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Ted and Robin

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Started Friendship
Started Dating
Break up (Remain Friends)
Back Together
Relationship Status
Dating


Show Outline

Season 1

Finnaly Ted starts dating Robin

Ted and Robin get together at the conclusion of Season 1.

Ted and Robin's relationship begins when they meet in at MacLaren's Pub in Pilot. Ted looks at Robin and she looks at him and the chemistry is there from the start. Ted turns to Barney and says, "see that girl, I'm going to marry her someday". Barney uses Have you met Ted to introduce him to Robin, the two hit it off, go on one date, and Ted confesses her love. Robin admits in Purple Giraffe that she is interested in him, but does not want marriage and children. They try to remain friends and succeed with Ted showing no further interest until The Pineapple Incident, where Ted develops feelings for her again. She also starts to develop feelings for him but not ready to act on in big time.

On New Years Eve Ted's date points out that she can tell he is in love with Robin and that she clearly likes him back. At midnight Robin kisses Ted (The Limo​​​ Ted's two friends are getting married, and Ted asks Robin to be his date. She excitingly says yes, and she gets a very nice dress. Ted goes through a lot of trouble to get her into the wedding because he accidentally forgot to check plus one. He gets her in but when her goes to pick her up Robin, receives a phone call asking her to anchor the news. Ted tells her to do it and it works out. (The Wedding​​​Ted wanted to be with her until he met Victoria at the wedding.

Robin shows up at the reception and sees Ted lean into kiss Victoria which causes Robin to cry. Robin admitted to Lily she had feelings for Ted (Drumroll, Please). The relationship almost went down in flames after Ted cheated on Victoria with Robin while lying to Robin, saying he and Victoria were broken up.(Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M.). Later that night Ted and Victoria break up. Robin stops talking to Ted for weeks because he lied to her in an attempt to be with her, even Barney condemns Ted for this move.

However, after months of difficulties, Ted and Robin reunite their friendship, and after she helps him get out of the middle of nowhere to get him to his date with "the one" love solutions found. Ted decides to stand up his date and create a plan to be with Robin (Milk . Finally romantically tries to make it rain so she can't go on a date with Sandy Rivers, It does rain, Ted shows up outside her apartment in the pouring rain, she invites him up and they make out. They finally get together and hook up with huge smiles on their faces. He leaves her apartment the next morning with a huge smile on his face, cause he ended up with he girl of his dreams but sees Marshall with his engagement ring to Lily back in his hand. (Come On​​​)

Season 2

Although caught in the middle of Marshall and Lily's breakup, Ted and Robin initially enjoy the passion of their relationship, despite wanting completely different things. The first couple of months they were completely in love. Afterwards, they began experiencing their first difficulties as a couple when Ted found out his parents got divorced and where similar to him and Robin prompting Ted to believe he can't settle down with Robin and should probably have kids with someone else, even though Robin is the girl of his dreams. Robin is also upset when she thinks that Ted's mother doesnt want her to have children with Ted. (Brunch​​​​). Robin especially had difficulties adjusting to being in a serious relationship even believing that her inattentiveness had driven Ted to cheating but of course it was Barney using Ted's name. (Ted Mosby: Architect). After a while, she would open herself up to Ted and admit her secret past as a Canadian pop star (Slap Bet​​​​) and, when Robin's sister came to town, and Ted helped her out, Robin would eventually say "I love you" to Ted, the first time she ever said it to a man. (First Time In New York)

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"Major baggage"

Ted and Robin would again face difficulties when Robin learned how much of Ted's stuff belonged to his ex girlfriends. When he learned that her dogs were from her ex-boyfriends, Ted pressures her into giving them away. However the two would have their biggest fight ever when Robin discovered Ted lied about getting rid of all the stuff from his exes. In the end they decided to move in together (Stuff​​​​). Ted even got as far as moving out of his apartment when Barney sabotaged the move by stealing the moving van. The obstacles of the night forced them to realize they were not ready to move in together and Ted moved back in with Marshall and Lily. (Moving Day). By the end of their relationship Ted and Robin's relationship was about love, friendship and sex. Ted and Robin would eventually break up on their one year anniversary. Confusion from another couple's engagement ring and Robin's horrified reaction forced them to consider their own future. They finally discussed how different they were, how they wanted different things out of life but yet they were right for each other. Reflecting on their differing feelings about marriage, kids, and how they weren't able to move in together, they decide to break up. (Showdown​​​​, Something Blue​​​​)

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Season 3

Robin deals with the break up by taking a trip to Argentina. Ted takes some time off of relationships but when Robin returns with the hot Gael, Ted ends up going on a wild date with Amy and gets a tattoo. Ted confronts Robin and yells at her claiming that their breakup was too friendly and he needed to yell. Robin admits that she spent days crying her eyes out over Ted. He points out that he feels Robin is trying to win the break up with Gael and she placates him by assuring him that he is "bigger" and she was using Gael to survive the breakup. (Wait For It)

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Imaginary picture of Robin and Gael windsurfing in Argentina.

