How I Met Your Mother

Three Days Of Snow

Season 4, Episode 13, Aired 1/19/09

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A blizzard hits New York City, threatening a tradition of Marshall and Lily's and leaving Ted and Barney to keep MacLaren's doors open.

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Josh Radnor

Ted Mosby
Neil Patrick Harris

Barney Stinson
Alyson Hannigan

Lily Aldrin

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Marshall and Lily have these tradition where one of them leaves for a trip and they come back with a case of beer, while the other one has to show up and pick them up.moreless

9.5

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By Jon_MW_14, Aug 24, 2011 Report Abuse

"Three Days of Snow" is an awesome How I Met Your Mother episode. It is so cute that Lily and Marshall has this tradition where one of them leaves on a trip and they come back with a case of beer. I love how Lily and Marshall were going to stop the tradition, but Marshall decides to rush to airport with Robin so he can pick Lily up anyways. I love how Lily was running out of time to get beer. I love how Marshall gets there and finds out that Lily's flight was cancelled. Ted and Marshall looking after the bar when Carl is away was an awesome subplot. I give this episode a 9.5/10.moreless

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Enjoyable, with a nice twist by the end.

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By Canogaparkcindy, May 02, 2010 Report Abuse

An amazing episode, that was definitely surprising by the end. There is a three day blizzard in New York, and series of events occur to the group while this happens. Barney & Ted are left alone with a bar, something they've always dreamed of, so they invite two hot girls and their band, only to find out: It was a marching band, so everyone comes to the bar, when going gets tough, Ted & Barney feel the need to make a last call, but they swore no last calls. So they brought the band to drink at their place. It was great concept that every guy says this in their life: "We should buy a bar!". Marshall & Robin get snowed in after trying to get Lilly at the airport when he realizes that Lilly may want Marshall to be there to pick her up regardless of what she said to him about not picking her up. Another episode that brought Marshall/Robin interaction, I'm beginning to really like them together. Marshall thinks Robin hit on him, hilarious. It was the nice moment we saw in the "Little Minnesota" episode, that they shared here, except Robin was the one giving the pep talk. Meanwhile Lilly forgets the beer that she was supposed to get Marshall, so when her plane arrives early, she rushes with Ranjit to get the six-pack, only to get a keg, and when she rushes to New York, Marshall is nowhere to be found. When Marshall & Robin make it to the airport, Lilly is nowhere to be found. Future Ted explains: It was a three day storm. Lilly had to stay another two days. So Marshall was two days early, and Lilly's beer hunt was two days later, while the bar scene was in between the two days. You think Marshall just didn't show up to pick up Lilly. But then the marching band plays, they share a kiss, one of the best Marshall/Lilly moment in my opinion, and the episode ends. Amazing episode. I really enjoyed it.moreless

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Wonderfully hilarious. A must see

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By Hornets3, Sep 20, 2009 Report Abuse

When a snowstorm hits the city before Lily returns from a teacher's conference in Seattle, Marshall and Lily agree to forego they're longstanding airport reunion ritual. But when they each start to worry that letting another ritual retire means that their relationship is losing its magic, Marshall enlists Robin's help to get to the airport in time while Lily tries to pick-up a Seattle souvenir for Marshall, all in the middle of a blizzard. Meanwhile, Ted and Barney are meeting two women at MacLaren's, so when Carl threatens to close up because of the storm, they offer to watch over the bar until the women show up. After having fun tending the bar, things get out of control when the girls arrive with their thirsty band-mates.moreless

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Three nights, one storm

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By addict666, Jun 16, 2009 Report Abuse

This is perhaps my favorite episode of the entire series. It is cheesy and corny in the best type of way and it really show cases the relationship that Marshall and Lily have. The thing with the different beers is so typical of them and it was done in such a cute way and the scene at the end where she doesn't think he has come after all the effort she had to go through in order to bring the keg with the hilarious cab driver it is one of those really great moments. Barney is also great in this episode with the college girls and convincing Ted to go along with yet another one of his crazy plans. Overall a really sweet episode that was full of laughs.moreless

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Love Ritual

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By sh811a, Jan 21, 2009 Report Abuse

A lot can occur only to lead up to one moment in time. This is another good episode that's once again centered on Lily and Marchall.

One of the interesting things about the episode is simply how it was formated. We see all three stories happening at what we assume is at the same time and day. But that't the gag because all of them are in actuality taking place in different times and days, hence the title Three days of Snow. It's like were given a math equashion but it all adds up to something in the end.

The suplot with both Barney and Ted running a bar was good . Their was a little homage to the Tom Cruse film "Coctail" with that soundtrack playing and all the fancy bar moves both which resulted in disaster. Really liked the part before they get the bar we see Barney repeatedly keeps pulling Ted back when he saw he was making a mistake in asking the two Collage Arazona band girls out. Both though discover it's not all fun and games when they've invited the whole collage band so it's stressful. And just when the whole thing goes bust and see they've made the band unhappy let alone won't get any play with any of the girls they do the next best thing which is throw a party at their house and all are invited; and this of course is a plot device for latter.

Marchall and Lilly we see are both having a fear that their losing their magic due to the fact their love rituals with one another are growing fewer and if they fail to do this one they could lose it forever. Robin though we see thinks their stupid, yeah it's true that they seem stupid and sappy but most people in a long time relationship have done those little things. Marchall also right about Robin she hasn't been in a relationship long enough, and her robot impression does suck. It's actually normal that love rituals growing fewer do happen, it usually means you've gotten use to your significant other after being with him or her for some amount of time. But love isn't forever, we do need a reminder at least once in a while that our significant other loves us and that we love them back. And of course in the end both get their pay off by keeping with one tradition that tell each other in a small but big way they love each other.moreless

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- The German episode title is "Drei Tage Schnee", and the Italian title is "Tre giorni di neve", both exact translations. The French episode title is "La tempête de neige", meaning "The Blizzard". Edit
- International Airdates: Australia: March 30, 2009 on Channel 7; Germany: January 16, 2010 on ProSieben; United Kingdom: March 4, 2010 on E4; Czech Republic: November 11, 2010 on Prima COOL Edit
- Music: "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys Edit
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- Marshall: Robin, I'm sorry. You're not a robot. I mean, if you are, you're like an incredibly advanced model and humanity doesn't stand a chance. You just don't choose to show love with corny rituals, and that's fine. But maybe Lily and I do because we don't know any other way. And if she's at that airport, I have to go get her. Them's the rules.
  Robin: Marshall, close your eyes.
  Marshall: I don't know how you heard any of that as me hitting on you.
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- Barney: We're not the "We love your music, let's sleep together" guys. We're the older guys whose approval they now crave.
  Ted: So we're their dads?
  Barney: Exactly!
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- Marshall: You know why you think those rituals are stupid? Because you've never been in a relationship long enough to develop them. You don't understand love. You're like a robot who sees a person crying and says, "Why is that human leaking?"
  Robin: Is that so? Well, then the robot initiates pull-over-to-side-of-road-until-jackass-apologizes-to-me-sequence. Beep boop beep.
  Marshall: My robot was, like, a thousand times better.
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- The bar montage and accompanying "Kokomo" allude to similar scenes from Roger Donaldson's 1988 film, Cocktail. Edit