Hammond druthers biography

9th episode of the 9th season of How I Met Your Mother

"Platonish" is the ninth episode of the ninth season of the CBSsitcomHow I Met Your Mother, and the 193rd episode overall.

Plot

At 11am on Saturday, with 31 hours left before the wedding, Barney, Ted, and Lily comfort Robin over the news that her own mother is not attending her wedding. Barney takes this as a challenge to cheer her up, claiming he never fails a challenge, but Lily counters that Barney never finished a challenge to pick up diapers and samosas in the fall of 2012. Barney recounts the story.

One night at the bar, Barney discussed with the gang the fact that the group's only true male/female platonic relationship was between Marshall and Robin. By this point, Lily had been fed up with Barney's own creative plays to pick up women. She dares him to take up challenges that she and Robin will choose – which include getting a woman's number while speaking like a dolphin and not using any word that has the letter E. Seeing that Barney has passed all their challenges, Lily and Robin decide to make him do an errand for them by inserting the challenge of picking up a woman while performing the request – to buy her a pack of diapers for Marvin and samosas for Robin. Barney buys the items and then attempts a play on a woman at a pharmacy; the woman is actually Ted's future wife, who sees through his facade and assumes that Barney is doing this to take his mind off being sad about something. When Barney questions her, she senses that Barney was once in love but messed it up, and keeping himself busy enough to come to terms with that. (with Future Ted telling his kids this was "How Barney met your Mother"). Outside, the two talk about Barney's failed relationship with Robin and how he had felt lost since they broke up. When Barney says he can easily woo back Robin, the woman declares that if he really wants her so much, he will have to give it his very best shot. The woman leaves him

Hammond Druthers was the boss and ex-co-worker at the architectural firm where Ted worked.

Show Outline[]

Season 2[]

He was a boss that many in the office, including Ted, hated due to his arrogance, obnoxiousness and bullying. To try to make him a better person, Lily stole his baseball signed three times by Pete Rose as she has a habit of taking precious things from people who misbehave, in hope that Druthers would learn to be nicer to his employees. However, he said that if the thief didn't return the ball, he would begin to fire three people every hour. Ted did not want people to get fired but Lily stood by her point, so he fired her. He got the ball from her and gave it back to Druthers. When Druthers' project for a building that highly resembled a penis was refused for that reason, Ted showed a design he had been working on to his firm's client, and they liked it. (Aldrin Justice​)

Ted became Hammond's boss, but he still behaved like a jerk. Ted asked his boss what to do, and he said to fire Druthers. The first time he attempted to fire him it turned out to be Druthers' birthday, leading Ted to do it another time. After he found Druthers sleeping at the office due to his unsettlements with his wife, Ted took in Druthers and the two shortly became friends. However, after he still acted very rudely to Ted at work, he decided to fire him, which coincided with him receiving the divorce papers from his wife, finding out his dog is dead and having a heart attack (which Ted thought he was faking). (Columns)

Season 9[]

In Platonish he appeared in a flashback set in the Fall of 2012. He offered Ted a job in his architectural firm in Chicago, which Ted rejected. However sometime between then and the wedding weekend Ted changed his mind and accepted the job, but meeting the mother led Ted to reject the offer.

Family[]

Episode Appearances[]

1. Aldrin Justice​
2. Columns
3. Platonish (flashback)

Notes and Trivia[]

• He appeared in the cover of

American actor (born 1956)

Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013) and Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006). He has received a number of awards, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and two Golden Globes, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.

Cranston's performance on Breaking Bad earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014) and a Golden Globe in 2014. After becoming a producer of the show in 2011, he also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series twice. He was previously nominated three times for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in Malcolm in the Middle. Cranston co-developed and occasionally appeared in the crime drama series Sneaky Pete (2015–2019), and has also starred in the drama series Your Honor (2020–2023).

On stage, he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Broadway play All the Way (2014), a role he reprised in the 2016 HBO film of the same name. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and his second Tony Award for portraying Howard Beale in the play Network on the West End and Broadway, respectively.

Cranston earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for portraying Dalton Trumbo in Trumbo (2015). Other notable films include Saving Private Ryan (1998), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Drive (2011), Contagion (2011), Argo (2012), Godzilla (2014), The Infiltrator (2016), The Upside (2017), and Asteroid City (2023). He has also voiced roles in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), Isle o