Reacher-Settler

Watched this on How I Met Your Mother 5, but I'm too lazy to conjure up sentences right now, thank God for Google. This should sum it up. For the full article, click here.

We're expected to believe that uber-sensitive Marshall would be dumb enough to make this classic mistake in not setting Lily straight when she assumes that his new lawyer pal Jenkins is a doughy, Chris Farley-type clown. 

Even after processing all her husband's past stories about Jenkins' exploits chugging jars of maraschino cherries and climbing atop a table and ripping her shirt off at a neighborhood bar, Lily clearly doesn't see her as a threat to their marriage. 

That's because, Robin explains, every relationship has a reacher and a settler. 

And Marshall married out of his league, is the underlying implication, which makes him the reacher. In other words, Lily isn't worried about Jenkins developing a taste for her man, Robin tells him.

"The settler is never jealous of the reacher," Robin tells Marshall. "Where is the reacher gonna go?"

 Marshall takes it as a matter of pride to force Lily to feel jealous, if not threatened by Jenkins' flirtations.

But Lily doesn't believe that her loving, little reacher could ever attract the attention of someone as pretty as Jenkins, even after he confesses that she kissed him at the office. It turns out that Jenkins was still drunk that morning after an all-night round of the Robin Scherbatsky "But, um" drinking game, but she's so embarrassed about her indiscretion that she tells Marshall that she will apologize directly to Lily.

That sounds like a good plan to Marshall, since I imagine he expects it will offer him the opportunity to, as Ted would put it, tell Lily "So, face!" Instead it ends with Lily pummeling contrite Jenkins as she yells, "Nobody kisses my future baby daddy but me!"

And just like that, the settler becomes the jealous reacher. Or maybe that's a reach.

NOTA KAKI: Hmmm......whaddya think?