8.0/104,350 votes#1 - Where Were We?
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2006
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas
8.1/104,255 votes#2 - The Scorpion and the Toad
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/2006
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: N/A
Writer: Chris Harris
8.4/104,435 votes#3 - Brunch
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/2006
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Stephen Lloyd
8.7/104,930 votes#4 - Ted Mosby, Architect
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/2006
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Kristin Newman
8.7/104,737 votes#5 - World's Greatest Couple
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/2006
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Brenda Hsueh
8.0/104,229 votes#6 - Aldrin Justice
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/2006
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Jamie Rhonheimer
8.9/105,755 votes#7 - Swarley
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/2006
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
Writer: Greg Malins
7.8/104,220 votes#8 - Atlantic City
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/2006
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: N/A
9.4/108,393 votes#9 - Slap Bet
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/2006
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Kourtney Kang
8.0/104,215 votes#10 - Single Stamina
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/2006
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Kristin Newman
8.0/104,201 votes#11 - How Lily Stole Christmas
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/2006
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Brenda Hsueh
8.0/104,267 votes#12 - First Time in New York
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/2007
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: N/A
7.8/103,951 votes#13 - Columns
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/2007
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: N/A
Writer: Matt Kuhn
8.3/104,248 votes#14 - Monday Night Football
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/2007
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas
8.3/104,177 votes#15 - Lucky Penny
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/2007
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Jamie Rhonheimer
8.3/104,370 votes#16 - Stuff
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/2007
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Kourtney Kang
8.1/104,216 votes#17 - Arrivederci, Fiero
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/2007
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Chris Harris
7.9/103,931 votes#18 - Moving Day
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/2007
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: N/A
8.3/104,181 votes#19 - Bachelor Party
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/9/2007
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas
8.8/104,582 votes#20 - Showdown
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/2007
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: N/A
8.7/104,355 votes#21 - Something Borrowed
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/7/2007
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
Writer: Greg Malins
8.7/104,430 votes#22 - Something Blue
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/2007
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.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas
The Best Episodes of How I Met Your Mother Season 2
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!
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
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 4350 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".