How I Met Your Podcast: A How I Met Your Mother Recap

Chris Elliott shows up as Lily's father Micky who is hilariously obsessed with becoming a successful board game creator. Marshall offers to give away the 4th slap leading to fun back and forth between Robin and Ted. Steve and Jen discuss the Oscar's Slap heard around the world.

Lily tries to finally play match-maker for Ted but her candidate becomes a victim to a great "play" out of Barney's Playbook. Ted and Marshall torture Robin with predictions of impending romance.

Robin and Barney's relationship are stretched to the limits so the gang conspires to break them up. This leads to a brilliant stakeout scene in a car that includes the late great Alan Thicke. Steve and Jen also quickly cover HIMYF 1.3 The Fixer.

Barney and Robin, in their state of New Relationship Smugness worry about a minor argument splitting Marshall and Lily apart. Marshall gets seduced by Barney's circus tent of funhouse mirrors and flawed logic to deal with Lily's demands. Also, the show offers a new euphemism for sex.

HIMYM finds a good excuse to send Ted, Marshall and Lily on a road trip to Chicago. Robin's over the top Canadian antics almost get her deported and inspire a citizenship decision.

Sophie thinks a Tinder date may be the one and then meets everyone else in the cast. Steve and Jen veer left in this podcast to cover the pilot episode of How I met your Father.

In a fantastic episode, Ted tried to woo the ladies wearing Tweed, but gets labelled the shows title before he achieves his goal. Marshall and Lily are hilariously bad at double dating.

Ted gives a lecture series to Barney on how to date Robin. Marshall loves a barrel. Steve and Jen get lots of love via mailbag.

Ted goes on a blind date with the same woman for the second time in 7 years. Marshall has trouble fantasizing about other women, but uses stripper Lily as a baby step.

Ted's hilarious attempts to define himself as a Professor carry this episode as Lily forces Barney and Robin to admit they're a couple. Also, Brad's biceps and abs.

Robin pulls some reverse Psych on Barney to make him disinterested in her. In lesser stories, Marshall contemplates leaping to the next building and Ted battles a goat.

Stella and Tony are back but unfortunately, Ted takes the high road. Barney tries to charm his way out of 15 speeding tickets and fails each time.

While the writers try to fool us into thinking this episode is vital in Ted meeting the titular mother, it's actually just a fun discourse on graphs and charts....plus Barney goes for the big 200.

Barney, Marshall and Stan intercede in Ted's love life to make sure he doesn't pull a Ted Mosby. Instead, he ends up dating a Ted Mosby.

Ted launches Mosbius designs and hires an assistant that Robin can't resist. Barney helps Marshall find a niche at work to avoid getting fired.

Barney and Ted face off on challenging each of them to act their age....using Danny Glover as an inspiration. Lily and Marshall face off on appropriate coaching techniques....and there's a Teen Wolf!!!

Marshall and Barney try to keep Ted from finding out that his GNB project has been cancelled, Guy Ritchie style. Lily needs to know what Canadian celebrity Robin slept with, what he collected and what suggested sex act ruined the night.

The brilliant follow up to Sorry Bro, we get more Karen; Lily the relationship wrecker; Robin's greatest day at work; Barney and Marshall in nightgowns....errr shirts.

In one of the most brilliant runs of HIMYM, Karen, Ted's college girlfriend moves to New York and is brilliant in all her pretentious glory. Also, Barney is tickled by Marshall forgetting to bring pants to work.

This bottle episode centers around Barney's deception to convince his mom (we finally meet Loretta) that he is a family man by hiring an actress and actor to play his wife and kids.....the gang gets involved in hilarious ways.

In possibly the most compelling Immigration tale of our times, Robin faces deportation if she can't find a job. Barney comes to her aid with some multimedia assistance. Through some resume exploration, we are faced with the mystery of who was Dr. X.

Ted and Barney have a dream realized when they try to run McClarrens under the pseudonym Puzzles, while keeping a date with a couple college girls. Lily and Marshall contemplate giving up some of their overly-cutesy couple habits. And it snows a lot.

New Roommates Ted and Robin become FWB's to solve their co-habitant disputes. Barney deals with his jealousy in an unhealthy release. Marshall struggles with reading magazines at work, which becomes a euphemism for the scatalogical.

Robin feels homesick so Marshall takes her to his favorite bar which we've never heard of before and never see again. Ted's sister Heather is moving to NY, but because of her past he is hesitant to lend her a hand...until he does....then we never see her again.

Ted and Barney claim to be victors of a fight they never entered. Lily tries to teach her students that fighting is bad, but the students prove otherwise.