How I Met Your Mother

2005 • CBS

4.8

5.33K reviews

TV-14

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Season 1 episodes (22)

1 Pilot

9/19/05

Season-only

In 2030, Ted tells his children the story of how he met their mother, beginning back in 2005 with Marshall and Lily's engagement. Ted, eager to find his soulmate, meets Robin, and sets his sights on marrying her.

2 Purple Giraffe

9/26/05

Season-only

Ted throws a party in hopes of seeing Robin again, but when she doesn't show up, he throws another party...and another. Meanwhile, Lily's heightened libido prevents Marshall from getting his work done.

3 The Sweet Taste of Liberty

10/3/05

Season-only

Barney's plan to meet girls at the airport backfires as he and Ted are picked up by airport security, and Lily gets jealous when Robin monopolizes the male attention at their girls' night out.

4 Return of the Shirt

10/10/05

Season-only

Ted reconnects with Natalie, an old flame, and soon remembers why he dumped her in the first place. Meanwhile, Barney pays Robin to say outrageous things on the air.

5 Okay Awesone

10/17/05

Season-only

Robin, Ted, and Barney go to a hot new club, leaving the engaged Marshall and Lily to a more adult, albeit boring, evening of wine tasting.

6 The Slutty Pumpkin

10/24/05

Season-only

Halloween hijinx are afoot as Ted makes his annual trek to the same lame party in search of a girl he met there years ago, while Robin joins Marshall and Lily for a double date.

7 Matchmaker

11/7/05

Season-only

When Ted signs up with a matchmaking service, he learns that love is not a science. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily confront a frightening creature living in the apartment.

8 The Duel

11/14/05

Season-only

Lily officially moves in with Marshall and Ted, and when Ted suspects that he's being edged out of the apartment, he and Marshall decide to settle it like men.When Ted signs up with a matchmaking service, he learns that love is not a science.

9 Belly Full Of Turkey

11/21/05

Season-only

Thanksgiving with Marshall's family is especially stressful for Lily because she thinks she may be pregnant. Elsewhere, Robin, Barney and Ted spend the holiday volunteering at a homeless shelter.

10 The Pineapple Incident

11/28/05

Season-only

After an alcohol-induced blackout, Ted awakens to find a strange woman - and a pineapple - in his bed.

11 The Limo

12/19/05

Season-only

New Year's Eve is a wild ride as Ted rents a limo for a night of party-hopping with the gang.

12 The Wedding

1/9/06

Season-only

Ted's romantic hopes are dashed when he invites Robin to a fancy wedding, only to discover that the bride-to-be won't allow him to bring a date.

13 Drumroll, Please

1/23/06

Season-only

Robin is emotionally torn when Ted meets an exciting new woman, Victoria, at the wedding. Afterward, though, he doesn't know how to contact her.

14 Zip, Zip, Zip

2/6/06

Season-only

Hiding in the bathroom, Marshall and Lily wait impatiently for Ted and Victoria to consummate their relationship, and Barney typically gets the wrong idea while hanging out with Robin.

15 Game Night

2/27/06

Season-only

Marshall's game night leads to some startling and very embarrassing revelations.

16 Cupcake

3/6/06

Season-only

Just as Ted and Victoria's relationship is beginning to flourish, she's offered a scholarship to a culinary institute in Germany. Should she stay, or should she go?

17 Life Among the Gorillas

3/20/06

Season-only

With Victoria in Germany, Ted faces the pitfalls of long-distance relationships, and Marshall has trouble fitting in when he takes a job at Barney's company.

18 Nothing Good Ever Happens After 2 A.M.

4/10/06

Season-only

With Victoria on his mind, Ted has conflicted feelings when Robin invites him over for a late night rendezvous.

19 Mary The Paralegal

4/24/06

Season-only

Ted needs a date to take to Robin's awards banquet, so Barney hooks him up with Mary, who may be a call girl.

20 Best Prom Ever

5/1/06

Season-only

With her wedding day fast approaching, Lily, along with Barney and Robin, crashes a high school prom to scope out a potential band for the reception.

21 Milk

5/8/06

Season-only

Ted is excited when a matchmaking service claims to have found his soul mate, but he must postpone his date to help Lily, who has a surprising revelation.

22 Come On

5/15/06

Season-only

Hoping to get closer to Robin, Ted tries to prevent her from going away for the weekend with her co-anchor, Sandy. Meanwhile, Marshall is upset when he finds out about Lily's fellowship interview.

About this show

A half-hour comedy series about Ted and how he fell in love. It all started when Ted's best friend, Marshall, drops the bombshell that he's going to propose to his long-time girlfriend, Lily, a kindergarten teacher. At that moment, Ted realizes that he had better get a move on if he too hopes to find true love. Helping him in his quest to find his future wife is Barney, a friend with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and a foolproof way to meet women. When Ted meets Robin, he's sure it's love at first sight, but after a whirlwind romance with her, he realizes destiny has something else in store for him. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future.

Ratings and reviews

4.8

5.33K reviews

Skylar Karrasch (Ytse)

October 13, 2016

I have not seen this series through series, only on Netflix. Just saying though, Netflix has better music than the DVD releases do, so I hope that this is like the netflix version and not the DVD versions Anyway. Seasons 1-5 are golden, but once season 6 started, that marked to start of the steady decline of the show's quality. Not to say that 6-9 doesn't have good episodes, great episodes can still be found, but the seasons as a whole just feel less genuine.

Behrad Radfar

February 19, 2021

Seasons 1-7 are OK, sometimes funny. Seasons 8-9 are occurring for one event: Barney-Robin wedding. Chronologically, season 8 ends before it starts!! Season 9 is kinda stupid. Many events happen in last 3 episodes. Why Barney/Robin get divorced, why Mom dies, why Ted gets back with Robin, why Ted's children insist to have aunt Robin as mom!! Why Barney suddenly have child with number 31 and loves his daughter to eternity!! Last 3 episodes are worst. I suggest not to see them and end it with imagination.

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Garett Sloane

December 20, 2013

The last season is half way done and it feels like it is using stall tactics because they are out of ideas. The plot has not progressed in more than 10 episodes this last season. As a series I think the show has the potential to be one of the best sitcoms of its era and this ending is embarrassing the legacy. Without spoiling, there is a weekend long event that opens the last season, and the whole last season is just about that weekend so far. 12 episodes nothing happened yet.

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