Cast

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===Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby: ===

"Ted, the central character of the show, is from Shaker Heights, Ohio (like show creator Carter Bays ), a graduate of Wesleyan University (like Bays and show co-creator Craig Thomas ) and an architect (unlike Bays or Thomas). After his best friend Marshall Eriksen gets engaged, Ted decides to try and find his soul mate. This quest informs the general direction of the show, and Ted's relationship with the other main characters Marshall Eriksen, Lily Aldrin , Robin Scherbatsky , and Barney Stinson.

Prone to socially questionable romantic gestures, he steals a blue French horn (nicknamed "The Smurf Penis") that was a topic of conversation in his first date with Robin Scherbatsky. In a similar vein, he also dresses up as a "hanging chad" every year for Halloween, in the hopes of meeting the " Slutty Pumpkin ," a woman dressed as a jack-o'-lantern (complete with strategically placed holes) whom he once met at a Halloween party.

For a time in the first season, he dates a baker named Victoria, whom he meets at a friend's wedding. She accepts a culinary fellowship in Germany, prompting a long-distance relationship, which does not last, due in large part to his persistent feelings for Robin. Ted upsets Robin by implying that Victoria broke up with him when she didn't. Ted and Robin make out before both women realise they've been deceived. Ted and Robin ultimately reconcile as friends, and Ted makes one last attempt to win her over, hiring a chamber orchestra with blue instruments to play in her apartment while he makes his appeal. She finally acquiesces some time later when Ted apparently summons a storm with a complicated rain dance. After nearly a year together, they break up upon realizing that they want different things from life, and Ted no longer sees Robin as "The One", but doesn't reveal the identity of his future wife. Robin, however, does act as an "Aunt" to his future children.

Ted comes from Shaker Heights, Ohio (in real life, Josh Radnor grew up in the Columbus, Ohio area). He was seen cheering for the Cleveland Indians when they were playing the New York Yankees at a baseball game in the episode " Where Were We? " and also alluded to once being trapped under a fake rock at a mall in Ohio when he was 9 in the episode " Slap Bet ." He also wears a Cleveland Indians t-shirt in the episode " Sandcastles In The Sand ". He and Marshall were randomly assigned as freshman year roommates at Wesleyan but became friends on a long road trip that was deemed both "Fieroasco" (by Marshall) and the "100k Fiasco" (by Ted). This story was told in " Arrivederci, Fiero ".

For a while Ted claimed to be "vomit-free since '93", meaning he had not vomited for any reason since 1993. However, in the episode " Game Night ", he reveals that this is not true, and that he vomited on Robin's door mat. He knows sign language (presumably American Sign Language ), and has a strong tendency to correct everything that people around him say.

It is revealed in " No Tomorrow " that at a St. Patrick's Day party he and Barney attended, his future wife was also present, although he (fortunately) did not meet her that night. Once he returns to the room of the party the morning after, he picks up a yellow umbrella which can be seen blowing in the wind in the season promo. Also, he becomes the second main character to actually own a car (a blue Toyota Camry Hybrid) after getting a raise at his job in " The Chain of Screaming ." By the end of the episode, Ted decides to get rid of the car to help Marshall with his money problems.

In " The Goat ," Ted tells Barney that he no longer wants to be friends after Barney breaks the " bro code " by sleeping with Robin. The two eventually reconcile in the Season Three finale " Miracles ", after both were in accidents (Ted in a taxi crash, Barney being run over by a bus on the way to visit Ted in the hospital). At the end of season 3, it is also revealed that by Ted's 31st birthday, Robin will be living in the apartment.

At the beginning of the third season, Ted, while drunk, gets a tattoo on his lower back (his "tramp stamp"). He goes to see a doctor in order to have it removed, and goes on a date with the doctor in " The Platinum Rule ." In " Ten Sessions ," he falls for his doctor, Stella Zinman, and after the tattoo is removed, Ted takes her on a two-minute date. They begin dating, and at the end of " Miracles " Ted proposes to Stella. She says yes at the beginning of the fourth season. Ted invites Stella's ex-boyfriend to his wedding, which unbeknownst to him, causes Stella and her ex-boyfriend's feelings to reemerge for each other and Stella leaves Ted at the altar.

