Created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, CBS's How I Met Your Mother is adored by fans and critics alike, for its hilarious writing, excellent premise, and its amazing cast of talented actors, some of whom are now big names in Hollywood. The show follows Ted and his group of friends as they try to find love and life in New York City (a premise many believe to be copied from Friends)
Jason Segel plays Marshall, Ted's best friend (although Barney would disagree), and their friendship is one of the best relationships in the show, even though they have fought a lot of times over the course of the show. Here are 5 times Marshall was a terrible friend, and 5 times he was a great one.
10 Worst - Slut-shamed Robin
In the season 4 episode, "The Naked Man", Ted comes home to find a naked guy sitting on his couch, who says he's doing "his move", known as 'The Naked Man'. Even though the date was terrible, his move worked, as Robin sleeps with him.
When discussing it at the bar later, Robin says she slept with him because she found it to be cute and funny, when Marshall calls Robin a slut and said she only did it because he was naked at her home and no other reason. This was not only rude but also extremely offensive and not something you call a friend.
9 Best - Helps Ted Realize He Was Being A Jerk At St. Patrick's Day
On St. Patrick's Day, in "No Tomorrow", Ted forms a theory that the universe is rewarding him for doing bad things. He ditches his date outside the club for free entry, orders free food and alcohol on someone else's tab, and hits on a married woman, without any consequences... or so it seems. He gets punched by the guy whose tab he was drinking on.
When telling Marshall about it, he's far from impressed. He tells him that Ted had pocket dialed him all night, and makes him listen to it. Marshall also helps him realize he was being a jerk, hitting on married women and committing credit card fraud.
8 Worst - Accepted The Judgeship Without Telling Lily
In the season 8 finale, Marshall gets a call where he gets accepted as a judge in New York, which was his dream job. Although he and Lily had already made plans to move to Italy for a year, he accepts the offer, without telling Lily.
Even worse, he gets into a fight about it at the wedding and opens up old wounds, where he reminds Lily that she had broken his heart and moved to San Fransisco, and wouldn't even have come back to him if she had found success there.
7 Best - Introduces Robin To The Hoser Hut When She Felt Homesick
After Robin starts feeling a little homesick, Marshall takes her to the Walleye Salon, a Minnesota-themed bar. However, much to Marshall's frustration, Robin starts pretending to be from Minnesota to win the friendship of the regulars using his personal story.
Robin finds out that the patrons of the bar dislike Canadians. Although Marshall unmasks her as a Canadian and gets her banned from the bar, he feels bad and takes her to the Hoser Hut, a Canadian bar.
6 Worst - Not Telling Ted He Was Removed From The GNB Project
After Ted's architecture project gets scrapped, Barney and Marshall decide to keep it hidden from Ted, even though they know that if he ever found out, he would probably be out of work and get fired from his firm.
They hire a bunch of people to act as a task force created to look after the new headquarters design. When Ted finds out, he is understandably furious. And although he did it so Ted wouldn't be hurt, lying to a friend about such a huge project, and wasting his time when he could've found another project was a shallow thing to do.
5 Best - Fires Randy So He Can Start His Own Business
In "Canning Randy", Marshall needs to decide if he should fire Randy, one of his juniors. Barney is tasked to make a video that says GNB cares about its customers and asks Marshall to say "GNB cares about dreams", but Marshall refuses, as he thinks it's not true.
Marshall fires Randy but feels terrible, so he undoes it, but Randy asks to be fired, as he wants to use the severance check and start his business of home-brewed beers. Marshall takes one sip of Randy's home-brewed beer, and fires him, and tells him to start his business. His business takes off, as future Ted reveals that his beer can now be found in every bar in America.
4 Worst - Brought Lily Along For The Bros Trip
In the season 5 episode, "Duel Citizenship", Ted and Marshall go on one of their guys-only road trips to Chicago, with a slight hiccup - Marshall brings along Lily to the trip. Lily doesn't let them listen to any music, and instead puts in a boring audiobook, and keeps asking them to make frequent stops.
Even worse, instead of driving all night like their college days, they spend the night at a couple's inn, where they have a couple's massage, leaving Ted all alone. Although Marshall gently tells him that things are not the same as they were back in college, he shouldn't have brought along Lily to a guys trip.
3 Best - Sacrificed Being A Judge To Move To Italy
After Lily and Marshall have a fight about moving to Italy, Lily returns in a while and tells him they should stay in New York and he should accept the judgeship. However, Marshall wonders why Lily suddenly changed her mind and investigates it with Ted, Barney, and Billy Zabka.
It turns out that Lily is pregnant again, and Marshall tells her she's giving him another baby, and his dream is complete, and that they should move to Italy. It's such a sweet moment, and it's one of the best Marshall-Lily moments in the show.
2 Worst - Fights With Ted Over The Apartment
After Ted starts feeling a little insecure about the apartment when Lily moves in, he orders an English telephone booth and he and Marshall end having a fight about who gets the apartment when Marshall marries Lily. They have a duel with their display swords and Marshall ends up stabbing Lily.
Later, they find out Lily doesn't even want to live in the apartment, stating this was a "boy" apartment, and it "smells like dude". Marshall should have checked in with her before fighting with Ted, and also maybe not have stabbed Lily, probably.
1 Best - Talks To Robin And Asks Her To Move Out on Ted's Behalf
When Ted tells Robin he loves her in the season 7 episode, "No Pressure", and asks her if she loves him, she says no. This makes things slightly awkward, and even though Ted says he's okay, Marshall knows that he's not.
He talks to Robin and tells her that Ted is really hurting inside, and he asks her if she would move out, to finally give Ted closure. Marshall and Ted have one of the best friendships of any sitcom, and despite their many fights, it's sweet how they know what the other one thinks and they have each other's backs.
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