Robin shows up with a date and this motivates Ted to ‘get back out there’. We also learn something major about ‘the Mother’.
Robin shows up with a date and this motivates Ted to ‘get back out there’. We also learn something major about ‘the Mother’.
Ted ponders how being in the right place at the right time can impact a person’s life; Barney celebrates his 200th female conquest.
Ted breaks one of Barney and Marshall’s relationship rules, texting a woman he recently met, so the pair play a joke on Ted by pretending to be the woman.
Marshall and Lily try to figure out how to conceive a baby with the gender of their choice; Robin’s perky new co-anchor irritates her.
A serendipitous meeting with someone from his past has Ted thinking about how he would handle running into someone he would prefer to forget.
The gang must figure out how to make the Stinson Hangover Fixer Elixir to help Barney recover on the day of the wedding.
When Robin confesses that she is still angry with Barney for the way he handled their break-up, she enlists the help of Anita, a self-help author who plans to beat Barney at his own game.
Barney is upset after Robin wins James’s wedding ring during the poker game, and Ted argues with Marshall and Lily over whether he gave them a wedding gift.
Robin desperately tries to locate the item that she buried in Central Park years earlier to wear as her “Something Old” for the wedding. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily ask Ted to help ...
Barney concocts a plan when his father arrives at the hotel; Ted thinks he is being framed when a wedding-related duty gets messed up.
While on a trip to Minnesota, Ted and Barney try anything to make Marshall laugh. Marshall runs into an old nemesis from high school.
Ted’s parents visit New York for their anniversary and he learns a family secret. Robin worries that they won’t like her. Lily and Marshall try to adjust to the new format of their ...
Lily asks for her father’s help when she and Marshall decide to throw a housewarming party. Marshall’s boss gets under Ted’s skin and the two nearly come to blows, and Barney ...
As Lily becomes more of a permanent fixture in the apartment, Ted feels like he is being edged out of the mix by his engaged roomies. Petrified of being left alone and homeless, Ted tells ...
The gang works together to plan a legendary bachelor party for Barney.
Ted and Barney discuss making a life-changing decision together, and Robin tries to discourage Marshall and Lily from moving to Long Island.
Marshall and Barney lie to keep Ted from finding out the headquarters he’d been hired to design for GNB has been cancelled.
Barney works with Marshall on his bachelor skills, which include hitting on women. Lily is back from her venture. Robin helps her look for a new apartment but gets sick of hearing about San Francisco.
Robin and Ted try to get Barney to reveal secrets after he drinks too much; Marshall tries to avoid fighting with Lily.
Marshall and Lily’s plan to buy an apartment is hampered by mistakes and Lily’s hidden debt.
Marshall and Lily make a secret pact to start trying to have a baby if they ever finally see Barney’s doppelganger. Meanwhile, Robin finally gets an offer for her dream job.
Ted’s upcoming date with his doctor leads the gang to give him their own examples of why dating someone you already see regularly is a bad idea.
Afraid they will never get pregnant, Lily and Marshall decide to see a specialist. Robin begins her new job.
In a desperate attempt for a second date, Ted invites Robin to a party he is throwing. However, she doesn’t show up and he keeps throwing parties in the hopes she will finally arrive.
Robin’s musical past emerges again as the group learns of someone named Simon from Robin’s past. Barney searches for more Robin Sparkles memorabilia.
Marshall decides to step in after seeing his boss’s approach to settling with a million dollar company. Ted’s class trip isn’t what he envisioned.
When Lily goes into labor, Ted and Robin distract her by telling her stories while Marshall hurries back from Atlantic City.
After agreeing to take things slowly and not have sex for a month, Ted and Victoria decide that they have waited long enough.
Lily and Marshall receive shocking news that has a profound impact on the gang. Ted begins his duties as best man for an old friend’s wedding.
When Ted’s best friend Marshall proposes to his girlfriend, Lily, Ted realizes he’d better get a move on if he hopes to find true love. Ted soon meets Robin in a neighborhood bar, ...