Top 10 Highest Rated HIMYM Episodes Of All Time

How I Met Your Mother is probably THE most popular sitcom of the last 20 years. The show’s style of humour, laugh track and character setting has a distinct 1990’s feel it. This is despite the show beginning in 2005 and running through until 2014. In this article we’ll analyse the Top 10 Highest Rated HIMYM Episodes Of All Time, As Ranked by

Despite the popular belief that the show diminished greatly in quality after its midway point, it’s still widely praised. The show’s syndication deals mean it continues to get played around the world. Due to this, its place in popular culture won’t be fading away anytime soon.

Barney needs to make the agonising decision (at least in his world), of whether to give up his never ending collection of suits, or sleep with the ridiculously attractive new bartender. Barney goes through withdrawal symptoms as he dresses down to impress his new conquest. The episode is also synonymous with the shows first big musical number.

After an unanimous agreement that Marshall is far too good at games, he is tasked with hosted the gangs game nights. He takes this to mean that he should create his own game, which he does; MarshGammon. Marshall uses this game to try and learn more about Ted’s new girlfriend, Victoria. It turns out that Barney has the far more juicy secret, as they find an old tape of him singing about his affections and sadness to a previous girlfriend.

This episode introduces us to “The Blitz”. The Blitz is a person who leaves just before the night becomes awesome and ridiculous events unfold. As the episode progresses, The Blitz begins to change hands. At first, the title belongs to Steve Henry, a former college friends, before passing to Ted and Barney.

After meeting the “perfect girl”, Cathy, Ted takes her along to meet his friends. At a dinner, Ted notices a genuine frustration and hatred for her, but can’t quite figure it out. Later, after badgering his friends to provide a reason, and subsequently being warned that he won’t be able to ignore it once he knows, Ted finds out that Cathy talks…a lot.

This leads to Ted, Marshall, Robin, Lily and Barney all ‘breaking the glass’ about the various habits they all possess that are incredibly irritating.

A personal favourite of many How I Met Your Mother enthusiasts, The Pineapple Incident is a foggy recount of a night in which Ted got blackout drunk and wound up with a woman in his bed…and a pineapple.
As the episode progresses, friends and acquaintances fill Ted in on his night on the tiles.

While Robin is on a date with Mitch, a man of whom she has little feelings, the gang walk in on him completely naked. He informs them that due to his limitations in looks, charm and finances, the “Naked Man” is his last attempt at convincing the woman to sleep with him; his hail mary. Laughing it off, they later realise that the play worked and Robin did in fact sleep with him. Barney and Ted then go about trying to play with their respective dates to varied success.

The second part of an hour long special episode, The Final Page was a culmination of Barney’s most elaborate and final-ever play from his playbook. After confiding in Ted that he would be proposing to Patrice, Ted can’t help but tell Robin. This would be a big part in Barney’s final plan to propose marriage to Robin on the rooftop of the building.

Marshall and Lily realise that they are more content staying home with their newborn Baby than spending time away from him.

Barney, internally struggling from his relationship breakdown with Robin, uses a surprisingly brilliant set of schemes and plays in order to pick up random women. Barney shows the gang his “playbook”, and devises his most outlandish play yet in order to pick up a woman with the unsuspecting help of his friends.

After Robin strangely refuses to go to a Mall, Ted, Lily, Marshall and Barney all try to figure out why she would feel such a way. Marshall, believing Robin is secretly married, and Barney, believing Robin once did porn agree to a slap bet. The winner of the bet would be allowed to slap the other as hard as they can right in the face. Ted, worrying that Robin is married, goes to lengths to try and figure out the true season behind her not wanted to visit a mall.

In a reversal of the traditional format, we see the story play out through the eyes of Ted’s future wife. We had already met Tracey at this point (although Ted hadn’t from a present perspective), but this gave us a glimpse into the journey Tracey took to get where she needed to be in order to meet Ted. To say this is an episode that’ll produce some salty residue from your eyes is an understatement.

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