S4 E21
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Season 4  "The Three Days Rule"  4x21

Aired 14 years ago - Apr 27, 2009

Ted breaks one of Barney and Marshall's relationship rules, texting a woman he recently met, so the pair play a joke on Ted by pretending to be the woman.

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? And just when you've decided never to text anyone again...
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You made a noise.
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That's totally a boob.
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Holly just told me what she's wearing right now.
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Okay, maybe she's lying about the architecture magazines.
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"Hey, baby, I picked up some take-out from Generro's.
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Okay, maybe not a sick dad.
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Oh, that's weird.
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So Ted hasn't been texting Holly at all?
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"Texty text"?!
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and they do look sexy.
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Oh! Oh! You think
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Okay, okay, tell him that we're...
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So, you did this to him all day?
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Yeah.
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I'm so bad.
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"Ha-ha.
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He got way too personal way too soon.
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Then we met... Stan.
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And he eats lunch at MacLaren's every day.
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"And when we finally come together,
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You want me to text that to Ted.
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That's Pablo Neruda.
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Which will be tomorrow.
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and ruined everything.
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Holly explained everything.
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And now we are better than ever.
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Wait. That whole time it was them?
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reading architecture magazines?
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Or...
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and those feelings are creeping up again"?
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Oh, yeah?
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Why in the world would Ted text a girl he barely knows
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about one of us, it would be me.
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And there's muffins warming in the oven.
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That would blow his mind...
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But, uh, I had this crazy dream the other night.
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I had where I ate dinner with my top five
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And then I woke up.
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So, the machines-- they've killed everybody,
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And, Why do I have to get with one of you?
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That's why I made up the gay dreams thing.
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