Ted (Josh Radnor), Matthew (Jason Segel) and Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) are three friends, of whom only Matthew has a stable relationship - he is about to marry Lily (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher. Barney is a typical playboy, and it is impossible for him to settle down. Ted really wants to find love and enter a normal married life. He finally meets the goddess in his heart at the bar - the beautiful anchor Robin (Cobie Smulders). Unexpectedly, on the first date, Ted confessed anxiously and scared the goddess. In order to solve Ted's love troubles, several bad friends competed to give him ideas, and Robin slowly entered their circle of friends... The most special thing about this drama is that it is flashbacked in the tone of Ted's future children, but when the father can be sure, who is the mother? It has always been the biggest suspense of the whole drama.