Ted's life continues to see a negative turn during the fourth season. After being left at the altar, Ted has trouble getting back into the dating world, and his job becomes a source of trouble as well. After being hired to design a project for Goliath National Bank, he is fired after weeks of unsuccessful work. He attempts to remedy this by starting his own firm, Mosbius Designs, but continues to be unable to get a client. In the season four finale " The Leap ", Ted ultimately accepts a job as an architecture professor offered to him by Stella's ex-husband Tony as a peace offering, though Tony's movie // The Wedding Bride ,// released in the next season, pits a caricature of Ted as its villain against a romanticized version of Tony and Stella.

Recently it has been established that he is a big fan of Weird Al Yankovic. Supposedly he wrote Weird Al a letter when he was a kid with the suggestion for Weird Al's parody " Like a Surgeon ." "

__**Source:**__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Mosby

===Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky: ===

"Robin is a news anchor for a New York cable news channel, Metro News 1, and became a host of her own morning talk show that airs at 4:00 in the morning. She lived in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn until her temporary unemployment (before the morning talk show) forced her to move in with her ex-boyfriend, and the show's main character, Ted, only briefly residing with Don, her colleague and then-boyfriend (she returned to Ted's apartment after the breakup, as Don moved to Chicago). Like Smulders, she is originally from Vancouver , and has a younger teenage sister named Katie, who appears in " First Time in New York ". Although she was a reporter for "fluff news pieces" at the end of news segments at the time of first meeting Ted, over the series she has worked her way up to be lead news anchor at Metro News 1, before taking a prominent anchoring position in Japan, only to return to New York and, with help from Barney Stinson , host her own talk show.

Robin has been portrayed as an independent, confident woman throughout the series. She has stated numerous times that she doesn't want to get married and have kids, in episodes like Purple Giraffe, Something Blue , Little Boys and Symphony of Illumination. She was reluctant at first to date Ted as he wanted to marry her and settle down, but got together with him anyway in the Season One finale.

She has performed several embarrassing dares on television in exchange for money from Barney, including saying the word "nipple", spanking herself, and honking her own breasts. In " Mary the Paralegal ", Robin won an award for her report on Pickles the singing dog, and attended the Local Area Media Awards show (LAMA's) with the group. She brought Sandy Rivers, a fellow reporter, as a date in order to make Ted jealous. It was originally thought that Robin was the only main character on the show who smokes cigarettes sober (as Marshall has admitted to smoking while drinking and Lily smoked on her wedding day), but in the episode " Last Cigarette Ever " it is revealed that everyone in the gang was addicted to smoking at some point in time and would eventually quit. Ted asks her about her smoking in " Moving Day ", and Robin tells him no, but is then shown smoking in the hot tub in her apartment later in the episode. She has an in-depth knowledge of cigars and was shown enjoying one with Barney in " Zip, Zip, Zip " at his cigar bar, with a glass of Johnnie Walker Blue Label scotch, in Marshall's car in a flashback with Lily in the episode " Arrivederci, Fiero ", in a flashback very late at night before Marshall was scheduled to take the bar exam in episode " Dowisetrepla ", and with Barney in Ted's new car in " The Chain of Screaming ".

Robin has often stated her attraction to men with battle-scars or wounds, especially injuries such as bruises and missing teeth that have come from fights or sports. In " The Fight " she shows a vast change in interest in Barney once she believes he has gotten into a fight.

Robin is also an avid gun enthusiast, shown in multiple episodes brandishing a Desert Eagle (despite the fact that civilian handgun permits are severely restricted in New York City), as well as having a subscription to // Guns & Ammo // magazine and having taken Marshall to the shooting range in order to get over Lily.

She has been known to use the word "Literally" far too often, as pointed out by Ted in " Spoiler Alert ". She also has a tendency to use the phrase "but um" when interviewing a guest on her talk show which was turned into a drinking game by Ted's students in " Jenkins ". According to Ted, she cannot tell a lie without giggling, but she has been shown numerous times throughout the series lying smoothly. She does, however, usually talk in a higher than normal voice (what Lily calls her "truth voice") when saying something that is actually true, but she wants her friends to think she is kidding them aboot.

