- Just as Ted and Victoria's relationship is beginning to flourish, she's offered a scholarship to a culinary institute in Germany.
- Victoria is about to leave to go to Germany for two years for a donate fellowship. Ted doesn't know if he should her ask to stay or if he should tell her to leave. Marshall needs a new suit and Barney helps him. Meanwhile, Robin and Victoria accompany Lily to a wedding dress fitting and also the girls talk about whether Victoria should leave Ted or not.—la-de-da
- Both the guys and the girls are out shopping for important clothes: a suit for Marshall at Barney's "tailor" so that he can look presentable at a job interview for his dream internship at the National Research Defense Council, and a wedding dress for Lily. With the former, Marshall, who is deep in debt, only agrees to get a new suit as Barney has told him he is getting a really good deal at two-thirds off. But the topic of conversation is the same on both shopping trips: Ted and Victoria's relationship. Victoria has just been offered a two year fellowship at a prestigious culinary institute in Germany, which, if she accepts, means she has to leave in a couple of days. Ted and Victoria have decided that if she does go, they will break up as neither believes a long distance relationship will work. After the respective guys talk and girls talk, both Ted and Victoria have come to an individual decision, but are they the same? And both Marshall and Lily have an unexpected clothing issue on their shopping trips.—Huggo
- Victoria has been offered a fellowship at a culinary institute in Germany for 2 years, putting her relationship with Ted in jeopardy. Both are unsure, but have always believed that long distance relationships never work; according to Ted, it's a lie teenagers use to get laid the summer before college, while Marshall and Lily say that they are all talk and no sex.
Marshall needs a new suit (his old suit has holes in it) for an important interview for an internship position at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Barney tells him that he will take Marshall to his tailor and get a discount for it (at 1/3rd the cost), and outfits Marshall with a very nice suit. Ted accompanies them and continues to agonize over his problem with Victoria. Marshall argues that Ted needs to fight for Victoria, but Barney argues that he knows nothing about her (her favorite color, whether she likes cats or dogs, is she open to a three-way etc) Barney tells Marshall not to waste the suit on NRDC, and come work at his office instead.
Meanwhile, Victoria and Robin take Lily shopping for a wedding dress (she knows a lot of bridal shops due to her wedding cake business), but cannot find anything she likes in her price range. Robin gets tipsy on free champagne and tries to manipulate Victoria into going to Germany, since Robin wants to break them up so she can make a move on Ted, but eventually accepts that Victoria and Ted are really in love, when she sees that Victoria is really sincere about Ted and values him over everything else.
In helping Ted and Victoria make their decisions, Marshall and Lily tell two versions of the same story: During college, Lily took a summer art class in Paris. According to Marshall, Lily met this strange man named Gabriel; Marshall thought he was moving in on Lily, so when he visited her he told Gabriel to stay away from Lily. According to Lily, she was good friends with a homely girl who was self-conscious about her mustache named Gabrielle, who suddenly stopped talking to Lily about halfway through the summer, leaving Lily friendless. Neither of them knows the other's story.
Just for fun, Victoria gets one of the nice dresses from the front window, which Lily loves; she cannot afford it, but accidentally sits down in the free cake provided by the bridal shop, and then rips the dress. Later at the bar, Marshall gets the bill for the suit from Barney and finds out that he must pay $4,000 for it, even though Barney promised him a great deal, and realizes it must be a ruse by Barney to get him to accept a high-paying job at Barney's firm, something which Barney attempts to deny. He turns to Lily and says he'll do whatever it takes to pay it off, at which point Lily breaks down and reveals that she ruined, and thus had to purchase, an $8,000 dress; Marshall, his back to the wall and with no other option to pay $12,000 plus the money for the wedding, decides to go work for Barney.
Ted and Victoria meet for dinner having made their respective decisions: Ted thinks she should go, while Victoria thinks she should stay. However, they both impulsively change their minds after Victoria hands Ted a cupcake. They argue a bit and decide to break up. However, Marshall tells Ted to spend one more awesome day with Victoria. The two decide to spend the day enjoying New York doing all the things they'd wanted to during the relationship, and Future Ted tells his kids that's exactly what they did (but it's unclear if they did or if Future Ted is able to remember any of that stuff, since actually only scenes are shown of them in bed). At the airport, Ted and Victoria decide to give long distance a try, both saying that it will work; however, Future Ted tells his kids that it didn't, that long-distance relationships never work.
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