The main thrust of the episode is Lily’s back-and-forth decision on whether or not to join The Captain in Rome for a year to continue her work as his personal art consultant. It’s one of the few times this season that a Lily story has been asked to carry an episode, and it mostly works, thanks in large part to the story having been set up much, much earlier in the season. Lily’s conversation wit..
How I Met Your Mother Season 8 Episode 21 “Romeward Bound” – When The Captain asks Lily to move to Rome for a year to be his art consultant, she fears that Marshall will resent her. Meanwhile, Ted and Barney become obsessed with a girl who is hiding her amazing body under a puffy coat,
Ted and Barney's future versions attempt to persuade present day Ted to go see Robots Versus Wrestlers. Marshall and Robin have a dance-off. Later while discussing his future with future Ted and Barney, he realizes this is all in his imagination. That this all happened years ago and Ted is sitting in the bar alone trying to come to terms with how lonely he is. He then tells his kids that if he c..