Barney Quote #631
Quote from Barney in The Chain Of Screaming
Marshall: After we all finished talking last night, I went to the diner to finish working on the Ninja Report.
[flashback to Marshall at a diner working. Barney arrives out of nowhere and sits down at the same booth:]
Barney: Hey, Marshall.
Marshall: How long have you been sitting there?
Barney: If you go in there with Lily's kindergarten nonsense, you're gonna get torn apart. I'm here to save your life. You hungry?
Marshall: Yeah, I was just about to order.
Barney: What do you want?
Marshall: A sandwich and gravy fries.
Waiter: Okay, friends, what do you like?
Barney: A green tea with lemon for me, and for my friend here, the meatloaf, please.
Waiter: Very good.
Marshall: No, I didn't want meatloaf.
Barney: Marshall, the chain of screaming is a real thing. Arthur screamed at you, now you have to scream at someone else.
Marshall: No, I don't.
Barney: Yes, you do, or else that anger is gonna eat you alive.
Marshall: Who would I even scream at?
Barney: I don't know. How about somebody who's disappointed you? Someone who's let you down. Someone who's gonna bring you meatloaf when you explicitly ordered a sandwich and gravy fries.
Marshall: No.
How I Met Your Mother Quotes
‘The Chain Of Screaming’ Quotes
Quote from Barney
Barney: The lesson of Blauman is that when your boss screams at you, you never scream back. That's why there's a little thing in corporate America I like to call the chain of screaming.
Marshall: Chain of screaming?
Barney: Yes. The chain of screaming starts at the top. Arthur's boss's boss screams at Arthur's boss. Arthur's boss screams at Arthur. Arthur screams at you. You go home and scream at Lily. Lily screams at one of the kids in her kindergarten class. Then that kid screams at her dad, Arthur's boss's boss. And the whole thing starts all over again, Thus completing the circle of screaming.
Ted: I thought it was a chain of screaming.
Barney: It's a circle, Ted. I called it a circle.
Quote from Marshall
Marshall: They always told me that working at a big law firm was like being at war...
[flashback to Marshall at work, at Nicholson, Hewitt and West:]
Marshall: [v.o.] You get out of law school, it's like getting out of boot camp. That first day at work, you're storming the beaches, full of piss and vinegar...
Man: Dude, we're lawyers now.
Marshall: Totally.
Man: We've got briefcases and everything.
Marshall: Freakin' briefcases.
Man: You have anything in yours?
Marshall: Totally empty. you?
Man: Candy bars.
[Marshall and his colleague high five with their briefcases]
Quote from Barney
Barney: What, that's it? You're upset because a guy talked loudly near you?
Marshall: Barney, I have never been screamed at like that in my life.
Ted: Come on, when's the last time you got screamed at at work?
Barney: I got screamed at three times today. Once in Korean. This is corporate America, Marshall. Screaming is a motivational tool, like Christmas bonuses or sexual harassment. It's just good business.