- Everyone tries to figure out whom Robin slept with Halloween night, and Zoey, the GNB skyscraper protester, finds a way to turn Ted's class against him.
- When Zoey enrolls in Ted's class, she manipulates his students into taking her side in the fight to save the building being torn down to make room for his project. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily spot Robin marching in the Halloween parade of shame.—CBS Publicity
- Class on Halloween 2010 highlights the fact that Ted's students love him, the adoration in which he revels. But things may change when he gets a new student: Zoey. She enrolled in his class since he impressed on her that he is an architecture professor who knows which old buildings are worth saving, the Arcadian not being one of them, while she knows no such thing. But Zoey's obvious purpose is to turn others to her way of thinking, most specifically Ted's students. When Zoey starts to turn his students against him, Ted turns to the expert when it comes to dealing with troublesome students: Lily. Meanwhile, Marshall, who hates GNB's "we care" commercials since he knows they as a company don't, wants to be the exception to the GNB rule. As bad an employee as he is, Marshall refuses to fire his underling, Randy Wharmpess. But Marshall can ultimately take only so much of Randy's blundering, so Marshall does end up firing him. Feeling guilty, Marshall wants to take the firing back, but what will uncaring GNB or bumbling Randy allow Marshall to do? And Ted, Marshall and Barney see Robin taking the morning after parade of shame on November 1. They all try and guess who Robin slept with, but she later admits her walk of shame had more to do with her new female co-anchor, Becky.—Huggo
- Ted is overjoyed that his class adores him, but it is because he gives out Halloween candy. Zoey Pierson sits in at Ted's class and turns his students against him. She reveals Ted tearing the Arcadian to design a new building, and the class skips to attend a protest. Ted takes Lily's advice to not appear so gentle and threatens to have the entire class fail if they keep skipping. Technically they would be marked incomplete, but Ted thought that an "F" had a nice and scary ring to it.
Marshall is bothered by inept fellow employee Randy (Will Forte) at work (Randy shreds important client documents that were meant to be couriered to the downtown office. ); Barney urges Marshall to fire Randy, but Marshall doesn't wish to be so cruel like GNB is thought to be. Arthur once fired a man for wearing the same green tie as him and feels that GNB treats people like they are disposable. He does not want to fire people. Randy annoys Marshall so much that he fires him. Marshall feels guilty and convinces Arthur (Bob Odenkirk) to have Randy rehired and urges him to be more benevolent. Randy is thrilled he was fired, as he plans to use his severance to start a beer brewery. Randy doesn't take Marshall's "good" news about being rehired well, and promptly begins intentionally destroying Marshall's office to get himself fired, as quitting his job would not net him the severance. Arthur found Marshall's speech so memorable that he wont fire Randy even when Randy is wearing the same green tie as him. Arthur promises Randy that he will work for GNB till the day he dies. Randy is devastated. Marshall resists the urge to fire him despite the mess Randy is creating (throwing all the files around, removing the drawers from the cabinets and pouring orange juice all over Marshall). Randy proceeds to then shred every single file in Marshall's office to force him to terminate his employment. With Marshall's office in disarray, Randy apologizes. He offers Marshall a bottle of his homemade beer; noting how good it tastes, Marshall fires Randy. Marshall believes that Randy deserves a chance to live his dream, since Marshall himself could not live his own dream and got stuck at a corporate job. Future Ted states Randy starts a brewing company, brewing a beer called Wharmpess, which becomes a success.
Robin continues to be annoyed by her new co-anchor, Becky. She is even more bothered when Becky appears in a commercial, which Robin thinks is unprofessional for a journalist. Robin had always prided herself on maintaining high integrity and journalistic standards. The morning after Halloween, the gang catches Robin coming back from last night's parties, assuming she had a one-night stand. Lily believes she had slept with Randy, due to Randy appearing to have a slight interest in her. Robin claims this to be the truth, though eventually she reveals she had given in and starred in a commercial to appear popular; the commercial is for adult diapers, much to everyone's amusement. Robin says the commercial may not even air, though Future Ted states it ran for seven years.
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