Unfinished - Recap

In this episode of How I Met Your Mother, Robin is struggling with the fact that she isn't over Don. Not only that, but Ted isn't over the fact that he truly wants to be an architect. Barney offers Ted a chance to design the new bank (again, it had been a project in the past) and Ted declines.

Due to the fact that Ted declines on the project Barney is none too pleased and decides that he is going to "get the yes" by using the tactics that he uses on those of the female persuasion on Ted. He is confident that these tactics will work while Ted feels he is above his trickery. He did many of his trademark moves. He ignores, lowers confidence, brags about being awesome, and even creates intimacy. Then he has Marshall as his "Ted wing man" and sets it up so that they can trick him into thinking that the project was given to someone else.

They get him to the office and Ted figures it all out. He tells them that he doesn't want to do it, he's comfortable with the way his life is now. He enjoys teaching and has essentially resigned himself to doing only that for the rest of his life. Eventually, they do get a yes out of it because he really does want to finally get his building built. This makes everyone happy and gives Barney another yes to add to his collection. It did take a lot of Star Wars references and messing about on the parts of all three Barney, Ted, and Marshall but the yes is the most important part.

As for Robin, she is having a really hard time. One night she wakes up on the couch in her living room and realizes that her ex is on her television. She absolutely loses it. She starts binge drinking and leaving him some pretty scary voicemails threatening to go to Chicago and kill him. She even wanted to catch a Bears game, but the most important part of this was the fact that she will absolutely kill him.

Lily decides that she's going to ask Robin where the poop is. She gets it out of Robin that she has been calling her ex and leaving threatening voicemails. Lily demands that she delete the contact out of her phone. Robin pretends that she does, but the next day Lily knows that something is going on with her again. So, she asks her where the poop is again. This upsets Robin and it turns into this big thing about how we all keep numbers in our phones that we may not need now necessarily but we might someday!

For Lily, that number was the place she went to her first karate class at. She had an encounter with seven year olds as that seemed to be the age group of the beginners classes. She thought she would go back and this was about ten years ago. So, it was more than probable that she wouldn't. For Marshall, the number is for this guy that booked his gig for his funk band. Yes, his funk band. They were both convinced they needed to remove their numbers and then Robin removed her exes.

You would think that was the end of it, but it turns out that Robin had his number memorized. Eventually, she does forget his number and it is then that she can truly move on from the relationship that had ended so quickly and so harshly on Robin's part.

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