Episode
How I Met Your Mother: The Ashtray
Overview
When Ted receives an unexpected call from The Captain, the gang reminisced about their last awkward encounter with him.
Details
- Series
- How I Met Your Mother
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 2013-02-18
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
The Ashtray is Episode 17 in Season 8 of How I Met Your Mother. It aired on 2013-02-18. The runtime is 23 min.
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Episode 16: Bad Crazy
Ted is reluctant to break up with his crazy girlfriend Jeanette. Meanwhile, Robin becomes attached to Marvin after finally holding him for the first time.
Episode 18: Weekend at Barney's
Barney's legendary relationship playbook, which Robin thought was destroyed, rears its head when Ted and Jeanette break up and Barney decides to use his chick manual to help Ted find a new girlfriend.
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Episode 19: The Fortress
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Episode 14: Ring Up!
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Episode 20: The Time Travelers
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Episode 13: Band or DJ?
When Robin learns that Barney never asked her father's permission before proposing, she insists that he seek his approval before announcing their engagement. Meanwhile, Ted keeps his feelings concealed by throwing himself into planning their wedding.
Episode 21: Romeward Bound
When The Captain asks Lily to move to Rome for a year as his art consultant, she fears that Marshall will resent her. Meanwhile, Ted and Barney become obsessed with a girl who is hiding her amazing body under a puffy coat.
Episode 12: The Final Page (2)
Christmas approaches and Ted wrestles with whether to tell Robin about Barney's intentions involving Patrice, while Marshall and Lily get an early Yule gift, a night away from Marvin, but a case of separation anxiety strikes and threatens to ruin the evening.
Episode 22: The Bro Mitzvah
The gang works together to plan a legendary bachelor party for Barney.
Episode 11: The Final Page (1)
Robin takes steps to have Patrice fired from WWN, while Marshall puts a jinx on Barney. Later, Ted invites his architecture professor to the dedication of the GNB building, and Marshall and Lily bump into an oddball acquaintance from college.
Episode 23: Something Old
Robin desperately tries to locate the item that she buried in Central Park years earlier to wear as her "Something Old" for the wedding. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily ask Ted to help them pack for Italy, and Barney invites Robin's father to play Laser Tag in order to bond with him.