The Broath

"The Broath"

"The Broath" is the nineteenth episode of the seventh season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 155th episode overall. It aired on March 19, 2012.

Plot

After being off the grid for a while, Barney summons Ted to his apartment to administer "The Bro-Oath" or "Broath," swearing Ted to secrecy about what Quinn does for living. Ted immediately tells the group who feel that she is still using him like she did at the Lusty Leopard. Following an evening at her apartment, during which Quinn keeps ordering Barney around, Lily tells the gang that they need to break up Barney and Quinn after learning their plan on moving in together. They stage an Intervention, or as Marshall calls it, a Quinn-tervention. Quinn walks in and breaks up with Barney, saying if he has to lie about her profession, she can't be with him. Later, when the gang goes to Barney's apartment to apologize, he swears them all to a Broath not to interfere with his life "unless it is a matter of safety, national security or [he] is about to go down a fattie." After getting both Lily & Robin and Marshall & Ted to kiss, Quinn reveals it to be an elaborate hoax, cooked up by her and Barney to keep the gang from judging her.

Now both homeless, Robin and Ted fight over who deserves to sublet Quinn's apartment when they learn she plans on moving in with Barney.

Later, when pressed for a reason that Quinn might stop stripping, she tells him "Hypothetically, I would stop stripping if I ever got married," which indicates that she may be the bride in Barney's wedding.