The Chain of Screaming

Episode aired Apr 14, 2008
TV-PG
22m

IMDb RATING

7.8/10

3.9K

YOUR RATING

Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel in How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Comedy Drama Romance

Marshall cries in front of his boss after he chews him out, and everybody gives Marshall their own unique advice on how to confront his boss about the situation.Marshall cries in front of his boss after he chews him out, and everybody gives Marshall their own unique advice on how to confront his boss about the situation.Marshall cries in front of his boss after he chews him out, and everybody gives Marshall their own unique advice on how to confront his boss about the situation.

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

3.9K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Featured reviews

10bevo-13678

Yell

I like the bit where the guy at the diner yelled at him

6slightlymad22

A Drop In Quality

After so many great episodes, it was inevitable that there would be a drop in quality somewhere and this was it.

Plot In A Paragraph: Marshall cries after being shouted at by his boss, so the other four all tell him how he should deal with it. Robin suggests he go in with a gun, Ted Suggests he gives a speech about how he will not tolerate being abused, Lily suggests using the same approach she takes with her kids at school and Barney suggests he just send the abuse further down the chain of screaming (or the circle of screaming, or the pyramid of screaming) and simply scream at someone beneath him.

Whilst this episodes has it's moments, there was not many laugh out loud moments to enjoy for me.

10PabloThePirate

An underrated episode

This episode is not amazing because of its plot. That's not to say that its plot is bad, but it's not why I'm reviewing this so positively. It's amazing primarily because of 1 thing: the characters. To be more specific, the writers made Marshall the main character in this episode. In most other HIMYM episodes, Ted is the main character. Don't get me wrong, HIMYM is a great show, but making Ted the main character was a mistake. He's lame and pretentious. He's constantly correcting people, yet he gets stuff wrong (e.g. mispronouncing "chameleon" and falsely stating that "love thy neighbor" is not the Golden Rule). With Marshall in the spotlight, we have a story that doesn't suffer from being centered on a pretentious snob. Marshall is a genuinely nice guy who doesn't constantly correct people. He makes the audience genuinely care about him when they see him try to stand up to his boss. When Ted's in the spotlight, sorry, but I don't really care about his romantic pursuits, because I don't care about him.

Trivia
Many "How I Met Your Mother" cast members real life partners also appear on the show. Alyson Hannigan's (Lily) husband Alexis Denisof as Sandy Rivers (Robin's Metro News One Co-Host), Neil Patrick Harris' (Barney) future husband David Burtka as Scooter (Lily's High School boyfriend) and Cobie Smulders' (Robin) future husband Taran Killam as Blauman (Barney's Co-worker).

Goofs
At the beginning of the episode we hear Barney's voice saying, "Ted, this is New York City..." but we actually see Lily's mouth moving (Barney is not initially in the shot and the J-Cut replaces Lily's dialogue so that Lily's mouth moves but she says nothing).

Quotes
Arthur Hobbs: [Yelling] Hey, Ferguson I read your report, and it's complete crap! No, you know what, that's an insult to crap. If crap could eat and then crap stuff out, it's that! Your report is the crap that crap craps! If you last two more days here, I'll be shocked! Shocked!