Barney takes his dad, Jerry, out on the town with his friends and the new personalities he assigns them. Robin runs into an old crush at a bar, leading us to the origin story of the Red Cowboy Boots.
Ted wants to go on a date without any internet background research. Marshall and Lily want to go into a delivery without any gender knowledge. Both get disrupted by Barney.
Marshall pushed his boss (Martin Short) to fight harder for their cause. Robin and Kevin (Kal Penn) move from therapy to dating. Ted has a disastrous field trip experience with his class. Barney mistakes Nora for being too old for his tastes. All bad story lines, but none as bad as Lily's...