He also uses the opportunity to irritate Ted with the childhood items he got from Mrs. Mosby (one of which being a stuffed turtle toy with a voice recording), but Lily insists they leave.
However, Ted and Robin realize the drinks have brought Barney into a drunken state where he will truthfully answer any question, giving them the opportunity to ask anything they've always wanted to know about him.
Barney reminds them of how he transformed from a hippie to his present state after a yuppie named Greg took his girlfriend, Shannon, from him back in 1998, and needed help transitioning fully into the corporate world.
Future Ted says that a few months after the wedding, Barney revealed his true identity to Greg as FBI agents arrest him on the spot.
Meanwhile, Lily goes to sleep exhausted from the lovemaking but wakes up after Marshall steps on Ted's turtle toy and unpauses their fight.
During their fight, Lily insists her art career was her dream and expresses her resentment at Marshall for not even consulting her about taking the judgeship.
When Lily accuses him of being more selfish to her than she ever was to him, Marshall angrily reminds her of the time she left him months before their first to pursue an art fellowship in San Francisco.
Bill Kuchman of Popculturology praised the episode for having three strong storylines, saying that "'Unpause' may have contained one of the series' most devastating moments," referring to the fight between Marshall and Lily.
[2] Max Nicholson of IGN gave the episode 8.5/10, saying it brought the goods, including answers to two big mysteries.