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To celebrate The Simpsons 20th anniversary, FOX is going yellow. Beginning January 3rd FOX graphical elements on their website will turn yellow to honor Matt Groening’s show. The Simpsons has become an icon in television history as the longest running television show. The Simpsons holds the record as the longest-running American animated program, the longest-running American sitcom and surpassed Gunsmoke in 2009 as the the longest running American primetime entertainment series. The celebration will cover all FOX web sites, on-air graphics, social-networking pages and on-air promotions including FOX news anchors wearing yellow ties.

“We always knew at the end of the campaign we’d go yellow,” said FOX VP of Marketing Joe Earley who has been in charge of the celebration campaign. Other ongoing celebrations of The Simpsons have included a viewer creating a new Simpsons character, on-air scavenger hunts, viewers creating Simpsons posters and the new Simpsons postage stamps.

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Ted, Marshall and Lily start noticing how complacent Barney and Robin are lately, they are in a rut in their relationship. They don’t seem to care much about how they look or what they do, preferring to sit, watch movies and veg on the couch. Barney shows up bearing his collection of porn and decides to give Ted his collection, which shocks the gang. Ted notices Barney has gained some weight, also known as a “relationship gut”.

Ted, Marshall and Lily can’t believe this is the same bachelor Barney they have known in the past. As Ted goes through the porn movies, Lily offers to help him sort through them but Ted says its no problem for him to go through them all by himself. Once Ted’s alone, he finds a tape in Barney’s collection called Archisexture and is intrigued. Ted begins to watch and realizes this is a tape Barney made. Barney tells the viewer if they are watching this tape he’s either dead or in a serious relationship. He begs whoever is watching to break up his serious relationship, no matter how happy he appears, because he is meant to be single.

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Future Ted talks about Robin growing up in Canada. The gang is at McLaren’s. Robin compares America to Canada saying Canada is the best. Barney starts the crowd at McLaren’s bar chanting USA, but Robin can’t get the crowd to chant “Canada” and figures they won’t just chant anything. Barney gets the crowd to chant “shrimp fried rice” to make his point.

Ted comes into the bar to tell Marshall their favorite pizza joint in Chicago, Gazzola’s, is closing down. Marshall talks about beef jerky and Tantrum (a highly caffeinated soda) as their fuel for the trips. Ted and Marshall plan one last road trip to Gazzola’s.

Robin tells Barney and Ted that she is getting sued because one of her Canadian bar brawls ended with her hurling a chair at a guy and breaking his nose. Because charges are being filed Robin may end up getting deported back to Canada. Robin realizes the only way to get around being deported is to become a U.S. citizen. Barney tells her he will help her study for the test.

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Ted, Marshall, Lily, Barney and Robin are hanging out at MacLaren’s bar. Ted is dressed in tweed and hopes being dressed in his “professor tweed” will help him meet women. Barney jokes about Ted’s professor look and says no one will want to get together with him dressed that way. Marshall and Lily ask new couple Barney and Robin to a “double date” at Marshall and Lily’s place and they say yes. Ted’s narration warns of horrible times at Marshall and Lily’s place with flashbacks of past parties with bored guests.

Marshall tries to fix the egg timer for their exciting game of charades while Lily asks Robin for help to fix the timer. In frustration Marshall finally breaks the egg timer. As the “couples date” ends, Marshall and Lily think the get-together with Barney and Robin is the best night ever. As soon as they are outside the door Barney says to Robin this is the worst night ever, with Robin miming shooting herself in the head. They complain that Marshall and Lily weren’t making sense and Marshall seemed obsessed with the gouda cheese he kept offering them.

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