70 Facts About Marshall Eriksen

Marshall Eriksen is a fictional character on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Jason Segel.

Marshall Eriksen met Ted and Lily during their freshman year at Wesleyan University in 1996, and they moved into an apartment in New York City together after graduation.

Marshall Eriksen is fascinated by the paranormal, and has absolute faith that mythical creatures such as Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster are real.

Marshall Eriksen has even discovered a paranormal event himself: a bizarre creature he names "the cockamouse".

Marshall Eriksen is a huge fan of the Minnesota Vikings, much like his father.

In "Glitter", Lily says Marshall Eriksen is 384 months old, thus 32 years, 1 week, 1 day and 21 hours old.

Marshall Eriksen was born and raised in St Cloud, Minnesota, the youngest of three brothers.

Marshall Eriksen has been shown to be extremely close to his family, particularly his father, Marvin.

Marshall Eriksen met both Lily and Ted during the move-in process.

Marshall Eriksen is shown to frequently smoke marijuana, though in the show, Future Ted refers to this as "eating a sandwich" in order to hide their past drug use from his children.

Marshall Eriksen is shown to have smoked marijuana before initially meeting Ted and confuses him for the dean of the school.

Marshall Eriksen is shown to enjoy drinking to the point of intoxication in college.

Marshall Eriksen offers Ted a ride to his own home in Shaker Heights saying that it is on the way, which Ted eventually accepts.

Marshall Eriksen met Lily during the move-in process, when Lily was determined to meet him and found his room.

Marshall Eriksen asked him to install her stereo for her and they were in love at first sight.

Marshall Eriksen is initially terrified of living in a large city, though he eventually overcomes his fear.

Marshall Eriksen is shown to be completely committed in spite of his sadness at being left out of Ted and Barney's "single man" shenanigans.

In "Okay Awesome", Marshall Eriksen is shown to be jealous of the fun that Barney and Ted have by going out to clubs while Lily wants to have a "grown up" wine and cheese party with other couples.

The second season begins with Marshall Eriksen dealing with the break-up of his long-term relationship and engagement.

Marshall Eriksen was shown to be extremely depressed during the first few months post-break-up.

Marshall Eriksen becomes obsessed with credit card bills that are still sent to their apartment.

Marshall Eriksen eventually tries dating, though most of his attempts are stymied by his friend Barney Stinson, who is later revealed to be intentionally sabotaging these attempts in order to ensure the reunification of Marshall and Lily.

Marshall Eriksen begins a "bromance" with his friend and fellow law student, Brad Morris, who had recently gone through a break-up.

Marshall Eriksen thinks that Brad is becoming too romantic for the relationship, which culminates in Marshall Eriksen reluctantly agreeing to attend a wedding with him, only to arrive in front of Brad's apartment to see him with flowers.

Marshall Eriksen assumes that the flowers are for him and panics, but Brad reveals that he had gotten back together with his recent break-up.

When Marshall Eriksen encountered Lily after her return to New York City, Lily proposed they get back together, saying that leaving him was a mistake and that she still loves him.

Marshall Eriksen refused and said that he needed time to discover who he is outside the relationship.

Marshall Eriksen managed to date one woman, a barista, who his friends claimed has "crazy eyes".

Marshall Eriksen tells him several outlandish stories, which are revealed to be true and caused by Lily, who is still obsessed with Marshall.

Marshall Eriksen's friendship are further explored during this time in the episode "Slap Bet".

Marshall Eriksen agrees to a bet with Barney about the reason Robin doesn't like malls.

Marshall Eriksen, being from Minnesota, believes that Robin doesn't like malls because she was married in one, as some people had done in the Mall of America.

Marshall Eriksen reveals that he is unhappy with the corporate job he had been working and felt that only his old, beaten car kept him connected with the kind of man that he wanted to be.

In "I'm Not That Guy" Marshall Eriksen ends up taking a job working at another corporate position, though he is unhappy about doing so.

Marshall Eriksen takes the job instead of pursuing his dream of working in environmental law after being offered his dream job working for the Natural Resources Defense Council in order to provide for Lily, who had helped to support him during law school on her kindergarten teacher's salary.

Marshall Eriksen was informed that his only client at the corporate office would be an amusement park, which is shown to be equally awful as the other clients of the office.

