The Sexless Innkeeper [SEP] series
The Sexless Innkeeper
"The Sexless Innkeeper" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of the CBS situation comedy "How I Met Your Mother" and 92nd overall. It originally aired on October 12, 2009.
Plot.
Lily and Marshall are excited to have another couple to hang out with. Future Ted explains that they had fared poorly with previous couples, coming across as clingy and desperate. With Barney and Robin now a couple, they hope to turn their luck around. After an evening together,
left speechless when the young woman appears at Ted's bedroom door, inviting Ted back to bed, thus ending the reign of the Sexless Innkeeper.
Critical response.
Donna Bowman of The A.V. Club rated the episode with a grade B.
Brian Zoromski of IGN gave the episode 6.8 out of 10. The review described the episode as "mostly unfunny"; he went on to say that he liked the premise of Marshall writing sentimental songs for mundane occasions, but that it was not part of a believable story.