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Bagpipes (How I Met Your Mother)


"Bagpipes" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and 94th overall. It originally aired on November 2, 2009. Future Ted describes new upstairs neighbours having loud sex on a regular basis, which he euphemistically describes as "playing the bagpipes". At MacLaren's with Ted, Barney compares his relationship with Robin to Lily and Marshall's marriage, contrasting Marshall's willingness to do chores for Lily with his own refusal to do anything he doesn't want to
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Baby Talk (How I Met Your Mother)


"Baby Talk" is the sixth episode of the sixth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 118th episode overall. It aired on October 25, 2010. Marshall and Lily visit Stuart and Claudia, who are having trouble naming their newborn baby. When Claudia and Stuart leave the room, Marshall and Lily both come up with names for the baby, although the names are different. They both decide that to solve this problem, they would both come up with names and present them
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The Naked Truth (How I Met Your Mother)


"The Naked Truth" is the second episode of the seventh season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 138th episode overall. It first aired on September 19, 2011. Marshall is still hungover after Punchy's wedding, and makes a "sweeping declaration" that he will henceforth permanently stay sober. Future Ted says that Marshall's "sweeping declarations" typically don't work. Marshall receives a call from Garrison Cootes, a partner at one of the nation's largest environmental law firms.
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Something New (How I Met Your Mother)


"Something New" is the 24th and final episode of the eighth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 184th episode overall. Future Ted tells his kids that, during the spring of 2013, he was making the final adjustments to the house he bought, while Barney and Robin were preparing for their wedding. As Lily and Marshall pack their things to go to Italy, Marshall's mother calls them and Lily slips the fact that they are moving. To compensate, Marshall promises her
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Last Words (How I Met Your Mother)


"Last Words" is the 14th episode of the sixth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and the 126th episode overall. It aired on January 17, 2011. Everybody goes to St. Cloud, Minnesota, Marshall's hometown, to attend the recently deceased Marvin Eriksen's funeral. Marshall is devastated, while his mother Judy is keeping herself distracted by doing chores (according to Lily, she has not eaten or slept in the last two days). Ted and Barney unsuccessfully try to make Marshall
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on romance to Ted, being described as a "head-in-the-clouds romantic" by Virginia. Played by Sherri Shepherd. When she, Marshall and Marvin get kicked off a plane, they spend the first half of season 9 travelling together. Marshall gets to know Daphne through the journey; she has a daughter and is worried that she is not a good mother. Played by Joe Manganiello, Brad is a friend of Marshall from law school. Brad and Marshall begin to hang out after they both discover
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No Questions Asked (How I Met Your Mother)


"No Questions Asked" is the seventh episode of the ninth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 191st episode overall. On Friday at 11.30 PM, 42.5 hours before the wedding, Daphne has just texted Lily about Marshall taking his dream job as a judge in New York. Marshall is worried of the consequences, as he and Lily had been planning on moving to Italy for her dream job. When Lily calls, Marshall is relieved to learn that Lily has not read the message
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Wait for It (How I Met Your Mother)


"Wait for It" is the first episode in the third season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother" and 45th episode overall. It originally aired on September 24, 2007. Future Ted tells his children that, although they know the short story of how he met their mother, there is a bigger story of how he became the man he needed to be in order to meet her. At Lily and Marshall's wedding, Barney tries to get Ted out to help him "conquer New York"
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Bachelor Party (How I Met Your Mother)


"Bachelor Party" is the 19th episode in the second season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on April 9, 2007. Ted has planned out a bachelor party for Marshall, since he is his best man. Barney wants to offer some input, but Marshall has said that he does not want a stripper at his bachelor party. Barney keeps trying to convince Ted, but Ted doesn't want to hear any of it from Barney. Ted's planned bachelor party involved watching
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Where Were We? (How I Met Your Mother)


"Where Were We?" is the first episode in the second season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on September 18, 2006. Ted is extremely happy in his new relationship with Robin, while Marshall wallows in depression following his break-up with Lily. Barney is unhappy with all of them, being forced to endure either Ted and Robin being cutesy together or Marshall lamenting the loss of Lily. After forty days, Marshall has yet to leave the apartment and Robin,
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The Window (How I Met Your Mother)


"The Window" is the tenth episode of the fifth season of the CBS situation comedy "How I Met Your Mother" and 98th episode overall. It aired on Monday, December 7, 2009. Marshall stops by Ted's apartment with a box of childhood memorabilia from his mother. Ted receives a call from an old woman telling him "the window is open", and races over to a woman's apartment a few blocks away. Later at MacLaren's, Ted explains that "the window" was the window
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Doppelgangers (How I Met Your Mother)


"Doppelgangers" is the 24th episode of the fifth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 112th episode overall. It originally aired on May 24, 2010. Although Marshall is ready to have a baby, Lily is not, so they reach a compromise: they make a pact to start trying to have a baby once they finally see Barney's doppelgänger. One day they finally spot Barney's doppelgänger, who appears in the form of a brown-haired cab driver, but later
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, Marshall ends up getting drunk and streaking again, the effect of playing Edward Fortyhands with Pete, although Pete originally wanted to play Darts, and thus another "Beercules" video is uploaded. Pete's refusal to take it down prompts Lily to blackmail him with information that she claims to have received from women who dated him in college. Eventually, Garrison does see the video, but offers Marshall a job anyway; the video is not an issue with him. Later, Pete calls Marshall and offers to remove the video
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The Mother (How I Met Your Mother)


up a hitchhiking Marshall, carrying his infant son Marvin, on her way to Farhampton Inn. On their way, it is revealed that the Mother is a bass player in the band that is scheduled to play at the wedding reception, but Darren forced her to quit. The Mother ultimately decides to confront Darren and retake the band. Before she can, however, Darren walks up to her, furious the groom's best man punched him for "no reason", and quits the band. In "How Your Mother
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Bedtime Stories (How I Met Your Mother)


