Aldrin Justice
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| “Aldrin Justice” | |
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| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
 Barney taming "The Cougar" |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 6 |
| Guest stars | Jane Seymour as Professor Lewis and Bryan Cranston as Ted's boss, Hammond Druthers. |
| Written by | Jamie Rhonheimer |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Production no. | 2ALH06 |
| Original airdate | October 23, 2006 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| List of How I Met Your Mother episodes | |
"Aldrin Justice" is the 6th episode in the second season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on October 23, 2006.
[edit] Plot
Lily is having trouble deciding what she wants to do with her life. She continues to discover new ideas, but cannot decide on any one particular thing. In the meantime, she is working at a Hawaiian restaurant. Ted offers her a job as a secretary at his architectural firm (since Ted is the reason the previous secretary left), and Lily works there. However, she finds Ted's boss annoying and his designs, well, compensating for something. Ted is also frustrated, as his boss is treating him horribly, insulting his designs. Lily decides to start taking things from Ted's boss to teach him a lesson. This further annoys Ted's boss, who is revealed by Lily to be mean to a lot of people, and he threatens to fire people. Lily gives Ted the ball, who then explains to his boss what happened. Lily is fired, but the next day, Ted's boss' design is turned down, as the people who wanted the building did not want it to look like a penis. Ted, however, has been working on his own design, and decides (with the encouragement of Lily) to present his design of the building, which is approved. Ted is credited with being the youngest guy to design a building taller than 70 stories.
Marshall, however, finds his future on the line when he has to take an extremely difficult professor for a law class. She rarely gives good grades, and Marshall blames it on the fact that she divorced her husband over the summer and just needs to have sex. Barney, seeing this as a challenge, decides to help Marshall by "taming the cougar (Barney uses the term "cougar" to refer to a 40-50 year old woman who is single and wants some action). However, after Barney's first attempt, he realizes it's not as easy as he thought, as he is worn out and she isn't, and she gives Marshall's class a pop quiz, with a maximum grade of C-. Barney's second attempt yields marginally better results, but Barney continues trying. The third attempt ends up in a fractured hip for Barney (ironically, he told her that he had been taking it easy so that he didn't break one of her hips), but Marshall gets a B+ on his paper. Barney wants to try to get Marshall an A, but Marshall tells Barney that he doesn't have to continue, and that he's tried hard.
[edit] Cultural references
- At one point in the bar, Ted uses many colloquial sayings that are slang for penis or actions that involve the penis, to which Robin and Lily laugh, pointing out the connotation of Ted's words.
- When Marshall shows Barney his law professor's office, Barney evaluates the professor as if she is a wild animal on a nature program, similar to the Discovery Channel or a Steve Irwin program.
- Ted's boss has a baseball signed by Pete Rose, and even declares that Pete Rose's absence from the Baseball Hall of Fame is a travesty, even though Rose has since admitted to betting on the Cincinnati Reds many times when he was a manager.
- Barney says that, like John Mellencamp, he will get rid of the cougar once and for all (as Mellencamp was formerly known as John Cougar Mellencamp).
