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This page lists characters from the television series How I Met Your Mother.
- Episodes : Pilot to Current
Theodore Evelyn "Ted" Mosby (born April 25, 1978) is the main character of How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Josh Radnor. Ted, who can be classified as a hopeless romantic, serves as the show's narrator from the future, voiced by Bob Saget, as he tells his children the long version of how he met their mother. He is a struggling architect and a romantic, believing in an idealized version of love, and wants to get married and start a family. Ted has been best friends with Marshall since they met in college, and lived with him for around 6–8 years. A graduate of Wesleyan University,[1] Ted grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio with parents Virginia and Alfred Mosby. Ted complains in season 2 that he has never been able to talk about anything deep or difficult with his parents. In this episode the gang goes out to brunch to celebrate Virginia & Alfred's 30th anniversary. Ted soon discovers that his parents had actually divorced 9 months previously, after being separated for 2 years, and had been playing happy family for Ted and his sister's sake. When Ted confronts them he realizes that he doesn't really know anything about them or how they met. Ted vows here and now that when he has kids that he is going to tell them every single detail of how he met their mother — thus birthing the entire concept for the series. He dated Robin.
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Barney Stinson
- Episodes : Pilot to Current
Played by Neil Patrick Harris and born in 1975, Barney Stinson is a womanizer, favors suits, enjoys playing laser tag and performing magic tricks often involving fire, and frequently uses the words "awesome" and "legendary," which Ted believes he uses too liberally. Barney is very eager to prove his "awesomeness" by doing things his friends inadvertently suggest (normally something they find ridiculous), prompting him to say his other coined phrase "challenge accepted". Barney is the writer of the Bro Code (though he claims it was written by Barnabus Stinson in the Colonial Era) and the Playbook, from which he documents his favorite moves to use on women. Barney was raised by a single mother, along with his older brother James. He spent very little time with his father when he was a child. In season 6, Barney's father Jerome, returns to his life hoping to make amends for abandoning him as a child. Barney was engaged to a woman in college, a woman who rejected him because of his lack of success and her lack of desire for commitment. Barney still fears committing to another woman. When she broke up with him (leaving him still a virgin), his black, gay brother James Stinson arranged for him to lose his virginity with "the Man-Maker". She claimed he was awesome (as a favor to Barney's brother) which ignited Barney's unlimited confidence. Prior to losing his virginity, Barney was a long-haired hippie with plans to join the Peace Corps. Soon after his rejection, he saw a flier for a sale on suits, thus beginning his suit addiction. Shortly after he met Ted Mosby in the Men's room and announced to that he would "teach Ted how to live," beginning his life with Ted's group of friends where he remains. Barney believes himself to be Ted's best friend. In season 4, Barney realizes he has fallen in love with Robin and spends the next season hiding it from her. The two get together in season 5, but the relationship only lasts for 7 episodes. After their breakup, Barney returned to his womanizing ways, but sometimes shows regret in ending his relationship with Robin. In season 6, Robin introduces him to her friend Nora. Barney first denies that he is attracted to her, but later admits to Robin that he is. Barney and Nora's relationship is short lived, however, because Barney is unwilling to let himself be honest with her about his feelings. In the sixth season finale, it is revealed that Barney may be getting married a little ways in the future, a scene which includes Barney, Ted, Lily and Marshall and does not reveal who the bride is. He decides to give his relationship with Nora a second chance, but it ends when he cheats on her with Robin. The two agree to leave their respective partners, and reevaluate their relationship, but at the last minute, Robin decides to stay with her boyfriend, leaving Barney alone once again. Barney has slept with over 283 women. Its revealed in the season 7 finale that Barney marries Robin.
