Season

How I Met Your Mother Season 8

by Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor and 8 others

The eighth season of the American television comedy series How I Met Your Mother was announced in March 2011 along with confirmation of the ninth season. The season premiered on September 24, 2012 and concluded on May 13, 2013.

(11 total)

Characters

Carter Bays (8)Craig Thomas (6)Ted Mosby (5)Josh Radnor (5)Neil Patrick Harris (2)Barney Stinson (2)Alyson Hannigan (2)Lily Aldrin (2)Dan Gregor (1)Robin Scherbatsky (1)

“I love everything about her, and I’m not a guy who says that lightly. I’m a guy who has faked love his entire life. I thought love was just something idiots thought they felt, but this woman has a hold on my heart that I could not break if I wanted to -- and there have been times that I wanted to. I…”

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

Tagged: Loving Someone, Madly In Love

“If I ask you to change too many things about yourself, you're not gonna be the man I fell in love with. Turns out I accept and appreciate even the grossest, creepiest, most sociopathic parts of you.”

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

Tagged: Loving Their Flaws, Acceptance

“Somewhere along the line, I forgot to pursue my dream and now I'm old and I'm a mom and it's just too late for me.”

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

Tagged: Dreams, Dream Deferred, Old, Mom, Too Late

“Revenge fantasies never work out the way you want.”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Marshall Eriksen, Jason Segel, imdb.com

Tagged: revenge fantasies, never work out

“I realized that I'm searching, searching for what I really want in life. And you know what? I have absolutely no idea what that is.”

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

Tagged: Searching, Clueless

“Whether a gesture's charming or alarming, depends on how it's received.”

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

Tagged: charming, Alarming, Gesture

“You guys dated before. That time counts. The clock doesn't reset to zero. It un-pauses from where you left off.”

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

Tagged: Dating, Breakups, reunited

“Kids, when you're in a new relationship and you're competing with your ex for who's happier, it can get ugly.”

— Chuck Tatham, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: Relationships, Competing, Happiness, ugly, Exes

“I'm sorry, when I'm excited I abbreviate words I shouldn't.”

— Barbie Adler, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: Excited, Abbreviating, Words

“Eight years ago I made an ass of myself chasing after you and I made an ass of myself chasing after you a bunch of times since then. I have no regrets because it led me to something I wouldn't trade for the world, it led to you being my friend. So as your friend and a leading expert in the field of…”

— Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

Tagged: ass, Self-deprecation, Revenge, Expert

“You can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.”

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

Tagged: The Past, Moving On, Change, Moving Forward, Letting Go