Dowisetrepla

"Dowisetrepla"
How I Met Your Mother episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 7
Directed by	Pamela Fryman
Written by	Brenda Hsueh
Production code	3ALH07
Original air date	November 5, 2007
Guest stars
Maggie Wheeler (Margaret) April Bowlby (Meg) Phill Lewis (Loan Officer)
Season 3 episodes
Wait for It We're Not from Here Third Wheel Little Boys How I Met Everyone Else I'm Not That Guy Dowisetrepla Spoiler Alert Slapsgiving The Yips The Platinum Rule No Tomorrow Ten Sessions The Bracket The Chain of Screaming Sandcastles in the Sand The Goat Rebound Bro Everything Must Go Miracles

"Dowisetrepla" is the 7th episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 51st overall. It originally aired on November 5, 2007.

Plot

Marshall finally tires of Ted's never-ending presence and his invasion on the married couple's personal space, so he decides to buy a new apartment with Lily. He begins searching in a neighborhood called 'Dowisetrepla', which is explained as part of New York City's tendency to shorten neighborhood names, and is supposedly an up-and-coming neighborhood in the city.

Marshall falls in love with the apartment in Dowisetrepla, imagining himself playing drums in a band with his future sons. Lily feels guilty because of the huge credit card debt she hides from Marshall, but still imagines herself painting with two daughters, and so eventually ends up saying that she loves it.

Meanwhile, Barney hooks up with a woman, Meg, and takes the girl to the apartment in Dowisetrepla so he can sneak out while she is in the shower.

The next day, Lily and Marshall apply for a mortgage, and Marshall finds out about Lily's debt. Later, Ted, Barney, and Robin go home, where Ted discovers that Lily and Marshall were having a fight. They end up hearing a missed call from a divorce lawyer. Lily and Marshall return, and explained that Lily had the idea of divorcing Marshall so that he would not be dragged down by her debt. However, Marshall replies by saying, "When I married you, I married all your problems, too." Finally, they exclaim that they bought the apartment. The next day, Lily and Marshall take a taxi to their new home, but as they step out of the cab, smell an extremely strong stench. They realize that "Dowisetrepla" is short for: Downwind of the sewage treatment plant.

Continuity

• It is the second time Marshall is involved in an incident while opening a bottle with cork. The first one is shown on "Pilot" with Lily. The champagne cork hit Lily's left eye as well as Wendy the Waitress'. The sound of the cork popping and Marshall's subsequent gasp/yell of surprise are from the first episode.
• In the imaginary sequences Marshall imagines Lily and him with four boys; Lily imagines Marshall and her with two girls. These are the desired number of children as expressed by Marshall and Lily respectively in "Arrivederci, Fiero".
• Barney, characterized in several episodes as a compulsive gambler, is seen winning money from a bet with Robin.
• When Future Ted is telling his children about Marshall's three biggest mistakes in his life, the second one is when he shaved his head in Something Borrowed.
• Meg shows up again in the episode "The Rough Patch" as Crazy Meg, Barney's ex whom Lily summons to break Robin and Barney up.
• The season 6 episode "Blitzgiving" calls back this episode when Marshall and Lily's home is unavailable for Thanksgiving due to the worse than usual smell from the sewage treatment plant
• Lily's bad aim at the toilet is first hinted in the episode where Lily leaves the toilet seat up possibly for better aim and this problem is mentioned in the episode "Legendaddy".

Barney's blog

• Barney digs into his Mail Sack and discusses how best to "suit up" even in hot weather.^[1]

Cultural references

• After Ted finishes revealing Marshall and Lily's argument, he puts on sunglasses in a manner of Horatio Caine from the television series CSI: Miami. The pun he makes is parodying a series of Internet memes based on Caine.^[2][3]
• The flavor of ice cream when Ted is in the kitchen is Ben and Jerry's "Cherry Garcia."
• When Ted plays detective, he refers to himself and his sister as the "Mosby Boys", a reference to the Hardy Boys, and remarks that "There's a reason why your name is Robin and not Batman" to Robin.^[3][4]
• Marshall references the MTV series The Real World.^[2][3]
• Dowisetrepla ("DO"wn "WI"nd of the "SE"wage "TRE"atment "PLA"nt) is a parody of other neighbourhoods in NYC popularly referred to by their acronyms, such as SoHo (South of Houston Street), TriBeCa (Triangle Below Canal Street), Nolita (North of Little Italy) and DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass).
• Robin incorrectly tells Lily that the highest mountain in Canada is Mount Waddington (4019 m). The highest mountain is actually Mount Logan (5956 m).

Critical response

Donna Bowman of The AV Club rated the episode A-. She compares the show to Friends and notes the appearance of actress Maggie Wheeler, who previously played Chandler's ex-girlfriend Janice, as the estate agent.^[2]

Staci Krause of IGN gave the episode 8.0 out of 10.^[4]

References

1. ^ http://www.legen-waitforit.com/barney/2007_11_01_archive.html
2. ^ ^{a b c} Bowman, Donna (November 5, 2007). "How I Met Your Mother "Dowisetrepla" A-". The AV Club. The Onion. http://www.avclub.com/articles/dowisetrepla,12624/. Retrieved 15 November 2010. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Joel Keller (2007-11-05). "How I Met Your Mother: Dowisetrepla". TV Squad. Weblogs, Inc.. http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/11/05/how-i-met-your-mother-dowisetrepla/. Retrieved 2010-04-04. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Krause, Staci (November 6, 2007). "How I Met Your Mother: "Dowisetrepla" Review. Downwind of the Sewage Treatment Plant!". IGN. News Corporation. http://tv.ign.com/articles/833/833061p1.html. Retrieved 15 November 2010. 

External links

• Dowisetrepla at the Internet Movie Database
• Dowisetrepla at TV.com