who will get it, with Lily being the unfortunately target of their battle. Meanwhile, Barney feels that he has wasted too much time in his life on dates that he knew were going nowhere, so he decides to implement the "lemon law" on his dates of giving the date five minutes before pulling the plug on it or not. Robin doesn't think five minutes is enough to really get to know someone, so Barney sets her up with someone who he believes she will know isn't right for her in five seconds, let alone five minutes. Will Robin stick out the entire date?—Huggo
- Lily (Alyson Hannigan) takes Robin (Cobie Smulders) over to her apartment (which she herself has not been to in three months) while they are out, only to find that it has become a Chinese restaurant called Madame Chew's House of Dumplings, decorated with her belongings. They are told by the hostess (who recognizes Lily from the photos she left) that the landlady died, and Lily didn't have a written lease. The building had sent her a notice 3 months ago, but Lily never got her mail.
Lily and Robin immediately head over to Ted (Josh Radnor) and Marshall's (Jason Segel) apartment to explain the situation, and Ted tells Lily that she is welcome to live with them, since she practically already does. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) warns Ted that things will change with Lily officially living at the apartment, and that eventually they will force Ted out. Since Ted and Marshall have not discussed who gets the apartment once Marshall and Lily get married. Barney insists that little things will be changing and eventually Ted will be edged out.
Ted does not believe him, but after he finds "Shocky" (his very old coffee pot that always gave him an electrical jolt) in the garbage and replaced by Lily's coffee pot (Ted's pot used to make rusty coffee and would also shock people), he begins to think Barney is right. He feels even more threatened when Marshall tells him he wants to hang Lily's painting where the two swords hang. In order to try to reclaim his territory, Ted begins to label all of his food and then orders a life-sized English phone booth for the apartment. He begins to argue with Marshall about who should get the apartment (Marshall didn't even want to move there since the WW era building would have been bad for his allergies, They don't need the 2 rooms as Marshall would never start a family while still in law school, Marshall took down the swords to make space for Lily's painting), which leads to a duel with the swords that hung on the wall. Events become tragic when a coffee table collapses under Marshall's weight, and he stumbles backward and runs Lily through the shoulder. After she is patched up at the hospital, Lily tells them that she does not want to live there once she and Marshall are married because it is a "guy's apartment."
After having to use a fake hospital emergency to bail out on a dud date, Barney has hit upon a revolutionary idea in the dating world: The Lemon Law. Similar in nature to lemon laws for used cars, Barney's new lemon law for dating gives a person five minutes to decide if the date will go on for the rest of the night or not. They can call the date off for any reason in the first five minutes, avoiding bad dates. Robin argues that it takes longer for people to get to know each other, so Barney challenges her by setting her up with a nerdy guy obsessed with Star Trek. When she is on the date, Barney calls her to try to get her to use the lemon law, but she refuses. The guy assumes it was a fake call, and she tells him that she would never do that. Only a few minutes later, she gets a real call from the hospital telling her that Marshall has accidentally stabbed Lily, and leaves. At the hospital Barney reveals that his lemon law is now "a thing," as he had just been "lemon-lawed" by a girl earlier that night. Once Lily is released from the hospital, they go eat Chinese dumplings at the restaurant in Lily's old apartment.
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