New Roommates Ted and Robin become FWB's to solve their co-habitant disputes. Barney deals with his jealousy in an unhealthy release. Marshall struggles with reading magazines at work, which becomes a euphemism for the scatalogical.
Marshall and Barney try to keep Ted from finding out that his GNB project has been cancelled, Guy Ritchie style. Lily needs to know what Canadian celebrity Robin slept with, what he collected and what suggested sex act ruined the night.
Ted is faced with the possibility that he's the bad guy in the story of him and Zoey after spending time with the Captain. Barney wrestles with his feelings for Nora. Marshall won't throw one at Lily until he solves the world pollution crisis.
Lily and Marshall decide they want to keep the Long Island home and move in, Robin decides to #Resist. Barney and Ted contemplate starting a family together.
At his father's gravesite, Marshall recaps adventures of NYE, where Lily informs Mickey about being pregnant, Ted and Barney open Puzzles in Ted's apartment and Robin gets an on-air position thanks to another Sandy mishap.