How I Met Your Mother
Benefits
Season 4, Episode 12 · Aired 2009-01-12
Synopsis
When Ted and Robin become "friends with benefits" to deal with conflicts they're having around the apartment, Barney tries to resolve the issues so they'll stop hooking up. Meanwhile, "reality" stars get too real for Marshall when they taunt him from the pages of his magazine.
In the series
This episode is part of How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) on CBS.
A long setup about a mother, with slap bets and yellow umbrellas.
Key cast
- Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby
- Jason Segel as Marshall Eriksen
- Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky
- Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson
- Alyson Hannigan as Lily Aldrin
- Cristin Milioti as The Mother