- At the Architect's Ball, Ted runs into Victoria, who tells him that she's getting married. Meanwhile, Barney places an unlikely wager with Marshall and Lily in order to see Lily's breasts.
- The five friends are having dinner at Shinjitsu, a Japanese teppanyaki. It's Marshall's favorite restaurant, while Barney hates it there. Two topics of conversation emerge for the evening. The first is if Barney can perform a prescribed series of teppanyaki chef moves, which ends up being a bet between Barney and Marshall/Lily. If Barney wins the bet, he can touch Lily's now emerged ample pregnancy breasts. If Barney loses the bet, he has to wear Marshall's rubber ducky emblazoned tie for one year, the tie which he thinks is hideous. After they make the bet, Marshall and Lily have to figure out if Barney is hustling them - as it begins to look like Barney maneuvered their way to the restaurant without initially looking like he did - since Barney winning the bet could perhaps be their worst nightmare. The second is Ted's recent encounter with ex-girlfriend Victoria, who was the dessert caterer at the architect's ball. Their meeting ignited old feelings between the two, some good and some not so good. In the latter category is the fact that Ted officially cheated on her with Robin. During their meeting, Victoria made a few admissions of her own which may dictate if there is a future for the two of them.—Huggo
- After running into an old girlfriend that he had once cheated on, Ted tries to make amends with her after believing that fate may be giving him a sign; meanwhile, Marshall and Lily make a bet with Barney that involves him wearing a tie he dislikes.—JJ Jones
- Marshall has acquired a blue tie with a yellow-duck pattern, which Barney despises because he finds the design ugly and unsophisticated. Now that Lily is pregnant, her breasts have gotten bigger, so Barney wants to see them; both Lily and Marshall refuse. The group decide to go to "Shinjitsu", a Teppanyaki restaurant, for dinner, where Barney insults the cooking style, claiming he can do with ease all the techniques the chef can do. Marshall becomes angry and challenges Barney to do every technique, with permission to touch Lily's breasts if he succeeds. They settle on one minute, both breasts and one squeeze. If Barney fails, he must wear the duck tie for one year.
Barney unnerves Marshall and Lily throughout dinner with suggestions that he is as adept at cooking as he claims. Plus, Barney has not been drinking all night at all and is sober. When he offers to call off the bet if he is allowed to see Lily's breasts for 30 seconds in the alley, they accept until Marshall realizes that Barney has been conditioning Marshall to associate Barney's sneezing with the desire to go to "Shinjitsu" as part of a future scheme to use Marshall if Barney ever wanted something from him. Plus, Barney has been taking Shinjitsu cooking lessons at Hoboken for 6 months and is an expert now. Just as Lily is about to expose her boobs, Marshall stops her and calls Barney's bluff. He bets that Barney does not know the Shinjitsu cooking. Lily and Marshall are confident they have won the bet until after dinner, when Barney easily executes all but one of the cooking techniques. In desperation, Lily pulls up her shirt and flashes her breasts at Barney, which distracts and prevents him from succeeding at the final cooking technique. When the group returns to MacLaren's, Barney reluctantly begins wearing the ducky tie.
Meanwhile, during dinner, Ted relays the story of what happened when he ran into Victoria again at the Architect's Ball in "The Naked Truth". Ted makes a long-awaited apology for cheating on her, which Victoria accepts although she is no longer angry. However, she is surprised to learn that Ted does not find it strange that he, Robin and Barney hang out every night, despite the fact that both men dated and broke up with Robin. When Robin meets Victoria, she makes it even more awkward by saying that Ted got here drunk and which is why she kissed him, while he was with Victoria.
Victoria complains that she has to take a bus back to her bakery and she has a pile of dishes waiting for her. When Ted offers to help Victoria wash the dishes at her bakery, he learns that she is going to be engaged to Klaus (Thomas Lennon), a classmate from Germany, and becomes upset when he learns that she got together with him a day and a half after she and Ted broke up. They end up arguing but begin reminiscing about their time together after Ted reveals he deeply regretted cheating on her and they had loved one another; they end up sharing a kiss.
Despite the kiss, Victoria realizes that she wants to be with Klaus and leaves to meet him for a trip in the Hamptons. Though he concludes the story there with his friends, Future Ted reveals that he had asked Victoria what she imagined their lives would be like had they stayed together. Victoria had responded that Ted's relationships over the past six years have failed because of Robin, telling him that she is a bigger part of his life than he realizes and warns him that the current friendship that he shares with Robin and Barney doesn't work. Though Ted had not believed Victoria at the time, Future Ted reveals that she had been right.
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