Airdate: 3 May, 2005 3:00 AM Summary: After another funeral, tempers rise as the survivors’ suspicions of each other grow, and an unlikely survivor vows revenge. The events that landed Sayid on Flight 815 play out as he engages Locke in a psychological game of cat and mouse to uncover the truth about the mishap [...]
Airdate: 5 April, 2005 3:00 AM Summary: Jack tends to a severely wounded Boone after Locke returns him to the caves. In the confusion, Locke slips away to deal with his guilt over the crisis. Meanwhile, Claire unexpectedly goes into labor while deep in the forest.
Airdate: 29 March, 2005 3:00 AM Summary: Locke thinks he’s being sent a sign on how to get the hatch open, and he and Boone venture inland. Jack is reluctant to offer assistance when Sawyer begins to experience excruciating headaches and needs glasses.
Airdate: 1 March, 2005 3:00 AM Summary: When Hurley becomes obsessed with the French woman and heads into the jungle to find her, Jack, Sayid and Charlie have no choice but to follow. Hurley flashes back to the hugely life-altering experience he had before boarding the plane.
Airdate: 22 February, 2005 3:00 AM Summary: When the raft the survivors have been building mysteriously burns down, Michael is convinced that Jin is responsible for the sabotage, which only serves to escalate their rivalry. Meanwhile, Sun stuns her fellow survivors with a surprising revelation, and Boone gives Sayid a warning about his step-sister Shannon. [...]
Airdate: 15 February, 2005 3:00 AM Summary: Kate and Sawyer divulge dark secrets to each other while tracking a renegade boar that Sawyer swears is purposely harassing him. Hurley and Sayid worry that Charlie is losing it after facing a brush with death and killing Ethan with 6 bullets to the chest. A shocking prior [...]
Airdate: 8 February, 2005 3:00 AM Summary: After the missing Claire returns with no recollection of what has happened since before she boarded the doomed Oceanic flight 815, Jack and Locke formulate a plan of defense against her kidnapper, the mysterious Ethan (guest-star William Mapother), who threatens to kill off the other survivors one by [...]
Airdate: 18 January, 2005 3:00 AM Summary: Violence ensues and a mysterious island beast makes a re-appearance when Michael and Locke clash over Walt’s upbringing. Meanwhile, Charlie is tempted to read the missing Claire’s diary, and Sayid enlists Shannon to help Decemberipher the French woman’s map.
Airdate: 11 January, 2005 3:00 AM Summary: When Locke learns that Boone wants to share their “secret” with Shannon, Locke Decemberides to teach him a lesson. This leads to Shannon’s life being placed in what seems like peril. Boone and Shannon’s dark past is revealed in a shocking backstory that recalls their relationship right before [...]
Airdate: 4 January, 2005 3:00 AM Summary: Jack, Kate and Sawyer fight over possession of a newly discovered locked metal briefcase which might contain insights into Kate’s mysterious past. Meanwhile, Sayid asks a reluctant Shannon to translate notes he took from the French woman. A rising tide threatens to engulf the fuselage and the entire [...]
Airdate: 8 December, 2004 3:00 AM Summary: Survivors wonder why Charlie and Claire have been abducted – and by whom – and a search party ventures into the treacherous jungle to look for the pair. Suspicions focus on Ethan Rom (guest-star William Mapother), who, it was recently discovered, was not a passenger on the doomed [...]
Airdate: 30 November, 2004 3:00 AM Summary: Claire has a horribly realistic nightmare about her new baby being harmed or kidnapped. Flashbacks reveal Claire’s backstory: the former boyfriend who got her pregnant, then abandoned her, and the psychic who convinced her to take the ill-fated flight that landed her on the island. Meanwhile, Hurley is [...]
Airdate: 16 November, 2004 3:00 AM Summary: Sayid’s life is placed in grave danger after he stumbles upon the source of the mysterious French transmission, the woman Danielle Rousseau (guest-star Mira Furlan). She was on the distress call and is found alive. Meanwhile, Hurley has a ridiculous plan to make life on the island a [...]
Airdate: 9 November, 2004 3:00 AM Summary: Shannon’s inhaler runs out and Boone believes Sawyer has the remaining three in his stash. When Sawyer refuses to give them up, Jack and Sayid resort to torturing Sawyer until he agrees to reveal the location of the inhalers. In flashback we hear Sawyer’s story and find he [...]
