HIMYM - SEASON 1 EPISODE 10

This episode is one of those laugh-a-minute episodes where the cast and story keep you glued from the beginning to the end. The 'Pineapple incident' must be one of the most popular episodes of the season and trivia fact the actress who played Trudy returned in a following episode when Ted and Barney fight it out for the championship belt!



This episode takes place mainly at the pub - as Ted is still whining about not being able to catch Robin. So Barney tells him to stop thinking about it and start drinking about it. Ted gets horribly drunk on shooters that Carl the bartender created called 'the red dragon' and so our night out with Ted begins. A wonderful backdrop story is Marshall's paranoia about Carl being a vampire - which I found so funny!

The episode deals mainly in each characters dealings with Ted while he is drunk in flashbacks of their memories as he cannot remember for himself what he had done. Major props have to go out to Ted for being "vomit free since '93"! As the story unfolds we find out Ted had made numerous phone calls to Robin while she was on a date with a 'hundred millionaire' - as she put it. Ted dances on the tables and sprains his ankle and wakes up with a strange woman who he had met in his drunken stupor, in his bed as well as a big ass pineapple on his side table!



Here we have another connected BARNEY-ISM and quote of the episode:
This takes place during Barney's recap of his time with Ted at the bar.
[FLASHBACK]
BARNEY: You're calling Robin?
TED: I'm calling Robin!
BARNEY: Ted, as your mental and spiritual guide, I forbid you from making that call!
TED: Oh yeah, what are you going to do about it?
BARNEY: If you complete that call, I will set your coat on fire!
TED: You're bluffing!
{TED MAKES THE PHONE CALL - AND ROBIN @ HER DINNER ANSWERS HER PHONE}
TED: Hello Robin, it's Ted
ROBIN: Ted, for the last time, stop
{ROBIN HEARS TED SCREAMING THROUGH THE PHONE}
ROBIN: Ted?
[PRESENT]
{TED, BARNEY, LILY AND MARSHALL SITTING IN THE LIVING ROOM}
TED: You set me on fire!?
BARNEY: Real suede wouldn't have gone up so fast. You got robbed, this is a blend
TED: You set me on fire! And who is the girl in my bed?
{BARNEY LOOKS UP SURPRISED, STUMBLES OVER TO TED'S ROOM AND LOOKS IN - COMES BACK TO COUCH}
BARNEY: There's a girl in your room!
MARSHALL: And a pineapple! am I the only one who is curious about the pineapple?

No Marshall your not - but I guess that is going to remain one of those unanswered question of the series! Viva pineapple!