"Bedtime Stories" is the eleventh episode of the ninth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 195th episode overall. On Saturday at 5pm, 25 hours before the wedding, Marshall and his son, Marvin, are taking the bus in the final leg of their journey to Farhampton. In an effort to get Marvin to sleep, Marshall constantly uses rhymes (the entire episode is worded with rhymes), and begins telling stories of his friends. The episode also features Lin-
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Intervention (How I Met Your Mother)


"Intervention" is the fourth episode in the fourth season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother" and 68th overall. It originally aired on October 13, 2008. While dressed as an old man, Barney tricks a woman into sleeping with him by claiming to be a time traveller. Later, the gang is packing up Ted and Marshall's apartment: Lily and Marshall are moving to their new apartment and Ted is moving to New Jersey with Stella. Robin states that she does not understand sentimentality about possessions
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Say Cheese (How I Met Your Mother)


"Say Cheese" is the 18th episode of the fifth season of the CBS situation comedy "How I Met Your Mother" and 106th episode overall. It originally aired on March 22, 2010. It is Lily's 32nd birthday, and, as one who really loves her own birthday, she wakes herself up at midnight for the sole purpose of announcing that it is officially her birthday before falling asleep once again. Later in the morning, Marshall brings her breakfast in bed with its own theme, "Spanish Interlude"
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Nannies (How I Met Your Mother)


"Nannies" is the third episode of the eighth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 163rd episode overall. With Marshall and Lily's parental leave about to expire, the two scramble to find a nanny to take care of baby Marvin, while Barney goes back to his womanizing ways to get over his recent breakup with Quinn, organizing a festival called "Bangtoberfest" to pick up women. Lily's father, Mickey, who has moved in temporarily with the family after his house
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he does not change his ways even as he anchors a news show in Russia. Marcus Eriksen is one of Marshall's brothers, known for pranking Marshall. He and the rest of his brothers often played roughly with each other. In "Who Wants to Be a Godparent?", Marcus left his wife and two children for his dream job of being a bartender. Marcus is often seen at family events such as his father's funeral. Played by Frances Conroy, Loretta is Barney's mother. Prior to her first
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to tell them the story of how he met their mother. The story begins in 2005 with Ted (Josh Radnor) as a single, 27-year-old architect living in Manhattan with his two best friends from college: Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), a law student, and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher, who have been dating for almost nine years when Marshall proposes. Their engagement causes Ted to think about marriage and finding his soul mate, much to the disgust of his self-appointed
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The Locket (How I Met Your Mother)


his mother Judy (Suzie Plakson) has posted a photo on the internet of Marvin that reveals how Marshall will become a judge, Marshall realizes that the photo will also be forwarded to Lily. Marshall phones Judy to teach her how to remove the image, which delays the plane from taking off. A fight between Marshall and Daphne ensues, which results in both of them being removed from the plane. At the airport terminal, Marshall accesses his mother's account to delete the photo himself, but also finds himself stumped as
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Everything Must Go (How I Met Your Mother)


"Everything Must Go" is the 19th episode of the third season of the CBS television show "How I Met Your Mother" and 63rd overall. It originally aired on May 12, 2008. Marshall and Lily learn that it will cost $1,500 more than they have to fix the slanted floor in their new apartment. Marshall suggests that they sell some of Lily's designer clothes and Lily suggests selling some of her paintings. They sell one painting on the street to a G-CWOK (gay couple without kids)
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No Tomorrow (How I Met Your Mother)


"No Tomorrow" is the 12th episode in the third season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother" and 56th overall. It originally aired on March 17, 2008. It was the first episode to air after the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike concluded. Ted, Marshall and Lily decide to spend Saint Patrick's Day holding a board game night at Marshall and Lily's new apartment, rather than drinking green beer with a green-suited Barney. Barney, although insulted, accepts his fate and leaves
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Bad News (How I Met Your Mother)


"Bad News" is the 13th episode of the sixth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and their 125th episode overall. It aired January 3, 2011. "TV Guide" listed "Bad News" in its list of 2011's Top TV Episodes. After several months of trying to conceive without success, Marshall and Lily are referred to a fertility expert. As they tell Ted the news at MacLaren's, Barney arrives and announces to Ted and Marshall's dismay that he needs a partner
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Jenkins (How I Met Your Mother)


"Jenkins" is the 13th episode of the fifth season of the CBS situation comedy "How I Met Your Mother" and 101st episode overall. It originally aired on January 18, 2010. The episode hit a season high with 10.52 million viewers and high overall ratings. The episode is directed by starring actor and first-time director Neil Patrick Harris. Ted and Marshall walk into a college bar, and Ted is worried about meeting his students there. Marshall goes to the bar often to maintain his skeeball high score.
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Daisy (How I Met Your Mother)