Airdate: 2 November, 2004 3:00 AM Summary: Charlie begins a painful journey of withdrawal from drugs, surprisingly aided by Locke, whose true motive for helping Charlie is a mystery. Meanwhile, survivors struggle to find and free Jack when he’s buried alive in a cave collapse, and someone might be secretly thwarting Sayid, Kate, and Boone [...]
Airdate: 26 October, 2004 3:00 AM Summary: Walt and the others are shocked when Michael is brutally beaten, but only the non-English-speaking Jin and Sun know the truth behind the attack. Meanwhile Kate, Jack, Sawyer and Sayid argue about where the survivors should camp — on the beach, where they’re more likely to be seen, [...]
Airdate: 20 October, 2004 3:00 AM Summary: Jack is nearly delirious from lack of sleep and struggles to overcome the haunting events that brought him to Australia and, subsequently, to the island. Meanwhile, Boone gets caught in a treacherous riptide trying to save a woman who went out swimming. A pregnant Claire’s health takes a [...]
Airdate: 12 October, 2004 3:00 AM Summary: The survivors are jolted awake in the middle of the night when wild island beasts (which are wild boars) invade the beach encampment. Kate and Michael join the mysterious Locke on a hunt for food — and a shocking secret about Locke is revealed. On the hunt for [...]
Airdate: 5 October, 2004 3:00 AM Summary: Jack and Hurley discover an alarming secret about Kate, as the marshal’s life hangs in the balance and he suffers a lot of pain. Meanwhile Kate, Charlie, Sawyer, Sayid, Boone and Shannon ponder the mysteries they have begun to uncover and worry that telling the other survivors will [...]
Airdate: 28 September, 2004 3:00 AM Summary: Having escaped the “creature” and retrieved the plane transceiver, a group of the survivors travel to higher ground so they can transmit a signal. En route, they receive a mysterious transmission and encounter another of the island’s inhabitants. Meanwhile, back at camp, Jack tends to a wounded man [...]
Airdate: 22 September, 2004 3:00 AM Summary: A sudden plane crash leaves at least 48 survivors stranded on a jungle island, forced to scavenge for survival from the wreckage of the plane. As they get their bearings and pin their hopes on a quick rescue, the band of strangers begin to learn the island holds [...]
Airdate: 22 March, 2010 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Summary: When Ted ruins Lily’s birthday dinner celebration by bringing a date, Lily goes to great lengths to keep her out of the traditional photo she takes every year of the gang.
Airdate: 8 March, 2010 8:00 PM Summary: Barney is driven mad by a woman who seems to be following all the rules in a new guide book for single women. In fact, she’s the one who wrote it…
Airdate: 1 March, 2010 8:00 PM Summary: When a beautiful young woman “hooks” Ted (keeping Ted in reserve as backup while she pursues her own dream boyfriend), the gang discusses their own experiences both as the one who “hooks” and the one on the hook.
Airdate: 8 February, 2010 3:00 AM Summary: Marshall and Lily set up Ted with one of Barney’s discards as a Valentine’s Day date. Meanwhile, Robin’s invited to a party by a co-worker.
Airdate: 1 February, 2010 3:00 AM Summary: When Barney is about to complete the perfect week – landing seven different girls in seven days – the gang roots him on in order to forget about their own miserable week.
Airdate: 18 January, 2010 3:00 AM Summary: When Marshall’s co-worker kisses him, he can’t get Lily to believe it happened. Robin discovers she’s the subject of a drinking game.
Airdate: 11 January, 2010 3:00 AM Summary: Barney chooses between wearing suits and sleeping with a sexy bartender. Meanwhile, Ted gets ever closer to meeting “the mother”.
Airdate: 14 December, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: When Marshall picks up smoking again, it prompts Lily, Ted and Barney, ex-smokers all, to succumb as well. Meanwhile, Robin gets a new co-anchor at her show…
Airdate: 7 December, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: When a perfect girl finally shows up, the gang tries everything to help Ted, while Marshall takes action when he discovers a letter written by younger himself.