They seem to go their separate ways and each dates other people. However, the two still feel awkward and don't spend much time alone. That is, until Thanksgiving when the two find themselves baking pies at Robin's apartment. They confront their awkward feelings by having sex. This actually allows them to settle most of the awkwardness and their friendship emerges stronger than ever (Slapsgiving). In fact, Ted isn't even angry with Robin after she admits to sleeping with Barney. (The Goat)

Season 4

Robin's lingering feelings for Ted can be seen in seasons 3 and 4 while Ted seems to have moved on until 2012. Despite the security of their friendship, Robin remains aware of her status as Ted's ex-girlfriend. She declines to offer an opinion about Ted and Stella when the rest of the group questions Ted's hasty engagement (Intervention) and feels strange about showing up at Ted's wedding. She points out that even though she and Ted are cool, it's still weird to see Ted married off to Stella. However, she does show up at the wedding and finally offers her opinion that Ted and Stella's marriage is too hasty, that he can't get married and admits that she has feelings for Ted. In love with Stella, Ted tells her off only to find that Stella has left him for her own ex, Tony. (Shelter Island​​​)

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Ted and Robin are friends with benefits

After deciding to move back to the country from Japan, Robin eventually moves in with Ted, replacing Marshall as his roommate (Not a Father's Day​​​). However, without the regular sex they had when they were dating, they find themselves fighting all the time. They decide to remedy it by having sex which helps with there recent struggles in life and their lingering feelings for each other. Although both are comfortable with the "friends with benefits" status, they decide to call it off after Ted realizes that Barney has feelings for Robin. (Benefits​​​)

That same year, Ted learned that Lily was partially responsible for his and Robin's break up. Seeing that the two wanted completely different things, Lily subtly pointed it out to the two and actually fed them the very words leading to their break up. Lily asserted that, while she didn't intend to break them up, it was the right thing to do because it prevented them from staying together too long and having a bitter break up that would have prevented them from remaining friends. Lily makes up for it by making a romantic diner for Ted and a date. That date is Robin. They did what she wanted to do, which was talked about there relationship. It seems like both wanted to get back together but Ted wanted kids over Robin and this point in his life. Robin proposes the idea to get married at forty if they are both still single. In a proposal style, Ted asks Robin to be his back up wife. (The Front Porch​​​)

When Ted started his own architecture firm, Robin let him work from their apartment but slowed him down by sleeping with Ted's assistant, PJ. However, she eventually gave Ted the pep talk he needed and helped him start calling clients (Mosbius Designs​​​). She also confessed to Ted the truth about a prank being played on him by Barney and Marshall (The Three Days Rule​​​). Finally, Ted would give Barney his blessing giving Barney the freedom to talk to Robin about his feelings. (The Leap​​​)

Season 5

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Ted teaching Barney -"Robin 101"

With Robin and Barney finally dating, Ted put his Robin-knowledge to good use by teaching a course called Robin 101 to Barney, believing he understood her (although some of his information turns out to be false). Although he violated her privacy, Robin forgave him. Ted pointed out how much the relationship meant to Barney (Robin 101​​​​).They almost share a kiss in the season finale, though it is because Robin has some feelings, but then Robin notices that Ted has blonde hair. (Doppelgangers​​​​)

Season 6

After her breakup with Don, Robin moved back into Ted's apartment , and Ted has attempted to help her recover from the breakup. Robin tells him she is going to try and sleep with him and come at him with all she got. She ends up asking him to have sex when she is crying and eating ice cream which Ted clearly declines. (Big Days​​​)

When Robin told Ted she was hoping to be the "coin flip bimbo" on Million Dollar Coin Toss, Ted reminded her of her earlier resolution to work at World Wide News and forced her to take the job there instead. Robin also asked Ted to be her Best Man on her wedding. (False Positive​​​)

Once he learned that she was working with his old nemesis, Sandy Rivers, Ted went to Sandy's apartment to defend Robin's honor. (Bad News​​​)

Season 7

In Season 7 to the Robin's wedding day, Ted's feelings for Robin are evident. Ever since their break up one of them had feelings for each other except when Barney and Robin were dating. They just didn't line up.

In Ducky Tie​​​​​, Victoria tells Ted the reason their relationship didn't work out and the reason for all his other relationships failing was due to Robin.

