Marshall recommends his old law school classmate Brad for a position at his firm and loses the trust of his boss when Brad makes a fool of himself in the interview. Marshall ends up regaining his trust by continually recommending good things but puts his job at risk is when his boss discovers that Brad was only there to steal the firm's strategy for a case. Marshall's tendency to give everything his stamp of approval incites a debate between Ted and Lily over who gives the best stamp. After Ted's old tapes from college prove he has been piggybacking on Lily's recommendations, he sees one tape in which he gave the ultimate stamp when he told Marshall to date Lily. Robin acts as Barney's agent when he fields competing membership offers from various strip clubs and their time together leads to a drunken kiss...