When Ted, still single, attends his mother's wedding, he leaves it on a wild impulse and buys a rundown old house.
This episode provides examples of:
- The Alleged House: The house Ted boys is infested with pests and falling apart.
- …And That Little Girl Was Me: A variant. Ted impulsively buys a house for his future family to move into, later despairing when he realizes what poor condition the house is in. However, Future Ted reveals that he eventually turned it into his dream home, and it's the very same house where he's telling his kids a story in 2030.
- Call-Back: Barney catches a woman named Heather at Virginia and Clint's wedding. Heather is Ted's sister and Barney had shown interest in sleeping with her back in Little Minnesota. (He actually says "Ted's hot sister Heather!" at the end of a sequence of wedding guests asking Ted "When's your wedding?")
- House Inspection: Ted goes house-hunting and hires an inspector to look at a house. The inspector gets about halfway through before telling Ted the place is a deathtrap. Too bad he's already bought it.Inspector: Now I could keep looking and see what else I could find, besides the black mold, the damaged retaining wall, the frayed electrical wires, the lead paint, the water damage, the fire damage, the sun damage, the broken furnace, the rotted floorboards, hey! Look at that, no termites! The cracked chimney, the bats, the rats, the spiders, the raccoons, the hobo, the detached gutter, the outdated fuse box, and the paint job in the kitchen, which is fine, but the trim really clashes with the countertops. Or I could just recommend that you do not buy this godforsaken Guantanamo Bay of a house and suggest that we all get our asses out of here before a medium-sized wind blows the whole sumbitch down.
- Noodle Implements: Somehow, over the course of twelve minutes, Clint's song goes from an explicit love song to this ending:Clint (singing): And Mahatma Gandhi, and the pancakes, (Everybody!), and the dragon, and you, Virginia.
- Parental Sexuality Squick: Clint has no qualms about sharing with Ted just how sexual he finds Virginia, but Ted's so squicked out, he blacks out at the song Clint performs at their wedding.
