How I Met Your Mother
Gary Blauman
TV Flash files “Gary Blauman” as hour 205 of 208 in the TV Flash guide — How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) on CBS, season 9, episode 21, aired 2014-03-17, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S09E21: listed hour 205 of 208 in the How I Met Your Mother guide, hour 21 of 24 in season 9. It aired 2014-03-17 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Daisy” (S09E20). Next is “The End of the Aisle” (S09E22).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Gary Blauman shows up at the wedding, it sends the gang into a frenzy as they each recall an encounter with him.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Gary Blauman sit in the How I Met Your Mother guide?
S09E21 is listed hour 205 of 208 — hour 21 of 24 in season 9, season 9 episode 21.
When did How I Met Your Mother S09E21 air?
Gary Blauman aired 2014-03-17 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…
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