In The Drunk Train​​​​​, a sad desperate Ted believes his last hope for a relationship is Robin. After Robin tearfully tells Ted about her break up with Kevin, and that they broke up that she couldn't have kids. She asks Ted who could look past that? Ted tells her that he could and that he loves her. Robin initially realizes she has feelings for Ted and makes out with him just as he's about to say "let's remain friends", then later kisses him, before leaving for Russia.

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Ted and Robin moments after she breaks up with Kevin.

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Ted and Robin just before she moves out.

After Ted's confession about his love for Robin they go on a date and at the end of the night Ted asks her if she loves him based on her expression on her face she wants to say yes but doesn’t. She tells him that she doesn't feel the same way in order preserve their friendship as it is the only constant for her even though deep down she does still loves him, but isn't ready to admit that, and Marshall tells her to move out of his apartment. (No Pressure) Ted then refuses to talk to her for weeks because he thinks she doesn't love him.

In The Broath, Robin and Ted both like Quinn's apartment. This leads Ted and Robin fighting over who gets her apartment. Ted asks Robin to let him have Quinn's apartment, after what happened between them. She takes him aside, and tells him that the last few weeks have been hard on her as well. In a single day, her engagement fell apart, she lost her best friend, and she might even lose her job. Later, Robin meets up with Ted and tells him that she got promoted and that she got a big raise and is getting an apartment, which means he can have Quinn's apartment. He thanks her and tells her that he can go back to normal.

In Now We're Even​​​​​, Ted still refuses to talk to Robin even when she nearly dies she he only sends to a text message telling her that he is happy to know she's okay.

In Good Crazy, Barney encourages Ted to try online dating by setting him up with three specific women. Over the course of each date, Ted suddenly visualizes Robin sitting in front of him and is determined to get her out of his mind even if his dates found him weird. Later, Ted goes back to MacLaren's and tries to order a drink, but sees Robin as the bartender and a nearby patron. Both pseudo-Robins encourage him to find Robin and make amends. Both Ted and Robin meet by chance outside the bar and try to talk but Robin says it is not yet a good time.

In The Magician's Code - Part One​​​​​, Ted and Robin help keep Lily calm, when she goes into labor, while Marshall is away. They later take her to the hospital, and also make up and resume their friendship.

In The Magician's Code - Part Two​​​​​, Robin reminds Ted that they don't work and encourages Ted to call Victoria, to find out if she ever got engaged.

Season 8

In Nannies, Ted and Robin fight over whose relationship (Ted's with Victoria and Robin's with Nick) is more serious. However, they later accept that each of their partners has a major flaw.

In The Autumn of Break-Ups, when Ted proposes to Victoria, but she demands that he stop being friends with Robin as she is afraid that his feelings for her may rekindle. After deliberating, Ted tells her that Robin is like family to him and that he can't stop being friends with her, resulting in Victoria breaking up with him.

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Robin and Ted hold hands

In The Final Page - Part Two​​​​, Ted tells Robin that Barney is going to propose to Patrice and that she should go and stop him (meaning that he let go of Robin). At the end of the episode he is seen looking out the window of the new GNB building with a sad look on his face as he is now the only single one out of his friends.

In Something Old, a desperate Ted cancels a meeting with a client to help Robin dig up her locket which was meant to be her "something old" at her wedding. He then tries to convince her that the locket not being there is not a sign that she shouldn't marry Barney. She reaches for his hand and holds it as they look each other sadly as it rains.

In Something New​​​, Ted tells Lily that the reason he is moving to Chicago is to get away from Robin after Barney and Robin's wedding. He admits that he believes he still loves Robin and wants to make her happy. It is shown in a flashback that Robin was sad about losing her the man she loves when Ted was going to marry Stella and dug up her locket herself because she wanted to marry Ted deep down but never admitted it to anyone. Lily tells Ted that Robin accidentally left the locket in his apartment, forgetting to take it with her to Japan, so Ted decides to give it to Robin as a wedding gift, but Lily cautions him against it.

Season 9

In The Locket, Ted has the racecar pencil and gets Lily out of his car to give his gift to Robin. It is revealed that the locket was not in the box and that it could be Los Angeles in Stella's storage unit. Ted gives Robin a photo of the whole group from 8 years ago as a wedding gift instead of her locket. He later promises Lily that he won't do anything insane that weekend. It is revealed that four days ago that Ted bought a ticket to L.A.

In The Broken Code After a lecture from Lily, she convinces Ted to have his one last drink with Barney, who when approaching him, reveals he saw Ted/Robin holding hands in the rain, and Ted drops an expensive bottle of scotch. Barney is rightfully annoyed, and replaces Ted as Best Man with William Zabka. Ted also reveals that he still has feelings for Robin. Marshall Skypes with the two of them, and tells them to recreate the scenario while the two of them hold hands. Ted admits to Barney he does have feelings for Robin, and that he would never do anything to get in the middle of them. Barney forgives him over a poker game, which irritates William Zabka.

