Life Among the Gorillas

Season 1, Episode 17, Aired

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    • When Marshall looks in the mirror, his guilt makes him imagine his reflection as a gorilla. The shots alternate between the imaginary gorilla reflection and the real Marshall standing in front of the mirror. However, you can clearly see that someone had to stand in front of the mirror wearing a gorilla mask to give off the reflection.
    • At the karaoke bar, we see a shot of Lily closing the karaoke song book and placing it on the table. In the next shot of Barney and Marshall's coworkers, we can see in the corner Lily again closing the karaoke song book and placing it on the table.
  • Quotes

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    • Barney (to Marshall): Look at you. You suited in an unmistakably upward direction.
    • Barney: Marshall, I should feel tremors of psych-itude rock my body like a seizure. That was like a declawed, pregnant cat on a porch swing idly swatting at a fly on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Marshall: Wow, that was really specific.
    • Barney: (To Marshall) You're different. Now I suppose you could learn to love yourself for the unique little snowflake you are or you could change your entire personality – which is just so much easier!
    • Lily:(shows Marshall new painting) What do you think? Marshall: Steak Sauce! Lily: Steak Sauce? Marshall: Yea!
    • Lily: So if those guys pressure you to smoke, what do you say? Marshall: "Only when I'm drunk." Lily: Good boy.
    • Office Jerk 1: Nice tie! Steak sauce! Office Jerk 2: Ohhhhhhh, steakkk sauce! Marshall: (looks at tie for stain on his tie) Barney:Marshall, sidebar. Your tie is steak sauce. A1? Get it? Office Jerk 1: Ok, Erickson, let's get to work. It's 2am and it's raining outside, *ding dong* what? The Doorbell? Oh, hello, Jessica Alba in a trench coat and nothing else, but wait, *knock knock*, somebody is at the back door Marshall: I don't have a back door Office Jerk 1:Oh my gosh, Jessica Simpson, what a surprise. 2 Jessicas, you gotta pick one, what do you do? Go! Marshall: Right, well, I'm engaged. Office Jerk 1: Fiancée is out of town, what do you do? Go! Marshall:We're still engaged. Office Jerk 1: Ok, fiancée is dead, hit by a bus, what do you? Go!
    • Marshall: I want to give you the package. Lily: The package? You've already given me the package, you've got a great package, Marshall, I love your package. Marshall: Lily, you are the most incredible woman I know. You deserve a big package. Lily: Your package has always been big enough. You may not realize this Marshall Erickson, but you've got a huge package! (Marshall turns around at bar to see hot girl eying him up and smiling fiendishly)
    • Lily: I made you a sack lunch. (giggles) Marshall: I love you because, one, you made me a sack lunch, and two, you laugh every time you say the word "sack."
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    • The German episode title is "Leben unter Gorillas", and the French title is "La Vie parmi les gorilles", both exact translations. The Italian title is "Insieme ai gorilla", meaning "With the Gorilla".
    • International Airdates: Czech Republic: December 24, 2009 on Prima COOL
    • Jason Segel originally tried to incorporate a Big Foot walk into a shot in "Okay Awesome." While the walk was not used in that episode, it is used in this episode when Marshall first arrives at Barney's office.
    • Music Featured In This Episode: 1. The song performed by Lily and Marshall in the karaoke bar is "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John, who sang it in duets with Kiki Dee (1976) and RuPaul (1993). 2. The song performed by Barney in the karaoke bar is "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" by AC/DC.
  • Allusions

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    • The professor in the beginning with young Marshall, resembles Sigourney Weaver, who played Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist, who spent time with gorillas in the wild to study their way of life.
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