When Marshall tries to get his old friend Brad a job at his firm, Brad completely trashes the interview, leaving Marshall to deal with his already skeptical boss. Robin helps Barney find another regular strip club to attend now that the Lusty Leopard is a no-go.
This episode provides examples of:
- Amoral Attorney: Brad has turned into a total douche.
- Hollywood Law: Brad's strategy is a violation of legal ethics.
- The Malaproper: That's not a brodium, Barney. That's a breastern. It's only a brodium if you're standing on it.
- The Napoleon: While Marshall is listing off the bad qualities about his boss, Honeywell, he mentions that he's pretty sensitive about his height. Brad makes the actually-deliberate-not-really-a-mistake of calling him short during his interview.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Brad fakes the entire bad interview so he can steal the firm's strategy for the case.
- Serious Business: Barney treats picking a new strip club like the NBA draft. The strip clubs take it just as seriously because he's such a big spender.
- Spit Take: Invoked by Lily when Ted is about to finally admit that he was Dr. X.
