'Bad Crazy'

Jeanette Goes Nuts and Robin's Baby Phobia Comes Back to Haunt Her

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, 'cause Jeanette's gone up on the Hot/Crazy scale!

So Jeanette is definitely the last girl Ted ever dates before he meets the mother, and she is also the reason Ted finally says, after they break up, "No more dating. I'm ready to settle down". This was in a scene in the near future when Ted and the rest of the gang sit out on a demolished street. Hang on? Demolished street? How on earth did that happen!? There's even stuff falling from the sky and on fire! But we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves: we don't actually get up to this scene in this episode so I'll start from the beginning.

 

Marshall and Barney want Ted to break up with Jeanette, but Ted says they want him to be single so they can keep in Ted's apartment whatever they had brought without their wife and fiance's permission (Barney bringing in a canoe where he's on both ends proves he isn't a normal human being). But Ted does see the crazy stuff and breaks up with her at a football game, but she ain't done yet: she stops by Ted's when he isn't home, barricades herself in his room, and starts destroying it. AND she could stay in there for a long while if nothing is done since Ted had prepared himself a few months back (when the big storm hit New York last year) with food supplies and an emergency toilet, etc., and now those things are at Jeanette's disposal. Ted blames Barney and Marshall for letting the "vampire" in (a stalker being called a vampire... nice joke Ted *high fives*). To make things even crazier? Jeanette's a... wait for it... police woman!

So Ted dresses up for battle and he admits he didn't exactly break up with Jeanette: before he got to, Jeanette accused Ted of being in love with Lily. Ted goes up to his room for battle, only to be thrown down the stairs five minutes later. But he confesses that he and Jeanette didn't actually break up and that Ted fell for Jeanette when he went up to his room to find her wearing his red cowboy boots. Oh, Ted. But Lily tells Ted to hold onto her for now, since he himself is insane, until it literally ends in flames when I suppose Jeanette goes on a rampage.  

 

Meanwhile, believe it or not Robin has never held Marvin in the total eight months of his life and has been desperately trying to avoid it if an opportunity came up. I don't blame her too much: who wants to be responsible for the well being of someone else's baby in your hands? I do feel sometimes that if I hold a baby I'll make it upset somehow. That's the mystery of babies: sometimes they are fascinated by me, and other times they weep for their mummy back.
Anyway, Robin and Lily are going out for lunch when Lily has to run after the bus after she realised she had left Marvin's dummy on it, leaving Robin alone with a crying baby. One of the best moments in this episode was Lily telling Robin if Marvin cried hold him, and after Lily's gone and Marvin starts crying Robin does hold him.... by carrying the pram. Oh Robin. When Lily returns Robin says there were no problems. Absolutely none! None at all!

 

4 years later: a still-hot Robin confesses to Lily that she let a woman on the street hold Marvin to make him stop crying. That is all!

 

12 years later from present: a still-hot Robin confesses to Lily that she accidentally let the pram run away. Anymore to that story? Nope! That's it!

 

14 years later from the present: a still-hot Robin confesses to Lily that she and lady took Marvin to a strip club. OK, she's told Lily everything!

 

16 years later from the present: a still-hot Robin confesses to Lily that she left Marvin alone with the lady so she could use the rest room. All secrets revealed! Nothing to hide!

 

17 years later from the present: a still-hot Robin confesses to Lily that everything that she had told her so far did actually happen... except replace the lady with Mike Tyson (I didn't actually figure out who he was until Robin said his name. My bad.)

 

Back in the present, while the gang are at Ted's place to deal with Jeanette Lily suddenly dumps Marvin onto Robin and the victim doesn't realise she's holding a fragile human infant until five seconds later. But guess who turns out to be looking after Marvin hours into the night anyway? Aww!

 

 

This episode left me with some important questions:

1. So now that Robin's pretty much in love with little Marvin, will the kids issue come up between her and Barney soon?

2. Why was Robin holding a bunch of big bright flowers in that demolished street scene? I'm guessing something happened between her and Barney and whatever happened ended/resolved well.

3. What on earth happened with Marshall's horse? What? I saw all the other stuff in Ted's apartment, why not the horse?!

 

Promo below.