How I Met Your Mother Season 4

Season 4

Loaded with irresistible laughter and filled with outrageous fun, there's just one word for the hit comedy How I Met Your Mother: Awesomeness! From dating dilemmas to career conundrums, the recently engaged Ted and his feisty friends find themselves at the crossroads of young adult life. While newlyweds Marshall and Lily contemplate parenthood, single gal Robin explores the advantages of having "friends with benefits." Meanwhile, the irrepressible, opinionated Barney continues his hilariously dogged pursuit of the fairer sex. As for Ted, his Miss Right is out there, but amid bar brawls and blizzards, how will he ever find her?

Air date: 2008-09-22

Episodes: 24

Episodes

E1: Do I Know You?

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.

Air date: 2008-09-22 • ★ 8.1

E2: The Best Burger in New York

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.

Air date: 2008-09-29 • ★ 8

E3: 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.

Air date: 2008-10-06 • ★ 7.5

E4: 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.

Air date: 2008-10-13 • ★ 8.1

E5: Shelter Island

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.

Air date: 2008-10-20 • ★ 7.7

E6: Happily Ever After

A serendipitous meeting with someone from his past has Ted thinking about how he would handle running into someone he would prefer to forget.

Air date: 2008-11-03 • ★ 7.6

E7: 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.

Air date: 2008-11-10 • ★ 7.31

E8: 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.

Air date: 2008-11-17 • ★ 7.7

E9: 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.

Air date: 2008-11-24 • ★ 7.9

E10: 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.

Air date: 2008-12-08 • ★ 7.839

E11: Little Minnesota

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.

Air date: 2008-12-15 • ★ 7.758

E12: Benefits

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.

Air date: 2009-01-12 • ★ 8.097

E13: Three Days of Snow

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.

Air date: 2009-01-19 • ★ 7.867

E14: The Possimpible

Robin, desperate to find a job before she is deported, agrees to let Barney produce a video resume for her.

Air date: 2009-02-02 • ★ 7.8

E15: The Stinsons

The gang thinks that Barney must have a secret girlfriend after noticing his bizarre behavior.

Air date: 2009-03-02 • ★ 7.839

E16: Sorry, Bro

Marshall and Lily are less than thrilled when they hear that Ted's college girlfriend (Laura Prepon) has moved to New York.

Air date: 2009-03-09 • ★ 7

E17: The Front Porch

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.

Air date: 2009-03-16 • ★ 7.833

E18: Old King Clancy

Marshall and Barney lie to keep Ted from finding out the headquarters he'd been hired to design for GNB has been cancelled.

Air date: 2009-03-23 • ★ 7.571

E19: Murtaugh

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.

Air date: 2009-03-30 • ★ 8

E20: Mosbius Designs

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.

Air date: 2009-04-13 • ★ 7.4

E21: The Three Days Rule

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.

Air date: 2009-04-27 • ★ 8.033

E22: Right Place, Right Time

Ted ponders how being in the right place at the right time can impact a person's life; Barney celebrates his 200th female conquest.

Air date: 2009-05-04 • ★ 7.3

E23: As Fast as She Can

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.

Air date: 2009-05-11 • ★ 7.4

E24: The Leap

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.

Air date: 2009-05-18 • ★ 7.933