"Daisy" is the twentieth episode of the ninth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 204th episode overall. It starred Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby, Jason Segel as Marshall Eriksen, Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky, Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson, Alyson Hannigan as Lily Aldrin, Tracey Ullman as Genevieve, Chris Elliott as Mickey, Kyle MacLachlan as The Captain, Laura Bell Bundy as Becky, Marshall Manesh as Ranjit, Suzie Plakson as Judy, William Zabka as Billy Zabka,
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Murtaugh (How I Met Your Mother)


"Murtaugh" is the 19th episode in the fourth season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother" and 83rd overall. It originally aired on March 30, 2009. In this episode, Ted and Barney feud over what activities are appropriate for their age, while Marshall and Lily disagree on how to coach Lily's students. Barney is banned from laser tag for being too rough, so he plans to toilet paper the arena. Ted notes that Barney is too old for laser tag, and reveals his "
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Murtaugh (How I Met Your Mother)


they are caught by the owner, who calls the police. Meanwhile, Marshall agrees to coach Lily's kindergarten's basketball team. Lily hopes this will serve as "dad training," but is horrified when Marshall is extremely aggressive towards the children, in imitation of his own father. Lily prefers a completely passive coaching style emphasizing the fun of playing, and notes that no score is kept and everyone receives participation trophies. Marshall is horrified by this fact, but is threatened by Lily to be nice or else she'll
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Shelter Island (How I Met Your Mother)


"Shelter Island" is the fifth episode in the fourth season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother" and 69th overall. It originally aired on October 20, 2008. Marshall, Lily and Barney are at MacLaren's when Ted and Stella arrive. Stella is upset because her sister is stealing her dream wedding on Shelter Island, marrying a vegan man Stella hates. Ted and Stella meet her sister, who tells them her fiancé has run off with another woman. Ted and Stella have what they each think
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shouted down by Robin who is annoyed by her efforts to be best friends. In season 8, Patrice joins Barney's "The Robin" play by pretending to date him. In "Gary Blauman", it is shown that Patrice later moves on to becoming a radio talk show host. Played by Bill Fagerbakke, Marvin Eriksen is: Judy's husband; the father of Marvin, Marcus and Marshall; father-in-law of Lily; grandfather of Marshall and Lily's three children and Marcus and Sarah's children
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Nuno Bettencourt


track, "Need I Say More", and Baby Animals selections. The album was released by Hollywood Records and is available on iTunes. The following year, Bettencourt was featured in a song and video called "Best Night Ever" by Marshall Eriksen, a character on "How I Met Your Mother". The video was a parody of Extreme's "More Than Words" video, in which the entire main cast of "How I Met Your Mother" made appearances. Bettencourt formed the recording entity Population 1 and
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Coming Back (How I Met Your Mother)


"Coming Back" is the second episode of the ninth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 186th episode overall. On Friday at noon, 54 hours before the wedding, Ted and Lily begin checking into the Farhampton Inn. The man at the front desk (Roger Bart) is condescendingly sympathetic towards Ted when he reveals he is at the wedding alone. Lily learns from Marshall that he missed his earlier flight and heads to the bar intending to drown her sorrows, even paying the
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, after committing to move to Italy with Lily. This leads to constant strife between the couple through most of the final season. However, throughout the first half of the last season, Marshall is on a car ride from Minnesota to Long Island after missing his flight to Barney and Robin's wedding. In this process, Marshall meets The Mother. Portrayed by Cristin Milioti, the Mother is the title character of the series; Ted's narration of the series is based around how he met her. While several clues about
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: Marvin, Marcus and Marshall. She lives in St. Cloud, Minnesota and is known to have a tense, sometimes adversarial relationship with Lily, leaving Marshall torn as he loves Lily, but has trouble understanding how she could dislike his mother. In "The Over-Correction," she begins a sexual relationship with Lily's father, Mickey. Played by Wayne Brady, James is Barney's gay African-American half-brother; they are very alike and act as each other's "wingmen". This changes
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, Marcus Jr. and Martin. He was very close to Marshall and the rest of his family prior to his passing in early 2011. After "Last Words", set at Marvin's funeral, Carter Bays stated that they intended to bring back Bill Fagerbakke as Marshall's father in future episodes during flashbacks. He later appeared in five episodes as a "ghost" imagined by Marshall. Played by Nazanin Boniadi, Nora is an English co-worker of Robin's who meets Barney the day before Valentine's Day. Though
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Landmarks (How I Met Your Mother)


"Landmarks" is the 23rd episode of the sixth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and the 135th episode overall. It aired on May 9, 2011. Marshall presents his case for preserving the Arcadian at a meeting of the Landmark Preservation Commission (LPC), where the fate of the Arcadian would be decided once and for all. When Ted is called up to present his opinion, Future Ted explains how difficult it was for him to come to his decision. Ever since Zoey had explained
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The Pineapple Incident


"The Pineapple Incident" is the tenth episode in the first season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on November 28, 2005. It is the highest viewed episode in season 1 and the second highest overall episode during the nine seasons of "How I Met Your Mother". It is widely considered one of the best episodes in the entire series. Barney, Marshall, and Lily criticize Ted for overthinking every aspect of his life, rather than simply acting on a whim.
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Slap Bet


