Spoilers for Episode 2.13 "Columns" - Airing 1/22/07 (CBS-US)

[Buffy Summers]

12/15 - Episode 2.14 - Columns: Ted has problems with another architect at work. He goes and speaks to the managing partner, a VERY elderly man named Brady, to try and get the guy off his project. Brady tells him to fire the guy then says to fire them all, including Hammond Druthers. Ted goes to tell Druthers he's been fired and finds out his wife just left him and is divorcing him, his dog died, the other people in the office forgot his birthday the day before. Just as he is about to tell him, the other office workers come in with a cake and sing Happy Birthday. Ted interrupts and tries again to tell him he's fired when Druthers clutches his chest and falls to the ground. Ted doesn't believe he's really having a heart attack and springs the news about the job loss. Druthers is taken out by paramedics as Ted gets scowled at by his co-workers.

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[watcher1006]

I guess an employee does sometimes get promoted over his or her boss. Usually though, I don't think the boss hangs around for long.

Lily and Marshall pulled a fast one on Barney to get the money from him for their honeymoon. I suspect the hints about their marriage will pick up in frequency from this point on and that a (real) wedding episode is not too far off.

But honestly, are those two examples really representative of how Lily paints? Just my opinion but if they are then no wonder she came back from San Francisco, lol.

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

did hammond live in the end? i think he probly did; i dont remember.

[mogwaid]

I dont think he died, just got carried off. Wasn't the best episode i reckon, but the barney/Lily part was quite hilarious.

[watcher1006]

Yeah, when the paramedics were carrying Hammond away on the stretcher, Ted said something to the everyone like "they think he will be alright", I don't remember exactly.

I wondered a little bit why everyone was trying to be so nice to the guy, like celebrating his birthday twice, when he was made out to be such a jerk. Not so much in this episode when he was Ted's employee, but in the earlier episode "Aldrin Justice".

Oh well, sitcoms will be sitcoms.

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

thats true about them hating him, and about sitcoms sometimes having a lack of continuity. it is possible to believe that they were trying to suck up to him though, by throwing him a second birthday when they missed it. i know he wasnt the boss anymore, but maybe they felt that since he used to be, getting on his good side would be useful. i dont really know; im just doing one of those things where you say something that would have sort of made it make sense, even though its likely not what the writers were thinking. or im just babbling :silly:.

[mogwaid]

I think because now he wasnt the boss, he was now just "one of the workers" thats why they were all being nice to him. And not to Ted.