Season

Season 1

by Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor and 4 others

The first season of How I Met Your Mother, an American sitcom created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, premiered on CBS in the United States on September 19, 2005 and concluded on May 15, 2006. The season was directed by Pamela Fryman and produced by Bays

(14 total)

Characters

Carter Bays (6)Craig Thomas (6)Neil Patrick Harris (4)Barney Stinson (4)Larry Charles (3)Ted Mosby (3)Josh Radnor (3)Alyson Hannigan (3)Lily Aldrin (3)Brenda Hsueh (2)

“There are only two reasons to date a girl you've already dated: breast implants.”

— Kourtney Kang, Barney Stinson, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com

Tagged: Reasons, Date, Girl, already dated, Breast Implants

“Every Halloween, I bring a spare costume, in case I strike out with the hottest girl at the party. That way, I have a second chance to make a first impression.”

— Brenda Hsueh, Barney Stinson, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com

Tagged: Halloween, spare costume, strike out, hot girl, Second Chance

“The only reason to wait a month for sex is if she's 17 years, 11 months old.”

— Brenda Hsueh, Barney Stinson, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com

Tagged: Wait, Sex, month, young, illegal

“Nothing good happens after 2:00 am… when 2:00 am rolls around, just go home and go to sleep.”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: 2 am, nothing good happens, Home, Sleep

“So really the biggest mistake would be not to make that mistake, because then you’ll go your whole life not knowing if something was a mistake or not.”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Lily Aldrin, Alyson Hannigan, imdb.com

Tagged: big, mistake, whole life

“We struggle so hard to hold on to these things that we know are gonna disappear eventually. And that's really noble.”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Lily Aldrin, Alyson Hannigan, imdb.com

Tagged: Struggle, Loss, noble

“The best I can give you is a fake smile and dead eyes.”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Robin Scherbatsky, Cobie Smulders, imdb.com

Tagged: fake smile, dead eyes

“Your package has always been big enough. You may not realize this, Marshall Eriksen, but you’ve got a huge package!”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Lily Aldrin, Alyson Hannigan, imdb.com

Tagged: Big Dick Energy, Huge Package

“I peed in an alley which happened to have a church which I did not see because I was drunk!”

— Phil Lord, Barney Stinson, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com

Tagged: Drunk, Public Urination

“So I was watching this movie the other night, it was a World War Two movie and there was Nazis in the movie and I noticed that the Nazis in those movies always had like two separate Heils. They had like the regular Heil that they would do and then when they were around the offices, they had like thi…”

— Larry Charles, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

Tagged: Nazis, Sieg Heil, World War II, Movies

“Don't you see? There's always been something very strange about Jerry, always so clean and organized. Do I have to spell it out for you? The limo? The name? The rally at Madison Square Garden? Jerry, O'Brien are the same person. Jerry is the leader of the Aryan Union.”

— Larry Charles, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com

Tagged: Nazis, neatness, cleanliness, Madison Square Garden

“Astroturf? You know who's responsible for that, don't you?! The Jews! Ah, the Jews hate grass. They always have, they always will.”

— Larry Charles, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

Tagged: Astroturf, Anti-Semitism

“But that's the funny thing about destiny: it happens whether you plan it or not. It turns out I was just too close to the puzzle to see the picture that was forming.”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: Destiny, Chance, Planning, Puzzle

“We spend so much effort trying to keep parts of our lives hidden, even from our closest friends, that in those rare times when we do open up, it's amazing how minor those secrets all end up being.”

— Chris Harris, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: Secrets, vulnerability, Love, Growth, Honesty