In a flash back to the fall of 2012 Platonish Ted is seen being flirty with Robin when they do their salute joke. Lily tells Ted that he and Robin are platonic. Barney comes in and says that Ted and Robin are not platonic. Later that night Marshall tells Ted that Robin is his girl. Ted and Marshall think how Ted could get Robin back. It involves Ted stealing the locked up Blue French Horn by cutting the lock (possibly foreshadowing the finale). Ted later tells Marshall that there is no rush with him and Robin and that it will happen when it will happen. At that moment Barney is writing "The Robin".

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Ted and Robin in Platonish

In Unpause ,When Barney drinks too much, Ted and Robin take advantage of him and get him to reveal secrets he’s been hiding for years, such as who he has slept with, what he did to Ted's mom, his height, the ring bear, and his job.

In Sunrise, Ted tells Robin why he and Victoria broke up, he is moving to Chicago, and we learn that Stella didn't have the locket, Victoria did. Victoria overnights it, but Jeanette intercepts it from Ted, and throws it off a bridge into a pond. That night, looking for Barney with Robin is when Ted lets go of Robin, during the Sunrise, making peace with her getting married to Barney. 

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Ted lets go of Robin

In Daisy​ Robin begins to start second guessing Barney. When her mother arrives she starts to realize Barney is like her father, who is now divorced to her mother, He mother tells her she has to be with the guy she can truly depend on. Her mother asks if there is a guy she can truly depend on, and Robin says I do referring to Ted not Barney. Foreshadowing the events in The End of the Aisle, which Robin thinks she should marry Ted.

In The End of the Aisle, Robin panics about her wedding (foreshadowed in False Positive), in this state of panic she realizes that it was Ted who tracked down her locket (it is revealed that Ted jumped of the bridge to retrieve the locket) and, due to her stressed state, thinks it might be a sign she shouldn't marry Barney and that she should be marrying Ted. Ted tells Robin that he doesn't want to hear that and she loves Barney and that he would never do that to him. In her panic she thinks about running away, first she thinks she should run away with Ted and move to Chicago with him but when he doesn't agree she decides to run away by herself but her fears are assuaged by Barney's vow to be honest with her and realises she still has loving feelings for Barney

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Robin in The End of the Aisle tries eloping with Ted

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Robin leaves Lily

In Last Forever - Part One In 2015, Ted discusses his wedding plans to Tracy with Barney and Robin. Robin can't say yes to coming to their wedding instead replying with a very hesitant "Duh!", later getting up to go to the counter to "get the next round". Later Tracy comes in to tell Ted the wedding must be called off as she is pregnant. Robin looks on with a gaunt expression, and isn't smiling unlike Barney when he tells her Tracy is getting a "boob job".

In 2016, the gang is at Ted and Tracy's house, where Robin looks visibly awkward and uncomfortable. It is over there where she and Barney reveal their divorce. Later that year Lily and Marshall throw a Halloween Party. Robin shows up but gets depressed when she sees Ted kiss Tracy. As she leaves the party, Lily asks her why and she replies saying that she can't hang with the gang anymore because it includes her ex-husband hitting on women again, the man she should have ended up with, and the beautiful mother of his children.


In the series finale Last Forever - Part Two, in 2020 Ted is showing Penny the GNB tower when he runs into Robin. They hug and chat for a little. In an official deleted scene it's revealed that the next day the two met up for lunch where Robin admits to Ted that he was the one she should have ended up with. Later that year on Ted's wedding day, Robin who said she wouldn't go to the wedding, shows up at the Bar, because Tracy convinced her. In 2030 after Ted finally finishes telling the kids the story of how he met their mother, they point out that their mom is barely in the story and that the story is really about how Ted is in love with their Aunt Robin and says their feelings for each other are incredibly obvious when she is with them! They encourage Ted to ask her out on a date reiterating that their mother has been dead for six years. Ted, a romantic, shows up at her apartment with the Blue French Horn like in the Pilot Episode, she smiles, goes weak at the knees and cries, and the series ends. A deleted scene confirmed that Ted and Robin rekindled their romantic relationship, where Lily pays Marshall their long-term bet about Ted and Robin ending up together.

Ted shows up at Robin's in 2030 and the Finnally get back together!