Marshall Eriksen finds out that Lily has massive credit card debt, which negatively affects their ability to get a good interest rate on a mortgage.

In "Spoiler Alert", he ends up passing the bar; then he ends up snapping when confronting his boss at the law office, resulting in Marshall Eriksen quitting his job in "The Chain of Screaming".

Toward the beginning of season 4, it is revealed that Barney has gotten a job for Marshall Eriksen working the fictional Goliath National Bank.

Marshall Eriksen reveals that he cannot fantasize about women other than Lily without first imagining that she has died and he has gone through a grieving process.

Marshall Eriksen is apparently relegated to picking the cheese, because Lily is a gifted chef; Marshall Eriksen takes this too far and is obsessed with the gouda during a night spent with Robin and Barney.

Marshall Eriksen is unable or unwilling to take road trips with Ted the way they would when they were both unmarried.

Marshall Eriksen decides that when Lily sees someone who looks nothing like Barney and decides that it is his doppelganger, to not tell her and that it must mean that she is ready.

Lily was angered when she learned that Marshall Eriksen had told his father that they were trying to conceive.

Marshall Eriksen realizes that while he loves his father and their relationship, he should keep some details of his private married life from him.

Marshall Eriksen realizes that he would like his children to boys, due to some internalized misogyny after recalling how he spoke to and treated girls when he was in high school and various strippers he has seen with Barney.

Marshall Eriksen's father gives him advice on how to only conceive boys, based on their family traditions.

Marshall Eriksen is able to have an open and frank discussion about his worries with fertility with his parents, which he is later grateful to Lily for being able to have.

When Marvin dies Marshall Eriksen is devastated, and takes a long time to recover; not to mention that during the episode "Last Words" he struggles with remembering what Marvin's last words were to him.

Marshall Eriksen is able to return to New York in time for the birth of their son, whom they name after Marshall Eriksen's late father, Marvin.

Marshall Eriksen promised Barney that they would give Marvin the middle name "Wait-for-it".

Marshall Eriksen, now working his dream job, starts having new challenges there as well.

Marshall Eriksen learns that his boss believes that the environment is already too devastated to save, so Marshall, to save the planet for his newborn son, marshals the office into being more aggressive when suing a pharmaceutical company.

Marshall Eriksen learns that he is not a credible reference, because he is too willing to approve of others; he learns this when he is a reference for his friend Brad, who actually works for the adverse pharmaceutical company on their big case and steals some of their work for the case.

Marshall Eriksen was still able to overcome this and win at trial, but the judge awards him a pittance.

Marshall Eriksen was at first supportive, but once Lily started, she began to spend very little time at home and he grew frustrated with feeling like he was handling more than his fair share of the parenting responsibilities.

Marshall Eriksen then reveals that since the disappointing outcome of the case, the office has functionally been shut down from a lack a clients.

Marshall Eriksen told her that he would be thrilled to move to Italy, so Lily took the position.

Marshall Eriksen accepts the judgeship without discussing it with Lily.

Marshall Eriksen spent time on the road trying to find his way back to New York City from Minnesota with his new companion Daphne who worked for an oil corporation.

Marshall Eriksen has several attempts at trying to hide that he took the judgeship from Lily while he is on the road, but ultimately comes clean to her when he arrives at the wedding venue.

Marshall Eriksen decided to do so because he didn't want to have any secrets from his wife.

Lily and Marshall Eriksen had a fight about him accepting the position without first discussing it with her.

Marshall Eriksen came to the conclusion that he doesn't want to win a fight over their careers, but wants them both to be happy.

Lily and Marshall Eriksen reconciled and Lily told Marshall Eriksen to take the job, even though he was willing to give it up for her to be happy.

Marshall Eriksen soon learned that this was because Lily found out that she was pregnant with their second child.

Marshall Eriksen decided that since she has provided him with so much happiness from having a family, that he wanted to make her happy and agreed to move to Rome for her and her career.

Marshall Eriksen falls into a deep depression, but nevertheless refuses to take Lily back when she returns to New York.

Marshall Eriksen asks her to move out when it becomes clear that Ted has unrequited feelings for her.

When Robin briefly leaves the group in 2016, as portrayed in the series finale, Marshall Eriksen resents her for it, but nevertheless welcomes her back four years later to celebrate Ted's wedding.