How I Met Your Mother
46 Minutes
TV Flash files “46 Minutes” as hour 150 of 208 in the TV Flash guide — How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) on CBS, season 7, episode 14, aired 2012-01-16, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E14: listed hour 150 of 208 in the How I Met Your Mother guide, hour 14 of 24 in season 7. It aired 2012-01-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Tailgate” (S07E13). Next is “The Burning Beekeeper” (S07E15).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Lily and Marshall officially move to the suburbs and realize that Lily's bossy father refuses to move out of their house. Meanwhile, the gang adjusts to them moving by going to a strip club.
Viewer FAQ
Where does 46 Minutes sit in the How I Met Your Mother guide?
S07E14 is listed hour 150 of 208 — hour 14 of 24 in season 7, season 7 episode 14.
When did How I Met Your Mother S07E14 air?
46 Minutes aired 2012-01-16 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
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- Jason Segel as Marshall Eriksen
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- Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky
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- Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson
Neil Patrick Harris arrived fully formed as Doogie Howser, the teenage doctor journaling cases on a glowing computer, then minted Barney as How I Met Your Mother’s catchphrase engine — slap bets, yellow umbrellas, a finale still in…
- 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…