'How I Met Your Mother' Season 7, Episode 6 Recap - 'Mystery vs. History'

It was all about the great mysteries of life on "How I Met Your Mother" last night: mysteries like "what will the gender of our first child be?" and "what horrible secret is this girl that I'm dating hiding?"

Marshall and Lily have a brightly colored envelope containing a brightly colored note that will tell them whether they're going to have a boy or a girl...but neither of them wants to open it and see. They'd rather have it remain a mystery and be surprised when the child arrives. Barney, man-child that he is, disagrees and wants to know nowwwwwwwww.

But all of that will be solved in the end thanks to Barney's meddling and a bit of serendipity involving Ted's shoe. The much more clever storyline of "Mystery vs. History" involves Ted's first date with the lovely Janet McIntyre.

As we saw in that snazzy, special-effects-laden intro, Ted has been lamenting of late about how the smartphone not only killed the bar debate, but also put everyone's information out there so there's nothing to discover about each other anymore. So when he hits it off with Janet and sets up a date, he makes a deal with her: no researching each other on the internet before the date.

This is especially important to Ted, as many of his previous dates have been ruined by intel sent to him by Barney and Robin, reporting everything from his dates being former (and future) fatties to dogfighting breeders to--the worst of all--"Annie Hall" haters.

The only problem is, without the internet Ted is at a loss as to what to talk about. But the two of them finally recover and get all adorable, just in time for Barney and Robin to dig up some info on Janet and send it to Ted. Just like Marshall and Lily with the baby, he just can't resist taking a look.

Sweet mother of God. She's amazing. She graduated Princeton at 16, donated a kidney to a stranger, climbed Mt. Everest, saved a baby from a creek, and she inherited billions. That reduces Ted to a "babbling idiot" as Janet puts it, and the date is over. "You gooder than me no make difference!" yells Ted.

But everything ends on a nice note: Marshall and Lily find out they're having a boy, and Kevin is forgiven for calling everyone "codependent," "controlling" and "incestuous." Too bad Ted just screwed up what might have been his best catch.

Notes and other awesome stuff:

-"Back in the Dark Ages (2005)"... ha!

-The group's list of psychological issues: separation anxiety, inappropriate social behavior, survivor guilt, hitting montage, denial, pathological lying

-Simultaneous spit takes/Ted's deliberate spit take. Classic.

-Robin's birthday survival trip