"Slap Bet" is the ninth episode in season 2 of the popular sitcom "How I Met Your Mother". The episode, originally titled "Robin Sparkles", first aired on November 20, 2006. The episode received highly positive reviews and features in several lists of the best "How I Met Your Mother" episodes in the series. The episode led to two recurring jokes and storylines in the show: "Robin Sparkles", Robin's teenage pop star career, and the Slap Bet, in which Marshall
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We're Not from Here


"We're Not From Here" is the second episode in the third season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother" and 46th overall. It originally aired on October 1, 2007. Lily and Marshall explain they are writing their 'death folders' containing useful information should either of them die and a letter to one another, but Marshall tells Ted and Barney that he forgot to write his letter. Ted and Barney play on Marshall's superstitious nature by insisting he will not die before writing it, forcing
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Craig Thomas (screenwriter)


Craig David Thomas is an American television writer who, along with writing partner Carter Bays, has written episodes of "American Dad!", "Oliver Beene", "Quintuplets" and the hit CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", which they created in 2005. In 2012 "How I Met Your Mother" won Best Comedy at the People's Choice Awards. Along with Carter Bays he is a member of The Solids, who perform the theme song to "How I Met Your Mother". He
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Definitions (How I Met Your Mother)


"Definitions" is the first episode of the fifth season of the "How I Met Your Mother" TV series and 89th episode overall. It originally aired on September 21, 2009. Future Ted explains how nervous he was his first day of teaching, when he was trying to figure out what kind of teacher he would be: formal disciplinarian or laid-back peer. Before the first class, Marshall gives Ted the gift of a worn leather fedora and whip, just like fictional college teacher Indiana Jones. That night
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The Fight (How I Met Your Mother)


"The Fight" is the tenth episode in the fourth season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother" and 74th overall. It originally aired on December 8, 2008. A bartender, Doug, gets Ted and Barney involved in a fight with a group of guys sitting in the gang's favorite booth. Marshall and Lily try to warn them off, but Barney vows to join in when Robin reveals that she thinks fights are sexy. Ted joins in as an experience he thinks he should have sometime in
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The Limo (How I Met Your Mother)


"The Limo" is the 11th episode in the first season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on December 19, 2005. Trying to avoid the usual letdown of New Year's Eve, Ted rents a limo for his friends so that they can party together. Robin has plans with her rich boyfriend, Derek, but Ted, Lily, Marshall, and Barney plan to attend five parties in the three hours before midnight to find the best party to be at to begin the
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Pamela Fryman


said that continuing to direct "How I Met Your Mother" is her fantasy realized. In 2014, she officiated the wedding of "How I Met Your Mother" star Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, who played a side role in the show. Fryman has received recognition from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences also known as the (ATAS), the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America, Goldderby.com, the Online Film & Television Association also known as the (OFTA),
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P.S. I Love You (How I Met Your Mother)


"P.S. I Love You" is the 15th episode of the eighth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 175th episode overall. Ted tells the gang that he found his destined love on the subway—they were both reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude"—but lost her at the next stop. Ted hopes to find her again, but Marshall and Lily are unsure of this; especially when he reveals he has written details he remembered about her. However, Ted indeed reunites with the woman
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Tailgate (How I Met Your Mother)


and join Marshall's tailgating party. Nevertheless, Marshall tells the story at his father's grave of how he, Lily, Ted, Barney and Robin spent New Year's Eve. Prior to the cemetery scene, this is what the five are doing: Lily and Marshall are decorating the baby's bedroom in East Meadow when Marshall learns that Lily has not yet told her dad that she is pregnant. Marshall convinces her to call her father, who is in Chicago at a board-game convention, but Lily is disappointed
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Where Were We? (How I Met Your Mother)


. Ted calls Barney to see how Marshall is doing, but Barney, having taken Marshall to another strip club, realizes that Marshall is gone. Ted and Robin turn around and head to the hotel. Ted finds Marshall in the hotel bar, and Marshall tells him that he had already gone up to Lily's room and punched the guy who opened the door. He then found out that the guy wasn't Lily's new boyfriend; he had stolen Lily's credit card. Ted tries to reassure Marshall that Lily would
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Tailgate (How I Met Your Mother)


"Tailgate" is the 13th episode of the seventh season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 149th episode overall. It aired on January 2, 2012. On New Year's Day, Marshall visits his father's gravesite to carry on their tradition of tailgating, listening to the Bears vs. Vikings game on the radio. However, his attempts to have a private moment with his father are derailed when his brothers arrive with the same idea and then mourners at another funeral nearby gradually drift over
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False Positive (How I Met Your Mother)


"False Positive" is the 12th episode of the sixth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 124th episode overall. It aired on December 13, 2010. It features guest star Alex Trebek. Ted is outside a movie theater showing "It's a Wonderful Life", waiting for the rest of the gang and carrying a gingerbread house as their Christmas-themed movie snack. Future Ted backtracks to two days before, when Marshall and Lily eagerly await the results of her latest pregnancy
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Something Blue (How I Met Your Mother)


"Something Blue" is the 22nd and final episode in the second season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on May 14, 2007. With Marshall and Lily's wedding reception in full swing, Ted and Robin begin discussing a big announcement, and when Barney overhears, he harasses them until they relent, telling him of what happened 2–3 weeks before the wedding. Ted and Robin say that they have not revealed it before, because of the wedding. In the restaurant where Ted
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The Leap (How I Met Your Mother)