Ted and Robin finally get back together in 2030

 

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Ted and Robin see each other for the first time

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Barney introduces Robin to Ted

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Ted and Robin on their first date

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Ted and Robin kiss on New Years

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Ted attempts to win Robin

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Ted imagining Robin as his bride in Slap Bet

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Ted and Robin tease Barney

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Robin and Ted at Marshall and Lily's wedding

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Ted and Robin realize they want different things and breakup

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Robin struggles with her breakup with Ted

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Ted and Robin in Slapsgiving

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Robin Tries to Convince Ted not to get married

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Ted and Robin agree to get married when they are forty

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Ted's job is to cheer Robin up

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Ted convinces Robin to confront Barney

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Ted gives Robin her first wedding gift

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Ted and Robin at The Wedding

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Ted in 2030

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Significant Episodes

Season 1

  • Pilot - Ted meets Robin. After a date she invites him up for a one night stand. He tells her he loves her, which scares her and Ted leaves.
  • Purple Giraffe​​​ - Ted throws three parties just to see Robin again. He kisses her on the roof, but the two decide to be friends since he's looking for something more serious than she is.
  • Okay Awesome- Robin invites Ted to a club and tries to set him up.
  • Slutty Pumpkin- On Halloween, Ted searches for his long lost love he met years ago on Halloween. After another year fail, this year is different because he has Robin in his life who sits with him all night to keep him company.
  • Matchmaker- Robin directs a skeptical Ted to an online matchmaking service with a 100% success rate. When the service gives Ted zero matches, Ted sneaks information out of the matchmaker's computer to visit an engaged dermatologist in an effort to debunk the prediction that there are no women out there for him.
  • Belly Full of Turkey - Ted and Robin help out at a soup kitchen where Barney volunteers.
  • The Pineapple Incident- When Robin starts dating a guy, Ted is upset and realizes he has feelings for her. He is pressured by Barney to get really drunk and call her. He thought that he slept with her but it ended up being someone else. The next morning Robin comes over and asks him what happened last night.
  • The Limo​​​ - After Ted rents a limo and attempts to take the gang to five parties. Robin gives Ted a New Years kiss and Ted finds out from his date that Robin is into him.
  • The Wedding​​​ - After Robin reveals that she broke up with her boyfriend Ted realizes that he and her are meant to be so he invites Robin to go with him to Stuart and Claudia's wedding, (which she says yes to and is excited) but she can't go in the end because she was offered to anchor the news that evening.
  • Drumroll, Please - Robin being so excited, shows up at the reception but is displeased and even cries, when Ted meets Victoria at the wedding and Lily finds out it's because she has feelings for him.
  • Zip, Zip, Zip​​​ – Robin is unhappy to find out that Ted gave Barney his blessing to make a move on her. Barney finds out that she likes Ted.
  • Cupcake - Robin presses Victoria into taking her fellowship in Germany so that her and Ted will break up, until realizing this is the wrong thing to do and encourages Victoria to stay.
  • Game Night Robin who is struggling with his feelings for Ted is touched when she found out that he re-returned for her.
  • Life Among the Gorillas - Robin helps Ted put together a care package for Victoria, who's in Germany. Ted gets an email from Victoria that she wants to talk and he thinks it's because she wants to break up with him. Later that night, he gets a call from Robin instead asking him to come over.
  • Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M. - Ted goes over to Robin's place and lies to her that Victoria did break up with him. He and Robin end up making out on the couch. Ted excuses himself to call Victoria in the bathroom to break up with her, but realizes too late he had grabbed Robin's phone instead of his own. Robin answers Victoria's call from Ted's cell phone and finds out the two never broke up. She calls him out for cheating on his girlfriend, throws the phone at Ted and then retires to her bedroom alone.
  • Mary the Paralegal​​​ - Robin brings her co-host Sandy to the LAMA rewards and in retaliation, Ted brings along Mary who Barney set him up with.
  • Best Prom Ever - Robin forgives Ted and their friendship starts to begins again after their slow dance.
  • Milk - Ted stands up his date when realizes he doesn’t want perfect and that he wants Robin.
  • Come On​​​ - Ted and Robin get together after he made it rain so she couldn't go on the camping trip with Sandy. The two make out and smile in the end.

