How I Met Your Mother (TV Series)

Brunch (2006)

Michael Gross: Alfred Mosby

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• Virginia Mosby : So we are definitely going to try and communicate more.

  Alfred Mosby : From now on, full disclosure.

  Ted : Good. Good, I think it'll be really good for the family. By the way, how's Grandma? She hasn't returned my last couple calls.

  Virginia Mosby : [Avoiding Ted's gaze]  I'm gonna get some juice.

  Ted : No.

  [Realization dawning] 

  Ted : No.

• Ted : No, no, no! We're not just going to blow past this. I mean, I don't even know you people. I don't even know how you met.

  Alfred Mosby : I never told you how I met your mother?

  Ted : No.

  Alfred Mosby : Oh, great story. At a bar!

  Ted : That's it? That's what passes for communication in our family? When I have kids, and I tell them how I met their mother I'm gonna tell them everything. The whole damn story.

  Alfred Mosby : I think it was an Irish bar.

• Virginia Mosby : Ted, we weren't quite sure how to tell you this...

  Alfred Mosby : Your mother and I are divorced.

  [Ted is stunned] 

  Ted : You... Wha... What do you mean you're divorced? Since when?

  Virginia Mosby : Oh gosh, it's been about nine months now.

  Alfred Mosby : Closer to ten I think.

  Virginia Mosby : Wow, time flies.

  Ted : So ten months ago you just up and decided to get divorced without telling me?

  Virginia Mosby : No it wasn't a snap decision.

  Alfred Mosby : We were separated almost two years.

• Ted : [after finding out his parents are divorced]  How could you not tell me this?

  Virginia Mosby : We meant to, it just never seemed like the right time.

  Ted : So last Christmas...?

  Alfred Mosby : We talked about telling you kids then, but it didn't seem very Christmasy.

• Alfred Mosby : We're sorry we didn't say anything about the divorce.

  Virginia Mosby : It was wrong not to tell you.

  Ted : Thank you.

  Alfred Mosby : But listen, don't tell your sister.

  Virginia Mosby : It would just upset her.