"The Leap" is the 24th and final episode of season 4 of the "How I Met Your Mother" TV series and 88th overall. It originally aired on May 18, 2009. Future Ted (Bob Saget) describes the evening of his 31st birthday. Over the previous 3 days, Ted had been working hard to design the hat-shaped rib restaurant introduced in "Right Place, Right Time". As he pulls an all-nighter in an attempt to win his firm a contract, Marshall attempts to
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Nannies (How I Met Your Mother)


not afford her salary demands. After fruitless searches over a nanny agency's website, the second favorite nanny who comes from the same town as Marshall seems like a perfect match, but after her last interview of the day tells them that she won't be becoming a nanny because she met a rich man. Lily and Marshall immediately realize it was Barney, but when they meet her at his apartment, she refuses to be a nanny for people who are friends with such a person. Barney then explains he only used her
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No Tomorrow (How I Met Your Mother)


up at home the next morning with a black eye and fond memories, telling Marshall that after police arrested the man he got to drink for free for the rest of the night. However, Marshall is far from impressed and reminds Ted that he committed credit card fraud and kissed a married woman. To further the point, he reveals that Ted had accidentally pocket dialled his phone the whole time. Seventeen voice messages are played and remind Ted of how he abandoned his date at the door, ordered champagne on a stranger's
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a brief relationship with her. It is also revealed in "Garbage Island" that Wendy the Waitress falls in love and is later married to Marshall's ex-co worker Meeker (Daniel G. O'Brien) who found out at the time they both hate Marshall after his "Go Green" fiasco. She and Meeker have three kids. Played by Ashley Williams. A baker at The Buttercup Bakery, Victoria meets Ted in "The Wedding" at the wedding reception of Ted's friends, for whom Victoria had baked the wedding
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List of How I Met Your Mother episodes


"How I Met Your Mother" is an American sitcom written and created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. It was first aired on September 19, 2005 on CBS with a thirty-minute pilot episode, and finished its planned nine-year run on March 31, 2014 after 208 episodes. Set in present-day Manhattan, the series follows the social and romantic lives of Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and his four best friends, Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders), Lily
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Slap Bet


play in "Slap Bet" have gone on to have effects seen in multiple episodes throughout the program". "Business Insider" noted that the episode received the second-best rating of any "How I Met Your Mother" episode on IMDb, surpassed only by the 9th season episode How Your Mother Met Me. In 2018, TheRinger.com listed this episode at #52 in its list of the best 100 television episodes to have aired since 2000, and was the only episode of How I Met Your Mother to have made
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How I Met Your Music


How I Met Your Music is the name of two albums (the first being followed by the subtitle Original Songs from the Hit Series "How I Met Your Mother", the second being followed by Deluxe) composed of songs from the CBS television series "How I Met Your Mother", the first of which was released hours before the Season 8 premiere. It features 20 songs that had appeared in the first seven seasons of the show and was released only digitally, originally through iTunes. A second iteration, titled "
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"The Stinsons", Loretta is not upset. She returns in "Cleaning House": the gang go to her home as she is planning to move. Though she had hidden the identities of James and Barney's fathers so that she could be both mother and father to them, she eventually discloses who both of their fathers are. Played by Bob Odenkirk, Arthur is a boss at Goliath National Bank and was also Marshall's boss at Nicholson, Hewitt & West. Due to his habit of screaming at his employees
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Pilot (How I Met Your Mother)


received generally positive reviews from television critics. It was viewed by 10.94 million viewers. In 2030, Ted Mosby (voiced by Bob Saget) is telling his teenaged children the story of how he met their mother. The story flashes back to 2005, where 27-year-old Ted helps his best friend Marshall Eriksen prepare to propose to his girlfriend, Lily Aldrin. At MacLaren's pub, Ted confides to his friend Barney Stinson that Marshall's engagement has made him realize that he wants to get married. Barney insists that Ted
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Jenkins (How I Met Your Mother)


a "reacher", and one is a "settler", who settles for the less attractive partner. Marshall at first is offended and says that he did not "settle for Lily", but is upset when he realizes that Ted and Robin define him as a reacher. Marshall later asks Lily to classify herself and she says that she is a "settler", upsetting him even more. To prove that he can date more attractive women, Marshall plans to show Lily how Jenkins flirts with him. At his
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The Mother (How I Met Your Mother)


Mother's death from an unspecified terminal illness in 2024, also revealed in the series finale, received a mixed reaction from fans. In the alternate ending on the ninth season DVD, The Mother is still living when Ted is telling the story in 2030. During its first eight seasons, the successful sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" often hinted at the unseen character of The Mother. Well-known actresses often made guest appearances on the show. Many fans expected that another would play one of the most-wanted
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met their mother. The series begins in September 2005 with Ted (Josh Radnor) as a single, 27-year-old architect living with his two best friends from his college years: Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), a law student, and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher and an aspiring artist. Lily and Marshall have been dating for almost nine years when Marshall finally proposes. Their engagement causes Ted to think about marriage and finding his soul mate, much to the disgust of his self-appointed
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has dared himself to get laid wearing Marshall's old overalls. Ted races back to the bar, only to face Jim and Barney, who both want Maggie. Lily heads to GNB, thinking Marshall is about to quit his job, but upon further inspection of the letter, she finds another thing that young Marshall was proud of: his ability to dunk a basketball. On the GNB basketball court, Marshall explains how sad he is to have never reach his dreams, but Lily insists that he has led a wonderful life
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Monday Night Football (How I Met Your Mother)


thus ruining the game for everybody, since Ted knew who Barney bet on. Robin, Marshall and Lily play it off and pretend that Barney ruined the game for them. Despite this, the five decide to sit down and watch the game anyway and still manage to enjoy themselves as much as ever. Future Ted finishes the story by telling his kids that he doesn't remember who won or even who played, but he'll always remember the evening as a fun one he spent with his friends. Staci Krause of "
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Belly Full of Turkey


