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Marshall Eriksen is a fictional character created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for the CBS...

Marshall Eriksen is a fictional character created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Jason Segel. He is Ted Mosby's best friend and Lily Aldrin's husband. Marshall is a lawyer with a dream of practicing in a law firm to save the environment, but is currently working in the corporate sector to earn some money for himself and Lily. Marshall met Ted Mosby and Lily Aldrin on the first day of their freshman year at Wesleyan University. He is a Columbia Law School graduate originally from St. Cloud, Minnesota. In Season Four, he reveals that he is the slam dunk champion of Nicollet County, Minnesota, with his trademark dunk the "White Windmill". St. Cloud is not in Nicollet County, and rather in Stearns, Benton and Sherburne counties, and Nicollet County is actually to the south, near St. Peter. He can no longer dunk because he has dancer's hip. Even though he's six-foot-four, he is the shortest male member of his family. A donkey supposedly had eaten Marshall's pants the last time he was in Trenton, and at Bill's bachelor party in Memphis, they had to pump out several nickels from his stomach. Marshall often uses the word