Season 2

  • Where Were We?​​ - Ted and Robin tell everyone else, except for Lily who fled to San Francisco, that they are an item.
  • The Scorpion and the Toad​​ - Ted and Robin confronts Lily who has returned and make a bet over whether Lily is upset over Marshall.
  • Brunch​​ - Robin meets Ted's parents for the first time and Ted realizes that he and Robin are like his parents who got divorced. What lead to their breakup in the end of the season.
  • Ted Mosby: Architect - After a fight with Ted, Robin worries that Ted could be cheating on her. In the end, he wasn't, it was just Barney using his identity to get laid. Ted reveals to Robin that his company is designing a penis shaped building and that he has designed his own building which he shows to her and Future Ted reveals that she was the first one to see it and it inspired him to get it built. Robin tells him it is amazing and then kisses him.
  • World's Greatest Couple​​- Robin and Ted help Marshall when he gets into a bromance with Brad.
  • Aldrin Justice​​- Robin celebrates Ted's achievement as an Architect.
  • Swarley- Ted and Robin along with Marshall make fun of Barney when he gets his new name. Ted and Robin enjoy being one of two couples in their group when Marshall and Lily get back together.
  • Atlantic City​​ - Robin and Ted do everything possible to get Lily and Marshall married. Ted gets turned on by Robin's boob shirt. Robin tells Ted that she never said she never wanted to get married.
  • Slap Bet​​ - Ted becomes extra curious about Robin's strange hatred of malls and attempts to pressure her into telling him. Barney ends up stalking her and shows Ted and the gang a video of Robin from when she was a teenager. Ted and Robin become even closer.
  • Single Stamina​​ - Robin and Ted go into couple winter hibernation with Lily and Marshall and refuse to do anything fun with Barney.
  • How Lily Stole Christmas- Ted and Robin are upset when they almost don't spend Christmas together because of the dispute between of Ted and Lily.
  • First Time In New York - First time Robin ever says "I love you" is to Ted after he convinces her little sister to not have sex with her punk boyfriend.
  • Columns- Robin helps Ted deal with his boss.
  • Monday Night Football- Ted and Robin along with the rest of the game try to go 24 hours with out finding out the score of the Super Bowl.
  • Lucky Penny​​ - Robin and Ted try to make it to Chicago so that Ted could be there for his interview, but past events makes the trip impossible.
  • Stuff​​ - Robin makes Ted get rid of his things that he got from ex-girlfriends. Likewise, Ted makes Robin give away her dogs because she got them from her ex-boyfriends. However, it turns out that Ted never actually gave his stuff away, though he pressured Robin to give away her dogs. They get into an arguement about this and eventually decide to move in together.
  • Arrivederci, Fiero​​- Ted and Robin recall memories with Marshalls
  • Moving Day - Ted moves in with Robin, but Barney messes the whole thing up and ruins it. So the two remember that they are happy with the way things are and decide not to mess that up.
  • Bachelor Party​​- Ted and Robin both take Marshall and Lily out for their parties.
  • Showdown​​ - This is the episode where Ted and Robin break up, but that is unknown until Something Blue​​.
  • Something Borrowed- Ted and Robin help out Marshall and Lily get married.
  • Something Blue​​ - Barney finds out that Ted and Robin may have gotten engaged, then they were going to move to Argentina, and then he thought that she was pregnant but in reality Ted and Robin after discussing their futures and dreams although have perfect chemistry they are broken up.

Season 3

  • Wait For It - Ted is upset that Robin moved on so quickly and thinks that means their break up didn't affect her at all. Robin tells him that she used Gael to help her survive the break up.
  • Slapsgiving - Ted and Robin confront their awkward feelings by having sex which leads them to become best friends.
  • The Goat - Ted is angry that Barney slept with Robin. He de-bros him, but still retains a friendship with Robin.

Season 4

  • Shelter Island​​ - Robin confronts Ted about him rushing into a marriage with Stella and tells him this is not the ending to a grand love story that he deserves. She tells him that she still has feelings for him. Angry at her, Ted tells her that if she truly feels that way, then it's a good thing she's not coming to the wedding after all.
  • Not a Father's Day​​ - Ted and Robin help Lily decide whether it's the right time for her and Marshall to have a baby. Robin moves in with Ted.
  • The Naked Man​​- Ted walks in on Robin's date, Mitch, attempting to perform a technique he's dubbed "The Naked Man", to pick up girls.
  • The Fight​​- MacLaren's bartender Doug gets into a fight and draws Barney and Ted which Robin finds hot.
  • Benefits​​ - Ted and Robin turn to casual sex with each other to make living together even better.
  • Sorry, Bro- Robin asks if Ted plans to keep seeing Karen, Marshall predicts that he will until Karen inevitably cheats on him again, at which point Ted reveals that she was actually cheating on someone else with him.
  • The Front Porch​​ - Ted finds out that Lily broke him and Robin up. Lily makes Ted a fancy dinner which he invites Robin to. They talk about their relationship. Ted says it was for the best that they moved on and did their own thing for now. Robin decides to make a pact with him to get married when they turn 40.
  • Mosbius Designs​​ - Ted is angry at Robin for sleeping with his assistant, PJ. Robin helps him get "Mosbius Designs" off the ground by him practicing a fake client call with her.
  • The Three Days Rule​​ - Robin reveals to Ted that his texts from Holly is really Barney and Marshall playing a prank on him.

