Despite a law degree making him the most educated regular character on the show, the arc of the series saw him lose jobs, take the wrong jobs, and generally ride a roller coaster of ups and downs through his career. Money is a regular source of drama for Marshall and Lily throughout their relationship and marriage on How I Met Your Mother.
Marshall Eriksen is a fictional character on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Jason Segel. Series co-creator Craig Thomas explained that he based Marshall and Lily on himself and his wife Rebecca.
The final season of How I Met Your Mother finds Marshall and Lily at a crossroads. Marshall gets offered a judgeship just as Lily gets the career opportunity of a lifetime to move their family to Italy for her to advise The Captain on art purchases. After much back and forth and a crisis of conscience, they move to Italy.
The final season of How I Met Your Mother anchors itself around Robin and Barney’s wedding, but does quite a bit of time hopping. One of those jumps looks into Marshall’s future, when his hard work culminates in him up running for a seat on the New York State Supreme Court.
He asks Marshall and Lily to find him a woman, and if she's cool with it (and she will be, because he'll wear his nice blazer), he'll marry her. Marshall and Lily promptly forget about this until Valentine's Day, when they have to use Barney's phone at the last minute to make a date for him. But like all the women who've called Barney's phone, she's awesome — beautiful, a world class violinist, a gourmet cook, and able to quote Caddyshack at will. (She's also one of the women Barney abandoned for the next tantalizing text.)
Robin thinks Don is a rabbit. (Marshall disagrees with the assignment of negative emotion to rabbits, but after yet another hilarious montage — this one of the most heated argument the group ever had — he is shouted down and must confesss: "ducks good, rabbits bad.") But according to Ted, she's about to realize that she's been seeing him as a duck all along. He's invited her to his place for Valentine's Day, "just me and a bunch of other people" for what Robin nonetheless considers a date, and she's going to have to confront her feelings for him.
She even abandoned Marshall and her engagement in the first season because she needed to go to an art program in San Francisco. Well, she may not have become the next big name in art as an artist, but she did manage to a) run a lucrative side-business selling her paintings to vet offices, because dogs love them, and b) create a new career as an art buyer for The Captain.
In the first season, Marshall proposed to Lily, and of course, she accepted... until that aforementioned abandonment. For a while, it seemed that this really would be the end for Marshmallow and Lilypad, but thankfully, the two made up after a time apart. In the end, they are married and have kids, and are happier than ever.
It may not last forever, but not only did Barney get what he thought he wanted, he got what he needed - a real relationship, emotional maturity, and the ability to commit.
Money is a regular source of drama for Marshall and Lily throughout their relationship and marriage on How I Met Your Mother. Lily racks up credit card debt with reckless abandon. Meanwhile, Marshall has his own student debt racked up in the process of getting his law degree.
In the wake of his father’s unexpected passing, Marshall quits his corporate job to take a position with the Natural Resources Defense Council. The position is well attuned to his sensibilities and ambitions for a career in environmental law. However, it is also an unpaid position.
After enduring a maze of career detours, setbacks, and disillusionment, Marshall arrives at a pivotal decision—he’s going to pursue a career as a judge.
The final season of How I Met Your Mother anchors itself around Robin and Barney’s wedding, but does quite a bit of time hopping. One of those jumps looks into Marshall’s future, when his hard work culminates in him up running for a seat on the New York State Supreme Court.
The final season of How I Met Your Mother finds Marshall and Lily at a crossroads. Marshall gets offered a judgeship just as Lily gets the career opportunity of a lifetime to move their family to Italy for her to advise The Captain on art purchases. After much back and forth and a crisis of conscience, they move to Italy.
Marshall has a questionable tendency to give everything and every one his stamp of approval. In 'Tramp Stamp' this approach to life sees him vouch for law school buddy Brad for a job at his law firm. Brad promptly tanks the interview.
Season 4 episode 'The Possimpible' finds the How I Met Your Mother crew comparing resumes, with a specific eye toward absurdities and outdated information they should have cut out years ago. In Marshall’s case, it’s revealed he still references his past as a slam dunk champion.
Marshall Eriksen is a fictional character on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Jason Segel. Series co-creator Craig Thomas explained that he based Marshall and Lily on himself and his wife Rebecca.
Marshall Eriksen. Marshall Eriksen is a fictional character on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Jason Segel. Series co-creator Craig Thomas explained that he based Marshall and Lily on himself and his wife Rebecca.
In "Zip, Zip, Zip", Marshall and Lily are trapped in the apartment bathroom and openly discuss that they are sad about no longer having new milestones. This period of their relationship ends in the first season finale, "Come On", when Marshall discovers that Lily interviewed for an art fellowship in San Francisco.
After reconciling, Marshall and Lily decide to elope in Atlantic City in order to avoid the judgment of Marshall's family for Lily having left him. They decide not to go through with it at the last moment and want to instead have a celebration with their families and friends present.
Marshall agrees to a bet with Barney about the reason Robin doesn't like malls. Marshall, being from Minnesota, believes that Robin doesn't like malls because she was married in one, as some people had done in the Mall of America. This results in Marshall being given several slaps which he inflict upon Barney throughout the series, because, although Robin was not married at a mall, Barney was incorrect that she had been in a pornographic film .
During the pilot episode, Marshall proposes to Lily. Throughout the series, his relationship with Lily progresses through their engagement, their break up when she decides to move to San Francisco for an art fellowship, Lily's eventual return to New York and their attempt at a friendship outside of a romantic relationship, their reconciliation and re-engagement, their wedding, and finally their marriage.
The series revolves around the adventures of the five main characters: Ted Mosby ( Josh Radnor) and his best friend Marshall, his friend and Marshall's girlfriend (later fiancee and wife) Lily Aldrin ( Alyson Hannigan ), friend Barney Stinson ( Neil Patrick Harris) and friend/love interest (and future love interest and wife to Barney Stinson) Robin Scherbatsky ( Cobie Smulders ).