The Naked Truth ( How I Met Your Mother ) - Wikipedia The Naked Truth ( How I Met Your Mother ) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia 's general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention. If notability can not be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources : `` The Naked Truth '' How I Met Your Mother -- news newspapers books scholar JSTOR ( May 2017 ) This article 's lead section does not adequately summarize key points of its contents. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. Please discuss this issue on the article 's talk page. ( December 2015 ) `` The Naked Truth '' How I Met Your Mother episode Episode no. Season 7 Episode 2 Directed by Pamela Fryman Written by Stephen Lloyd Production code 7ALH02 Original air date September 19, 2011 ( 2011 - 09 - 19 ) Guest appearance ( s ) Nazanin Boniadi ( Nora ) Martin Short ( Garrison Cootes ) Jimmi Simpson ( Pete Durkenson ) Ashley Williams ( Victoria ) Episode chronology ← Previous `` The Best Man '' Next → `` Ducky Tie '' `` The Naked Truth '' is the second episode of the seventh season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 138th episode overall. It first aired on September 19, 2011. Contents 1 Plot 2 Critical response 3 References 4 External links Plot This article 's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ( December 2015 ) Marshall is still hungover after Punchy 's wedding, and makes a `` sweeping declaration '' that he will henceforth permanently stay sober. Future Ted says that Marshall 's `` sweeping declarations '' typically do n't work. Marshall receives a call from Garrison Cootes, a partner at one of the nation 's largest environmental law firms. He tells Marshall that the company is `` very interested '' in Marshall 's application for employment, and he will receive a job offer after the company completes an extensive background check. The danger of a background check concerns Marshall, who fears that a college - era video of him streaking through Wesleyan calling himself `` Beercules '', which is now available online, could result in Garrison 's dropping the job offer. Marshall contacts the uploader, Pete Durkensen, an old college acquaintance, and asks him to remove the video. However, Marshall ends up getting drunk and streaking again, the effect of playing Edward Fortyhands with Pete, although Pete originally wanted to play Darts, and thus another `` Beercules '' video is uploaded. Pete 's refusal to take it down prompts Lily to blackmail him with information that she claims to have received from women who dated him in college. Eventually, Garrison does see the video, but offers Marshall a job anyway ; the video is not an issue with him. Later, Pete calls Marshall and offers to remove the video, but Marshall refuses. Thinking about a date with Nora, Barney appears to the gang in a leg cast and using crutches ; he hopes to use these to gain Nora 's sympathy. He meets Nora at a 24 - hour diner, where he is forced to explain to her all the plays he ever made on women, one of which irks a woman in an adjoining booth who overhears the conversation ; she turns out to be one of Barney 's previous conquests. Nora leaves, still angry at Barney for lying to her. To prove to Nora that he will never lie to her again, Barney vows not to leave the diner until she agrees to a second date. The gang eats at the diner nine hours later and sees Barney wake up. He refuses to make an order several times, and true to his word, does stay at the diner the whole time, which convinces Nora when she comes back. Ted capitalizes on being featured in New York magazine, speaking to women at newsstands when they pick up a copy of the magazine. He befriends 16 people, 13 of them being women, and dates two women from amongst them on separate occasions. With Lily 's and Robin 's help, he must decide on one of the women as a date to the exclusive `` Architect 's Ball ''. Robin thinks that the event will be boring, but hints that she would like to become Ted 's date when he mentions that Lenny Kravitz will be at the event, since she is an avid fan of the rock star. Ted winds up taking Robin to the gala, where she discovers that the Lenny Kravitz Ted was referring to is an old architect, Leonard Kravitz. Disappointed, Robin leaves the party. Future Ted tells his kids that a person will know for sure about falling in love `` pretty quickly and with absolute certainty. '' While looking at the gala guests, he sees his former girlfriend Victoria arranging cupcakes at a table and they establish eye contact. Critical response This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( December 2015 ) Donna Bowman of The A.V. Club graded the episode a B. Robert Canning of IGN gave the show an 8 out of 10. Angel Cohn of Television Without Pity gave the episode a C. Despite the show being in its 7th season this episode premiered to 12.22 million viewers, making it the show 's third most watched episode to date, only behind the two - part series finale `` Last Forever '' and season one 's `` The Pineapple Incident ''. References Jump up ^ `` Listings of How I Met Your Mother at ' The Futon Critic ' ''. The Futon Critic. Retrieved August 13, 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` What to watch, Best Bets : How I Met Your Mother '', The Elkhart Truth, B6, News section, reprint at eedition.ottawa.24hrs.ca, January 23, 2012, retrieved March 11, 2013 Jump up ^ Kelsea Stahler ( September 22, 2011 ). `` Katie Holmes is a Slutty Pumpkin for ' How I Met Your Mother ' ''. Hollywood.com. Archived from the original on April 1, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2013. Jump up ^ Donna Bowman ( September 19, 2011 ). `` '' The Best Man `` / '' The Naked Truth `` ''. The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved August 13, 2017. Jump up ^ Robert Canning. `` How I Met Your Mother Review : The Naked Truth ''. IGN. Retrieved August 13, 2017. Jump up ^ Angel Cohn ( September 19, 2011 ). `` How I Met Your Mother : The Naked Truth ''. Television Without Pity. NBCUniversal. Archived from the original on June 10, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2013. Jump up ^ Seidman, Robert ( September 20, 2011 ). `` Monday Broadcast Final Ratings : ' Two and a Half Men, ' ' 2 Broke Girls, ' DWTS Adjusted Up ; ' Castle ' Adjusted Down ''. TV by the Numbers. Zap2It. Archived from the original on April 1, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2013. External links `` The Naked Truth '' on IMDb How I Met Your Mother episodes Seasons 6 7 8 9 Season 7 `` The Best Man '' `` The Naked Truth '' `` Ducky Tie '' `` The Stinson Missile Crisis '' `` Field Trip '' `` Mystery vs. History '' `` Noretta '' `` The Slutty Pumpkin Returns '' `` Disaster Averted '' `` Tick, Tick, Tick... 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Question: who played edward 40 hands how i met your mother
Answer: Marshall