Season 5

  • Robin 101​​​​ - Ted being an expert on Robin teaches Barney a class called Robin 101. Robin gets upset and Ted apologizes to Robin for teaching a Robin 101 class to Barney, who's now her boyfriend. Robin asks him if her dating Barney is a mistake.
  • Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap​​​​ - After retrieving Marshall's grand turkey, he bestows Robin and Ted the fourth slap to give to Barney. Ted and Robin argue about who gets to do the slap, but in the end, they give the slap to Marshall.
  • Jenkins​​​​ - Robin gloats in Ted's face that she's more popular with his students than he is. Ted discovers that her popularity with his students is only because of the "but um" drinking game. Robin gets even with them when she says "but um" more often than before, leaving him and his students a horrible hang over the next morning.
  • Rabbit or Duck​​ - Ted teases Robin that she's in love with Don. He escorts her to her "date" with Don, but when Robin discovers him trying the "Naked Man" on her, she rejects him. She cleans up at the apartment and sends Ted out to go on his date.Later sitting down and watching a movie, as his date didn't go well
  • Twin Beds - Barney makes Ted realize that he's not over over Robin, and have a plan on sharing her where Ted takes her after she is 40.
  • Doppelgangers​​​​ – Ted lets Robin move back in with him after Don dumped her. Ted comforts her and they almost kiss.

Season 6

  • Big Days​​ – Robin tries to have sex with Ted which he turns down. He tries to help her recover from her break up.
  • Cleaning House​​ - Robin sets Ted up with a friend of hers.
  • Baby Talk​​ - Robin is upset that Ted is dating Becky, her annoying co-host. Ted tells her that it's because she makes him feel needed, unlike Robin who took care of everything when they were together. Robin then goes to Barney who comforts her and tells her that it is good that she's not needy.
  • False Positive​​- Ted helps Robin with her career and she tells him its cool that he helped her out. She says if she get's married and the groom isn't Ted, she wants him to be her best man.
  • Bad News​​ - Ted helps Robin out after Sandy reveals all of Robin's embarrassing moments to everyone at work.
  • Hopeless - Ted and Robin pretend to be dating under Barney's orders. In the process, Ted messes up the chance for Robin to reunite with her lost crush. He becomes upset with her when he finds out she was crushing on this guy since he and Robin were dating.
  • Landmarks- Robin sides with Ted and Barney during the GNB Tower vs Arcadian issue.
  • Challenge Accepted- Robin looks at Ted's relationship with Zoey to figure her own love life out.

Season 7

  • The Best Man​- Ted and Robin share a cigar on the balcony of Punchy's wedding. Ted talks to Robin about how everyone else is with someone while he is still single. Robin encourages Ted to start believing in hope again and wait until the timing is right for him to meet someone. She also encourages him not to cry during the toast like he does in every wedding in which he is the best man.
  • The Naked Truth​​- Robin tries to get Ted to take her to the Architect's ball.
  • Ducky Tie​​-Victoria tells Ted that Robin "is so much bigger in your world than you realize". She warns him that he, Barney, and Robin cannot "hang out at the bar night in, night out, like you're all just buddies? That doesn't work. Trust me". Future Ted admits that "she was right. It didn't work; we just didn't realize it yet".
  • Symphony of Illumination - After Robin finds out she is infertile, Ted cheers her up with an elaborate Christmas display.
  • The Burning Beekeeper - Robin and Ted fight over Robin's temper and Ted's fear of confrontation. In the end, they make up and tell each other their quirks is what makes them so cool.
  • The Drunk Train​​ - Robin reveals to Ted that she's infertile and that's the reason why her engagement with Kevin ended. Ted tells her he can look past that because he loves her. Robin considers his proposition.
  • No Pressure - Ted thinks this is his chance to win back Robin, after she makes out with him and kisses him, but Lily points out to him that even though he hasn't settled down in the last five years, he hasn't settled down with Robin either. Robin tells Ted she doesn't love him due to her recent break up and him being the only stable thing in her life being Ted so Ted calls off their "single-at-40" deal. Marshall tells Robin to move out. Lily reveals that she bet Marshall that Ted and Robin won’t end up together. At the end of the episode Lily tells Marshall to pay up and he says not yet (foreshadowing that Ted and Robin are not done yet).
  • Karma​​ - Since Robin rejected him, Ted ignores Robin for weeks on end. He tries to figure out what to do with her old room. She and Ted hardly hang out anymore.
  • The Broath - Ted and Robin compete over Quinn's apartment. Robin gets a promotion and pay rise from work and finds another apartment. She tells Quinn to give the apartment to Ted.
  • Now We're Even​​ - Ted and Robin are still awkward around each other, but a near fatal helicopter crash makes Ted finally text Robin to let her know that he's glad she's okay.
  • Good Crazy - Barney tries to clean Ted's palette by hooking him up with various women, but Ted keeps imagining Robin. He finally decides to make things right with her and goes to find her, but she tells him Lily's in labor.
  • The Magician's Code - Part One​​ - With baby Marvin's birth, Ted and Robin reconcile.
  • The Magician's Code - Part Two​​ - Robin urges him to go after Victoria because she's the one that got away.