It is also revealed in " The Goat " that by Ted's 31st birthday, Robin will be living in Ted's apartment. This happens in " Not a Father's Day " when Robin moves into Ted's apartment after coming back from Japan, and then again in " Doppelgangers ", when Robin, then living with her then-current boyfriend Don, left him. Future Ted reveals that Robin traveled the world and lived in many different countries.

Robin was in a relationship with her co-host Don Frank in Season 5 after getting over her break-up with Barney. She moved in with him in the episode " Robots Versus Wrestlers ", but broke up with him in the season finale as he moved away to take a job offer in Chicago, which was initially turned down by Robin to stay with Don.

Despite having been in relationships with both Ted Mosby and Barney Stinson, and having rekindled her friendship with Ted, it's strongly implied she never let Barney go. Despite spending part the most part of " Challenge Accepted " plotting with Barney a way to prevent Ted from pursuing a meaningless relationship with Zoey, and rekindling her relationship with him in the process, she also pressures Barney into approaching his current love interest, Nora. However, when Barney asks Nora for a cup of coffee, she realizes she is jealous.

In the season 7 premiere episode " The Best Man ", Lily confronts her about her feelings for Barney, and advises her to tell him about her feelings. She is about to when Barney first pulls her for a dance, and later she is interrupted when Barney gets a call from Nora. Barney asks for help on how to speak to Nora on the phone, so Robin tells him what he should say, but what are really her feelings. In " The Stinson Missile Crisis ", she assaults a woman setting out to destroy Barney's relationship with Nora. She is sent to court-mandated therapy, where Kevin ( Kal Penn ) is the therapist. They start dating shortly after. Their relationship is tested when Robin cheats on him with Barney, and she decides to break up with him. She changes her mind when Kevin tells her how much he cares for her, and they stay together.

The episode " Symphony of Illumination " depicts Robin as having a son and a daughter (much like Future Ted), telling them the story of how she told "their father" (Barney) that she was pregnant. Later in the episode, Robin finds that not only is she not pregnant, she is unable to have children. The children she was narrating to are revealed to have been imaginary and she was actually talking to herself. Despite the fact that she never planned on having children, she is devastated that she is unable to, and sobs heavily as Ted comforts her. She uses the excuse that the Canadian Olympic Committee deemed her too tall to be a "pole vaulter," which Ted sees through (although at this point he thinks her unhappiness is due to not being home for Christmas). Future Ted comments that she "never became a pole vaulter," but she became a world famous journalist, and even, for a time, a bull-fighter."

__**Source:**__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Scherbatsky

===Jason Segel as Marshall Eriksen: ===

"Marshall is an easy-going, naive optimist from St. Cloud, Minnesota . At the start of the series, Marshall lives with his best friend Ted Mosby and long-time girlfriend, Lily Aldrin ; he proposes to her in the pilot episode, which inspires Ted to get married and settle down.

Born in 1978 and of Scandinavian descent, Marshall met Ted and Lily during their freshman year at Wesleyan University. Ted was his roommate and Lily lived in the same hall as they did, which led to their eventual relationship. He is a Columbia Law School graduate, and throughout his time at law school, Ted refers to him as "the kid". Even though he stands at 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), he is the shortest male member of his family. Marshall became a lawyer because he was interested in environmental protection laws. Ultimately, he accepted a job at a corporate law firm where his only client is an amusement park riddled with various safety violations. He later joins the legal team at Goliath National Bank, where Barney Stinson also works. Later, in season 6, he quits his job at Goliath National Bank to work at an environmental law firm, just like he wanted to do when he graduated law school.

He and Lily have a solid, loving relationship, but it has been tested at various times throughout the series. In " Come On ", Lily, who has been having cold feet about their approaching wedding, announces that she has been accepted to an art fellowship in San Francisco and leaves to find out who she is outside of a relationship. Marshall is devastated and spends the next few months in a deep depression. When Lily returns to New York and asks him to take her back, he refuses, his pride still wounded. They eventually reconcile and resume their engagement in " Swarley ", and get married, albeit with some complications, in " Something Blue ". Lily is also the only person that Marshall, a lawyer, "a person who argues for a living," ever gets tongue-tied with; every argument he has with her ends badly for him.

