How I Met Your Mother
Something Blue
TV Flash files “Something Blue” as the last listed hour of season 2 — How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) on CBS, season 2, episode 22, aired 2007-05-14, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E22: listed hour 44 of 208 in the How I Met Your Mother guide, last listed hour of season 2. It aired 2007-05-14 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Something Borrowed” (S02E21). Next is “Wait for It” (S03E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Barney overhears that Ted and Robin have a secret at the wedding reception, he begins to speculate about what it might be, but what they are hiding even stuns the unflappable Barney.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Something Blue sit in the How I Met Your Mother guide?
S02E22 is listed hour 44 of 208 — last listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 22.
When did How I Met Your Mother S02E22 air?
Something Blue aired 2007-05-14 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Can I treat HIMYM as standalone episodes?
You will miss the point. It is a mythology sitcom: flashbacks, callbacks, slap-bet lore, and a long setup about meeting the mother.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Ted Mosby tells his kids the sprawling story of meeting their mother — slap bets, yellow umbrellas, Barney as catchphrase engine. Carter Bays and Craig Thomas built mythology inside a CBS multi-cam. Binge for the callbacks; the finale remains a group-chat civil war.
The first silhouette is a yellow umbrella, not a punchline. Ted Mosby tells his kids the sprawling story of meeting their mother — slap bets, bar-booth geometry, unreliable memory as a lighting choice. Carter Bays and Craig Thomas's CBS series premiered September 19, 2005, and ran nine seasons through 2014, framed as future Ted (Bob Saget's voice) narrating to his children. Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan hold the booth; Harris's Barney is the catchphrase engine in a…
Filed against
- Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby
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- Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky
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- Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson
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- Alyson Hannigan as Lily Aldrin
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- Cristin Milioti as The Mother
Cristin Milioti’s Mother made How I Met Your Mother a yellow-umbrella civil war — 2000s catalog CBS mythology, the face the kids were waiting for, then The Penguin stretching the same voltage into Gotham crime mud. TV Flash files her as…