"Belly Full of Turkey" is the ninth episode in the first season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on November 21, 2005. It's Thanksgiving time, and Marshall and Lily visit Marshall's family in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Marshall plays a game of "bask-ice-ball" (a no-rules, brawling combination of basketball and ice hockey that the Eriksen family invented) with his father and elder brothers while Lily helps her sister-in-law
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The Playbook (How I Met Your Mother)


actress friend of Lily's, and she steals the playbook when in Barney's apartment. Lily reveals the ploy to Barney and threatens to post the playbook on the Internet if he doesn't stop using it. Barney shows up at the apartment in a scuba suit, saying he has one last play, "The Scuba Diver." Lily tells Marshall to post the playbook, but Marshall is bamboozled as there is not a play called "The Scuba Diver" in the playbook. They go down to the bar, where
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Ted, and Barney discuss the situation. Barney takes Marshall to a strip club, telling him that he hasn't gotten over Lily yet because he can still picture her naked; unfortunately, all he can think about is Lily. Ted then takes Marshall to a Yankees-Indians baseball game, but when a couple becomes engaged a few rows down from them, Marshall freaks out and throws a hot dog at the couple. Robin, who has been hiding from Ted the fact that she likes guns, takes Marshall to a
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according to Bays and Thomas, served as the climax to Ted's story of how he and the kids' mother met. The climax was filmed on a set closed to everyone except Bays, Thomas, a camera operator, and Fonseca and Henrie, who signed non-disclosure agreements. Fonseca states she had forgotten the details of the scene in the years since its filming, while Henrie states, "I do remember. I "think" I remember. We'll see." "How I Met Your Mother"s cast
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The Over-Correction


"The Over-Correction" is the tenth episode of the eighth season of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", and the 170th episode overall. Robin, Marshall, Lily, and Ted are trapped in different closets. Future Ted narrates how things came to be. A week earlier at MacLaren's, Marshall and Lily tell Ted and Robin that Marshall's mother Judy is staying at their apartment. Judy tells Lily that having gotten over the death of her husband, she is ready to date again and
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after a long-running storyline of Marshall and Lily trying to have kids. Marvin is born in "The Magician's Code – Part 1"; Marshall arrives just in time for the birth. Barney helped Marshall arrive in the hospital, in return for choosing the middle name of the baby: "Wait-for-it". Marvin appears in many episodes after that, usually causing Marshall and Lily to become stressed and sleep deprived. In "Who Wants to Be a Godparent?", Ted, Barney and
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Wrestlers". Barney's doppelgänger is the most significant; Lily and Marshall want a sign from "the universe" that they are ready to have children, and agree to start trying once they see Barney's double. In "Doppelgangers", Marshall meets a cab driver who he thinks is Barney's doppelgänger, but who turns out to be Barney in disguise. Lily then sees a pretzel vendor and thinks he is the double; in reality, the vendor looks nothing like Barney but they begin to try to have children
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, where he met Marshall and Lily. Ted also serves as the show's narrator from the future, voiced by Bob Saget, as he tells his children a detailed story, with the premise of explaining how he met their mother. A brief history of Ted includes being left at the altar, taking a job as an architecture professor and designing the new headquarters for Goliath National Bank. Ted has dated many people and been in several long-term relationships. Ted has an on-again, off-again relationship with
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's wedding. Marshall, who is stuck in Minnesota, desperately tries to find a way to get to the wedding in time. Meanwhile, in Farhampton, the time is slowly counting down to the wedding, with a new problem arising in almost every episode. It is revealed that Lily is pregnant and that she and Marshall will have a daughter. It was also revealed that Ted's children are named Penny and Luke. In addition, the 200th episode detailed the Mother's eight years before meeting Ted, while later episodes
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of Ted's date led to a huge argument and the couple broke up. Concerned about their friend and not wanting to disappoint Robin, who is really looking forward to the wedding, Marshall and Ted go to talk to Stuart and Lily goes to comfort Claudia at MacLaren's. Stuart tells Ted and Marshall that he is glad the wedding is off, and that he missed being single. Ted tries to reassure Stuart that everyone has doubts about commitment, but those doubts should not keep him from getting married; Marshall, however
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tells Lily he likes olives and she is not upset. Robin and Ted resume their date. Just as they are about to kiss, however, Ted tells her that he is in love with her, destroying his chances with her. After a lingering goodbye, he returns to MacLaren's with the gang. Future Ted tells his children, "And that's the story of how I met your... Aunt Robin". Thomas and Bays based the characters on their friends. With Ted being based on Bays and Marshall and
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Last Words (How I Met Your Mother)