Airdate: 23 November, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Barney’s unhappy after a slap bet is bequeathed to Ted and Robin by Marshall. Lily’s long-absent father arrives for Thanksgiving.
Airdate: 16 November, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Barney dusts off his “playbook” to help him back into the dating scene following his breakup with Robin.
Airdate: 9 November, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: After Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin hit a rough patch in their relationship, Lily devises the perfect plan to break them up, calling in help from Robin’s famous friend, Alan Thicke.
Airdate: 2 November, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Despite their best efforts to be the perfect couple, Barney’s know-it-all attitude gets him in trouble with Robin and they are forced to ask Marshall and Lily for relationship advice
Airdate: 19 October, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Barney wants Robin to become an American citizen; Lily joins Marshall and Ted on their road trip.
Airdate: 12 October, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: When Lily and Marshall realize that Robin and Barney are the perfect double-date friends, they try too hard to impress and come on too strong, forcing Barney and Robin to try to break up with them
Airdate: 5 October, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: When Robin fears that Barney is cheating on her, she soon discovers that he is spending his evenings with Ted learning everything there is to know on how to date her.
Airdate: 28 September, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Ted realizes his blind date is the same girl he had a blind date with seven years prior. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang discover a Lily look-alike at a strip club.
Airdate: 21 September, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: When Marshall and the gang finds out that Barney and Robin are hesitant to define their relationship, Lily forces them to confront their biggest fear. Meanwhile, Ted is anxious about teaching his first lecture at Columbia.
Airdate: 18 May, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: As his 31st birthday nears, an all-nighter to try to get business has Ted realizing he may need to pursue another career than architecture. Meanwhile, Marshall tries to get him up to a rooftop surprise party.
Airdate: 11 May, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 4 May, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Ted explains to his future kids how a chance encounter with a former girlfriend changed his life. Barney makes the 200th notch in his bedpost.
Airdate: 27 April, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: When Ted violates the ‘three days rule’ by continually texting with a girl he’s just met, Barney and Marshall retaliate by impersonating her.
Airdate: 13 April, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 30 March, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Barney attempts to complete in a single day all the tasks from a list Ted made to prove the gang’s not too old to do them.
Airdate: 23 March, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Marshall and Barney lie to keep Ted from finding out the headquarters he’d been hired to design for GNB has been cancelled.
Airdate: 16 March, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Ted is shocked to learn that Lily is responsible for many of his breakups with ex-girlfriends
Airdate: 9 March, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Ted’s college girlfriend reenters his life and leaves Marshall and Lily remembering how much they hated her–a fact they never revealed to Ted.
Airdate: 2 March, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: When the gang suspects that Barney has a girlfriend after he mysteriously leaves MacLaren’s, they decide to follow him, only to find to their shock that Barney has a wife and child they never knew about.
Airdate: 2 February, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Robin relies on a video résumé prepared by Barney to land a job before facing deportation back to Canada.
Airdate: 19 January, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: A blizzard hits New York City, threatenting a tradition of Marshall and Lily’s and leaving Ted and Barney to keep MacLaren’s doors open.
Airdate: 12 January, 2009 3:00 AM Summary: Robin and Ted explore “friends with benefits” while living together. Marshall has trouble with a few reality TV stars.
Airdate: 15 December, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Marshall takes Robin to a bar with a Minnesota theme. Ted attempts to keep his visiting sister away from Barney.
Airdate: 8 December, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Ted
Airdate: 24 November, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 17 November, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Robin reconnects with a group of single partiers known as the “Woo Girls”. Ted must present Barney a plan for his company’s new HQ.
Airdate: 10 November, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Lily and Marshall are considering having a baby, but Lily wants advice from Ted and Robin, first. However, she soon finds they have very different views.
Airdate: 3 November, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: The gang contemplate ways in which they’d handle an unwanted encounter with a person from their past.
Airdate: 20 October, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Deciding to wed in three days, Ted and Stella suddenly see their plans shattered by exes.
Airdate: 13 October, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 6 October, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 29 September, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 22 September, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Stella has to give Ted an answer. Barney wants to say something to Robin.
Airdate: 19 May, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Ted is in a car accident that prompts Marshall to talk about miracles. Everyone flashbacks to prior moments in their lives.
