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Jennifer Morrison Starts her Stint on HIMYM as Ted’s...Love Interest?
October 19, 2010 01:00 AM EDT (Updated: October 19, 2010 01:01 AM EDT)
Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) has a problem. He tends to change his personality when he meets a new girl. He’s been an adrenaline junkie, Reenactment Civil war hero, and wizard, all just to impress really hot women. Yet, Ted claims this time is different. He says he really agrees with Zoey, played by Jennifer Morrison, in “How I Met Your Mother” season six episode five, Architect of Destruction.
Ted doesn’t think the Arcadian building should be knocked down for the new GNB building he’s designing. And neither does Zoey. It really came as no surprise that Ted immediately fell for her, not accounting for the fact that Jennifer Morrison’s recurring guest role has been talked about for weeks.
Zoey is a total architecture nerd, not to mention a bit crazy, even by HIMYM standards. She pursues justice - including saving rabbits from a lab - with more zeal than anyone. Ted falls so hard and fast that he tells Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) he’s off the GNB project, despite Barney’s legen - wait for it - dary interoffice memo.
Barney wants to protect Ted from making a mistake, even after losing the argument that “new is always better.” 30-year old scotch compared to Jimbo Jim’s Scotch? Barney regretfully accepted that “How I Met Your Mother” challenge.
When Barney realizes that snakes in the Arcadian won’t dissuade Ted from his new stance, Barney takes a new tactic. He posts a billboard on the Arcadian proclaiming: Coming soon from architectural wizard Ted Mosby, complete with a photo of Ted wearing a magician’s hat.
Ted still manages to prove his loyalty to Zoey’s cause while retaining his GNB job: he redesigns the building to incorporate the Arcadian facade into the new headquarters. But there’s one slight problem... Zoey is married. Finally Ted realizes, his new ‘cause’ was really about the girl.
Meanwhile, with the rest of the gang, Marshall (Jason Segel) learns a little too much about his friend Max (Geoff Stults). It turns out Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) like to have lots of salty sailor talk about man parts. They liken it to guy’s locker talk, which is apparently a totally false assumption.
None of the boys want to know that Max, who Robin is now dating, has a small penis, least of all Marshall. Even worse, Marshall now imagines Lily and Robin critiquing his every move in bed while they sip cosmos and giggle.
The ending to this storyline wasn’t surprising. While Lily is on the phone with Robin, Marshall gives her a script to use, which Robin sees right through, but Marshall doesn’t need to know that. He’s now a ‘complete stud,’ he thinks, in Robin’s eyes.
But the HIMYM Architect of Destruction storyline that really mattered here was Ted’s. It didn’t end in the usual “How I Met Your Mother” fashion. Just as Future Ted (Bob Saget) muses about whether or not 2010 Ted will ever see Zoey again, his apartment gets egged. Zoey has brought the protesters to his apartment, and they won’t leave until he comes out.
Is this a relationship that will be born out of hate? This is a first in the land of Ted and HIMYM: a love storyline that isn’t simply boy meets girl and falls in love. It was more: boy meets girl and realizes what an idiot he was to fall for her without checking her ring finger. Hopefully “How I Met Your Mother” will keep viewers on their toes, and this relationship won’t happen overnight, even after six seasons of wanting to know who the Mother is.
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