It is seen that while Marshall enjoys being in a relationship, he misses being a wingman with his single male friends Ted and Barney and occasionally complains about not involving him in their adventures, as seen in Definitions. He is known to think of himself highly, in regards to his appearance, as evidenced in " Spoiler Alert ", where he thinks of himself as a young Harrison Ford, and in The Yips. He is also considered to be a catch amongst members of the gay community, and he acknowledges that, as seen in Single Stamina and Everything Must Go. He is deeply devoted to his family, which occasionally annoys Lily. She jokes that in his mind, the ideal woman would be his mother. When his father passed away in season 6, Marshall came to live with his mom for a small period of time to help her. He regressed to living as though he was a child again, which was seen in Desperation Day.

Marshall is fascinated with the paranormal, specifically Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster , both of which he believes are real. He is also fascinated in the existence of aliens. He can play the piano fairly well, as seen in the episode " Slapsgiving ", where he performs a song after slapping Barney. In the episode " Sweet Taste of Liberty ", he claims that he has never fought anyone before, but proves he is a formidable and experienced fighter in the episode " The Fight ", having survived several brutal fights with his brothers. When nervous, Marshall is prone to blurting out the thing he least wants known.

It is revealed in " Last Cigarette Ever " that in the future, he and Lily have a son. In early 2011, after being told Marshall and Lily are capable of having a baby, Lily tells Marshall that his father had a fatal heart attack, which shakes Marshall to the core. Marshall and his friends agree his dad's last words towards him were "I love you", but they were actually about a foot cream. During his father's funeral, Marshall says in his eulogy that the last words his father ever said to him were "...rent //Crocodile Dundee III//..." His father's death causes him to change perspectives in his life, which leads to him quitting his job at GNB and pursuing a career in environmental law, as well as attempting to start a family with Lily. In the season six finale, Lily announces to Marshall that she is pregnant."

__**Source:**__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Eriksen

===Alyson Hannigan as Lily Aldrin: ===

"Lily grew up in Brooklyn, New York . She is the granddaughter of a woman named Lois and the daughter of Janice Aldrin, whom Lily describes as a feminist, she is of Swedish descent. The creators stated in commentary that there is no evidence to the contrary that Lily's grandfather is astronaut Buzz Aldrin - and like Buzz Aldrin, her grandfather is said to have fought in the Korean War . Her father is revealed to be a man named Mickey, an unsuccessful board game creator living in his parents' basement. Janice and Mickey divorced when Lily was younger.

During her high school and college years, she is shown to have been a part of the goth subculture, with her hair dyed black. Lily dated a guy named Scooter, admitting she only dated him because he looked like Kurt Cobain. According to a convenience store clerk, she is "taller than described." She met Marshall during her freshman year at Wesleyan University in 1996 and dated him throughout college. As of the episode, " Say Cheese ", aired on March 22, 2010, Lily is 32 years old.

Lily and Marshall became engaged in the fall of 2005, as portrayed in the series pilot. Towards the end of the first season, she reveals to Robin that she has been having second thoughts about getting married without having experienced much else of life before Marshall. Those doubts intensify, and she acts upon them, applying for a painting fellowship in San Francisco. She originally tells Ted that she had decided not to go through with the application, but Marshall finds out she did and was accepted. After arguing the point on and off, with several pause breaks in between for drinks, dinner at Red Lobster, and sex, Lily cannot promise Marshall that she would return to him after the three-month fellowship, and the engagement ends.

After returning, she confesses that her decision to leave was a mistake, but it takes several episodes until Marshall takes her back. Soon after, they resume their engagement. Episode 10 of season 2 implies that within a year, Marshall and Lily will be married. They finally get married in " Something Borrowed ," the penultimate episode of the second season. Lily chose to keep her own last name; Marshall would have preferred otherwise but accepted any name Lily wanted, even jokily suggesting that they call themselves "The Awesomes."

On Thanksgiving Day 2005, Lily is arrested for public urination in St. Cloud, Minnesota, after taking a home pregnancy test in an alley behind a convenience store while visiting Marshall's family. (As depicted in " Belly Full of Turkey ".)

In the third season, it is revealed that Lily is a shopaholic, and goes shopping (particularly for shoes and boots) whenever something bad happens. Her multiple credit cards are kept in a "box of shame". This fact is subtly hinted at during the season one episode " Cupcake ". Upon ruining a wedding dress Lily is asked "How will you be paying?" and her reply is "credit card... s". She and Marshall struggled with her credit card bills especially when they were about to buy an apartment, which caused Marshall to take a job at a big corporate firm. They eventually get the house, only to find out that the neighborhood is situated near a water sewage treatment plant and that the floor of their apartment is crooked. In season 4 she and Marshall move into their new home.

Out of all of the characters, she is the only one Barney chooses to confide in when he realizes that he is in love with Robin in the season 4 premiere, " Do I Know You? ". Barney has also called Lily to ask her to uncuff him from a sex swing. In "Do I Know You?", she says that Robin is her best friend, though she would not pretend she "hadn't noticed her body."

Lily, along with Ted and Marshall, occasionally indulged in "sandwiches" (Future Ted's euphemism for marijuana ) during college and at their 20th college reunion.

At times, Lily's sexual drive is shown to be slightly overdeveloped. Because of the fact that Marshall is the only person she has ever had sex with, she appears openly curious about other sexual lifestyles and activities. She admits in // Robin 101 // that she has lesbian fantasies about Robin, and comments on Robin's body several times over the course of the show. She also appears unnaturally invested in Barney's sex life - she is always the one who Barney calls when he gets tied in his sex swing (as shown in // Do I Know You? //), attempts to steal Barney's collection of pornography from Barney and later from Ted in // The Rough Patch //, and when Ted tries to watch a porn film which Barney tapes over with a short message and later a sex tape of his own (also in // The Rough Patch //) and goes to turn it off, Lily insists they remain watching to see Barney's sexual activities.

In the fifth season premiere, Lily forces Robin and Barney to confess being a couple. She does this by detaching the doorknob of Robin's room at the apartment and waits for them to have "the Talk." Robin and Barney pass a few notes under the door with vague explanations, none of which satisfy her, but they eventually give in and lie but Lily notes that they did not realize they were not lying. It was discovered that Lily has a doppelgänger named Jasmine, who is a stripper. Lily is especially excited about this, and is so enthralled by her stripper twin that she and Marshall get a private dance. At the end of the night, Lily switches place with Jasmine and dances with much difficulty on stage, eventually falling into the crowd, to Marshall's horror.

Due to their poor past experiences with other couples at double dates, Lily and Marshall are both ecstatic to have another couple to hang out with for another try. They invite Robin and Barney for a evening together, but this fails miserably when the other two admits to Ted that it was the most boring night ever. Eventually, Barney and Robin both realize they miss Lily and Marshall; they all profess their desire to be a foursome under the rain. In " Bagpipes ", Lily and Marshall get in a huge fight because of dirty dishes and Barney's insistence to Marshall that he should not be responsible for them. She promptly kicks him out after Marshall's incoherent arguing escalates into several separate issues. When Barney and Robin admit to Lily and Marshall about their own problems, they start to appreciate how solid their own relationship is, and forgive each other immediately.

When Barney describes his relationship in a depressing manner to Marshall, he assumes Barney is unhappy. He and Ted ask Lily to help break up Barney and Robin, given her experience in plotting breakups (" The Front Porch "). While she insists that she is "retired" from that pursuit, Marshall and Ted's breakup method leads to Barney and Robin getting engaged, which Lily responds to by promptly "coming out of retirement". Lily executes her plan to get them into a big argument; this fails, but Barney and Robin both realize they don't work as a couple.

In " Big Days ," Marshall and Lily show up at MacLaren's, arguing about trying to get pregnant. Lily had set a romantic evening at home, with candles and banjo music, but when she finds out that Marshall has told his father that they are trying, Lily freaks out about how invasive Marvin Erikson is. Marshall argues that his father is a part of his life and deserves to know, but Lily can't stand Mr. Eriksen's constant calls and domineering personality. (Barney mentions that if he knew his father's phone number, he'd be calling him all the time, before turning his focus elsewhere.) Lily goes after Marshall, and the two reconcile, agreeing that his father is somewhat insane and very enthusiastic, just like Marshall. They both then head upstairs.

In season 6, episode 4, Lily and Marshall discuss their concerns about not conceiving a baby yet. They then agree there is really no rush to become parents, and promptly decide to head to Coney Island to have fun.

Later in season 6, Lily and Marshall visit Stuart and Claudia (" Baby Talk "), who are having trouble naming their newborn baby. Lily and Marshall try to come up with baby names on their own - Marshall with boy names that Lily rejects because of her past experiences with trouble-making kindergarten boys, and Lily with a couple of girl names that Marshall rejects because of his experience with a hot girl from his school and a stripper. One of these fantasies of the future includes a Barney lookalike hitting on and subsequently marrying their daughter. Marshall, worried that he might have to raise a daughter, consults his father on how to ensure that his child will be male. What he doesn't realize is that Lily has been searching for ways to make sure their child will be female. When Lily and Marshall find out what the other has been doing, they realize that they have no control over the gender of their baby, and decide to give him/her the gender-neutral name Jamie. However, Lily rejects the name later because of a troublemaker in her class named Jamie.

In season 6, episode 24, Lily is revealed to be pregnant, after being thought to have received food poisoning. In season 7, episode 6, Lily and Marshall discover that they are expecting a boy."

__**Source:**__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Aldrin

===Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson: ===

"Barney Stinson is one of five main characters on // How I Met Your Mother //. He is in his early thirties and almost always wears a suit, likes women with daddy issues and is always willing to offer his (sometimes hypocritical ) opinion. In contrast to his best friend, Ted Mosby , who wants to settle down, Stinson is a serial womanizer and has a plethora of strategies and rules designed to meet women, sleep with them, and discard them. Through several seasons of the show, four of the main characters were couples, as Ted began dating Robin Scherbatsky and Ted's roommate Marshall Eriksen became engaged and later married to Lily Aldrin . This left Stinson the only single character, and, according to Harris, Stinson was "resentful" that the other characters had paired up. Later on, in season 5, he dated Robin.

Harris describes Barney as a man who "likes to create crazy situations and then sit back and watch it all go down." He tends to be opportunistic and manipulative, and will attempt to manipulate a situation so that it goes his way. In the episode " Shelter Island ", for example, Barney successfully convinces Robin (in whom he was exhibiting romantic interest) to come to Ted and Stella's wedding, even though it was not in the couple's best interests to do so. He is also highly competitive, and will take on "challenges" to complete (sometimes) outlandish tasks in order to prove his worth. He is proud and stubborn, and attempts to stand by his word no matter what. In " I Heart NJ ", for example, he refuses to put down his fist unless someone offers him a fist bump. By the end of the episode, he has said fist elevated in a sling after struggling to keep his fist up throughout the episode. Although he thinks of himself as worldly, Barney is extremely naive at times, believing many lies his mother told him well into adulthood, such as believing that Bob Barker is his father.

Barney, just like Harris, is an illusionist. His favorite types of magic tricks include fire, which his friends seem to hate, as seen in the tenth episode of the second season, " Single Stamina " and in the fourth episode of the fourth season, " Intervention ". Barney uses them mostly to pick up women. His most common method of picking up women is telling them elaborate lies about himself, often using an alias. Many of his schemes for picking up women are in a book he has written called "The Playbook", which is exposed in the episode " The Playbook ". He has commitment issues, as evidenced in his reluctance to put a label on his relationship with Robin and the fact that she is one of the few women he has dated since the show started.

Barney is very well-connected and is the most affluent member of the group. He frequently buys expensive items—such as a last-minute plane ticket to San Francisco, thousands of dollars in postage stamps, or two televisions specifically for smashing in frustration—in the spur of the moment. He is also something of a metrosexual ; he waxes his chest, enjoys manicures and has an extensive knowledge of designer labels and gourmet food. However, he is also seen to have a gambling problem that he occasionally gets under control, only to relapse as seen in several episodes such as " Atlantic City ", where he has Chinese Triad gambling friends, and " Monday Night Football ".