Airdate: 11 May, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: As their expenses continue to mount, Marshall and Lily decide to sell some of their possessions online. Barney and Abby (guest star Britney Spears) go to the bar to flaunt their relationship in Ted’s face. Barney attempts to anger Ted in many other ways as well.
Airdate: 5 May, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Barney looks for a new bro after Ted leaves him. Ted and his girlfriend look forward to having sex for the first time together.
Airdate: 28 April, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: When a guilt-ridden Barney breaks the “Bro Code,” he struggles with the ramifications of his misstep.
Airdate: 21 April, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Robin’s musical past emerges again as the group learns of someone named Simon from Robin’s past. Barney searches frantically for more Robin Sparkles memorabilia.
Airdate: 14 April, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Marshall gets fed up at his job and everyone tells him different ways of dealing with it.
Airdate: 31 March, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: When Barney’s love life is sabotaged by a mystery woman, he turns to tournament bracketology to narrow down the field of 64 women with the most cause to hate his guts.
Airdate: 23 March, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Ted pursues a woman named Stella, but only gets attention from her receptionist Abby.
Airdate: 17 March, 2008 3:00 AM Summary: Its St. Patrick’s Day and Ted and Barney go to a party. With a weird theory that karma has been reversed, Ted does some things he is not proud of.
Airdate: 10 December, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: Ted asks his doctor on a date and his friends try to discourage him from going out with someone he sees regularly recalling their own horror stories of bad experiences.
Airdate: 26 November, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: After everyone joins a gym, Barney sees his “first” there and loses his ability to approach women upon learning that his performance with her, which began his streak of sexual conquest and confidence, was poor. After his attempts at a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show party go awry, Barney [...]
Airdate: 19 November, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: As Lily and Marshall host their first Thanksgiving as a married couple, Barney is tortured by the tick-tock of the Slap Bet countdown clock and the certainty of the exact moment the slap is going to be delivered. Meanwhile, Ted and Robin try to settle their feelings for [...]
Airdate: 12 November, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: Ted finds what he thinks is the perfect woman, but his friends all find a flaw. In doing so, however, they reveal their own shortcomings.
Airdate: 5 November, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: When Lily and Marshall decide to buy an apartment, not only do they make every mistake in the book, but Marshall also discovers Lily’s dirty little financial secret when they apply for a loan.
Airdate: 29 October, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: When a corporate law firm courts Marshall, lawyer Jeff Coatsworth wins him over, forcing him to let go of his dream of saving the earth in favor of the almighty dollar. Guest star John Cho.
Airdate: 22 October, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: When Ted’s new girl becomes jealous because the story of how he and his pals met is better than the story of how she and Ted met, her ranking on Barney’s “crazy scale” skyrockets.
Airdate: 15 October, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: When “kid-unfriendly” Robin surprisingly forms a bond with the young son of the guy she is dating, she decides it is too serious and must figure out a way to let the little guy down.
Airdate: 8 October, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: Ted bumps into Trudy (the girl who sneaked out Ted’s bedroom window in “The Pineapple Incident”). While on a date with her, her sorority sister Rachel shows up and acts very interested in Ted.
Airdate: 1 October, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: After seeing girls get weak in the knees over Robin’s boyfriend Gael being from Argentina, Barney and Ted decide to pose as out-of-towners, in order to meet chicks.
Airdate: 24 September, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: When Robin shows up with a new boyfriend, Ted decides he is ready to hit the town with Barney. Enrique Iglesias guest stars as Gael, Robin’s new lover and Mandy Moore guest stars as Amy, a tattooed party girl Ted hooks up with while out on the town. [...]
Airdate: 14 May, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 7 May, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 29 April, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 8 April, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 18 March, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 25 February, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: 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 [...]
Airdate: 18 February, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 11 February, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 4 February, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: 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 [...]
Airdate: 21 January, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: 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 [...]
Airdate: 7 January, 2007 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 10 December, 2006 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 26 November, 2006 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 19 November, 2006 3:00 AM Summary: 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 [...]
Airdate: 12 November, 2006 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
Airdate: 5 November, 2006 3:00 AM Summary: 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 [...]
Airdate: 22 October, 2006 3:00 AM Summary: 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.
