I'm Not That Guy

Infobox Television episode
Title = I'm Not That Guy
Series = How I Met Your Mother
Season = 3
Episode = 6
Guests = Jim Jansen (Doctor), Bill J. Stevens (Fantasy Jefferson Coatsworth), John Cho (Jeff Coatsworth), Frank Crim (Leonard Ross), Sharon Brathwaite (Clerk), Kevin Heffernan (Ted Mosby Porn Star), Mary Alice Kania (Walk of Shame Woman)
Writer = Jonathan Groff
Director = Pamela Fryman
Airdate = October 29, 2007
Production = 3ALH06
Episode list =List of How I Met Your Mother episodes
Prev = How I Met Everyone Else
Next = Dowisetrepla

"I'm Not That Guy" is the 6^th episode in the third season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on October 29, 2007.

Plot

Marshall is thrilled when he learns he got the job he's always wanted at the Natural Resources Defense Council. However, Lily urges him to keep his interview with the corporate, polluter-defending Nicholson, Hewitt & West. Marshall is surprised at how young and understanding his interviewer, Jefferson Coatsworth, is, and agrees to go to dinner with him. Barney asserts that Coatsworth is trying to seduce Marshall, but Lily says Marshall should still go to the dinner. While Marshall enjoys his dinner (and is excited by an encounter with Patrick Swayze, one of NH&W's clients), Robin discovers why Lily wants Marshall to take the high-paying corporate job: Lily has dozens of credit cards and is in very much debt due to always shopping when she is upset about something. Although Marshall agrees to take the job, he regrets it the next day and goes to tell Jeff Coatsworth that he changed his mind. Coatsworth takes him to an amusement park and tells him that they will be his only client, at which point Marshall decides that he will definitely take the job.

Meanwhile, Barney has discovered a pornographic movie entitled "Welcome to the Sex Plane" featuring a porn star named Ted Mosby. While Ted is at first amused to discover the reason behind strange encounters with his doctor and a magazine interviewer, he then becomes uncomfortable and confused upon learning that porn-star Ted Mosby is from the same town--Shaker Heights, Ohio--as Ted. Ted and Barney go to an adult video conference to confront Bizarro Ted. They find out that Bizarro Ted idolized real Ted as a child, and honored real Ted by taking his name. Real Ted wants Bizarro Ted to change his name, so he tells him the person who he really idolized was Lance Hardwood. However, Bizarro Ted doesn't really understand and he keeps the name.

Notes

* John Cho, who plays Jeff Coatsworth, starred with Neil Patrick Harris in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.

Continuity

* Marshall eventually quits his job at Nicholson, Hewitt & West in The Chain of Screaming.

External links

* " [http://www.tv.com/how-i-met-your-mother/im-not-that-guy/episode/1140738/summary.html I'm Not That Guy] " at TV.com
* " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117436/ I'm Not That Guy] " at the Internet Movie Database