the service, Marshall impulsively goes out to hear his father's message. It turns out that it was, in fact, a pocket dial. An outraged Marshall says how much his father meant to him and how unfair it is that his last message to him was a "pocket dial". However, as he continues to rant, Marvin discovers the pocket dial on the phone. He jokes about his error, before telling Marshall that he enjoyed his visit, and finally telling him "I love you." —
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Robin all become godparents of Marvin. "Bedtime Stories" is based around Marvin going to sleep. Marvin has been played by twins, and several actors have been credited as playing him; Jake Elliott, August Maturo and Spencer Ralston have played the part of Marvin during various flashforwards. Craig Thomas said that they were "tending to the fact that [Marshall and Lily] have a baby more than other shows have", although Marvin "doesn't take over the show." Played by Marshall Manesh, Ranjit is a
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Monday Night Football (How I Met Your Mother)


newspaper, Robin hears the winner at the station, and a janitor has the radio on in the kindergarten revealing the score of the game to Lily (who covers Marshall's ears to keep him from hearing too), thus almost all of them know the score of the game without even watching it. Marshall, Lily and Robin head to Ted's but don't reveal that they know who won, and Barney promises he won't tell - only to be heard loudly screaming in Ted's room that he lost every bet
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) and glimpses the mother's foot as she disappears into her room after taking a shower. Ted finds out at this time that she plays bass guitar in a band. Ted forgets to take the yellow umbrella with him when he goes out and Future Ted mentions, "this is how your mother got her yellow umbrella back." In "How Your Mother Met Me", it is revealed that, after Ted left the apartment, the Mother had discovered the umbrella and, upon going to question Cindy, finds her
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Bagpipes (How I Met Your Mother)


few days in a wildly escalating argument that ends with Lily kicking Marshall out. Marshall goes to stay with Ted, who notices that Barney and Robin have been acting suspiciously romantic. Barney, Marshall, and Ted discuss Marshall's situation. Ted suggests that Marshall do the dishes to keep the peace, but Barney disagrees, and Marshall leaves to continue arguing with Lily. Robin arrives, and she and Barney call each other cheesy pet names. Ted remembers that Robin hates pet names, which makes him more suspicious that something is
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Robin Scherbatsky, a journalist who moved to New York in 2005; and Marshall Eriksen and Lily Aldrin, a long-term couple. Although the show is based around The Mother, her first appearance is not until the season eight finale. Many of the main character's relatives appear throughout the show, such as Lily's father or Barney's brother. They may also be seen in family gatherings, such as Barney and Robin's wedding or Marshall's father's funeral. Ted's children and Marvin W. Eriksen (son
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a Comedy Program or Series at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards. In 2011, Short joined the cast of "How I Met Your Mother" for its seventh season, playing Marshall Eriksen's manic boss and was a judge on the first and only season of "Canada's Got Talent" (2012). He, along with Steve Martin and Chevy Chase appeared on an episode of "Saturday Night Live" as part of the "Five-Timers Club", on March 9, 2013, which included those actors who
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unprepared they are to raise a child, and scramble to complete pre-delivery remodelling of their apartment in one night. After an argument about playing music for the child, the couple see the doctor, who tells them Lily is not pregnant. Marshall and Lily meet up with the rest of the gang outside the theater and admit that they are relieved about the false positive. Since they are not ready for kids, they are considering getting a dog for now. When Robin and Barney agree with them, Ted explodes in
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The Mother (How I Met Your Mother)


Tracy McConnell (1984-2024) (colloquial: "The Mother") is the title character from the CBS television sitcom "How I Met Your Mother". The show, narrated by Future Ted (Bob Saget), tells the story of how Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) met The Mother. Tracy McConnell appears in eight episodes, from "Lucky Penny" to "The Time Travelers", as an unseen character; she was first seen fully in "Something New" and was promoted to a main character
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by 10.94 million viewers, while the finale was watched by 8.64 million viewers. The first season features a cast of five actors who receive star billing. Josh Radnor portrays Ted, a young architect who is searching for his future wife. Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan portray Marshall Eriksen and Lily Aldrin, respectively, a newly engaged couple. Cobie Smulders plays Robin Scherbatsky, an ambitious reporter whom Ted falls for. Barney Stinson, Ted's self-appointed best friend and a womanizer, is played by Neil Patrick Harris. Season
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a vampire in the undead office comedy "Netherbeast Incorporated" (2007) and voiced the disgruntled elf Wayne in the holiday special series, "Prep & Landing". He also guest-starred in the 2007 special, "Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary". He played a high school principal in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". In 2011, he appeared in "How I Met Your Mother" as Marshall's possible future boss, Mr. Bloom. From 2011 to 2012, Foley played
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there were only four directors: Pamela Fryman (196 episodes), Rob Greenberg (7 episodes), Michael Shea (4 episodes) and Neil Patrick Harris (1 episode). The show ran from 2005 to 2014. "How I Met Your Mother" is a joint production by Bays & Thomas Productions and 20th Century Fox Television and syndicated by 20th Television. Known for its unique structure, humor, and incorporation of dramatic elements, "How I Met Your Mother" has gained a cult following over the years.
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from Marshall until they apply for a mortgage in "Dowisetrepla". She is very manipulative, having caused several of Ted's relationships to end when she disliked his date. It has been shown many times that she cannot keep a secret, with a few exceptions: she hides her second pregnancy and keeps Ted's move to Chicago a secret from everyone but Marshall. Another ongoing joke in the show is her implied bisexuality. Prior to college, Lily dated Scooter. At college, she met Ted and started dating Marshall
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The Naked Truth (How I Met Your Mother)


