Aired: 12/8/2008 | The Fight

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.

Aired: 11/24/2008 | The Naked Man

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.

Aired: 11/17/2008 | Woooo!

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.

Aired: 11/10/2008 | Not a Father’s Day

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.

Aired: 11/3/2008 | Happily Ever After

A chance sighting of Stella leads to the gang contemplating ways in which they’d handle an unwanted encounter with a person from their past.

Aired: 10/20/2008 | Shelter Island

Deciding to wed in three days, Ted and Stella suddenly see their plans shattered by exes.

Aired: 10/13/2008 | Intervention

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.

Aired: 10/6/2008 | I Heart NJ

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.

Aired: 9/29/2008 | The Best Burger in New York

A “burger-mad” Marshall is on a quest to find the place where he ate the first hamburger he ever had in New York.

Aired: 9/22/2008 | Do I Know You?

Stella has to give Ted an answer. Barney wants to say something to Robin.

Aired: 5/19/2008 | Miracles

Ted is in a car accident that prompts Marshall to talk about miracles. Everyone flashbacks to prior moments in their lives.

Aired: 5/12/2008 | Everything Must Go

Barney and Abby go to the bar to flaunt their relationship in Ted’s face. Barney attempts to anger Ted in many other ways as well.

Aired: 5/5/2008 | Rebound Bro

Barney gets a new wingman, and Ted discusses taking the next step with Stella.

Aired: 4/28/2008 | The Goat

After Barney sleeps with Robin he hires help to find a loop hole in “The Bro Code” that will let him off the hook.

Aired: 4/21/2008 | Sandcastles in the Sand

Robin’s musical past emerges again as the group learns of someone named Simon from Robin’s past. As Barney searches for more Robin Sparkles memorabilia, Ted spends more time with Stella.

Aired: 4/14/2008 | The Chain Of Screaming

After Marshall witnesses a work buddy get yelled at after handing in a report, he becomes paranoid that the same will happen to him.

Aired: 3/31/2008 | The Bracket

Barney’s efforts to hook up with women are being thwarted by a mysterious woman from his past. Barney and the gang must sift though his many past flings in an attempt to find out who she is.

Aired: 3/24/2008 | Ten Sessions

Ted pursues a woman named Stella, but only gets attention from her receptionist Abby.

Aired: 3/17/2008 | No Tomorrow

Ted lives like there’s no tomorrow during a St. Patrick’s Day celebration with Barney. Lily and Marshall spend the evening at their new apartment with Robin.

Aired: 12/10/2007 | The Platinum Rule

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. Barney’s last venture endangers the group’s hangout.

Aired: 11/26/2007 | The Yips

When Barney loses his way with women, he hopes a trip to the Victoria’s Secret Fall Fashion Show will help him regain his form. Marshall deals with a taskmaster of a trainer at a gym.

Aired: 11/19/2007 | Slapsgiving

As Marshall and Lily prepare to host their first Thanksgiving as husband and wife, Barney eyes Marshall’s Slap Bet Countdown Clock website with dread. Marshall has a gift for everyone.

Aired: 11/12/2007 | Spoiler Alert

Marshall awaits his bar exam results; Ted introduces his latest girlfriend to the gang, who all see the flaw that Ted has missed.

Aired: 11/5/2007 | Dowisetrepla

Marshall and Lily’s plan to buy an apartment is hampered by mistakes and Lily’s hidden debt; Barney claims to love commitment to seduce a girl.

Aired: 10/29/2007 | I’m Not That Guy

Marshall has to contemplate giving up his plan of using his law degree to help the planet when he’s courted by a major firm; Lily reveals a secret to Robin that not even Marshall knows; Ted discovers a porn actor is using his name.

Aired: 10/22/2007 | How I Met Everyone Else

Amid sharing stories with her about how members of the gang met each other, Ted’s hot new girlfriend has a reaction to the meeting that gets her a high ranking on Barney’s crazy scale.

Aired: 10/15/2007 | Little Boys

Barney and Ted fight over getting the same girl; Robin pretends to like her new boyfriend’s son.

Aired: 10/8/2007 | Third Wheel

Ted’s new attitude attracts women in the present and one from his past. The rest of the gang pulls together to help him make the most of the situation.

Aired: 10/1/2007 | We’re Not From Here

Ted and Barney pretend to be visitors to New York City to pick up women. Robin is still dating Gael. Marshall and Lily prepare letters to each other to be read after their death.

Aired: 9/24/2007 | Wait For It…

We pick up from last year. Robin shows up with a date and this motivates Ted to ‘get back out there’. We also learn/learned something major about ‘the Mother’.

Aired: 5/14/2007 | Something Blue

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.

Aired: 5/7/2007 | Something Borrowed

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.

Aired: 4/30/2007 | Showdown

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.

Aired: 4/9/2007 | Bachelor Party

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.

Aired: 3/19/2007 | Moving Day

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. Barney considers moving in with Marshall and Lily.

Aired: 2/26/2007 | Arrivederci, Fiero

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, including the story of how Ted met Marshall.

Aired: 2/19/2007 | Stuff

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.

Aired: 2/12/2007 | Lucky Penny

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 they remember when Robin and Lily went hunting for a wedding dress and when Barney got stuck on the subway.

Aired: 2/5/2007 | Monday Night Football

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.

Aired: 1/22/2007 | Columns

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.

Aired: 1/8/2007 | First Time In New York

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.

Aired: 12/11/2006 | How Lily Stole Christmas

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.

Aired: 11/27/2006 | Single Stamina

Barney’s brother, James, 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.

Aired: 11/20/2006 | Slap Bet

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.

Aired: 11/13/2006 | Atlantic City

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.

Aired: 11/6/2006 | Swarley

Barney gets a new nickname. Meanwhile, Marshall goes on his first real date post-Lily, but Ted and Barney warn him that this girl has the “crazy eyes,” and Lily decides to do everything she can to find her own reasons for breaking them up.

Aired: 10/23/2006 | Aldrin Justice

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.

Aired: 10/16/2006 | World’s Greatest Couple

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.

Aired: 10/9/2006 | Ted Mosby: Architect

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.

Aired: 10/2/2006 | Brunch

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.