Later, Barney attempts to marry Ted and Carly, and mentions that he finds the idea of a one-night stand "cheap, meaningless and disgusting".
Afterwards, Lily receives a pair of elastic waist jeans in the mail by mistake, which turns out to be a big turn-on for Marshall.
She wrote that the episode treated Barney's "long history as a character defined by his womanizing" as "either as a source for lazy jokes, or as a story problem to be gotten past as quickly and sloppily as the show can get away with."
Overall, he commented that "no single story arc pulled through as particularly engaging or eventful, and there were seldom any laughs" and called the episode "one of the bigger duds this season."
Commenting on how the conclusions of Barney and Robin's separate stories in the episode brings them closer together, Cohn "grudgingly tolerated their cutesy 'could I love you more' stuff, since at least it made them seem like a real couple... who we want to occasionally punch.