The episode narrates Ted Mosby's problems with his current girlfriend, Victoria, and it focuses on the downfall and eventual breakup of Barney and Quinn.
The conditions in the detailed and complex pre-nup are unreasonable; Quinn angrily tells Lily, Robin, and Victoria, who all agree with her.
Marshall is upset that Lily will not let him play with baby Marvin as he wishes, Nick is annoyed by how Robin wants to watch television as they have sex (unaware that she is aroused from watching herself on the news), and Ted is having second thoughts about letting Victoria's ex-fiancé Klaus stay with them as he tries to get back on his feet.
Club's Donna Bowman wrote that, "While HIMYM can sometimes take hackneyed plots and give them fresh twists, that didn't happen here," because ", the episode proceeds by the numbers."
[4] Television Without Pity's Angel Cohn graded the episode a C− writing that it, "Was annoying and nearly completely useless, save for the fact that it explained how/why Barney and Quinn split up.