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The Best Episodes of How I Met Your Mother Season 4

Every episode of How I Met Your Mother Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of How I Met Your Mother Season 4!

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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 him meeting their mother.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 9 - The Naked Man
    9.1/10(6775 votes)

    S4:E9

    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

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  2. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 4 - Intervention
    8.7/10(5028 votes)

    S4:E4

    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

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  3. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 21 - The Three Days Rule
    8.6/10(4601 votes)

    S4:E21

    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

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  4. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 24 - The Leap
    8.6/10(4795 votes)

    S4:E24

    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
    Writers:Craig Thomas, Carter Bays

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  5. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 1 - Do I Know You?
    8.5/10(4798 votes)

    S4:E1

    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
    Writers:Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

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  6. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 12 - Benefits
    8.5/10(4640 votes)

    S4:E12

    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

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  7. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 2 - The Best Burger in New York
    8.4/10(5153 votes)

    S4:E2

    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
    Writers:Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

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  8. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 13 - Three Days of Snow
    8.4/10(4599 votes)

    S4:E13

    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

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  9. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 5 - Shelter Island
    8.2/10(4483 votes)

    S4:E5

    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

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  10. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 10 - The Fight
    8.2/10(4410 votes)

    S4:E10

    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:Unknown

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  11. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 14 - The Possimpible
    8.2/10(4380 votes)

    S4:E14

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

    Director:Pamela Fryman
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 15 - The Stinsons
    8.2/10(4504 votes)

    S4:E15

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

    Director:Pamela Fryman
    Writers:Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

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  13. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 17 - The Front Porch
    8.2/10(4464 votes)

    S4:E17

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Chris Harris

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  14. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 19 - Murtaugh
    8.2/10(4389 votes)

    S4:E19

    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

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  15. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 22 - Right Place, Right Time
    8.1/10(4261 votes)

    S4:E22

    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

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  16. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 11 - Little Minnesota
    8.0/10(4338 votes)

    S4:E11

    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

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  17. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 6 - Happily Ever After
    7.9/10(4272 votes)

    S4:E6

    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

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  18. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 8 - Woooo!
    7.9/10(4384 votes)

    S4:E8

    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
    Writers:Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

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  19. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 7 - Not a Father's Day
    7.6/10(4156 votes)

    S4:E7

    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

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  20. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 16 - Sorry, Bro
    7.6/10(4258 votes)

    S4:E16

    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
    Writers:Craig Gerard, Matthew Zinman

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  21. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 3 - I Heart NJ
    7.5/10(4251 votes)

    S4:E3

    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

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  22. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 23 - As Fast as She Can
    7.5/10(4145 votes)

    S4:E23

    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
    Writers:Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

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  23. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 18 - Old King Clancy
    7.4/10(4078 votes)

    S4:E18

    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

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  24. How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 20 - Mosbius Designs
    7.4/10(4112 votes)

    S4:E20

    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

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"The Naked Man" is the best rated episode of "How I Met Your Mother" season 4. It scored 9.1/10 based on 6775 votes. Directed by Pamela Fryman and written by Joe Kelly, it aired on 11/24/2008. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Intervention".