He tells Marshall that the company is "very interested" in Marshall's application for employment, and he will receive a job offer after the company completes an extensive background check. The danger of a background check concerns Marshall, who fears that a college-era video of him streaking through Wesleyan calling himself "Beercules", which is now available online, could result in Garrison's dropping the job offer. Marshall contacts the uploader, Pete Durkenson, an old college acquaintance, and asks him to remove the video. However
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his name, Barney tells Ted to stop trying so hard-—he can't keep New Year's Eve from being what it is, the biggest letdown of the year. Just as Ted is about to give up, they hear Marshall yelling Lily's name. Marshall runs up to the limo and tells the group that when he couldn't find Lily at party number three he walked to party number four (Not Moby's party) where he heard Barney's mix CD playing and he swiped it, and got his shirt signed by
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Last Cigarette Ever


"Last Cigarette Ever" is the 11th episode of the fifth season of the CBS situation comedy "How I Met Your Mother" and 99th episode overall. It aired on December 14, 2009. Future Ted explains how frustrated Robin got at her early morning news show, and describes her taking a smoke break up on the roof, much to the surprise of his listening children. She is then joined by Marshall, who is stressed about his new department head Arthur Hobbs. Barney explains that Marshall's job is at risk
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n't come back into town without calling him and she didn't have a new boyfriend, but Marshall is upset that the last link that he had to Lily was a lie. Ted reminds Marshall of the first time that they met in college, before Marshall had met Lily, and encourages him not to let the break-up ruin his life. As Marshall begins going out again, Lily appears at MacLaren's one night. She sees her friends having drinks and leaves unnoticed. Reviewer Joel Keller described the episode as a
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world, and Lily and Marshall mistake him for the final doppelganger. When Marshall finds out, he decides not to tell Lily, fearing she will want to wait even longer to have children. Lily eventually finds out and decides to wait. In the season finale, Lily thinks she sees Barney's doppelganger as a hot dog vendor, which causes the group to realize she is seeing what she wants to see, and play along. Eventually Barney agrees having babies is not a stupid idea and Lily and Marshall should go forth
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Marshall Eriksen


Marshall Eriksen is a fictional character on the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", portrayed by Jason Segel. Series co-creator Craig Thomas explained that he based Marshall and Lily on himself and his wife Rebecca. The series revolves around the adventures of the five main characters: Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and his best friends Marshall, his wife Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders). Marshall met Ted and Lily during their freshman year
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Wendy pick them up. The ending scene shows that because they both hated Marshall, Wendy and Meeker did end up together, being on their second honeymoon when they encountered Ted at the airport. Ted says he is already married with two kids, and his relationship with Zoey did not end well. Ted begins the story of how he met his wife starting from the wedding, but Wendy interrupts saying they have to go. Ted immediately calls Marshall about the encounter. Robert Canning of IGN gave the episode a rating of 7
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", succeeding Jason Biggs, opposite Kathleen Turner and Alicia Silverstone. In 2004, Radnor starred in "The Paris Letter" alongside his future "How I Met Your Mother" co-star, Neil Patrick Harris. From 2005 to 2014, Radnor starred in "How I Met Your Mother", his biggest role to date. In July 2008, he starred opposite Jennifer Westfeldt in the premiere of the play "Finks", written by Joe Gilford and directed by Charlie Stratton for New York Stage and Film. Radnor
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and Robert Belushi as Linus. The episode centers around the guys searching for Lily (Alyson Hannigan) who went missing after her fight with husband Marshall (Jason Segel) and trying to figure out why she disappeared. At the same time, Robin (Cobie Smulders), is worried she is marrying her father after a talk she had with her mother. Robin is in line to marry Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) during this episode. Four hours before the wedding, Robin asks her mother how she made it despite a
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Pilot (How I Met Your Mother)


"Pilot" is the pilot episode of American television sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", which premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005. It was written by series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, and directed by Pamela Fryman The pilot takes place in 2030, as a future Ted Mosby (Voiced by Bob Saget) is telling his kids the story of how he met their mother. It flashes back to 2005 to a younger Ted (Josh Radnor) who meets Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders), a
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Coming Back (How I Met Your Mother)


going anywhere. Back in Minnesota, Marshall speaks to Barney on the phone who encourages him to stop acting so nice but instead get more under-handed as it is the only way he'll make it back in time. Marshall refuses, however he and Daphne find out that all flights to New York are cancelled due to a storm meaning the only way he'll make it back in time is to rent a car. Daphne throws one of Marshall's bags into a restricted area (something Barney had told Marshall to do
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Marshall tells him that Jenkins, a particularly quirky co-worker who has been the subject of a number of funny office stories that Marshall has told the group about, will be joining them. Because Marshall neglected to mention Jenkins's gender, Ted pictures Jenkins as a goofy fat man, and is therefore taken by surprise when Barney announces his intention to sleep with "Jenkins." He finally gets the resolution when Jenkins arrives and turns out to be a woman. Marshall begs Ted not to tell Lily, since he is
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