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A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to...
Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS
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Season 1

  • Pilot
    8.4/107,493 votes
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    Pilot

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/2005

    When Ted's best friend Marshall proposes to his girlfriend, Lily, Ted realizes he'd better get a move on if he hopes to find true love. Ted soon meets Robin in a neighborhood bar, immediately becomes smitten and scores a first date. But when Ted can hardly wait to see her again, his eagerness threatens to scare her away.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

  • Purple Giraffe
    8.0/105,787 votes
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    Purple Giraffe

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/2005

    In a desperate attempt for a second date, Ted invites Robin to a party he is throwing. However, she doesn't show up and he keeps throwing parties in the hopes she will finally arrive.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

  • Sweet Taste of Liberty
    8.0/105,503 votes
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    Sweet Taste of Liberty

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/2005

    Ted agrees to let Barney spice up his love life, and ends up on a crazy adventure of flying to Philadelphia, encountering the law and visiting the Liberty Bell.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Phil Lord

  • Return of the Shirt
    7.8/105,186 votes
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    Return of the Shirt

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/2005

    Ted's outlook on his continuing search for love is altered when he rediscovers a shirt that has not seen daylight in years. Meanwhile, Barney amuses himself by coaxing Robin into sacrificing her job by saying completely outlandish things on air live for a cash reward.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Kourtney Kang

  • Okay Awesome
    8.2/105,318 votes
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    Okay Awesome

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/2005

    Ted and Barney start checking out the club scene with their friend Robin, whereas Lily and Marshall try to participate in some more "grown-up" activities, as they draw slowly nearer to their wedding.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Chris Harris

  • The Slutty Pumpkin
    7.9/105,149 votes
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    The Slutty Pumpkin

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/2005

    Ted makes his yearly pilgrimage to the rooftop Halloween party in search of a girl dressed as a pumpkin who he met years ago. Meanwhile, Robin is dumped after driving her new boyfriend away with her independent ways.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Brenda Hsueh

  • Matchmaker
    7.5/104,854 votes
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    Matchmaker

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2005

    When a matchmaker with a 100% success rate turns Ted away because he is not compatible with any of the available women in her database, he is still determined that he is going to find his match. After getting information from the matchmaker’s computer, Ted pays a visit to a very cute, but taken, dermatologist in an effort to prove the prediction wrong that there are no women out there for him. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily are obsessed with ridding their apartment of a critter.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Chris Marcil, Sam Johnson

  • The Duel
    8.0/104,830 votes
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    The Duel

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2005

    As Lily becomes more of a permanent fixture in the apartment, Ted feels like he is being edged out of the mix by his engaged roomies. Petrified of being left alone and homeless, Ted tells Marshall that when he and Lily are married, he wants the apartment. The problem is that Marshall wants to keep the place too, so they settle it like real "grown-ups" -- launching into a sword fight that leaves one man down for the count.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: N/A

  • Belly Full of Turkey
    7.9/104,810 votes
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    Belly Full of Turkey

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/2005

    Ted and Robin are surprised to run into Barney when they volunteer at a homeless shelter on Thanksgiving. Lily is on the brink of freaking out when she goes to Thanksgiving dinner at her future in-laws house.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Phil Lord

  • The Pineapple Incident
    9.1/107,207 votes
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    The Pineapple Incident

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/2005

    After being forced into knocking back 5 shots, so he will stop thinking, Ted goes on a partying rampage. The next morning he wakes up with a woman in his bed, but he does not know who it is. So he turns to his friends to try and piece the night together and work out who the woman is in his bed.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

  • The Limo
    8.2/105,069 votes
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    The Limo

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/2005

    Ted rents a limo to take the gang out to sample five New Year's Eve parties in a quest to find the perfect celebration.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Chris Marcil, Sam Johnson

  • The Wedding
    8.0/104,699 votes
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    The Wedding

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/2006

    Robin accepts Ted's invite to a friend's wedding, but thanks to Ted, the couple may never make it down the aisle.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Kourtney Kang

  • Drumroll, Please
    8.6/105,359 votes
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    Drumroll, Please

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/23/2006

    Ted finds a new woman at the wedding. They want to remember the evening so they don't exchange last names or numbers; but Ted takes a big fall when he tries to find out her name.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Gloria Calderón Kellett

  • Zip, Zip, Zip
    8.1/104,617 votes
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    Zip, Zip, Zip

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/2006

    After agreeing to take things slowly and not have sex for a month, Ted and Victoria decide that they have waited long enough.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Brenda Hsueh

  • Game Night
    9.0/105,980 votes
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    Game Night

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/2006

    A mysterious tape arrives for Barney from one of his numerous ex-girlfriends, and the entire gang watches it. But, in order for them all to find out how she broke Barney's heart and made him into a suit-wearing bachelor, everyone must share their most embarrassing moment.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Chris Harris

  • Cupcake
    7.7/104,412 votes
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    Cupcake

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/6/2006

    Things are going great with Ted and Victoria's relationship, but when Victoria is offered her dream job, the couple have to make serious relationship decisions. Meanwhile Marshall and Lily set out to purchase their wedding outfits and find out that none can afford what they bought.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: N/A

  • Life Among the Gorillas
    7.5/104,364 votes
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    Life Among the Gorillas

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/20/2006

    Marshall interns at the corporation where Barney works and Lily finds that he is becoming a shallow jerk as he tries to fit in with his crude fratty coworkers. Meanwhile, Ted feels guilty when he receives several gifts from Victoria (Erika Singh) while he hasn't sent her anything.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

  • Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M.
    8.3/104,859 votes
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    Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M.

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/10/2006

    Robin, who is very lonely, asks Ted to come over to her apartment after 2 A.M., but he isn't sure if he wants to go as he has a phone call on the way over with his friends, and with Victoria on his mind

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

  • Mary the Paralegal
    8.7/105,154 votes
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    Mary the Paralegal

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/24/2006

    Robin is nominated to receive an award for a news report and everyone needs a date to take to the show. Barney introduces Ted to Mary as a date that Ted can take to the show. Originally Ted is opposed to the idea of just trying to save face in front of Robin but when she shows up with a date he changes his mind. Robin asks Mary lots of questions, and Ted begins to really like Mary, despite her occupation.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Chris Harris

  • Best Prom Ever
    7.7/104,346 votes
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    Best Prom Ever

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/2006

    Lily, Barney and Robin attend a high school prom to scout out a potential band for Lily and Marshall's wedding reception. In order to get in Lily and Robin pretend to be the dates of two kids who were going alone. Ted and Marshall are back at the apartment where they are preparing the invitations to be sent out.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: N/A

  • Milk
    8.0/104,399 votes
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    Milk

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/2006

    When a matchmaking company calls Ted claiming they have found his soul mate, he is forced to postpone his date when Lily asks for his help.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

  • Come On
    8.7/105,348 votes
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    Come On

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/2006

    Ted tries to keep Robin from going on a camping trip so that she can spend time with him. Barney enlists the help of an old flame to perform a rain dance. At the same time Marshall finds out about Lily's interview for the fellowship in San Francisco.

    Director: Pamela Fryman

    Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas