For nine seasons, How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) turned five friends navigating love, heartbreak, careers, and adulthood into one of television’s most beloved sitcoms.
From 2005 to 2014, Josh Radnor (Ted), Jason Segel (Marshall), Cobie Smulders (Robin), Alyson Hannigan (Lily), and Neil Patrick Harris (Barney) spent 208 episodes portraying a friendship so close-knit that fans often assumed the actors shared a similar bond off-screen.
But over the years since the show ended, the cast members have talked about their equations with their castmates, and their revelations have occasionally burst that bubble.