- Episodes : Pilot to Current
Marshall Eriksen is played by Jason Segel. Born in 1978 and of Scandinavian descent, Marshall met Ted and Lily during their freshman year at Wesleyan University. He is a Columbia Law School graduate originally from Minnesota. Even though he stands at 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), he is the shortest male member of his family, which has invented the sport of "baskiceball". Marshall became a lawyer because he was interested in environmental protection laws. Ultimately, he accepted a job at a corporate law firm where his only client is an amusement park riddled with various safety violations. He later joins the legal team at Goliath National Bank, where Barney also works. Marshall is also very good at various games and highly interested in food and paranormal happenings, specifically Sasquatch and Nessie. He can play the piano fairly well, as seen in the episode "Slapsgiving" where he performs a song after slapping Barney. Marshall is an enigma in the episode "Sweet Taste of Liberty" he is relieved when he escapes a fight claiming he has never fought anyone before but proves he is formidable and experienced fighter in the episode "The Fight". It is revealed in "Last Cigarette Ever" that in the future, he and Lily have a son. In early 2011, after being told Marshall and Lily are capable of having a baby, Lily tells Marshall that his dad had a fatal heart attack and died. Marshall and his friends agree his dad's last words towards him were, 'I love you' but they were actually about a foot cream. But during his father's funeral, Marshall says in his eulogy that the last words his father ever said to him were "...rent Crocodile Dundee 3...", which are in fact the last words his father ever spoke to him in person (the last words about foot cream were in a voicemail). In "Last Cigarette Ever", it was revealed that the two have at least one son, and in the season six finale, Lily announces to Marshall that she is pregnant.
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Lily Aldrin
- Episodes : Pilot to Mosbius Designs; As Fast as She Can to Current
Played by Alyson Hannigan and born in March 1978, Lily is a kindergarten teacher. She is married to Marshall Eriksen and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Like Ted, and Marshall, she is also a graduate of Wesleyan University. Lily dreams of being an artist and at one point painted a portrait of Marshall in the nude. She also painted Barney nude for $10000, although she made him look like a Ken doll, drawing his crotch but not his genitals. Lily sometimes shows an interest in the same sex, fantazising and dreaming about women. She seems to be attracted to her friend Robin and it is hinted at several times that she might be a little bisexual. In Season 6, Episode 22, it is shown that she becomes keen to kiss Robin when drinking Martinis. She also has a huge debt problem because of her impulsive shopping. She is able to hide this from Marshall until they apply for a mortgage. She cannot keep a secret, and is often shown to be the most spoiled of the group, but despite those traits she is a very caring person and will much of the time do thankless acts for the good of her friends. In the episode "Mosbius Designs," Barney describes her as "A diabolical puppet master, manipulating every single situation to get exactly what she wants, she is pure evil," and tells Marshall that he has "a good one there, hang on to her." In the episode "The Possimpible," Lily lists her special skills and interests on her resume as:
"Competitive Speed Eater (can eat 33 hot dogs in 8 minutes; New York City Speed Eating Champion, Junior Division, 1995), Painting, (Oils, Acrylics), fluent in Italian, certified in Teaching English as a Second Language, Proficient in Photoshop, Quark, Java."
She met Marshall and Ted in college and almost immediately started dating Marshall. They were together for about 9 years and engaged for almost a year when Lily broke up with Marshall to move to San Francisco to concentrate on her art. She was there for a summer and came back to NYC but Marshall was too hurt that they stayed separated for a few more months. They eventually patched things up and got married. They moved into an apartment in Dowisetrepla, which they did not know at the time stands for Down Wind of the Sewage Treatment Plant. They want children, but for a while were scared so they didn't try. Later Lily and Marshall make an agreement that once they have seen the doppelganger of every member of their gang they will start trying for a child. By the summer of 2010, they have seen all but Barney's doppelganger, when Lily sees what she thinks is his doppelganger (it wasn't). The rest of the gang knew this meant she was ready for a child and let her believe it. In the season six episode, "The Mermaid Theory", future Ted was telling a story (out of place in the present time-line) of a fight that Lily and Barney have while she's pregnant. Future Ted stated that the pregnancy was a "way down the road" from when he told the story. Lily announces in the season 6 finale that she is pregnant, and in "Last Cigarette Ever", future Ted reveals that they have at least one son. The gender of the child they are expecting was revealed to be male in "Mystery vs. History".
