Season

Season 4

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

The fourth season of the American television comedy series How I Met Your Mother premiered on September 22, 2008 and concluded on May 18, 2009. It consisted of 24 episodes, each running approximately 22 minutes in length. CBS broadcast the fourth season o

(14 total)

Characters

Josh Radnor (9)Ted Mosby (9)Stephen Lloyd (5)Carter Bays (4)Craig Thomas (3)Joe Kelly (3)Cobie Smulders (2)Neil Patrick Harris (2)Robin Scherbatsky (2)Barney Stinson (2)

“Three days. We wait three days to call a woman, because that's how long Jesus wants us to wait... True story.”

— Carter Bays, Barney Stinson, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com

Tagged: jesus, Three Days Rule

“Look, you can’t design your life like a building. It doesn’t work that way. You just have to live it…and it’ll design itself.”

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

Tagged: Life, Planning

“He may not fit society's definition of a hero, but he is the hero I needed. The hero who helped me recover from the disaster of my failed almost-marriage and get back into the game. He lives in the shadows. Is he a dream? Truth? Fiction? Damnation? Salvation? He is all these things and none of them.…”

— Joe Kelly, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: The Naked Man, Hero, Truth, fiction, Damnation

“There are a lot of little reasons why the big things in our lives happen.”

— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: Big Things, Little Reasons

“We spend an hour arguing about where to eat, and we end up here anyway. I haven't eaten for two days. Can we please, for the love of God, just order something now?”

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

Tagged: Hunger, Arguing, order food

“Everyone has an opinion on how long it takes to recover from a breakup.”

— Joe Kelly, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: Opinions, breakup

“God, it's me, Barney. What up? I know we don't talk much, but I know a lot of girls call out your name because of me. Awesome.”

— Robia Rashid, Barney Stinson, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com

Tagged: prayer, Awesome

“We're going to get older whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives, or desperately cling to the past.”

— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: Aging, Nostalgia

“Oh, my God, look at you cowards! So afraid of any kind of change. So terrified of anything new. So-so desperate to cling to anything comfortable and familiar.”

— Stephen Lloyd, Robin Scherbatsky, Cobie Smulders, imdb.com

Tagged: cowards, Change, Desperate, comfortable, familiar

“That was the year I was left at the altar. The year I was beat up by a crazy bartender. The year I got fired. The year I got beat up by a goat, a girl goat at that. And dammit, if it wasn't the best year of my life.”

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

Tagged: Life, Left at the Altar, Bartender, Fired, Best Year Of My Life

“There are a lot of little reasons why the big things in our lives happen.”

— Joe Kelly, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: Life, Change, HIMYM, how i met your mother, Reasons

“We’re going to get older whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives, or desperately cling to the past.”

— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: Change, Aging, Growing Up, growing older, The future

“The great moments of your life won't necessarily be the things you do, they'll also be the things that happen to you. Now, I'm not saying you can't take action to affect the outcome of your life, you have to take action, and you will. But never forget that on any day, you can step out the front door…”

— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, Timing, Relationships, Fate, The Universe

“You may think your only choices are to swallow your anger or throw it in someone's face, but there's a third option: You can just let it go, and only when you do that is it really gone and you can move forward.”

— Jamie Rhonheimer, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: Anger, Letting Go, Moving On