How I Met Your Mother (TV Series)

The Leap (2009)

Josh Radnor: Ted Mosby

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• Barney Stinson : Say you and I went suit shopping. And you happened upon a beautiful suit. A beautiful Canadian suit. Double breastet, uh-uh-uh. You try it on, but it's not exactly the right fit for you, so you put it back. Then I try it on. I don't really wanna take the same suit that you had your eye on, but at the same time, I really like that suit.

  Ted Mosby : Buy the suit, Barney. You clearly care about it. Tell the suit how you feel.

• Ted Mosby : [after being rejected from yet another job]  This is a disaster. How am I gonna come back from this?

  Lily Aldrin : Okay, I'm just gonna ask this. Do you really wanna come back from this?

  Ted Mosby : What's that supposed to mean?

  Lily Aldrin : Architecture is killing you, Ted, and it's killing us to watch it killing you. You're like that goat with the washcloth. You want it so bad, and every time the world tries to take it away from you, you keep grabbing it! But you know what? It's just a washcloth. Why do you even want it?

  Ted Mosby : Because I... I have to be an architect! That's... that's the plan.

  Lily Aldrin : Oh, screw the plan. I planned on being a famous artist. Marshall planned on being an environmental lawyer, Robin planned on being a TV reporter.

  Robin Scherbatsky : Uh, I *am* a TV reporter. I'm on every morning at 4 AM.

  Lily Aldrin : Is that still on? Good for you.

  Robin Scherbatsky : Can somebody watch it, please?

  Lily Aldrin : Barney planned on being a violinist.

  Barney Stinson : Lily!

  Lily Aldrin : Don't tell me things! Look, you can't design your life like a building. It-it doesn't work that way. You just have to live it, and it'll design itself.

  Ted Mosby : So, what, I should just do nothing?

  Lily Aldrin : No, listen to what the world is telling you to do, and take the leap.

• Bill : So, you're the guy who tried to make it with a goat?

  Ted Mosby : Hey! If anything, the goat was trying to make it with me. Can I go please?

  Bill : Yeah, you can go, but remember buddy: "Baa" means "Baa".

• Ted Mosby : I don't wanna be stuck in a crappy teaching job. No offense, Lily.

  Lily Aldrin : I got peed on three times today, so no argument here.

• Marshall Eriksen : I could totally jump that.

  Ted Mosby : Marshall, lately it takes you two tries to get off the couch. You can't jump that far.

  Marshall Eriksen : Oh, yeah?

  Ted Mosby : Yeah.

  Marshall Eriksen : Watch me.

  Narrator : But he didn't jump.