Season 8

  • Nannies - Ted and Robin compete over who has the best relationship, but both admit in the end that neither of them are truly happy with their significant others.
  • The Autumn of Break-Ups - Victoria agrees to Ted's proposal under one condition, that he doesn't see Robin anymore. She feels that Robin is the reason why her and Ted's relationship isn't progressing. Ted tells Victoria that Robin is like family to him and he can't just stop seeing her. She breaks up with him and tells him that she really hopes he gets Robin one day .Ted decides not to tell Robin, but Future Ted alludes that Robin will eventually find out.
  • The Over-Correction- Ted helps Robin sneak into Barney's apartment.
  • The Final Page - Part Two​​​ - Ted asks Robin to be his date to the GNB Tower party but knowing Barney was proposing to Patrice he urges Robin to try to stop Barney knowing that they have some chemistry.
  • Band or DJ? - Ted agonizes over Robin getting married to Barney because he believes she should be with him.
  • Something Old - Ted cancels a meeting with a client to help Robin dig up her locket which was meant to be her "something old". He then tries to convince her that the locket not being there is not a sign that she shouldn't marry Barney, and she reaches for his hand and looks at him
  • Something New​​ - It is revealed in a flashback that Robin got drunk and upset that she wasn’t going to marry Ted when he got engaged to Stella, prompting her to dig up her locket which she was going to wear when she married Ted. Ted realizes that the locket is in the racecar pencil box in his apartment.

Season 9

  • The Locket - Ted gives Robin a photo of the group from 8 years ago as a wedding gift. It is revealed that Robin’s locket might be in LA.
  • Last Time in New York- Ted and Lily discuss Ted moving to Chicago because of Robin.
  • The Broken Code- Barney finds out that Ted has feelings for Robin. Ted tries to get over her.
  • Platonish- In a flashback it is revealed that Ted thought he had all the time in the world to pursue Robin again while Barney was actually already planning to propose to her. Marshall tells Ted that he still has a chance with Robin, but Lily thinks they are just friends.
  • Unpause- Ted and Robin take advantage of a drunk Barney. They talk about when they used to date.
  • Sunrise - Ted and Robin talk about his past relationships and Ted finally lets go of her. It is revealed that Victoria had the locket and overnights it to Ted but Ted’s other ex-girlfriend Jeanette intercepted it and threw it into the pond in Central Park.
  • Daisy- Robin starts to believe she should be with the man she can depend on (being Ted) after talking to her mother.
  • The End of the Aisle - Robin panics about her wedding (foreshadowed in False Positive), in this state of panic she realizes that it was Ted who tracked down her locket (it is revealed that Ted jumped of the bridge to retrieve the locket) and, due to her stressed state, thinks it might be a sign she shouldn't marry Barney, that she should be marrying Ted. Ted tells Robin that she loves Barney and that he would never do that to him. In her panic she thinks about running away, first using Ted as an excuse but when he doesn't agree she decides to run away by herself, but her fears are assuaged by Barney's promise to be honest with her. 
  • Last Forever - Part One In a flashback to 2005, Barney is jealous when Robin becomes Ted's wingman. In 2015, Robin is dissapointed when Ted talks about his upcoming wedding to Tracy getting up to get "get the next round". Tracy comes in to tell Ted the weddining needs to  be called off as she is pregnant leaving Robin jealous, In a flash-foward to 2016, Robin explains to Lily she can't hang out with the gang because Ted was the guy she should have ended up with.
  • Last Forever - Part Two - In the second half of the series finale in 2020, Ted and Robin bump into each other and are happy to see each other. In a deleted scene, it's revealed they met for lunch the next day where she tells Ted that was the one she should have ended up with. She decides to attend Ted's wedding after Tracy convinces her to do so. In 2030 Ted's kids give him permission to resume his relationship with Robin again pointing out their feelings for each other are very obvious, after it is revealed that their mother died six years ago and Robin has become a major part of their lives. Ted appears at Robin's apartment window with the Blue French Horn, echoing the events of the pilot and the conclusion of Season 1, and Robin  cries and smiles as the series concludes. A deleted scene confirmed that they did rekindle their romantic relationship.

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Recurring Elements

Notes and Trivia

  • They are similar to Ross and Rachel from Friends.
  • Ted’s story to his kids was about his relationship with Robin.
  • Ted and Robin are the main couple of the series.
  • A deleted scene of Last Forever - Part Two reveals that Ted and Robin are back together. Marshall Wins The Bet.
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