How I Met Your Mother S08E07 – The Stamp Tramp
Marshall recommends his old law school classmate Brad for a job at his firm, but the interview goes awry, leaving Marshall to do damage control with his boss. Meanwhile, Robin helps negotiate Barney’s return to the strip club circuit.
While the gang are sitting at MacLaren's, Marshall walks in and tells them that he met Brad, his old friend from law school, outside his law firm. After finding out that Brad has been unemployed for two years, Marshall recommended him to his boss, Honeywell,
which the rest of the gang disapprove. Marshall says that there is
nothing wrong with him giving Brad his stamp of approval, but Robin tells him that he is a "Stamp Tramp"; he gives his stamp of approval to everything. Lily
adds that Marshall sees the good in everything and everyone and that is
why his stamps are total crap. Robin suggests that he be more like his
wife Lily, whose "stamp" is gold. Ted points out that he is the one with the "Golden Stamp", but Barney
says that he is a "Piggyback Stamper"; someone who gives their Stamp of
Approval to something after someone else has already recommended it.
At his interview with Honeywell, Brad keeps talking about how he
takes advice from his psychic, numerologist and astrologist on cases,
which puts off Honeywell. When Brad makes fun of Honeywell's height
(Honeywell has a short stature), Honeywell asks him to leave. Angry at
Marshall for recommending Brad, he takes Marshall off the upcoming Gruber Pharmaceuticals
case, as he can't trust his judgement. When he tells this to Lily and
Ted, they tell him to earn Honeywell trust by "putting his stamp" on
little things and working his way up. This works and Honeywell puts
Marshall back on the case.
At the hearing of the Gruber Pharmaceuticals case, Honeywell and
Marshall are stunned to see Brad there. Marshall thinks that he was
recently hired by the Gruber Pharmaceuticals legal team, but Brad tells
him that he has been working there for two years. He tricked Marshall to
get an interview at Honeywell and Cootes, where he stole their case
strategy. Furious at Marshall, Honeywell tells him that if he doesn't
win the case, he will be fired.
Wanting to prove that he is not a "Piggyback Stamper", Ted digs up his video diaries from Wesleyan.
After watching the tapes, Ted realizes that he is a "Piggyback Stamper"
and is disappointed. However, Lily notices a tape of Ted talking to
Marshall after his third date with her. Marshall tells Ted that he
thinks that he is falling in love with Lily, and thinks he should see
other people as everything is happening too fast. However Ted convinces
Marshall that Lily is the one for him. After watching the tape, Lily is
touched that Ted gave her his Stamp of Approval.
Meanwhile, Barney has come across a problem, Quinn, his ex-fiancee, has gone back to working at the Lusty Leopard,
and now he has to look for another strip club. He tells the gang that
all the strip clubs in town are after him and are sending him
merchandise to woo him. When Robin suggests that Barney go visit a few
strip clubs in Long Island, New Jersey so the strip clubs in NY can give
him bigger stuff to woo him, Barney hires her as his strip club agent.
When Robin picks a strip club with elderly women as strippers called
"The Golden Oldies" - a strip club which they had already rejected -
Barney realizes that the club had been bribing Robin and fires her.
Robin apologizes by buying Barney his first lap dance, and Barney then
announces that he decided to choose "The Mouth Beach" as his new strip
club. After coming back from The Mouth Beach with Barney, a drunk Robin
tells him that she missed her single life. She also tells Barney that
she had fun time and he tells her that he always has fun with her.
Barney then kisses Robin, who seems to be in to it for a moment but then
pushes him away, telling him that "this can't happen" and leaves.
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