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Nov 1, 2010 · Canning Randy: Directed by Pamela Fryman. With Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris. Everyone tries to figure out whom Robin slept with Halloween night, and Zoey, the GNB skyscraper protester, finds a way to turn Ted's class against him.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Pamela Fryman
- 2010-11-01
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Zoey causes trouble by enrolling in Ted’s class. Marshall has to fire his first employee. Lily tries to find out who Robin slept with.
Ted begins the episode by giving a presentation about historical bridge collapses to his architecture class. As the camera pans down, he's shown wearing a hot-dog costume. He ends his lecture and wishes his students a Happy Halloween, throwing candy to each of them. They joke around, and one of his students asks if Ted will go out with them. However, Ted declines, saying he has another party to attend.
Ted is now seen with the gang (minus Robin) at the Goliath National Bank Halloween office party. Ted (dressed as a hot-dog), Barney (dressed as Johnny Lawrence from The Karate Kid), Marshall (dressed as a bull) and Lily (dressed as a matador) are in attendance. Randy enters and greets the gang, offering them some of his home-brewed beer (it turns out in the end that Randy's beer becomes really famous in America in the future). He asks about Robin's whereabouts, and starts to shout and leave when he hears she's at a different party. However, he decides to stay when Lily says she might arrive later.
Randy asks if any of them are going to go see the Halloween parade. Future Ted narrates that they were big fans of the parade. Not the official parade in The Village, but the one that happens the next morning; The Annual Post-Halloween Walk of shame parade.
Ted, Marshall, and Barney all sit of the front steps of the apartment, drinking coffee, commenting on the different girls that walk by. Ted looks down the sidewalk, and sees Robin walking towards them, wearing a nurse costume. When she reaches the steps and sees the three men, she stops and swears.
Later in MacLaren's, the gang try to find out who Robin hooked up with Halloween night. Ted hopes Robin didn't hook up with another of her co-anchors, until Robin reminds him her co-anchor is Becky, a woman. Barney then hopes that Robin did hook up with her co-anchor.
Future Ted explains how Robin always tried to be an intelligent, hard-working professional, but Becky had a different philosophy, and recently starred in a boat commercial to promote her image. As a journalist, Robin believes that acting in a commercial is a bad decision and would stop people from taking her seriously, but is frustrated when her cameraman Mike loves Becky's commercial.
•When Barney uncorks the wine bottle to celebrate Marshall firing Randy, Lily hides behind Marshall. Lily was previously accidentally hit in the eye by a champagne bottle cork in the Pilot by Marshall.
•Marshall and Lily wear matching costumes at the GNB party, a matador and a bull. They previously dressed as a pirate and a parrot in Slutty Pumpkin, where a flashback reveals they also once dressed up as Sonny & Cher.
•Randy mistakenly believes that being a corporate lawyer is Marshall's dream. His actual dream, being an environmental lawyer, was first mentioned in Life Among the Gorillas, as was his distaste for corporate law.
•The car alarm noise Lily mimics to get Johnny to settle down is the same one that drives her and Robin crazy when they camped out for her wedding dress, along with all the other brides-to-be in line, as seen in Lucky Penny.
•Randy mentions that he suffers from nosebleeds when he gets an erection in Rebound Bro.
•Barney dresses as Johnny Lawrence from The Karate Kid at the GNB Halloween party, whom he mentions admiring in The Stinsons.
•Randy's Wharmpess beers are seen again in Good Crazy and Something Old.
•Becky's commercial is for the Farhampton Boat Show. Barney and Robin's wedding is revealed to take place at the Farhampton Inn in Farhampton.
•After seeing Becky's commercial, the gang begin referring to Becky as "Boats Boats Boats", as seen in The Ashtray and Sunrise.
•Barney eventually meets his childhood hero, William Zabka, in The Bro Mitzvah, and invites him to his wedding. Zabka also briefly replaces Ted as Barney's best man in The Broken Code.
Goofs and Errors
•When Randy is in MacLaren's, discussing his plans with the severance money, the blood stream from Randy's nose switches nostrils from left to right to left. •Ted dresses as a hot dog for Halloween when it's stated in Slutty Pumpkin that he always dresses as a Hanging chad. •Ted may not have worn the Hanging chad costume because the Halloween party was at GNB and not on the roof of his apartment building where he first met the Slutty Pumpkin. •When Ted is flashing the lights in his classroom to regain control of his students, the lights flash on and off but he is obviously not moving the switch.
Allusions and Outside References
•Lily decapitating the toy horse's head and placing it in Johnny's bed is a reference to The Godfather scene where Don Corleone convinces Jack Woltz to cast Johnny Fontane in a film by placing the severed head of his prized stallion under his blood-soaked bedcovers. Also in that movie, oranges were often seen in connection with a character who would have a death or close call later in the movie; in his first appearance in this episode, Johnny drops an orange on the floor. •Lily says to Robin "Elementary, my dear Sherbatson", a reference to Sherlock Holmes's assistant Watson and Holmes's famous line •Barney's description of Robin as "Florence Nightinbedwithastranger" is a play on Florence Nightingale's name. •Barney dresses as Johnny Lawrence from The Karate Kid at the GNB Halloween party. •Ted mentions the band The Pixies and refers to the time when most media recording devices had a "B-side"
Music
•The same song used when images of the official Halloween Parade are shown was used in the night club in Okay Awesome.
•Will Forte - Randy Wharmpess
•Jennifer Morrison - Zoey Pierson
•Bob Odenkirk - Arthur Hobbs
•Laura Bell Bundy - Becky
•Ron Nicolosi - Mike
•Andrew Caldwell - Scotty
Featuring an interview with Carter Bays, Chuck Tatham and guest star, Will Forte.
•This episode premiered to 8.877 million viewers.
•Michaelangelo Matos at the The A.V. Club gave the episode a B.
•DeAnn Welker at Television Without Pity gave the episode a D.
•Robert Canning at IGN gave the episode a 6.5 out of 10.
"Canning Randy" is the seventh episode of the sixth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 119th episode overall. It aired on November 1, 2010.
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How I Met Your Mother S 6 E 07 Canning Randy. Recap. Create New. Marshall encounters problems with the way that GNB treats people, while Zoey starts sitting in on Ted's class and turning his students against him.
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