Blahblah: Hm. Oh, so, pretty and single and friends with Ted. Great.
Ted: You know who else is friends with Ted? Marshall. How did we meet? It's a good story, I'm gonna tell it right now. Uh, it was the first day of college.
[flashback to Marshall reading a magazine in his dorm room in 1996:]
Future Ted: [v.o.] Kids, to understand this story, you need to know that your Uncle Marshall was doing something that lots of college kids do. How do I say this? He was, uh, let's say eating a sandwich.
[Marshall lifts a sandwich up to his mouth, takes a bit and starts laughing]
College Guy: Dude, I heard the dean is coming. Put out your sandwich.
[Marshall gets up and puts his sandwich out in an ashtray, and then covers the sandwich with his magazine. Marshall sprays air freshener in room as Ted comes through the door]
Ted: Hey.
Marshall: Good afternoon, sir. I'm Marshall Eriksen.
Ted: Sir? Please, just call me Ted. [they shake hands]
Marshall: Okay, Dean Ted.
Ted: Whoa. Someone's been eating a sandwich.
Marshall: What? No. Really? I don't know 'cause I don't even know what sandwiches smell like. My parents are gonna donate a lot of money to this school.
Ted: So you're bottom bunk, that's cool. I wanted the top bunk anyway. [puts his bags on the top bunk]
Marshall: What do you mean?
Ted: I'm your new roommate.
Marshall: This is so unfair.