- Episodes : Pilot to Current
Played by Cobie Smulders, Robin was born on July 23, 1980, and works as a Television news reporter/reasearcher on World Wide News. She was originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, and named after her father, who treated her more like a boy than a girl. In many episodes it is implied she is a fan of the Vancouver Canucks. For most of the second season, she dated Ted after Ted spent much of the first season pursuing her romantically. Early in the first season, it was established that she does not become Ted's wife, instead becoming "Aunt Robin" to Ted's children. Despite their break-up, there continued to be some sexual tension between them throughout most of the third season, most obviously when Robin brought home her new Argentine boyfriend from the trip she and Ted had planned together. As a teenager, she was a teen pop singer named Robin Sparkles who toured malls across Canada following her minor hit "Let's Go to the Mall" and debacle "Sandcastles in the Sand." Her first boyfriend was Simon, who starred in her second music video. In season 4, Robin moves in with Ted after leaving her short-lived job in Japan. During the fourth season finale, she and Barney pursue a relationship, but they end it in season 5. Some of her idiosyncrasies include having predilections towards fights and pronouncing the word picture as pitcher. She also is frequently made fun of for her tendency to laugh while lying, and well as her references to places and history exclusive to Canada, including Mount Waddington and Danby's which is a restaurant in Munster Ontario. Though she stated explicitly throughout the seasons that she does not like children, future Ted mentioned that she eventually grew to like them and even became close to Ted's children (appearing in their drawings). After being unemployed for a while after being in America, Robin found out that she would be deported if she did not get a job. Barney helped her land a job for an early morning show. Soon after she started she got a co-host named Don whom she could not stand. However, she started to have feelings for him and they were a couple for a while. While she was with Don, she had a job opportunity for an anchor job in Chicago, but she turned it down to continue her relationship with Don. However, she was upset when she found out that Don actually accepted the position. In season 6 episode "False Positive", Robin worked as a Researcher for World Wide News but she eventually moved up to co-anchor after subbing for Sandy Rivers during a New Year's Eve show. Its revealed in the season 7 finale that Robin marries Barney.
- The eponymous mother has been an unseen character so far. Present Ted hasn't met her yet, while Future Ted has only mentioned very little about her. In "Belly Full of Turkey" a stripper tells Ted that her name is Tracy, right before Future Ted makes a joke telling his kids that she is their mother. In Milk, Ted gets a call from a match-maker service saying they have found him his perfect match, showing a montage of blurred photos, with Future Ted explaining how she has all the qualities of his ideal woman. It can be assumed that this is his wife. In "Wait for It", it is revealed that the short story of how they met involved her yellow umbrella. In "No Tomorrow", Ted finds the umbrella at a club and takes it home after attending a St. Patrick's Day party which she also attended but at which they did not meet. He says he was glad this happened, as he behaved badly at the party, getting drunk, impersonating someone to get free drinks on their tab, and telling a woman he wants to have sex with her, then never see her again. Stella (Sarah Chalke) mentions in passing to Ted when he tries to ask her out that she has only been out once to a party that year, which was St Patrick's Day, hinting that it may have been her yellow umbrella (this later turns out to be false). Future Ted strongly implies that his wife is a brunette, telling his children in "Shelter Island" that had he married the blonde Stella, they would have turned out to be blond (his children are both, like Ted, brunettes). On his first day of teaching as Professor Mosby, as seen in the season 4 finale "The Leap", he is seen in front of the classroom of students, one of which Future Ted says is the titular mother. But in the first episode of season 5, "Definitions", it is revealed that he was actually in the wrong classroom, Economics instead of Architecture. Then in "Girls Versus Suits", Ted dates a graduate student named Cindy (played by Rachel Bilson), whose roommate is his future wife—when in Cindy and the mother's apartment he picks up many of her belongings and comments on how compatible he and Cindy are (thinking they are Cindy's) and glimpses her foot as she disappears into her room after taking a shower. Ted finds out at this time that his future wife plays bass guitar in a band. Ted forgets to take the yellow umbrella with him when he goes out, and Future Ted mentions, "And this is how your mother got her yellow umbrella back." In the season 6 opener "Big Days" it is revealed Ted meets his future wife during a wedding at which he is the best man. Later in the episode "Glitter" Ted's old high school friend Punchy asks Ted to be the best man at Punchy's wedding. In the episode "False Positive" Robin asks Ted to be her future best man, should she ever get married. In the episode "Challenge Accepted", it is revealed that Ted meets the mother of his children at Barney's wedding. In the last episode of season 7, "The Magician's Code" it is shown that Barney will marry Robin, and Ted will meet the mother at their wedding.
