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 by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of How I Met Your Mother season 4!

A father tells his children, through a series of flashbacks, the journey that he and his four best friends undertook, which would lead him to meet their mother.

Last Updated: 2/13/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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The Naked Man
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7.96
6141 votes

#1 - The Naked Man

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/2008

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Joe Kelly
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The Leap
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7.77
5472 votes

#2 - The Leap

Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/18/2009

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
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Three Days of Snow
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7.77
5712 votes

#3 - Three Days of Snow

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/2009

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Matt Kuhn
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Intervention
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7.75
6044 votes

#4 - Intervention

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/2008

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.

Directors: Michael J. Shea
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The Three Days Rule
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7.68
5785 votes

#5 - The Three Days Rule

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/27/2009

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Greg Malins
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The Stinsons
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7.67
5727 votes

#6 - The Stinsons

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/2/2009

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

Directors: Pamela Fryman
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The Possimpible
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7.67
5650 votes

#7 - The Possimpible

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/2009

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

Directors: Pamela Fryman
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The Front Porch
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7.67
5488 votes

#8 - The Front Porch

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/16/2009

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.

Directors: Rob Greenberg
Writer: Chris Harris
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The Fight
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7.67
5468 votes

#9 - The Fight

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/2008

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
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Little Minnesota
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7.66
5598 votes

#10 - Little Minnesota

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/2008

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Chuck Tatham
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Woooo!
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7.64
5788 votes

#11 - Woooo!

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2008

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Watch Now:Apple TV
Shelter Island
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7.63
5711 votes

#12 - Shelter Island

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2008

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Chris Harris
Watch Now:Apple TV
Mosbius Designs
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7.62
5551 votes

#13 - Mosbius Designs

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/13/2009

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Watch Now:Apple TV
The Best Burger in New York
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7.61
5828 votes

#14 - The Best Burger in New York

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2008

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Watch Now:Apple TV
Benefits
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7.59
5828 votes

#15 - Benefits

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/2009

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
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Do I Know You?
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7.58
6231 votes

#16 - Do I Know You?

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2008

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Watch Now:Apple TV
Murtaugh
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7.57
5445 votes

#17 - Murtaugh

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/30/2009

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Joe Kelly
Watch Now:Apple TV
Happily Ever After
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7.56
5856 votes

#18 - Happily Ever After

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2008

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

Directors: Pamela Fryman
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Right Place Right Time
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7.55
5712 votes

#19 - Right Place Right Time

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/2009

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

Directors: Pamela Fryman
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Not a Father's Day
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7.54
5586 votes

#20 - Not a Father's Day

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2008

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Robia Rashid
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I Heart NJ
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7.54
5787 votes

#21 - I Heart NJ

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/2008

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Greg Malins
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Sorry, Bro
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7.37
5801 votes

#22 - Sorry, Bro

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/9/2009

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

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Watch Now:Apple TV
As Fast as She Can
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7.29
5775 votes

#23 - As Fast as She Can

Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/2009

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.

Directors: Pamela Fryman
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Old King Clancy
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7.28
5467 votes

#24 - Old King Clancy

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/23/2009

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

Directors: Pamela Fryman
Watch Now:Apple TV