"How I Met Your Mother": Best moments

"How I Met Your Mother" premiered Sept. 19, 2005, on CBS. The show, which follows narrator Ted Mosby and his band of friends, will come to an end after nine seasons on March 31, 2014.

Ted Mosby

Josh Radnor stars as architect Ted Mosby.

Marshall Eriksen

Jason Segel stars as Ted's best friend, Marshall Eriksen.

Lily Aldrin

Alyson Hannigan plays Marshall's wife, Lily Aldrin.

Barney Stinson

Neil Patrick Harris plays (wait for it...) Barney Stinson, their suit-wearing pal known for his catchphrases and crazy antics.

Robin Scherbatsky

Cobie Smulders plays television journalist Robin Scherbatsky, friend and love interest to both Ted and Barney.

Season 1

Josh Radnor stars as Ted (left) and Jason Segel (right) stars as Marshall, in "The Duel."

Season 1

Marshall and Lily in "Best Prom Ever."

Season 2

Marshall and Lily get married in "Something Borrowed."

Season 2

Barney and Lily in "World's Greatest Couple."

Season 2

Robin appears as her teen alter-ego "Robin Sparkles" in the episode "Slap Bet."

Season 3

Barney turns to tournament bracketology to narrow down the field of 64 women with the most cause to hate his guts in "The Bracket."

Season 3

After Robin shows up with an Argentinean Adonis by her side, Ted decides he is ready to hit the town with Barney in "Wait For It."

Season 4

Robin and her co-anchor report the news at her new job in Japan in the episode "Shelter Island."

Season 4

Guest-star Regis Philbin and Barney in the episode "The Best Burger In New York."

Season 5

Marshall, Ted, Robin, Barney and Lily celebrate Thanksgiving with Lily's estranged father on "Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap."

Season 5

The cast perform the musical number "Girls Vs. Suits," for the 100th episode of the show.

Season 5

Ted buys a dilapidated house and takes Lily, Marshall, Barney and Robin to see it on "Home Wreckers."

Season 5

Marshall and Lily make a secret pact that says when they finally see Barney's doppelganger, they will start trying to have a baby, on the fifth season finale, "Doppelgangers."

Season 6

Barney learns his mother lied to him about events throughout his life on "Cleaning House."

Season 6

Ted becomes conflicted about pursuing his dream job of designing the new GNB headquarters after meeting a hot girl, Zoey, on "Architect of Destruction."

Season 6

Barney finds a copy of the Canadian kids show "Space Teens" starring Robin's alter-ego "Robin Sparkles," with Nicole Scherzinger guest-starring as "Jessica Glitter."

Season 6

The gang travels home to Minnesota for Marshall's father's funeral, where Ted and Barney will stop at nothing to make Marshall laugh. Meanwhile, Marshall has an unfortunate meeting with an old high school bully that terrorized him throughout his youth on "Last Words."

Season 6

Barney finally meets his dad, Jerry, and his wife, Cheryl, on "Legendaddy."

Season 7

Robin considers telling Barney she has feelings for him on the seventh season premiere, "The Best Man."

Season 7

Barney and Ted on "The Broath"

Season 7

The gang rallies around Lily and Marshall to look at their newborn baby on "The Magician's Code Part One."

Season 8

Robin'™s anxiety on her wedding day to Barney prompts Ted to recount the time he insisted on leaving Victoria's jilted fiance a note before they drove off into the sunset together, on the eighth season premiere, "Farhampton."

Season 8

With Christmas fast approaching, Barney makes an elaborate plot to propose to Robin on "The Final Page, Part One And Two."

Season 8

Robin is desperate to find her "€œsomething old" she buried in Central Park years earlier for the wedding on "Something Old."

Season 9

Lily is the first of the gang to officially meet The Mother (Cristin Milioti, left) on the ninth and final season premiere, "The Locket."

Season 9

Two years in the future, Ted asks The Mother to marry him and she says yes, on "The Lighthouse."

Season 9

In an attempt to deliver a devastating final slap to Barney, Marshall explains how he mastered the Slap of A Million Exploding Suns in "Slapsgiving #3: Slappointment in Slapmarra."

Season 9

Both Barney and Robin have panic attacks about their upcoming nuptials, while Marshall and Lily rewrite their old wedding vows on "The End of the Aisle."

Season 9

Ted finally finishes telling his kids the story of how he met their mother on the special one-hour series finale, "Last Forever Parts One and Two," airing March 31, 2014.

Season 9

Josh Radnor as Ted and Cristin Milioti as The Mother in a scene from the series finale of "How I Met Your Mother."