- First Appearance : Pilot
- Not much is known about them, except that they still do not know all the events that led to Ted meeting their mother and that they are in their teens in the year 2030. Ted apparently wanted to name the children Luke and Leia because in "Milk" Ted was told to "swear on his unborn son and daughter," to which he replied, "I swear on Luke and Leia." This is obviously a reference to Star Wars. The daughter is played by Lyndsy Fonseca, and the son is played by David Henrie. Scenes revealing their reactions to the end of the story were filmed during the second season since the actors would be young adults by the time the last season airs. Ted's daughter appears in the episode "Trilogy Time" as an infant in 2015.
- 15 Episodes, First Appearance : Pilot, Last appearance : The Best Man
- Played by Joe Nieves. Bartender at MacLaren's Bar, which is frequented by the main characters. In the pilot, he is dating a Lebanese girl. In "The Pineapple Incident" he writes his phone number on a very drunk Ted's arm to call if he gets lost. Although never stated in the show, creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas mention on the Season 1 DVD that Carl’s last name is MacLaren and he owns the bar (thus the name). During Carter Bays and Craig Thomas's commentary track for The Pineapple Incident, it was stated that Joe Nieves, who plays Carl, received the part after the scene he was supposed to be in was cut from the pilot but no one had told him, and he turned up on set in full costume (he was meant to be a police officer). As no one wanted to tell him that they had cut his scene, they gave him the role of Carl.
- First Appearance : Pilot
- Played by Marshall Manesh. Ranjit is the cab and limo driver from Bangladesh who drives the main characters around on a few occasions and, on one occasion, drinks champagne with them in MacLaren's bar. He also drives the limo right after Marshall and Lily are married. Ranjit helps Ted with his two-minute date with his dermatologist Stella in the episode "Ten Sessions" as well as driving Barney and Ted to Ted's 30th birthday party in the episode "The Goat". In episode 15 of season 5, Ranjit is heard speaking Persian in an argument in favor of ducks. Indeed, the actor is Iranian, but it appears as an inconsistency as Ranjit is supposed to be from Bangladesh, and therefore speak Bengali. In the episode Three Days of Snow he was at the airport to pick someone up when he saw Lily and when he learned she needed a ride he left the person he was supposed to pick to help Lily. Ranjit appears in 11 episodes; his latest appearance being in "Now We're Even".
