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The Best Episodes of How I Met Your Mother Season 2

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Every episode of How I Met Your Mother Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of How I Met Your Mother Season 2!

The Best Episodes of How I Met Your Mother Season 2

A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to...

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  1. Background image for Where Were We?
    8.0/10(4.6k votes)

    #1 - Where Were We?

    S2:E1

    The gang tries to help Marshall get over Lily, especially when he finds a credit card bill that leads to a hotel in New York City where some of her charges are listed.

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  2. Background image for The Scorpion and the Toad
    8.1/10(4.5k votes)

    #2 - The Scorpion and the Toad

    S2:E2

    Barney works with Marshall on his bachelor skills, which include hitting on women. Lily is back from her venture. Robin helps her look for a new apartment but gets sick of hearing about San Francisco.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Brunch
    8.4/10(4.7k votes)

    #3 - Brunch

    S2:E3

    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.

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  4. Background image for Ted Mosby, Architect
    8.7/10(5.2k votes)

    #4 - Ted Mosby, Architect

    S2:E4

    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.

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  5. Background image for World's Greatest Couple
    8.7/10(5.0k votes)

    #5 - World's Greatest Couple

    S2:E5

    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.

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  6. Background image for Aldrin Justice
    8.0/10(4.5k votes)

    #6 - Aldrin Justice

    S2:E6

    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.

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  8. Background image for Swarley
    8.9/10(6.0k votes)

    #7 - Swarley

    S2:E7

    Marshall goes on his first real date post-breakup with Lily. Not only do Ted and Barney try to warn him that this girl has got the crazy eyes, but Lily decides to do everything she can to find out about this her and break them up. Also, Barney gets a new name.

    Director:Pamela Fryman
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  9. Background image for Atlantic City
    7.8/10(4.4k votes)

    #8 - Atlantic City

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Pamela Fryman
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Slap Bet
    9.4/10(8.8k votes)

    #9 - Slap Bet

    S2:E9

    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.

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  11. Background image for Single Stamina
    8.0/10(4.4k votes)

    #10 - Single Stamina

    S2:E10

    Barney's brother, James (Wayne Brady), 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.

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  12. Background image for How Lily Stole Christmas
    7.9/10(4.4k votes)

    #11 - How Lily Stole Christmas

    S2:E11

    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.

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  13. Background image for First Time in New York
    8.0/10(4.5k votes)

    #12 - First Time in New York

    S2:E12

    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.

    Director:Pamela Fryman
    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Columns
    7.7/10(4.2k votes)

    #13 - Columns

    S2:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Matt Kuhn
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  15. Background image for Monday Night Football
    8.3/10(4.5k votes)

    #14 - Monday Night Football

    S2:E14

    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.

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  16. Background image for Lucky Penny
    8.2/10(4.4k votes)

    #15 - Lucky Penny

    S2:E15

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

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  17. Background image for Stuff
    8.3/10(4.6k votes)

    #16 - Stuff

    S2:E16

    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.

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  18. Background image for Arrivederci, Fiero
    8.1/10(4.4k votes)

    #17 - Arrivederci, Fiero

    S2:E17

    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. We also get the story of how Ted met Marshall.

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  19. Background image for Moving Day
    7.9/10(4.1k votes)

    #18 - Moving Day

    S2:E18

    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.

    Director:Pamela Fryman
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Bachelor Party
    8.3/10(4.4k votes)

    #19 - Bachelor Party

    S2:E19

    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.

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  21. Background image for Showdown
    8.8/10(4.8k votes)

    #20 - Showdown

    S2:E20

    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.

    Director:Pamela Fryman
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Something Borrowed
    8.7/10(4.6k votes)

    #21 - Something Borrowed

    S2:E21

    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.

    Director:Pamela Fryman
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  23. Background image for Something Blue
    8.7/10(4.7k votes)

    #22 - Something Blue

    S2:E22

    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.

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Where Were We?" is the best rated episode of "How I Met Your Mother" season 2. It scored 8/10 based on 4585 votes. Directed by Pamela Fryman and written by Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, it aired on 9/18/2006. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Scorpion and the Toad".