The Best Episodes of How I Met Your Mother Season 4

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Joe Kelly

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.

Director: Michael J. Shea

Writer: Stephen Lloyd

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Greg Malins

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Kourtney Kang

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Matt Kuhn

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Joe Kelly

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Chris Harris

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Chris Harris

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

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Stephen Lloyd

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Chuck Tatham

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

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Jamie Rhonheimer

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Robia Rashid

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

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Craig Gerard, Matthew Zinman

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Greg Malins

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Kourtney Kang

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.

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

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

Director: Pamela Fryman

Writer: Jamie Rhonheimer