- First Appearance : The Wedding
- Played by Ashley Williams. She was a baker at The Buttercup Bakery before she received a scholarship, and later opened a new bakery. She and Ted met at a wedding reception for which she had made the cake, where they spend the night hanging around by themselves under the promise that they will never see each other again so as not to ruin their memory of that night. This promise is soon broken and they start up a relationship with each other. This is complicated when she is offered a cooking fellowship in Germany. They eventually decide that a long distance relationship cannot work and break up. A vision of her appears to Ted shortly before the break-up, when he lies to Robin about having already ended the relationship before the fact. Appears in 8 episodes. At the very end of The Naked Truth she reappears at the architects ball that Ted is attending. In Ducky Tie, Ted talks to her and goes to her bakery to wash dishes to make amends for cheating on her. She later tell Ted that she is getting married to a German guy, and Ted realizes that it was a guy who was in her class. When Ted asks if she cheated on him, she tells him that she started dating him a day and a half after they broke up. Ted gets mad at this, but Victoria reminds her of their memories together. They kiss and she tells Ted that maybe it was fate and she had to meet him so she could decide if she wants to marry that guy. When they depart, she tells Ted that all of his relationships fail because Robin is a huge part of his life, and that he, Barney, and Robin cannot continue to hang out, because it doesn't work, a statement which Future Ted verifies. After Robin and Ted definitively break up, in "The Magician's Code" she encourages him to call Victoria, who agrees to see him although she is getting married later that day. She offers to run away with him; although Ted initially refuses because of Stella leaving him at the wedding on Shelter Island, he changes his mind and they drive off into the sunset.
- First Appearance : Ten Sessions
- Played by Sarah Chalke. Ted's dermatologist, who removes his ill-advised butterfly tramp stamp tattoo. Ted attempts to convince her to go out with him over the course of the episode Ten Sessions. Stella initially refuses, telling Ted that she has to focus on being a mother to her daughter, but eventually agrees to go on a two minute lunch date. She and Ted begin dating soon after. Her future with Ted is intentionally left up in the air and there is some speculation that she may be Ted's eventual wife. In the last episode of season three, Ted proposed to Stella, and in the season four premiere she accepted. On Shelter Island, after her sister's wedding falls apart, she and Ted agreed to take over the wedding. She ends up leaving Ted at the altar and getting back together with Tony, her ex-boyfriend and the father of her daughter. Appears in nine episodes among seasons three and four. She later appears in Right Place Right Time as the mystery woman who all the tiny events of Ted's day cause him to meet; she is still with Tony and it is he, feeling guilty for stealing Ted's fiance, who gets Ted his teaching position. Shortly after Ted bumps into her on the street she moves with Tony to California where Tony made a movie about the love triangle called The Wedding Bride. The gang go to see it and are stunned about how much liberty Tony took with the story.
- First Appearance : Desperation Day
- Played by Nazanin Boniadi. Robin's co-worker who meets Barney before Valentine's day. They start dating but break up after Barney confesses to cheating on her with Robin.
- First Appearance : The Stinson Missile Crisis
- Played by Kal Penn. Robin's therapist, then boyfriend. She cheats on him with Barney, but as of 46 Minutes, he isn't aware of this fact. He proposed to Robin before she told him of her inability to have natural children. When he found out, he still wanted to marry her, suggesting they could adopt or use a surrogate. When she made it clear to him that she did not ever want to have children, he took back his proposal and they broke up.
- First Appearance : Single Stamina
- Played by Wayne Brady. Barney's African-American and gay half-brother who also enjoys wearing suits and acts nearly the same as his brother - they used to go out on the pull together ('no crossover of targets'). He is married and he and his husband have two adopted children: a son and a daughter. In the sixth season episode "Cleaning House," James found his father, a man named Sam Gibbs. He has appeared in five episodes to date.
- First Appearance : Ted Mosby: Architect
- Played by Joe Manganiello. A friend of Marshall's from law school. Brad and Marshall begin to hang out after they both discover they are single after getting dumped by their respective girlfriends, Kara and Lily. They go to brunch and to a musical together. Meanwhile, the bromance between Brad and Marshall becomes increasingly awkward. Eventually, Brad gets back together with his girlfriend. He also attends Marshall's bachelor party and wedding, where he chases away Lily's high school boyfriend, Scooter. He gets punched in the face by Barney when he tries to kiss Robin at a hockey game but bears no hard feelings towards him for that. Appears in 5 episodes.
