How I Met Your Mother (TV Series)

Purple Giraffe (2005)

Cobie Smulders: Robin Scherbatsky

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Quotes 

• Barney : What does Carlos have that I don't?

  Robin : A date tonight?

  Lily : Ooh, stop the tape, rewind, play it again!

  Robin : [makes rewind sound]  A date tonight?

• Robin : What are you doing here.

  Ted Mosby : Oh, you know, uh, just shopping for, uh... dip. I love dip. Well, I don't love dip, I like dip. As a friend.

• [trying to act casual] 

  Ted Mosby : [on the phone]  Hello?

  Robin : Hi, Ted.

  Ted Mosby : Amanda? Oh, Denise, sorry, you totally sounded like Amanda...

• Robin : Sorry I missed your party again.

  Ted Mosby : Hey, ain't no thing but a chicken wing, mamacita!

  [to Marshall and Lily] 

  Ted Mosby : Who am I?

• Robin : I don't know, Ted, I mean, we barely know each other... and you're looking at me with that look, and it's like...

  Ted Mosby : Like what?

  Robin : Like "Let's fall in love, and get married, and have kids and drive them to soccer practice."

  Ted Mosby : I'm not gonna force sports on them unless they're interested.

• Robin : You can't turn off the way you feel.

  Ted Mosby : [pantomimes turning a dial on his chest]  Click. Off. Let's make out.

  Robin : What?

  Ted Mosby : What, that was the off switch! And I turned it off... I mean, yes, sure, I wanna fall in love, get married, blah blah blah, but... on the other hand, you, me... the roof...

  Robin : There's no off switch.

  Ted Mosby : There's an off switch. And it's off.

  Robin : [leaning in]  No it's not.

  Ted Mosby : Yes, it is.

  Robin : No, it's not.

  Ted Mosby : Yes. It is...

  [they kiss passionatly] 

  Ted Mosby : ...No it's not... You were right. There's no off switch... God, I wish there was an off switch!

• Ted Mosby : ["bumping into" Robin at a convenience store]  So, uh, hey, you, uh, reporting a news story or something?

  Robin : Yeah, kid stuck in a crane machine. How sweet of you to call it news.

• Robin : So, you threw all these parties for me?

  Ted Mosby : No! Oh, you thought - no... okay, yes. You got me. One of the reasons I threw these parties was so I could introduce you to, um...

  [Barney shoves some random guy towards Ted] 

  Ted Mosby : ...this guy! I figured, since it didn't work out between us, and now we can just laugh about it...

  [laughs weakly] 

  Ted Mosby : Anyways, Robin, this is...

  Carlos : Carlos.

  Ted Mosby , Barney : Ohh...

• Barney : What's he got that I don't?

  Robin : A date tonight?

  Lily : Ohhhhh, Robin! Pause tape, rewind!

  Robin : [makes sound of tape being played backward]  A date tonight?

  Barney : I don't think I like her...

• Ted : You know it's so funny I ran into you. We're having a party next Friday if you'd like to swing by, but, you know, whatever.

  Robin : Oh, I'm going back home next weekend. Too bad it's not tonight.

  Ted : It is, it's tonight. This Friday. Did I say next Friday? Sorry, 'cause I've been saying next Friday all week. But yeah it's tonight; the party is tonight. But, you know, whatever.

• Lily : [At the bar with Robin]  Look who I ran into.

  Ted Mosby : Since when do you guys know each other?

  Robin : Since about, here.

  [Points to top of glass] 

• Robin : I'm so sorry I missed your party.

  Ted Mosby : Who is this? Meredith?

  Robin : Robin.

  Ted Mosby : Oh, Robin! Hey! Yeah, I, uh, guess you never showed up, did you?

  Robin : No, I got stuck at work. But they finally got that kid out of the crane machine.

  Ted Mosby : Did he get to keep the purple giraffe?

  Robin : Yeah, they let him keep all the toys. He was in there a long time, and little kids have small bladders.