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How I Met Your Mother: Season 2

22 episodes Premiered Sep 18, 2006 Updated Oct 1, 2026

How I Met Your Mother Season 2 continues the overarching saga across 22 episodes. The television series follows a love story in reverse, featuring a father who recounts to his children, through a series of flashbacks, the journey that he and his friends took. The production is a comedy rated TV-14, centered around storytelling via flashbacks from a father to his kids.

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Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ The series is a love story told in reverse.
  • ⚡ A father recounts his journey to his children.
  • ⚡ The storytelling utilizes a series of flashbacks.
  • ⚡ The narrative follows the father and his friends.
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Season overview

How I Met Your Mother Season 2 continues the overarching saga across 22 episodes. The television series follows a love story in reverse, featuring a father who recounts to his children, through a series of flashbacks, the journey that he and his friends took. The production is a comedy rated TV-14, centered around storytelling via flashbacks from a father to his kids.

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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S2·E1 Mytharc

Where Were We?

Sep 18, 2006 · 21 min

The gang tries to help Marshall get over Lily, especially when he finds a credit card bill that leads to a hotel in New York City where some of her charges are listed.

S2·E2 Core

The Scorpion and the Toad

Sep 25, 2006 · 22 min

Barney works with Marshall on his bachelor skills, which include hitting on women. Lily is back from her venture. Robin helps her look for a new apartment but gets sick of hearing

S2·E3 Core

Brunch

Oct 2, 2006 · 23 min

Ted's parents visit New York for their anniversary and he learns a family secret. Robin worries that they won't like her. Lily and Marshall try to adjust to the new format of their

S2·E4 Core

Ted Mosby, Architect

Oct 9, 2006 · 23 min

After Ted and Robin's first big fight, Barney tries to convince Ted that being an architect is an easy in to picking up chicks. Lily and Robin start following his trail after disco

S2·E5 Core

World's Greatest Couple

Oct 16, 2006 · 23 min

Marshall tries to get used to being single in a world that is very coupled-oriented. Barney intended one-night-stand won't go away. Barney uses Lily to get out of his "horrifying"

S2·E6 Core

Aldrin Justice

Oct 23, 2006 · 22 min

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.

S2·E7 Core

Swarley

Nov 6, 2006 · 22 min

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

S2·E8 Core

Atlantic City

Nov 13, 2006 · 22 min

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 cap

S2·E9 Core

Slap Bet

Nov 20, 2006 · 23 min

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

S2·E10 Core

Single Stamina

Nov 27, 2006 · 23 min

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

S2·E11 Core

How Lily Stole Christmas

Dec 11, 2006 · 23 min

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.

S2·E12 Core

First Time in New York

Jan 8, 2007 · 23 min

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

S2·E13 Core

Columns

Jan 22, 2007 · 22 min

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 off

S2·E14 Core

Monday Night Football

Feb 5, 2007 · 22 min

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 sc

S2·E15 Core

Lucky Penny

Feb 12, 2007 · 23 min

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 Li

S2·E16 Core

Stuff

Feb 19, 2007 · 22 min

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

S2·E17 Core

Arrivederci, Fiero

Feb 26, 2007 · 22 min

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 th

S2·E18 Core

Moving Day

Mar 19, 2007 · 23 min

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 themselve

S2·E19 Core

Bachelor Party

Apr 9, 2007 · 23 min

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.

S2·E20 Core

Showdown

Apr 30, 2007 · 23 min

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.

S2·E21 Mytharc

Something Borrowed

May 7, 2007 · 23 min

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.

S2·E22 Mytharc

Something Blue

May 14, 2007 · 23 min

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

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