TEXT: Ted from 2030: Kids,the spring of 2008 was a pretty great time for me. Stella and I had started dating, and I'd just gotten a big raise at work. So I decided to purchase something I knew would be the envy of all my friends. Outside Ted: A new car! Barney: Ted, this is new york city... You're never gonna drive it. This is a really, really stupid purchase, and I'm sorry, but none of us can support it. Shotgun for eternity! Robin: You can't call shotgun for eternity. Barney: I just called it. Robin: You can't just call things, barney. Barney: I call that I can call things! Lily: Hey, baby. Marshall: Beer. Lily: Are you okay? Marshall: Beer. At the Bar Ted: Okay, what happened? Marshall: They always told me that working at a big law firm was like being at war... [FLASHBACK] Marshall is at work, at Nicholson, Hewitt and West Marshall:...You get out of law school, it's like getting out of boot camp. That first day at work, you're storming the beaches, full of piss and vinegar... Man: Dude, we're lawyers now. Marshall: Totally. Man: We've got briefcases and everything. Marshall: Freakin' briefcases. Man: You have anything in yours? Marshall: Totally empty. you? Man: Candy bars. Marshall: Then you get in the trenches side by side with your buddies. And you feel a sense of camaraderie. But before too long... A man enters his office. Arthur: Hey, Marshall.... Marshall:...the shells start to fall. Hello, Arthur. [END OF FLASHBACK] Marshall: Arthur Hobbes is one of the senior partners at my firm, and he's... he's my boss. He seems like a nice guy, but he's got a nickname... Artillery arthur. [FLASHBACK] Arthur: How's your morning going? Marshall: It's going fine. How is yours? Arthur: Not too bad, not too bad. Hey, is Ferguson in yet?
SUMMARY:
After Marshall is verbally emasculated by his boss, he struggles with the fact that taking a job with a "big bad" corporate law firm may have been a major mistake.