- Marshall takes steps to make sure that he and Lily have a baby boy, but Lily has other ideas. Meanwhile, when Ted begins dating Robin's co-anchor, Barney is inspired to use baby talk to pick up women, and Robin feels betrayed.
- When Claudia and Stuart have a baby, Marshall and Lily come to the realization that they have yet even to talk about a name for their future first offspring. Marshall and Lily's individual lists outline one fundamental difference between their wants, which dawns upon Marshall: he wants a boy and she wants a girl. As the Eriksens seem to have a long history of producing boys, Marshall has to decide if he will heed the unusual advice of his father to get what he wants. Unknown to Marshall, Lily's actions may thwart his own plans. Meanwhile, Robin hates her new co-anchor, Becky, a helpless woman who acts more like a little girl than a woman. Robin learns that the little girl act turns men on, much to her chagrin. But what bothers Robin even more is that Becky is turning on one guy in particular. And as Robin and Lily believe that the little girl act turning on guys is creepy, Barney appoints his new challenge to be to pick up a woman using only a little boy act. Completing the challenge ends up being harder than he imagined.—Huggo
- Marshall and Lily visit Stuart (Matt Boren) and Claudia (Virginia Williams), who are having trouble naming their newborn baby. Marshall comes up with boy names that Lily rejects because of her past experiences with trouble-making kindergarten boys (with Honka Honka, one boy Ryan stabbing her in the thighs with a pencil, one boy Johnny eating the Goldfish, or Jeremy who splashed paint all over Lily during the art class) and Lily comes up girl names that Marshall rejects because of his experience with a hot girl back in his high school (Tara) and a stripper (named Esther). A future fantasy has an older Barney hitting on and subsequently marrying their daughter. Marshall, worried that it might be a girl, consults his father on how to ensure that it will be a boy (Avoid lemons. Eat pickled herring, dunk the junk in a big bowl of ice right before sex, and point the girl due north while having sex) while Lily has been searching for ways to make sure it will be a girl (eat lemons, point south during sex and heat up the lady parts to 105 degrees). When they found out, they realize that they have no control over the gender and decide to give him/her the gender-neutral name Jamie. Lily rejects the name later because of a troublemaker named Jamie.
Robin wants Ted to watch her show to validate how annoying Becky really is. But Ted watches the show and finds Becky charming. Robin cannot understand why the little girl act works on all men. Becky, Robin's new, overly cheery co-anchor at Come On, Get Up New York! reveals that she is dating Ted. Ted claims that Becky came over to meet Robin which a batch of chocolate chip cookies and then got all scared by a few spiders on the floor. Ted smashed the spider and saw himself as all manly. Robin takes issue with Ted dating a girl who uses baby talk, while Ted, Barney, and Marshall defend girls using baby talk as a way for men to feel more manly and protective.
Robin states that women would never fly with a man using baby talk. Barney accepts the challenge but tries and fails the baby talk play. He strikes out with every woman at the bar and gives up. Robin finds out that Ted finds dependent girls attractive and found Robin's independence and assertiveness off-putting. Robin asks Barney if he felt that he was needed by Robin during their relationship, but he thought her independence was awesome. Robin points out that there is a crazy woman in his apartment-she turns out to have come by Barney as he was indulging himself in ice cream and responding to him in a childish manner (Barney refuses to share his ice cream in a childish manner and the woman also responds like a little girl), seduced Barney. Barney asks for Robin's help to get rid of the woman, and the independent Robin grabs Barney's decorative sword and heads into the bedroom.
Ted and Becky are in a park, and as Becky licks an ice cream cone, Ted notices her shoe is untied and bends down to tie it. He then notices a nearby father tying his daughter's shoe and breaks up with Becky.
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