- Marshall and Lily decide to buy a new home, which forces Lily to finally confront Marshall about her credit card debt.
- Marshall and Lily think that it's time they got their own place. Lily automatically thinks they should rent, but Marshall gets it into his mind that he wants to buy, not knowing yet about Lily's massive credit card debt. What's worse is that the first place they look at, Marshall loves without the real estate agent even needing to do a sell job to them. It's in a neighborhood real estate agents coin Dowisetrepla, of which they've never heard. Marshall finally finds out about their financial issues once they try to secure a mortgage. Beyond the argument Lily and Marshall have the size of their debt, Lily comes up with an unconventional solution to their problem. But will they ever find out what Dowisetrepla means? Meanwhile, Barney secures a key to the condominium that Marshall and Lily want to buy. His purpose?: to pretend that the place is his own so that he can sleep with a woman there for a one time only purpose, leave and never have to see her again.—Huggo
- Marshall and Lily finally become tired of Ted's never-ending presence and his invasion of the married couple's personal space (Lily walks in on Ted shaving his genitals. Ted holds late night parties with Robin and Barney while Marshall has the bar exam the next day.. Then one day Marshall snapped when Ted didn't put the lid back on the peanut butter jar.. Turns out it was Lily who forgot to put it back on), so they decide to rent a new apartment. In the newspaper they find an apartment in a neighborhood called 'Dowisetrepla', which is explained as part of New York City's tendency to shorten neighborhood names, and is supposedly an up-and-coming neighborhood in the city. The apartment is for sale, rather than for rent, but Marshall convinces Lily to go and view it. This was One of 3 big mistakes in Marshall's life.. First was jumping off the roof, in an attempt to fly as a kid. Second was shaving his head at his wedding.
Marshall falls in love with the apartment in Dowisetrepla (the agent is Margaret (Maggie Wheeler), imagining himself playing drums in a band with his future sons. Instead of haggling over the price, or looking at more properties, he books the apartment then and there. Lily feels guilty because of the huge credit card debt (she has 15 maxed out credit cards) she hides from Marshall, but still imagines herself painting with two daughters, and so eventually ends up saying that she loves it. Margaret puts pressure on Marshall and Lily saying there are more people interested in the apartment, and they panic and decide to fast-track the sale. Lily tells Robin that they will apply for the loan in Marshall's name, to hide her debts, while she slowly pays it down.
Meanwhile, Barney hooks up with a woman, Meg (April Bowlby). Meg is a commitment freak and Barney pretends to be one himself. He takes the girl to the apartment in Dowisetrepla (he tells Margaret that he is also interested in the apartment and gets a spare key from her to visit it at night), has sex with her and then sneaks out while she is in the shower.
The next day, Lily and Marshall apply for a mortgage (The banker insists that it has to be a joint loan since Marshall and Lily are married.. He gets her social security number as well and pulls her credit history), and Marshall finds out about Lily's debt (Marshall was hoping for a loan at under 6%, but is offered the same at 18% interest). Later, Ted, Barney, and Robin go home, where Ted discovers that Lily and Marshall were having a fight based on "evidence" strewn about the room. Label peeled off from the water bottle (which Lily does when she is guilty), an empty vat of ice cream (when Marshall gets angry, he eats), Lily cried in tissues in the kitchen, they had sex on the couch (Lily's bra on the couch), Marshall went out slamming the door behind him (titled picture frame by the door). Ted incorrectly concludes the fight was over something minor (the peanut butter jar, Lily leaving the jar out after Marshall's repeated insistence to not do so). To prove his theory, Ted hits re-dial on the apartment phone, expecting the number to be Marshall's cell phone, which Lily would have called to apologize and make up. They instead hear the receptionist of a divorce lawyer, and panic.
Robin reveals the truth to Barney and Ted about Lily's debt, and they all begin to consider how their lives will be with Lily and Marshall broken up. Barney cries and says that the world needs Lily and Marshall together. Lily and Marshall return and explain that Lily had the idea of divorcing Marshall so he would not be dragged down by her debt (just on paper, so that Marshall can get his loan and the dream apartment). However, Marshall replies by saying, "When I married you, I married all your problems, too." Finally, they exclaim that they bought the apartment. The next day, Lily and Marshall take a taxi to their new home, but as they step out of the cab, they smell an extremely strong stench. The cab driver reveals that the area is near the sewage treatment plant, but the plant is shut down on weekends. They realize that "DoWiSeTrePla" is short for: DOwnWInd of the SEwage TREatment PLAnt and this reveals why the real estate agent wanted to sell the apartment.
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