A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
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- Seasons
- 9
- Episodes aired
- 208
- Latest aired
- S09E23
- Total runtime
- 3d 6h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 2005 – May 2006 22 episodes
- Season 2 September 2006 – May 2007 22 episodes
- Season 3 September 2007 – May 2008 20 episodes
- Season 4 September 2008 – May 2009 24 episodes
- Season 5 September 2009 – May 2010 24 episodes
- Season 6 September 2010 – May 2011 24 episodes
- Season 7 September 2011 – May 2012 24 episodes
- Season 8 September 2012 – May 2013 24 episodes
- Season 9 September 2013 – March 2014 24 episodes
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S02E01 Where Were We?
September 18 · 21min find the promo
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The gang tries to help Marshall get over Lily, especially when he finds a credit card bill that leads to a hotel in New York City where some of her charges are listed.
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S02E02 The Scorpion and the Toad
September 25 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E03 Brunch
October 2 · 23min find the promo
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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 relationship now that they are no longer together.
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S02E04 Ted Mosby, Architect
October 9 · 23min find the promo
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After Ted and Robin's first big fight, Barney tries to convince Ted that being an architect is an easy in to picking up chicks. Lily and Robin start following his trail after discovering that Ted hit it off with a girl named Anna shortly afterward.
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S02E05 World's Greatest Couple
October 16 · 23min find the promo
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Marshall tries to get used to being single in a world that is very coupled-oriented. Barney intended one-night-stand won't go away. Barney uses Lily to get out of his "horrifying" situation. Lily finds a place to stay.
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S02E06 Aldrin Justice
October 23 · 22min find the promo
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Barney seduces Marshall's law professor in hopes of getting her to grade more leniently. Lily takes a job at Ted's office, where she promptly steals to teach Ted's boss a lesson.
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S02E07 Swarley
November 6 · 22min find the promo
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Marshall goes on his first real date post-breakup with Lily. Not only do Ted and Barney try to warn him that this girl has got the crazy eyes, but Lily decides to do everything she can to find out about this her and break them up. Also, Barney gets a new name.
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S02E08 Atlantic City
November 13 · 22min find the promo
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Marshall and Lily drag the gang to Atlantic City to elope, and their quest to overcome the three-day wait for a marriage license crosses them with some Chinese gamblers, a ship captain, and a sexy novelty shirt.
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S02E09 Slap Bet
November 20 · 23min find the promo
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Ted and Barney discusses their viewpoints on knowing things about women. Barney thinks that the more you know the more likely you are to find a deal breaker. Ted wants to know the deal breakers right away, as Robin refuses to go to the mall to cover her secret.
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S02E10 Single Stamina
November 27 · 23min find the promo
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Barney's brother, James (Wayne Brady), visits and Robin, the only one in the group that has never met him, is suprised. But James has a surprise for Barney that he finds difficult to swallow.
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S02E11 How Lily Stole Christmas
December 11 · 23min find the promo
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Ted almost ruins Christmas for everyone when, still carrying around anger toward Lily, he calls her a horribly disgusting name. Robin tends to Barney while he has a cold.
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S02E12 First Time in New York
January 8 · 23min find the promo
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Robin wants to tell Ted that she loves him, but she can't tell him. Meanwhile, her sister visits and brings her boyfriend, and Robin doesn't know how to react when her sister says she's ready to lose her virginity.
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S02E13 Columns
January 22 · 22min find the promo
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When Ted is constantly insulted by his former boss, who is now working for him on a project, he is told to fire the man, but he finds that a hard thing to do. Meanwhile, Barney offers Lily a lot of money to paint a nude portrait of him.
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S02E14 Monday Night Football
February 5 · 22min find the promo
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When a funeral conflicts with the Super Bowl, the gang vows to avoid hearing the score and watch it together on Monday. This proves difficult, as Marshall is threatened with the score by a boy in Lily's class, while doing the news puts Robin in danger of finding out who won.
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S02E15 Lucky Penny
February 12 · 23min find the promo
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Ted can't seem to catch a flight to interview for his dream job and he and Robin contemplate why. The story unfolds backwards as they think about it they remember when Robin and Lily went hunting for a wedding dress and when Barney got stuck on the subway.
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S02E16 Stuff
February 19 · 22min find the promo
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Lily gets asked to play in an off-off-off-off-broadway play, and the gang shows up to support her. Ted and Robin get hung up on what each kept from their past relationships. Barney performs his own play to prove a point to Lily.
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S02E17 Arrivederci, Fiero
February 26 · 22min find the promo
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Marshall is all set to celebrate his beloved Fiero hitting the 200,000 mile mark but it stops. While the gang sits in the mechanic's garage and waits to hear what will happen to the vehicle they think about times gone by that they have spent together in the car. We also get the story of how Ted met Marshall.
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S02E18 Moving Day
March 19 · 23min find the promo
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Barney takes drastic measures to prevent Ted from moving into Robin's apartment. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily are discovering the ups and downs of having the apartment to themselves.
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S02E19 Bachelor Party
April 9 · 23min find the promo
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Robin attends Lily's bridal shower and finds the gift that she brought is out of place. Barney hires a stripper for Marshall's bachelor party.
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S02E20 Showdown
April 30 · 23min find the promo
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Thinking that Bob Barker may be his father, Barney is overjoyed to be a contestant on The Price is Right. Marshall and Lily try sleeping apart prior to the wedding.
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S02E21 Something Borrowed
May 7 · 23min find the promo
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With everything going wrong on Lily and Marshall's wedding day, to everyone's surprise it's confirmed bachelor Barney who tries to fix it all.
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S02E22 Something Blue
May 14 · 23min find the promo
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It's still Marshall and Lily's big wedding day but now we're at the reception. Robin tries to tell a story but keeps getting interrupted. Barney tries his hardest to figure out Ted and Robin's secret.