"How Lily Stole Christmas" is the 11 episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on December 11, 2006.
Ted has decided to spend Christmas in New York this year because he doesn't want to go with his mother and her new boyfriend, his father and his new brewery, or his overly religious cousin in Staten Island. While Lily decorates their apartment, Marshall goes to the law library to finish one la...
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"How Lily Stole Christmas" is the 11 episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on December 11, 2006.
Ted has decided to spend Christmas in New York this year because he doesn't want to go with his mother and her new boyfriend, his father and his new brewery, or his overly religious cousin in Staten Island. While Lily decorates their apartment, Marshall goes to the law library to finish one last paper of the semester. He refuses to look at the decorations because the winter wonderland will be his reward for finishing the paper. After he leaves, Lily finds the old answering machine that was unplugged after Lily and Marshall broke up. Lily plays messages that are still on it, and hears a message from Ted to Marshall telling him to get over Lily. In this message, Ted calls Lily a "very, very bad word" which is substituted on-air with "grinch."
Lily asks why Ted called her that word, and Ted reveals that he was trying to get Marshall...
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