As Halloween approaches, Ted Mosby plans on spending the holiday the way he does every year, waiting for a girl he calls "the slutty pumpkin" because that was the costume she was wearing when he met her. Ted met her at a Halloween party four years earlier and the two spent the night together. Ted believed that she was "the one". However, after that party, Ted never saw her again and had no way to contact her. Therefore, he waits every year at a Halloween party, dressed as a hanging chad (the costume he wore the night he met her) hoping that she will show up. Although she has never shown up in previous years, Ted is feeling hopefull about this year.