Meanwhile, Ted races out to the alley to search the dumpster for Marshall's charts. While digging through the trash, he hears Milt, the local homeless man (played by the voice of Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta) offering some charts for sale. They're Marshall's charts. Ted tries to buy them off him, but Milt, who has his earphones plugged into a grapefruit is asking a million dollars for them. Ted tries to talk sense to Milt. Who has his earphones plugged into a grapefruit. Naturally, Milt doesn't play along, and who's crazier, now, Teddy my boy? Crazy like a fox, Ted says he'll give Milt a million bucks, but since his ATM (Milt: "Alien Time Machine") has a withdrawal limit, he will give Milt one dollar a day for a million days. Milt says, "That's 2,700 years." Ted says, "Yeah." TheItGirl from our HIMYM forum says, "According to WikiAnswers, it's 2,739.73 years, and he said 2,700. Not bad for a guy listening to a grapefruit iPod." Milt says, "Deal" and they shake on it. After Ted takes off with Marshall's charts, Milt pockets his buck and says, "Sucker." Hee.

Back at the GNB conference room, Marshall's still doing his fish shtick (sorry). "I'm sorry, is there a land bass I don't know about?" One guy laughs at his joke -- yeah, it's Marshall. Ted delivers the charts and scurries out, and Marshall gets down to business. While we watch a montage of Ted taking his steps, Saget!Ted tells says:

And so, if I hadn't bought those charts back for Marshall, I wouldn't have had to cut down 77th to give Milt his daily dollar, and... well, you know the rest. So, there you have it, kids. There's a lot of little reasons why the big things in our lives happen. If I had known then where all those little things were leading me, and how grateful I'd be to get there, well, I probably would've done something like this...