How I Met Your Mother S02E13 – Columns

Ted struggles to fire an employee. Meanwhile, Barney and Robin find an old nude portrait of Marshall that Lily painted, which prompts Barney to hire Lily to paint him.
 Ted decides to fire his former boss, Hammond Druthers, who is always ridiculing the ideas for the building. The first time Ted tries to fire him, he is stopped when his coworkers throw a surprise party for Druthers. When Ted comes to his office later that night, he finds Druthers sleeping in the office since his wife threw him out. Ted tries to fire him again but ends up taking Druthers to the apartment, letting him sleep on the couch.

Next day, Druthers thanks Ted for letting him stay with him, but still ridicules his ideas in front of others. When Ted tries to fire Druthers the third time, he gets divorce papers from his wife, also telling him that their dog died. When Ted tries to fire him anyways, a few coworkers approach them and shout "Happy Birthday" to Druthers since they missed the party as they were in Montreal. Just then he appears to be suffering from a heart attack, but thinking that he is faking it, Ted fires him anyways. However, Ted's coworkers start to hate him when they it turns out that Druthers really did have a heart attack. Later, Ted gets a margarita machine for the office, and everyone forgives him.

Barney finds a nude painting of Marshall at the apartment, and shows it to Ted and Robin. When they show it to Marshall and Lily, Future Ted explains that Lily painted it back in Wesleyan, because Marshall was uncomfortable with Lily painting another guy naked for her art class. To annoy Marshall, Barney hangs the painting at MacLaren's, but Marshall steals it later on.

At the bar, when Lily and Barney are alone, Barney praises Lily's work, and asks her to paint him nude for $5,000. Lily tells him she will think about it and discusses it with Marshall, saying that they will be able to spend their honeymoon in Scotland, near the Loch Ness Monster. Marshall agrees, but later stops Lily when she is painting Barney. He tells her privately that they could live in a castle for another $2,000, but shows to Barney that he doesn't want Lily painting him naked. Barney offers them another $5,000. When Lily is done painting Barney, she quickly leaves with Marshall, and Barney complaining that she didn't paint his genitals when they leave.

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