I'm Not That Guy
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| "I'm Not That Guy" | |
|---|---|
| How I Met Your Mother episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 6 |
| Directed by | Pamela Fryman |
| Written by | Jonathan Groff |
| Production code | 3ALH07 |
| Original air date | October 29, 2007 |
| Guest appearances | |
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"I'm Not That Guy" is the sixth episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and fiftieth overall. It originally aired on October 29, 2007.
Plot
seduce Marshall, but Lily still insists that Marshall should still go to the dinner. While Marshall enjoys his fancy dinner and meets one of NH&W's clients, Patrick Swayze, Robin discovers why Lily wants Marshall to take the high-paying corporate job: Lily has dozens of credit cards
and has racked up so much debt from impulse shopping. This upsets Robin, who asks Lily to confess to Marshall.
Although Marshall agrees to take the job, he has moral conflicts about it the next day, and Lily, unwilling to see him suffer from his selling out, eventually urges him to reject NH&W and work at the NRDC, while vowing to Robin to find a way to pay off her debt on her own. Coatsworth takes Marshall to an
corndogs
.
Barney has discovered a
porn star named "Ted Mosby" (Kevin Heffernan). While Ted is at first amused to discover the reason behind strange encounters in his neighborhood, he then becomes uncomfortable and confused upon learning that porn star Ted Mosby is from the same town as Ted: Shaker Heights, Ohio. He and Barney go to an adult video convention to confront "Bizarro
Ted", who stole his name while idolizing a fictional kid named Lance Hardwood, and force him to change his name. Porn star Ted responds by instead making a new movie titled Lance Hardwood: Sex Architect (starring Ted Mosby). The guys watch the new movie in Ted's apartment until Barney reveals that he allowed it to be filmed in the very same apartment.
Critical response
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Donna Bowman of The A.V. Club rated the episode B+.[1]
Staci Krause of IGN gave the episode 8.1 out of 10.[2]
References
- ^ Donna Bowman (October 29, 2007). "How I Met Your Mother "I'm Not That Guy"". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
- News Corporation. Archivedfrom the original on December 29, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
External links
- "I'm Not That Guy" at IMDb
