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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S04E01 Do I Know You?
September 22 · 23min find the promo
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Ted and Stella get engaged, but Ted soon learns that he doesn't know anything about her. Meanwhile, Barney confesses to Lily that he's in love with Robin.
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S04E02 The Best Burger in New York
September 29 · 23min find the promo
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Marshall claims that he had the best hamburger in the world during his first week in New York City, but he forgot where the burger joint is located. The gang then hits the streets of Manhattan to help him find it.
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S04E03 I Heart NJ
October 6 · 23min find the promo
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When Stella's babysitter cancels, a night out turns into the gang hanging out at her place, and Ted talks up New Jersey... until he learns Stella wants him to move there after marriage.
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S04E04 Intervention
October 13 · 23min find the promo
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When Ted is packing his stuff for his move to New Jersey, he discovers that the gang was going to hold an intervention for his engagement to Stella and demands they hold it anyway.
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S04E05 Shelter Island
October 20 · 23min find the promo
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Ted and Stella move up their wedding date, but the wedding may not go off as planned after Ted breaks the "No Exes Rule" and invites Robin to come in from Japan for the wedding.
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S04E06 Happily Ever After
November 3 · 21min find the promo
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A serendipitous meeting with someone from his past has Ted thinking about how he would handle running into someone he would prefer to forget.
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S04E07 Not a Father's Day
November 10 · 23min find the promo
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Barney creates a holiday to celebrate not being a father. Meanwhile, Lily and Marshall are considering having a baby, but Lily first wants advice from Ted and Robin.
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S04E08 Woooo!
November 17 · 23min find the promo
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A birthday party for one of Lily's co-workers leads to Robin connecting with a group of single partiers known as the "Woo Girls". Ted presents a plan for Goliath National Bank's new HQ.
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S04E09 The Naked Man
November 24 · 21min find the promo
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The gang learns a new way to get their dates to sleep with them after Ted walks in on Robin's date sitting naked on the couch.
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S04E10 The Fight
December 8 · 21min find the promo
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Ted (to prove he's not a milquetoast) and Barney (to impress Robin) pick a fight with a group of guys sitting in the gang's favorite booth at MacLaren's.
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S04E11 Little Minnesota
December 15 · 21min find the promo
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Ted tries to keep his irresponsible sister from hooking up with Barney during her trip to New York, and Robin starts hanging out with Marshall at a bar for Minnesotans, not telling them that she's really Canadian.
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S04E12 Benefits
January 12 · 21min find the promo
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Ted and Robin discover that sex with each other solve their fights as roommates, which makes Barney very jealous and angry. Meanwhile, Marshall reveals that he's too embarrassed to use the office bathroom.
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S04E13 Three Days of Snow
January 19 · 23min find the promo
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Lily and Marshall try to continue their airport reunion tradition. Barney and Ted offer to keep MacLaren's open during a blizzard so they can meet up with some college girls.
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S04E14 The Possimpible
February 2 · 21min find the promo
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Robin, desperate to find a job before she is deported, agrees to let Barney produce a video resume for her.
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S04E15 The Stinsons
March 2 · 23min find the promo
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The gang thinks that Barney must have a secret girlfriend after noticing his bizarre behavior.
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S04E16 Sorry, Bro
March 9 · 23min find the promo
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Marshall and Lily are less than thrilled when they hear that Ted's college girlfriend (Laura Prepon) has moved to New York.
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S04E17 The Front Porch
March 16 · 23min find the promo
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Ted learns that not only did Lily plant another woman's earring in his bed for Karen to find, she has meddled in some of his other relationships as well.
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S04E18 Old King Clancy
March 23 · 21min find the promo
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Marshall and Barney lie to keep Ted from finding out the headquarters he'd been hired to design for GNB has been cancelled.
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S04E19 Murtaugh
March 30 · 21min find the promo
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When Barney learns Ted has a list of things he thinks the gang is too old to do, he sets out to do every task within 24 hours in order to prove Ted wrong.
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S04E20 Mosbius Designs
April 13 · 22min find the promo
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Ted goes out on his own as an architect and hires an intern to help get things started, but the intern gets a little too close to others in the gang.
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S04E21 The Three Days Rule
April 27 · 23min find the promo
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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.
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S04E22 Right Place, Right Time
May 4 · 21min find the promo
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Ted ponders how being in the right place at the right time can impact a person's life; Barney celebrates his 200th female conquest.
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S04E23 As Fast as She Can
May 11 · 23min find the promo
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Ted is trying to find a new job, and when an old acquaintance tries to help nothing goes as planned. Barney tries to smooth talk his way out of a ticket.
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S04E24 The Leap
May 18 · 23min find the promo
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Ted is trying to keep his architecture firm afloat by doing an all-nighter, but Marshall tries to lure him to the roof for a surprise 31st birthday party, on the fourth season finale.