How I Met Your Mother – “Say Cheese’: Season 5 episode 18

In the episode, it is a very important day for Lily because is her birthday and this episode shows what traditional things she would do when is her birthday. Lily always takes a group photo with her close friends and needs the pictures to be just right. It was going great until Ted arrives with a girl to her party. In every birthday party that Lily organize, Ted always bring a girl to her party who he thinks that she may be the one who he’ll married to. This random “skank” as Lily calls her will forever be etched into the photo of friends and a girl who Ted can’t seem to remember at all. Lily feels that the girls that Ted brings along to the party ruins the perfect picture between her friends but Ted feels otherwise.

This episode spend going through the memory lane. The story did not go on really well between the relationship with Lily and Ted as they fought but it did resolve some issues between them which came to a very satisfying conclusion when Lily realizes that Ted included her in a past picture. Besides that, Barney and Marshall have discovered something interesting about themselves when they take a photo. Barney can’t seems to take a bad picture and this cause Robin to take photo of him without telling him but no matter how many times Robin tried to fool Barney into doing something that will ruin his photo, the end result Barney still can never take a bad photo. Marshall on the other hand can’t take a nice photo without either looking stoned, eyes closed or even dead.

Then one-year flashforward may have shed some light on what will happen but the girl whom Ted brought to Lily birthday party isn’t there and neither is Ted seeing anybody. In the end, Robin manage to take a bad photo of Barney as she made him eat something that will caused him to sneeze due to allergies without him knowing what it was. The episode ended with a photo of all of them.

Bloody Awesome Catchphrases

• Barney: Do I get a vote? Skank lane! Skank lane! 
• Marshall: Who wants a party hat? Look I’m a bird! Let’s all be birds!
• Barney: The camera loves me Robin - more than loves me the camera lusts me. The camera wants to put on some nice lingerie, pop in an Al Green CD, dim the lights, and do me as I lie there with my eyes closed.
• Barney: It is physically impossible for me to take a bad picture - I don’t know why, just ask God.
• Barney: I’ve always looked drop dead stone cold amazing - unlike Marshall who always looked dead, stoned, and cold.

Legendary Moments

• Barney has the same pose in annual Christmas dinner photo session. Ted always bring different girls every year to their christmas dinner.

• Marshall had little conspiration with Amanda, which become Ted’s during the dinner. His mad because he doesn’t like outsider(Amanda) join their dinner. 
• Lily’s “Death to me look”