# Who would "ride the tricycle" with **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418 "2011-04-22T23:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/21 "2011-04-25T16:37:28Z")
The episode is on right now! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/22 "2011-04-25T16:52:59Z")
I’ll take a double-dip of Robin: one as she is now, and one as Robin Sparkles. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/23 "2011-04-25T16:55:31Z")
Major characters: Lily and Victoria Minor characters: Coat Check Girl and Trudy. There are many good choices here. (Yes, I am in the middle of rewatching the first season) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/24 "2011-04-25T17:10:29Z")
I’m against threesomes, but if I must it would be Robin & Lilly. Is Trudy Ted’s current girlfriend? The one played by the _House_ alum whose name I’m too lazy to google? ETA: I see from the thread that Trudy is the Danical McKellar character. That changes everything. Definitely her – but it’d have to be the _real_ her, because she’s quite intelligent and that’s sexy. I don’t recall if the character was smart. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/25 "2011-04-25T17:14:01Z")
> [@Darth\_Sensitive](#): > > Major characters: Lily and Victoria > Minor characters: Coat Check Girl and Trudy. > > There are many good choices here. > > (Yes, I am in the middle of rewatching the first season) Is Victoria really a major character? She doesn’t even last a season and spends much of her story time in Germany. She’s mostly a device to simultaneously keep Ted & Robin apart for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/26 "2011-04-25T17:21:26Z")
Cindy([Rachel Bilson](http://www.google.com/search?q=rachel+bilson&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=4JQ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsulo&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Fa21Tby3B9OE0QH7yZWGCQ&ved=0CFoQsAQ&biw=1680&bih=893)) and Lily. It helps that Cindy has experience with both genders, and you just know that Lily would be GGG about it. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/27 "2011-04-25T17:29:06Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > Cindy([Rachel Bilson](http://www.google.com/search?q=rachel+bilson&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=4JQ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsulo&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Fa21Tby3B9OE0QH7yZWGCQ&ved=0CFoQsAQ&biw=1680&bih=893)) and Lily. It helps that Cindy has experience with both genders, and you just know that Lily would be GGG about it. > > Enjoy, > Steven Maybe so; she’s kind of unpredictable. But I think it’s fair to say that if Robin were the third ingredient in the sandwich, Lilly would strip so fast her clothes would catch fire from friction. The fact that she, Marshall, and Robin haven’t had a threeway is not her doing in any sense; it has to be because one or both of the other two isn’t game. I seem to recall Lilly enthusiasically approving of Barney’s accomplishment when he wore the three-way belt. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/28 "2011-04-25T21:53:01Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > Gotta go with Lily and her doppelganger, Stripper Lily. > > Extra flamey! 😃 Nah, Stripper Lily would want me give her money for shopping. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/29 "2011-04-25T21:56:19Z")
Well since you asked…Robin and Stella. I’ll be in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/30 "2011-04-26T13:25:40Z")
It’s a no-brainer for me: Lily and Robin. Dr. Elliot Reed might have figured in there, but not Stella. There was definitely some repression in that character. Whereas, we _know_ both Lily and Robin enjoy their… adult activities… and aren’t too shy about the fact. Robin would almost certainly be into it. The trick would be getting Lily on board without Marshall. Perhaps we need to design an lengthy and elaborate death scenario for him. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/31 "2011-04-26T21:44:15Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Is Victoria really a major character? > > She doesn’t even last a season and spends much of her story time in Germany. She’s mostly a device to simultaneously keep Ted & Robin apart for a while. I say yes. There was a chance that she would have been the mother depending on season cancellation issues. She wasn’t as big as Stella or Robin, but she’s higher than just about everybody else he went on dates with. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/32 "2011-04-26T21:58:15Z")
I don’t remember this episode, which season was it in? I thought I had seen most of them but I guess I haven’t. I might just have to go back and watch some of the older ones now. I forgot to say Robin and Trudy. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/33 "2011-04-26T22:12:08Z")
> [@Darth\_Sensitive](#): > > I say yes. There was a chance that she would have been the mother depending on season cancellation issues. She wasn’t as big as Stella or Robin, but she’s higher than just about everybody else he went on dates with. Accordin gto imdb, Ashley Williams, who played Victoria, has been in 6 out of 135 episodes. _Six_. That’s fewer than Jennifer Morrion, who plays Trudy (11 episodes); it’s fewer than Sarah Chalke’s Stella. it’s fewer than Wendy or Carl the Bartender or Marshal’'s mother. Calling her a major character is just silly. _Ranjit_ has a better claim to being a major character than Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/34 "2011-04-26T22:42:05Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Accordin gto imdb, Ashley Williams, who played Victoria, has been in 6 out of 135 episodes. _Six_. That’s fewer than **Jennifer Morrion, who plays Trudy (11 episodes);** it’s fewer than Sarah Chalke’s Stella. it’s fewer than Wendy or Carl the Bartender or Marshal’'s mother. Calling her a major character is just silly. _Ranjit_ has a better claim to being a major character than Virginia. Danicka Mckellar plays Trudy. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/35 "2011-04-26T22:55:02Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Danicka Mckellar plays Trudy. Yeah,you’re right. That doesn’t change the fact that Victoria, however charming she was (she was much too good for Ted, but who isn’t?) was hardly a major charcater. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/36 "2011-04-26T23:06:18Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Yeah,you’re right. That doesn’t change the fact that Victoria, however charming she was (she was much too good for Ted, but who isn’t?) was hardly a major charcater. I agree about Vicki, just fighting ignorance about Trudy’s actress. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/37 "2011-04-26T23:38:17Z")
I’d have to add in Nora – that accent slays me. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/38 "2011-04-27T02:53:35Z")
I’m going to amend my answer… I’ll still take Lily, but with the caveat that it’s not season 3 Lily. That’s the season that my local Fox affiliate is in for it’s syndication run, and I can’t believe I forgot how awful the hair and wardrobe people made Allyson Hannigan look that season. The God-awful bangs, too dark hair, and vintage 70’s-inspired clothing…blech. [Perfect example of what I mean.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/axpauction/screenshot1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/39 "2011-04-27T18:01:35Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I’m going to amend my answer… > > I’ll still take Lily, but with the caveat that it’s not season 3 Lily. That’s the season that my local Fox affiliate is in for it’s syndication run, and I can’t believe I forgot how awful the hair and wardrobe people made Allyson Hannigan look that season. The God-awful bangs, too dark hair, and vintage 70’s-inspired clothing…blech. > > [Perfect example of what I mean.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/axpauction/screenshot1.jpg) was she (and Cobie) pregnant IRL that season? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418/40 "2011-05-27T23:13:21Z")
Just watched the episode that ended with Victoria leaving for Germany. Forgot what a HOTTIE Ashley Williams is! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-ride-the-tricycle-with/579418.md?page=3)