- When the gang learns that a bold, desperation date move got Robin into bed, Ted and Barney decide to try it out for themselves.
- Ted is relaying to his children the story of how he moved on to the next woman after Stella left him right before the wedding. Her name was Vicky, a woman he saw every day in the elevator. After a week of furtive glances, he asked her out to which she accepted. Based on a ploy by Robin's latest date to sleep with her (the ploy called "the naked man"), the gang discuss the effectiveness of the ploy and the role of sex in their respective lives. Specifically between Marshall and Lily, they debate if love is the only reason to sleep with another person. Robin needs to defend her decision to sleep with Mitch, the naked man guy, with whom she may not have ever seen again after that date. And Barney urges Ted to employ the naked man technique on Vicky, despite Ted believing that he may have a future with her.—Huggo
- Ted ponders how long it will take to recover from being left at the altar by Stella, asking for advice from Lily, Marshall, Robin and Barney (half the length of the relationship, 1 week for every month you were together, exactly 10000 drinks, time till she hits the door). He soon finds out himself as he begins to talk to a woman he always sees at the elevators at work, Vicky (Courtney Ford). Slowly they get to know one another, until Ted blurts out that he got left at the altar. He recovers and asks her out on a date, which she accepts.
Ted comes home later that day, passing by Robin talking on the phone outside. When he enters his apartment, he finds Mitch (Adam Paul), Robin's blind date, sitting naked on the couch. Robin was out taking a call as her cell phone didn't get reception inside the apartment. After hearing from Lily that the blind date had been going badly, Ted returns and confronts Mitch again, who tells Ted about his "move", The Naked Man: on a first date with no possibility of a second, one takes advantage of a distraction in order to strip and surprise one's date with nakedness in the hope of receiving sex by means of humor, pity or sheer spontaneity. Ted tells the gang about the move's effectiveness (Mitch assures him that it works "two out of three times, guaranteed"), but they don't believe it, thinking Robin may end up shooting Mitch instead. Taking the notion seriously, they storm back to Ted's apartment to find a makeshift "Do not disturb" sign hanging from the doorknob and realize Robin is indeed having sex with her horrific blind date.
Convinced that The Naked Man works, Barney believes it will revolutionize the one-night stand, much to the chagrin of Lily, who still believes Barney has feelings for Robin. Ted's still amazed that The Naked Man worked on Robin. Marshall calls her a slut, saying that the only reason to sleep with someone is true love (mostly because he was recently strongly armed into reading The Notebook by the secretary's book club at work). Everyone disagrees, and Lily claims she can name at least 50 reasons to sleep with someone; everyone but Marshall helps make a list, and he gets increasingly angry when he learns how many points Lily uses on him. Make-up sex, break-up sex, your friend just told you about a new position sex, revenge, rebound, para-trooping (you go out of town and hook up with a girl at a bar with the sole intention of getting a free place to stay for the night), nothing good on TV sex, hotel room sex, curiosity sex, he said he loved you but you are not ready to say it back yet sex, wing-man diving on a friend grenade sex, Condoms are about to expire sex, you dropped a Cheetos on his lap and he thought you were making a move sex, and so on.
Barney tries to convince Ted to do The Naked Man with Vicky on their upcoming date; later, he gets himself invited up to a girl's apartment and attempts The Naked Man himself. As Barney's getting ready, he calls Ted to let him know that he's going through with it. To his surprise, Ted is too, after Vicky was rude to a waiter and otherwise demonstrated herself to be a mean-spirited person, and he realized that there was no future between them. After debating which pose to display themselves in (Superman, The thinker, Oops I didn't see you there, the Heisman, Mr Clean, the Burt Reynolds, The Olympic gymnast who stuck the landing, old Coppertone baby), Ted finds a volume of Pablo Neruda's poetry in Vicky's apartment and decides to put his clothes back on. When he finds out that the book isn't even hers and she has no appreciation for it, he busts out The Naked Man, while simultaneously Barney does the same for his date, and Lily does with Marshall.
Meanwhile, Robin calls Mitch for a second date (to prove that she didn't sleep with him just because he was naked) and, despite not even knowing his surname, attempts out of sheer pride to discover some form of connection between them to justify her sleeping with him. Mitch calmly assures her that they have no connection, and tells Robin that he has been on the "Not-a-Slut Date" before with women who, like Robin, were called out by their friends for only sleeping with him because he was naked.
Back at the bar, Ted tells Lily and Marshall at the bar of his success with The Naked Man, and they tell him that it worked out for them as well. Robin, still trying to defend herself, brings Mitch with her to the bar. Marshall takes back what he said, to Robin's relief, and she immediately loses her (faked) interest in Mitch, to his relief. Ted thanks Mitch for the move, saying it brought him back. Marshall decides to call Barney to see how it worked for him; the girl answers Barney's phone, and reveals that she was appalled by the move and angrily threw Barney out of her apartment naked. Mitch sagely observes that the technique worked "two out of three times". After Mitch leaves, Ted proposes a toast to his hero, The Naked Man.
Meanwhile, Barney roams the streets naked trying to get home. He comes across some suits on a rack outside a store and is relieved, but upon closer inspection finds them to be of cheap quality, so he continues to roam naked.
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