- Robin needs to find a television job in seven days or else she loses her work visa, and Barney volunteers to come to her aid. Meanwhile, Ted, Marshall, and Lily consider cleaning up their resumes
- Robin has been out of work for four months. Among her unopened fan mail from Metro News 1, she finds a notice of her work visa expiration in seven days unless she finds another job in her field. As she has not even come close to finding another job, she, feeling desperate, takes Barney up on his offer to prepare a video resume for her, despite his own video resume being meaningless and inane, it which includes him stating such made up words as "possimpible". Thinking the direction that Barney is going in with the video resume will yield nothing, Robin applies for anything. Meanwhile, Ted, Marshall and Lily argue about the meaningless items each sees in the others' resumes. And Marshall sustains a basketball slam dunking injury, which in common terms is called "dancer's hip". Marshall confesses to Lily how he really got the injury.—Huggo
- Robin has been unemployed for months. Robin finds a work permit notice from Immigration stating that if she does not get a job in the next seven days, she will be deported back to Canada. She has to find a job in her field to renew her work visa. Marshall says that she may be able to stay if she marries an American citizen, as a result, Barney kneels down behind Robin as if to propose (as he is madly in love with her) but stands back up when Marshall says "They wouldn't be able to complete the transaction in time." She first tries for a position on the News 10 channel but fails since she has no catch phrase (Walter Cronkite: And that's the way it is.. Robin only says: From all of us here at Metro News one, Goodevening.) to end her broadcast and simply strings together weird phrases (finishing with "wear a condom", "May the Road ahead be lit with dreams and tomorrows'', "Stand Tall New York'', Trustworthy, recycling). Ted calls Robin's resume too cluttered. Her video reel has the video of her first report of a snow storm in Canada, which is uneventful.
After Ted laughs at Marshall's basketball record (he was the 1995 Nicollet county slam dunk champion. He was nicknamed Vanilla Thunder), Marshall defends himself by mentioning a medical condition he has that prevents him from playing. It is later revealed that the condition is actually "Dancer's hip," a malady common among ballet dancers. The gang jokes about it, much to Marshall's dismay, but we later find out that Marshall does dance quite a bit, or as he tells Lily, "more than you know."
Barney shows his "awesome video resume", after seeing it, Robin requests to have one made. Robin notices that Barney's video resume uses meaningless buzzwords such as "the Possimpible '' to describe the nexus between the Possible and the Impossible. Barney says Corporate America wants people who seem like bold risk takers, but don't do anything. Doing something gets you fired. This video got Barney 11 job offers. Robin does not agree with his method of getting a new job (including breaking 15 bricks with her forehead and wearing an Amazon warrior outfit).
Her last remaining choice is the Lottery girl job. She is interviewed by 2 weirdos who are unhappy with whatever Robin does (Say the line before pressing the button, doesn't look happy about announcing a number, sounds a bit wry with a twinkle and so on). After Robin is turned down from that job, Ted, Marshall, and Lily are there for her in her last hours in the U.S. Barney finishes Robin's video resume without her, and it gets her a job at channel 12 hosting a new morning show.
Meanwhile, Ted, Marshall, and Lily reflect on the unnecessary additions to their resumes. Ted still includes his stint as a supposedly controversial college radio DJ (a persona he named "Doctor X") (Ted was very proud that nobody knew the identity of Dr X till date, but Marshall and Lily tell him that it was an open secret on campus), Marshall includes his basketball dunking championship from Minnesota, and Lily includes her victory at a hot dog eating contest (29 dogs in 8 minutes, resulting in a fairly sizable belly and with a nickname of "Lily the Belly"). None of these "achievements" have anything to do with their current careers.
While Ted and Marshall delete their "special" entries from their resumes, Lily actually updates her resume after eating 33 hot dogs in 8 minutes at MacLaren's in front of a cheering crowd.
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