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The ninth and final season of How I Met Your Mother, an American sitcom created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, premiered on CBS on September 23, 2013, [1] with two episodes, and concluded on March 31, 2014.
S9.E17 ∙ Sunrise. While out looking for Barney on the day of the wedding, Robin and Ted reminisce about past relationships. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily finally resolve their issues and Barney befriends two young guys eager to meet women.
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Season 9 of How I Met Your Mother aired during the 2013-2014 television season. It's the final season of the series. How I Met Your Mother was renewed for a ninth and final season on December 22nd, 2012, with an official announcement made by CBS on January 30th, 2013.
The final season premiered on September 23, 2013 with two back-to-back episodes; The Locket and Coming Back. The series finale aired on March 31, 2014, also with two back-to-back episodes that were part 1 and part 2 of the same episode.
The entire season takes place in the full three days leading up to, and including, the wedding - Friday, Saturday and the wedding takes place at night on Sunday. The first episode begins at 11am on Friday - 55 hours before the wedding. Ted and Lily are driving to Farhampton, Marshall is boarding a flight, and Robin and Barney are being driven to Farhampton by Ranjit. Ted aggravates Lily too much, so she decides to take a train to Farhampton instead. The Mother is also on the train and comforts Lily, who is stressed about not seeing Marvin for a week. Marshall's mom posts a Facebook status revealing Marshall's new judgeship, just as Marshall is boarding his flight. Marshall and another passenger, Daphne, are kicked off the plane after Marshall refuses to turn his phone off as he desperately tries to instruct his mother to delete the post. Lily realizes Ted may have been deliberately annoying her so she'd leave and he could give the locket to Robin. She races to the Farhampton inn and tackles Ted before the gift is revealed to be a photo of the gang (the picture from the main credits). In a flashback, Ted reveals he gave the locket to Stella when they were dating, and he went to Los Angeles to look for it in her storage unit.
Lily learns about Marshall missing his flight, and possibly the wedding. She pays the bartender at The Farhampton Inn $100 to replace her glass of alcohol every time she finishes one. Robin worries Barney will get cold feet about their wedding once he learns his brother James is getting divorced, but Barney is surprisingly calm. Marshall has to drive back to New York with Daphne, the passenger he got kicked off the flight with. A future scene shows Ted and The Mother revisiting The Farhampton Inn one year after they met.
Lily discovers a list of all the things that Ted wants to do before moving to Chicago, and discovers he's been avoiding Barney after the moment he shared with Robin in Something Old. After a lecture from Lily, Ted decides to have one last drink with Barney. Barney angrily reveals he had arrived to the carousel shortly after Ted to help Robin dig up the locket, and left when he saw Ted holding hands with her. He replaces Ted for William Zabka as his Best Man. Marshall skypes with them and tells them to recreate the Robin scenario, with the two of them holding hands. Ted admits to Barney he does have feelings for Robin, but he would never do anything to get in the middle of them. Barney eventually relents and forgives him over a poker game, which irritates William Zabka.
When James makes negative remarks about Barney getting married during the poker game, Robin bets her wedding ring for James', and wins his ring. James tells on Robin to his mom, and Robin proceeds to win Loretta's blouse over a poker game. Barney tries to smooth things over, but becomes angry at his brother and mother, saying he only needs Robin now. After Barney introduces Ted to several single ladies attending the wedding, Ted gets stuck with Cassie, who is miserable because everything has gone wrong in her life. When the church minster learns how Robin and Barney got together, he has a heart attack and dies. Daphne finds out Marshall already took the judgeship without telling Lily anything and, after trying to coach Marshall on the correct way to inform her, texts Lily about it. After trying desperately to get the message deleted, Marshall realises how far he is going to hide things from his wife. Lily finds out and is furious.
Robin and Loretta's conflict escalates to a fight over who makes better scrambled eggs. When Robin obviously cannot make them, Loretta asks how she will make them for their kids one day. When Robin tearfully walks away, Barney tells Loretta that Robin can't have kids. In a flashback from the year before, Robin informed Barney of this during a night out and he comforted her with a hug. Loretta asks if Barney is bothered by not having kids and Barney explains he is marrying Robin, not the idea of a future family. Robin finds out her mother won't be attending the wedding due to her fear of flying, as Loretta comes to call off the feud. She embraces Robin and tells her to only call her "Mom" from now on. The next morning, Ted takes a depressed Cassie to the Farhampton lighthouse to cheer her up. He tries to make conversation but she gives nothing. She makes him carry her up to the lighthouse on his back after rolling her ankle. After she half-heartedly asks "So what now? We fall in love or something?", Ted vomits. Later while talking to Lily, Ted is depressed, thinking he has visited too many beautiful places with the wrong girl. Two years later, Ted brings The Mother back to the lighthouse, and they admire the beauty of the view. Ted then proposes to her and she tearfully accepts. While trying to cheer Robin up, the gang tells a story revealing The Mother actually inspired Barney to write "The Robin", by telling him if he really wants to win the girl, he has to go all out. Ted is planning on working for Hammond Druthers when he moves to Chicago.
Pastor Sam Gibbs - James' dad - arrives, agreeing to officiate Barney and Robin's wedding. Sam also reveals he is dating Loretta again. James drops an expensive bottle of scotch. William Zabka tries to sabotage Ted's position as best man. Daphne teaches Marshall how to stand up for himself. After they part ways, the bus Marshall takes breaks down five miles from the Inn, so he decides he can walk it. Barney conducts an elaborate prank on Robin, revealing their rehearsal dinner is on an ice rink and has a Canadian theme. Marshall hitches a ride from The Mother, who drives past him as he is walking to the Inn.
•This is the only season in which the number of regulars has increased, with the addition of Cristin Milioti who is playing The Mother/Tracy McConnell. Despite her regular status, she is absent for large stretches of the season, featuring heavily only in the first and last episodes, and in How Your Mother Met Me.
•This is the only season not to end in May despite having 24 episodes.
•This is the only season to not follow the "real-time" format employed in previous seasons and other shows, as most of the main plot and the "present time" of the season takes place over a span of three days in 2013.
•Based on commentaries available on the DVDs of Seasons 8 and 9 by producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, part of the reason for Season 9's peculiar format may have stemmed from production issues encountered in Season 8. In particular, key elements of the plot were established before producers were certain that the show would run for another season. They wanted the moment when Ted met the Mother to the be one of the last scenes in the entire series but because they established in Season 6 when the meeting would take place sometime in the Season 8 universe, a 'traditional' format would not be feasible to show that.
•Consequently, the season does not feature the usual holiday-themed episodes that coincide with holidays that take place during a season's run.
•The season features a large number of fresh flashbacks to help fill the time.
Streaming, rent, or buy How I Met Your Mother – Season 9: Currently you are able to watch "How I Met Your Mother - Season 9" streaming on Disney Plus or buy it as download on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store.
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