You know what it is? We were having sex. Men and women need sex to live together. It... it solves all disputes.
Oh, like Barney's theory about world peace.
[flashback]
So I explain to her... I said, "Madeleine, every single international conflict essentially boils down to sexual tension."
Every international conflict?
Every single one, dude.
So the crisis in the Middle East could be solved by...
Gaza Strippers! Next...
Apartheid.
Apart thighs! What else you got?
Cold War.
[brief pause] Mrs. Gorbachev, take down those pants!
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