- First Appearance : The Wedding
- Played by Matt Boren. A good friend of Ted and Marshall's who accompanies them to Marshall's bachelor party. Stuart also was about get married to another friend of Ted's, Claudia, but when Ted wanted to bring a guest to their wedding Claudia freaked out that no more people could come. Ted went behind Claudia's back and asked Stuart if he could bring Robin to his wedding and Stuart agreed. This resulted in Stuart and Claudia breaking up; Marshall eventually got the two of them back together. He briefly appears in Intervention, where in they intervene out of their concerns for him about his alcoholism. In Baby Talk, he and Claudia have a daughter named Esther.
- First Appearance : Return of the Shirt
- Played by Charlene Amoia. A waitress from MacLaren's bar. Characterized as sweet and somewhat naive, she appears well liked by The Gang who always refer to her as "Wendy The Waitress". Barney has had a brief relationship with her which ended up with her getting over the breakup easily, while he was convinced that she was trying to kill him and all the drinks she served him were poisoned. In that episode, Robin jokingly refers to her as "Wendy the Waitress-hyphen-Stinson." It is also revealed in season 6 that Wendy the Waitress falls in love and is later married to Marshall's ex-co worker Meeker (Daniel G. O'Brien) who found out they both hate Marshall after his "Go Green" fiasco. She and Meeker have three kids in the future.
- First Appearance : Architect Of Destruction
- Played by Jennifer Morrison. Ted first meets Zoey, an activist who is protesting the destruction of an historic New York building, in the 6th season episode "Architect of Destruction". At first Ted is attracted to her even though he is the architect responsible for the building's inevitable demolition. When she finds out that Ted is the architect, she turns on him and spends the next few weeks staking out his house and office to torment him. In the episode "Natural History", Ted meets her rich husband, who calls himself the Captain, at a black-tie event at a museum that the whole gang is invited to because of Ted's building project with Goliath National Bank. Though their interactions that night are somewhat amicable, they leave the museum still hating each other. In the episode "Blitzgiving", she spends the night before Thanksgiving hanging out with the gang, minus Ted, which causes her to invite them to her place for Thanksgiving. In the end, Ted realizes that Zoey is disappointed because her stepdaughter hates her and won't spend Thanksgiving with her. Because of this understanding, Ted and Zoey become friends. Zoey is (by marriage) a van Smoot, whose family is shown to have owned the mansion in which Marshall and Lily were married,[2] and an apartment in the Alberta building.[3] In "Oh Honey", Zoey divorces the Captain, and Zoey and Ted realize they have fallen in love. In "Garbage Island", Future Ted reveals that Zoey is not the mother of his children, and that things did not end well between them. She and Ted broke up in "Landmarks". She later appears one last time in "Challenge Accepted", where she unsuccessfully tries to get back together with Ted.
- First Appearance : The Playbook
- Played by Benjamin Koldyke, Don is Robin's boyfriend and co-anchor in season 5. Robin gets very serious with him and decides to move in. Robin is offered a job in Chicago, but decides to stay for him. When offered the same job however, Don takes it and leaves.. In season 6, Robin is shown calling him but he never appears on screen. Appears in 6 episodes
- Played by Frances Conroy, Loretta is Barney's mother, who first appears in The Stinsons. She later appeared in Cleaning House when the group goes to her house when she wants to vacate. She hides the identity of her children's father from them because she wants to be both their father and mother. Later she reveals the identity of the fathers to them in Season 6.
- Sandy Rivers
- Played by Alexis Denisof (Alyson Hannigan's real-life husband). Robin's former co-anchor. He is a dimwitted, semi sex-crazed, narcissist (and, as described by Ted, "a total jackass") who constantly asks Robin out until one night she accepts, making Ted extremely jealous. Before this, he was a favorite of Ted and Marshall, as they enjoyed laughing at the section of his morning news bulletin where he simply read through front pages of newspapers in a spoof of Pat Kiernan's morning show on NY1. In the first season finale, he reveals that he has accepted a position at CNN and has recommended Robin to succeed him as lead anchor of Metro News One. He later appears in Seasons 6 and 7 as Robin's boss at World Wide News. It is revealed that Sandy's hair is a toupee, as seen by Ted. He has appeared in 7 episodes to date.
