Episode
How I Met Your Mother: Benefits
Overview
Ted and Robin discover that sex with each other solve their fights as roommates, which makes Barney very jealous and angry. Meanwhile, Marshall reveals that he's too embarrassed to use the office bathroom.
Details
- Series
- How I Met Your Mother
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2009-01-12
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Benefits is Episode 12 in Season 4 of How I Met Your Mother. It aired on 2009-01-12. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 11: Little Minnesota
Ted tries to keep his irresponsible sister from hooking up with Barney during her trip to New York, and Robin starts hanging out with Marshall at a bar for Minnesotans, not telling them that she's really Canadian.
Episode 13: Three Days of Snow
Lily and Marshall try to continue their airport reunion tradition. Barney and Ted offer to keep MacLaren's open during a blizzard so they can meet up with some college girls.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: The Fight
Ted (to prove he's not a milquetoast) and Barney (to impress Robin) pick a fight with a group of guys sitting in the gang's favorite booth at MacLaren's.
Episode 14: The Possimpible
Robin, desperate to find a job before she is deported, agrees to let Barney produce a video resume for her.
Episode 9: The Naked Man
The gang learns a new way to get their dates to sleep with them after Ted walks in on Robin's date sitting naked on the couch.
Episode 15: The Stinsons
The gang thinks that Barney must have a secret girlfriend after noticing his bizarre behavior.
Episode 8: Woooo!
A birthday party for one of Lily's co-workers leads to Robin connecting with a group of single partiers known as the "Woo Girls". Ted presents a plan for Goliath National Bank's new HQ.
Episode 16: Sorry, Bro
Marshall and Lily are less than thrilled when they hear that Ted's college girlfriend (Laura Prepon) has moved to New York.
Episode 7: Not a Father's Day
Barney creates a holiday to celebrate not being a father. Meanwhile, Lily and Marshall are considering having a baby, but Lily first wants advice from Ted and Robin.
Episode 17: The Front Porch
Ted learns that not only did Lily plant another woman's earring in his bed for Karen to find, she has meddled in some of his other relationships as well.
Episode 6: Happily Ever After
A serendipitous meeting with someone from his past has Ted thinking about how he would handle running into someone he would prefer to forget.
Episode 18: Old King Clancy
Marshall and Barney lie to keep Ted from finding out the headquarters he'd been hired to design for GNB has been cancelled.