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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!

The Best Episodes of How I Met Your Mother Season 4

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 Do I Know You?
    8.5/10(4.4k votes)

    #1 - Do I Know You?

    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.

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    8.4/10(4.7k votes)

    #2 - The Best Burger in New York

    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.

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    7.5/10(3.8k votes)

    #3 - I Heart NJ

    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.

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    Director:Pamela Fryman
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    8.7/10(4.6k votes)

    #4 - Intervention

    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.

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    8.2/10(4.1k votes)

    #5 - Shelter Island

    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.

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    7.9/10(3.9k votes)

    #6 - Happily Ever After

    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.

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    7.6/10(3.8k votes)

    #7 - Not a Father's Day

    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.

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    7.9/10(4.0k votes)

    #8 - Woooo!

    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.

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    9.1/10(6.2k votes)

    #9 - The Naked Man

    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.

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    Director:Pamela Fryman
    Writer:Joe Kelly
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    8.2/10(4.0k votes)

    #10 - The Fight

    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.

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    Director:Pamela Fryman
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.0/10(3.9k votes)

    #11 - Little Minnesota

    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.

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    8.5/10(4.2k votes)

    #12 - Benefits

    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.

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    8.4/10(4.2k votes)

    #13 - Three Days of Snow

    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.

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    Director:Pamela Fryman
    Writer:Matt Kuhn
  15. Background image for The Possimpible
    8.2/10(4.0k votes)

    #14 - The Possimpible

    S4:E14

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

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    Director:Pamela Fryman
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.2/10(4.1k votes)

    #15 - The Stinsons

    S4:E15

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

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    7.6/10(3.9k votes)

    #16 - Sorry, Bro

    S4:E16

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

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    8.2/10(4.1k votes)

    #17 - The Front Porch

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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    7.4/10(3.7k votes)

    #18 - Old King Clancy

    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.

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    8.3/10(4.0k votes)

    #19 - Murtaugh

    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.

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    Director:Pamela Fryman
    Writer:Joe Kelly
  21. Background image for Mosbius Designs
    7.5/10(3.7k votes)

    #20 - Mosbius Designs

    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.

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    8.6/10(4.2k votes)

    #21 - The Three Days Rule

    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.

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    Director:Pamela Fryman
  23. Background image for Right Place, Right Time
    8.1/10(3.9k votes)

    #22 - Right Place, Right Time

    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.

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    7.5/10(3.8k votes)

    #23 - As Fast as She Can

    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.

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    8.6/10(4.4k votes)

    #24 - The Leap

    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.

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Do I Know You?" is the best rated episode of "How I Met Your Mother" season 4. It scored 8.5/10 based on 4382 votes. Directed by Pamela Fryman and written by Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, it aired on 9/22/2008. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Best Burger in New York".