- Katie Scherbatsky
- Played By Lucy Hale. Robin's younger sister. First introduced in the "First Time in New York" episode, where she comes to visit. Appears in one episode.
- Heather Mosby
- Played by Erin Cahill. Ted's irresponsible younger sister. Appears in "Little Minnesota" and mentioned in "Home Wreckers".
- Hammond Druthers
- Played by Bryan Cranston. Ted's boss at the architecture firm until Ted submits better design for a building in the episode "Aldrin Justice." Druthers wanted the building he designed - which looked like an erect male organ, although Druthers wasn't aware of this - and after the client told him 'no' Ted showed him his own, after which he got promoted. He, much to his displeasure, begins to work for Ted afterward. Appears in 2 episodes.
- 'Crazy' Meg
- Played by April Bowlby. A girl who appears obsessed with commitment and Barney. She initially hooks up with Barney in Marshall and Lily's display apartment in "Dowisetrepla" and is arrested for trespassing when Barney leaves her there. She reappears in "The Bracket" as the Upper West Side champion to whom Barney must apologize. She also appears in "The Rough Patch" as part of Lily's plan to break up Robin and Barney. Here it is shown she is still obsessed with Barney and possibly Alan Thicke. Appears in 3 episodes.
- Karen
- Played by Laura Prepon Ted's former college girlfriend. Thus far, we know Karen is snooty and pretentious, she cheated on Ted constantly throughout their relationship, and that Marshall and Lily hate her. Lily recalls an incident back in college, when Lily was painting Marshall, who was posing nude. Karen walked in and as she excused herself, she lingered with her gaze fixed on Marshall's nether regions.
- Kara
- Marshall's friend from law school and Brad's old girlfriend. She is seen drunk at a party in the episode Ted Mosby: Architect.
- Trudy
- Played by Danica McKellar. The girl who ends up in Ted's bed after Barney convinces Ted to do instead of think. Appears in 2 episodes.
- Penelope
- Played by Amy Acker. A girl who hooked up with Barney twice and helps teach Ted how to do a rain dance. Appears in 1 episode.
- Chloe
- Played by Morena Baccarin. A girl who works at a coffee shop who dates Marshall for a bit, and also starts the trend of people calling Barney "Swarley."
- Cathy
- Played by Lindsay Price. A girl that Ted dated for one episode that wouldn't stop talking, they eventually break up, and she finds herself a fiance, who is deaf.
- Becky
- Played by Laura Bell Bundy. Robin's co-anchor at Come On, Get Up New York! after her predecessor Don Frank took another job, and dates Ted in one episode. Appears in 3 episodes.
- Amy
- Played by Mandy Moore. A girl who Ted meets at McLaren's and uses to get over Robin. She steals a bottle of tequila from the bar. She takes an intoxicated Ted to get his first tattoo, which the gang call a tramp stamp because it is a butterfly on his lower back.
- Abby
- Played by Britney Spears. Stella's receptionist. Very energetic and scatterbrained, she developed an obsessive crush on Ted while he was pursuing Stella. Barney ended up sleeping with her, and then they worked together to torment Ted with their faux relationship since they both disliked him at that time. However, Abby was simultaneously still in love with Ted and seemingly unable to comprehend that the relationship with Barney was a charade. Appears in 2 episodes.
- Professor Lewis
- Played by Jane Seymour. Marshall's recently divorced law professor who is considered a "cougar" by Barney, who attempts to "tame her."
