Saturday 3 PM. 27 hours before the wedding

Barney has entrusted Ted with his surprise gift for Robin, an autographed photo of Wayne Gretzsky. Unfortunately Billy Zapka (the villain in the karate kid films that Barney thinks is the hero) has other plans for the photo. He sneaks in to Ted’s room and poured ink on the photo. 

Ted informs Lily what happen and tells her that Detective Mosby is going to investigate who is responsible for the act. Lily immediately replies that Detective Mosby sucks and that he still haven’t solved the Pineapple incident. He has three suspects: Zabka, the Bellhop and Robin’s cousin Claude. Ted suspected that Zabka was responsible because he wants to reclaim the best man role. Ted suspected that the bellhop ruined the photo because he complained about him. But bellhop didn’t know that he was being complained until Ted has informed him. Ted deduced that Claude is a huge Montreal Canadiens fan and hates the Gretsky and the Edmonton Oilers. After seeing ink on his hand he thought that Claude is guilty of the inking the photo. Claude’s Alibi did not help. According to him he was helping an Elderly when the hand glider that he was riding crash in to the beach and hit a squid. The ink squirted as he was about to help the Elderly. Ridiculous as his alibi may seem, it is true.There was indeed a giant squid in the beach. In the end Zabka was caught and he confessed that he did it to become Barney’s best man again. He apologizes to Ted and instead Ted took the blame for the photo. 

Daphne and Marshall are still on their road trip and trying to beat the time to reach Daphne’s daughter Model UN speech. They eventually did get there. The speech started like any speech a kid would write until she said that “Oil is the Future! Don’t listen to those gutless environmental sissies. Drill Baby Drill!” Daphne was so proud. Marshall was shocking having listened to a kid denounce environmentalism. He immediately bids farewell to Daphne and left for Farhampton.

Barney is playing Cupid and trying to reunite her mom Loreta with her dad Jerome (John Lithgow). Unfortunately James has the same plans as well. Barney came up with a plan to get rid of Jerome’s wife with the help of Ranjit. He hijacked the elevator while Jerome and Loreta and pours water on them hoping that they disrobe. James’ dad Sam while be Barney and Robin’s officiating minister for their wedding. Barney and James soon learned that Sam and Loreta are already hooking up but were not told about it. Robin explained to Barney that James needs Sam and Loreta to be together more than Barney because of James’ recent break up. Eventually Barney gives his blessing and trapped Sam and Loreta inside. Unfortunately James was with his parents when they started making out. 

It seems like Marshall will be with the gang next episode since it wouldn’t be much of a road trip without Daphne.I do hope that Daphne returns because she was great! I guess we have to brace ourselves for the Marshall-Lily fight. It is something that we have been waiting for a while now. With only a few episodes left with still have to learn about the truth about the Pineapple incident. Also there is the final slap from Marshall that we still haven’t seen. We still have to see how the mother will met Robin and Marshall. That is if they have met before the wedding. In the episode Barney drop the Glen Mckenna that he and James were about to drink. That’s Mckenna number 2. In episode three of this season, Ted dropped a Mckenna when Barney told him about seeing him with Robin trying to look for the locket. SO is that the last Mckenna or would there be more?

More mother please! But it seems we won’t see her in the next episode based on the preview. What do you think of Mom and Dad?