As far as talent goes, Barney has exhibited eloquence, wit and creativity numerous times throughout the series. He speaks several languages, using what is said to be Ukrainian (actually Russian) with his tailor, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean at least twice in business deals with shady North Koreans. He apparently also has above-average video-editing skills; he created and edited his entire video resume all by himself. He seems to be a talented website designer, as shown in " The Playbook ". As shown on more than one occasion, he is proficient at playing the piano, as are Ted and Marshall. He seems to have a thorough understanding of human behavior and uses this mainly to manipulate situations to his advantage (mostly to pick up women). Several episodes also showcase many of Barney's crazier abilities, such as his physical ability to complete the New York City marathon without a single day of training (although this seems to be through sheer willpower rather than physical strength, as his legs went numb while he took the subway moments later), being able to punch through walls, stay under water for up to 12 minutes and being knowledgeable enough to guess the exact price of prizes on // The Price Is Right //. He also juggles knives in " Doppelgangers ". Despite his eclectic and prodigious talents, Barney is lacking in several common skills, such as driving a car or using a screwdriver, although he seems to have learned the former, as he tries to prove that he can get out of a speeding ticket. In " Robin 101 ", Barney stated that he was diagnosed with ADHD as a child, probably explaining his habit of zoning out when people are talking to him.

Although // The Early Show // described him as "utterly devoid of morality", Barney lives by the " Bro Code ", his own code of rules. Despite his overall questionable character, according to creator Craig Thomas, Barney is "a pretty fragile character who's really afraid of being alone. He just wants people to like him, to be important to people, and to have disciples who follow his word." He has displayed acts of kindness on multiple occasions, such as reuniting Lily and Marshall and preventing Marshall from sleeping with other women. Although coming across as a very strong character with a penchant for committing daring and wild feats, Barney has an extreme fear of spiders, as shown in the season 2 episode " First Time in New York ". He also has a habit of eating ice cream when he's upset, although this is common among all the main cast. It is revealed in the episode The Slutty Pumpkin Returns that he's one quarter Canadian ."

__**Source:**__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Stinson

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=Recurring characters: =

__**Source:**__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother#Recurring_characters
 * Lyndsy Fonseca as Future Ted Mosby's daughter (2005–)
 * David Henrie as Future Ted Mosby's son (2005–)
 * Marshall Manesh as Ranjit (2005–)
 * Joe Nieves as Carl the bartender (2005–)
 * Charlene Amoia as Wendy the waitress (2005–2011)
 * Bill Fagerbakke as Marvin Eriksen Sr. (2005–)
 * Danica McKellar as Trudy (2005-2007)
 * Ashley Williams as Victoria (2006, 2011)
 * David Burtka as Scooter (2006–2010)
 * Joe Manganiello as Brad (2006–2009)
 * Bryan Callen as Bilson (2006–)
 * Taran Killam as Blauman (2006-)
 * Alexis Denisof as Sandy Rivers (2006, 2011-)
 * Wayne Brady as James Stinson (2006–)
 * Bryan Cranston as Hammond Druthers (2006–2007)
 * Cristine Rose as Virginia Mosby (2006–)
 * Enrique Iglesias as Gael (2007)
 * Sarah Chalke as Stella Zinman (2008–2009)
 * Britney Spears as Abby (2008)
 * Chris Romano as Punchy (2008–)
 * Will Forte as Randy Wharmpess (2008, 2010)
 * Frances Conroy as Loretta Stinson (2009–)
 * Benjamin Koldyke as Don Frank (2009–2010)
 * Laura Prepon as Karen (2009–2010)
 * Rachel Bilson as Cindy (2010, 2011)
 * Ben Vereen as Sam Gibbs (2010–)
 * Jennifer Morrison as Zoey Pierson (2010–2011)
 * Laura Bell Bundy as Becky (2010)
 * Kyle MacLachlan as George "The Captain" van Smoot (2010–2011)
 * Nazanin Boniadi as Nora (2011)
 * John Lithgow as Jerome "Jerry" Whittaker (2011–)
 * Kal Penn as Kevin (2011–)
 * Martin Short as Garrison Cootes (2011–)

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