- Korean Elvis
- Played by George Cheung Korean Man who dresses up as Elvis and hangs out with the group after meeting when Barney, Marshall, and Lily went to go sing Karaoke after Marshall and Barney got off of work. He whispered something to Lily, and she kicked him in the "nards". It's a joke that reoccurred every once in a while.
- Gael
- Played by Enrique Iglesias. He appears in Season 3 for the first two episodes. He was Robin's boyfriend who she starts dating during her vacation on Argentina just after breaking up with Ted in the last season's finale. He is a good masseur and more laid back and relaxed than Robin who eventually broke up with him.
- Tiffany
- Played by Carrie Underwood in the season 5 episode, "Hooked". She is a pharmaceutical sales representative, who the friends of Ted believe is stringing him along.
- Anita Appleby
- Played by Jennifer Lopez in the season 5 episode "Of Course". Anita is a dating guru and man eater. She is hired by Robin to seduce Barney Stinson.
- Rhonda
- Played by Stephanie Faracy Known as the "man-maker," she appears in the season 3 episode, "The Yips". Rhonda is a friend of Mrs. Stinson. She is the woman who takes Barney's virginity.
- Bilson
- Played by Bryan Callen, Barney and Marshall's co-worker, friends with Blauman.
- Arthur Hobbs
- Played by Bob Odenkirk, A boss at GNB who was also Marshall's boss at his earlier job in a law firm.
- Blauman
- Played by Taran Killam (Cobie Smulders' real life fiancé) Barney and Marshall's coworker, friends with Bilson.
- Scooter (Bill)
- Played by David Burtka, (Neil Patrick Harris's real life partner) in 5 episodes. He is Lily's ex-boyfriend who won't let Lily go. He actually went to Lily and Marshalls wedding to try to get Lily back. He first appeared in the season 1 episode "Best Prom Ever" in one of Lily's high school flashbacks as her boyfriend.
- Jessica Glitter
- Played by Nicole Scherzinger. In the episode "Glitter", she plays an old friend of Robin's from Canada. Glitter was her character's name on a Canadian TV show called "Space Teens" where she and Robin Sparkles used math to complete missions in space. Appears in 1 episode, so far.
- Steve 'Blitz'
- Played by Jorge Garcia In the episode "Blitzgiving" he plays a college friend of Ted and Marshall's. He gets his name from the curse he has which makes awesome things happen whenever he leaves a building. During the episode, he makes numerous allusions to his Lost character including using "the numbers" 4,8,15,16,23,42 as a random phone number, and mentioning feeling like he's been on that "island" for eternity, as well as the fact that he is 'cursed'. The episode features the curse passing from a few characters starting with Ted, transferring to Barney and finally ending up with the original Blitz again.
- Randy Wharmpess
- Played by Will Forte, appears in two episodes: Rebound Bro (3.18) and Canning Randy (6.07). He plays an employee of GNB in the Legal Department. He goes out with Barney in Rebound Bro and Barney helps him get laid. Robin tells Barney that Randy is his "rebound bro" after losing Ted. In Canning Randy, Marshall has to fire Randy because he is a bad employee. Marshall later feels bad about it and rehires him. Randy wants to use the severance to start his own brewery, so he intentionally destroys Marshall's office in order to get fired again. At the end of the episode, the voice-over says that you can buy a Wharmpess beer at any bar in America.
- Honey
- Played by Katy Perry appears in one episode: Oh Honey (6.15). She plays Zoey van Smoot's cousin, who Barney eventually sleeps with.
- Jenkins
- Played by Amanda Peet in the season 5 episode "Jenkins". A female lawyer who gets a job working with Marshall at GNB, and inadvertently causing Marshall to become obsessed with not being labeled "the reacher" of the relationship in his marriage to Lily.
- The Captain
- Played by Kyle MacLachlan, appeared in 4 episodes. He is the husband of Ted's love interest Zoey. He initially gave Ted the impression that he planned to kill him while on his boat, to which he replied that if he did, he'd bring Ted to his cabin. Zoey eventually divorces him to be with Ted.
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