Are the Eriksens moving? HIMYM S08E21 Recap

Lily has been given a life-changing decision that could make or break her family life with Marshall. Since she has been working so hard for The Captain, he has asked Lily to move with him to Rome, Italy and buy art for him there for a year. Lily, shocked, could not give a straight answer to him. Though she loves to live abroad, she knows that saying yes to The Captain would mean that she is going to uproot her family, having Marshall give up his job so that he and Marvin could come with her to Italy. The Captain gives her the rest of the day to decide.

Lily asks Barney and Ted's opinion about the big move to Italy and she was convinced to turn down The Captain's offer as she doesn't want to ruin her family life just because they moved to Italy, making Marshall leave his old life for her.

Meanwhile, Ted has his eyes on a girl he met at his yoga class. She shows up at the bar and was seen by Ted and Barney. Barney, being Barney, cannot stand not seeing the "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol of bodies"that Ted has been telling him. He slipped Carl, the bartender, $100 to turn up the heat so he could see her rocking body.

Later on, Robin comes in and the boys are surprised to see that she knows the girl they're talking about. She comes over to their booth with Robin and was introduced to them as Robin and Barney's wedding planner.

Since she's already unemployed, she makes an unannounced visit to Marshall at work. She was surprised to find out that Marshall's company hasn't had any clients for months already. Marshall explains that they have lost a lot of business clients since the Gruber case (Honeywell & Cootes vs. Brad Morris). That there were a lot of people laid-off, leaving just Marshall and Bernard at the firm.

Furious that she just gave up an opportunity-of-a-lifetime, Lily tells Marshall about The Captain's proposal for them to move with him to Rome, Italy. That she turned the offer down, thinking that Marshall loves his job too much, so she'll just give up her Italian dream. Marshall was surprised and excited, thinking that if they move to Rome, he can finally stay at home and just take care of Marvin, make home-made pasta and watch the Italian version of "The Price is Right". Something Marshall has been dreaming of for quite some time now... and something Lily thought might make Marshall miserable. Marshall makes things right for Lily and he rushes to The Captain to convince him to take Lily back as his art consultant.

Back to the wedding planning, Ted and Barney are still drooling over Liddy. She still hasn't took off her coat, making them frustrated already. Robin suspects something odd so she asked them what's up. Barney spills to Robin that Ted says Liddy has a "ridonculous body" and that he just wants to verify it, but Liddy just won't take off her coat. He fesses up to Robin that he paid Carl to turn up the bar's thermostat, to suffice his curiosity over Liddy's rack under that coat. To their surprise, Robin also was curious why Liddy hasn't took off her coat.

Robin suggests to Ted that he ask Liddy out. Apparently, Ted tried to ask her out once, but wasn't able to say a word after seeing her ridonculous body. He thinks Liddy's body "could melt a Nazi's face". Yes. That ridonculous, I guess. Haha! Finally, Barney asks Liddy to take her coat off to both prove to Robin that he has no more pheromonal stink and to answer their question about how crazy Liddy's body is. And it was indeed ridonculous.

The Captain calls Lily about his talk with Marshall. He asks Lily again if she would take up his offer once more to move with him to Rome, along with Marshall and Marvin. Lily turned it down once more. She explains that she might fail her job and lose everything if they move to Italy.


Ted warns Barney to take it easy on Robin. That just because she seems cool about him looking at other women, doesn't mean that she is cool with it. Barney was offended and dismisses Ted's suggestion, saying that it's not his place.

Marshall talks to Lily about how she turned down her dream job. Twice. She confesses that she was scared, just like that time in college when she moved to France for a while to study art. That she went home two weeks earlier than planned because she was lonely and "terrified of living more than 10 stops away from where I was born". But after pointing out to Lily all that could possibly terrifying to her in Italy, he tells her about the good side of moving there and assures her that they still have each other then, Marshall finally convinces Lily to move to Italy and pursue her dream job.


***Mircea Monroe (Hart of Dixie's Tansy Truitt) guest stars as Liddy, Robin and Barney's wedding planner and Ted's new crush.