How i met your mother how old is barney

Barney agrees to sell the apartment because he wants Robin to be happy. She reveals she rejected the couple after learning they were going to tear the place down and rebuild it because she loves him. The woman Ted met at the open house leads Ted away, claiming she will show him what it is like to be with a woman. Video Player is loading. Marshall, touched for what Barney did for him and Lily, made Barney and Ted co-best men for his wedding.

Noticing how obsessed he is with being perfect for the show, the gang asks him why he needs to be perfect. Barney reveals to the gang that his mother told him when he was a boy that Bob Barker is his father. Later on, the entire gang is watching the Price is Right episode that Barney is in. Barney wins every single prize, all of which he gives to Marshall and Lily as wedding gifts. At the end of the episode, Barney is about to tell Bob Barker that he is son, but instead congratulates him on 35 years of hosting the show.

The gang asks Barney why he didn't tell Bob Barker the "truth", which he answers that it would upset him. In Something Borrowed , after several disasters occur right before Lily and Marshall's wedding, they decide to get married outside and before their actual wedding ceremony. Barney, who is licensed to legally marry couples, marries Marshall and Lily with Ted and Robin being the only witnesses.

Barney, determined to find out the secret, eventually comes to the conclusion that Robin is pregnant. Barney becomes upset at the idea of Ted being a father and missing out on great adventures to take care of the child.

Ted and Robin then reveal the truth that the two of them broke up. Barney is at first upset for Ted, but quickly excited after Ted tells him that he'll need a wingman.

With Ted single again, Barney resumes his position as Ted's wingman and tries to get him over his breakup with Robin. On Thanksgiving, Barney receives the third slap of the slap bet that he lost to Marshall , who renamed the day as Slapsgiving. Barney would then get into a slump of his own when he reunites with Rhonda French , the woman who took his virginity.

His confidence is destroyed and gets "the yips" when he learns that his sexual encounter with Rhonda wasn't memorable and that his brother James had to have sex with her first before she slept with him. He would later regain his confidence after he sleeps Rhonda again and she tells him that he really did "rock her world". Barney would run into more trouble after an unknown woman keeps foiling his attempts to sleep with new women. Even after tracking down and "apologizing" to the four women he treated the worst to, he still couldn't figure out who the unknown woman was.

Later, he would comfort Robin after being dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Simon , again. This would lead to him betraying Ted after he and Robin sleep together. Filled with guilt, Robin would tell Ted, which leads him to end his friendship with Barney completely. While trying to get over his destroyed friendship, Barney learns that the unknown woman is Abby and the two bond over their "hatred" towards Ted. They pretend to be in a relationship to anger Ted, but the plan fails.

In the season finale , Lily informs Barney that Ted was involved in a car crash. As soon as he hears this, Barney left his business meeting and ran all the way to the hospital.

When he makes it to the hospital, Barney is hit by a bus and put in a full body cast. The rest of the gang find him in the hospital and Barney begs Ted if they can be friends again. Ted, touched by Barney's actions, tells him that they're more than friends, they're brothers and the two hug.

After Ted left to find Stella , Marshall asked Barney what his last thoughts were in his near-death experience. Although Marshall and Lily believed his last thoughts would be about about boobs, money, and suits, it's shown that his last thoughts were about Robin. Barney realizes that he has "caught" feelings for Robin and comes to Lily for advice. Lily tries to help Barney to get Robin to see him in a new way.

Although Robin seemed to like the "new" Barney, she showed her appreciation by setting him up with a different girl. The next day Lily gets angry at him for sleeping with the girl even though he states that he has feelings for Robin.

She then gave him an ultimatum, Robin or bimbos, but is disappointed when Barney decided to bury his feelings and chose bimbos. Despite Barney being there to comfort Ted after he's left at the altar, Ted showed distrust in him when his sister , who Barney has always been attracted to, came to visit during Christmas time. Angry at Ted's distrust in them, Heather and Barney pretend to sleep together to teach Ted a lesson.

Later, Barney's feelings for Robin drive him crazy when Ted and Robin decide to be friends with benefits as a way to stop them from arguing over problems at home.

Eventually, this would lead Barney to fix all the problems the two were arguing about in an attempt to stop them from sleeping with each other.

Ted realizes after this that Barney has developed romantic feelings for Robin so he stops his purely sexual relationship with Robin. The rest of the gang would later meet Barney's mother and learn that he has hired an actress and child actor to pose as his wife and son. Due to his friend's interference, Barney reveals the truth to his mother, but is relieved when she tells him that she isn't disappointed with him.

His mother does tell Barney though that if he finds a special girl that he should go for it. In the spring of , Marshall and Barney come up with a complicated ruse to trick Ted after the two of them learn that his project of creating a new GNB headquarters has been canceled.

Barney does get Ted the opportunity to create a new firing room, but Ted doesn't want to build a place where people get fired so Bilson fires him. Barney would also fulfill his childhood promise of sleeping with women. After telling Matthew Panning, the person he made this promise to, about his conquest, Barney wonders what he'll do now and sees Robin.

In the season finale , Barney gets Ted's blessing to confess his romantic feelings to Robin. Unknown to both of them, Robin overhears their conversation and decides to "Mosby" him by telling Barney that she loves him as soon as she sees him again. Barney is turned off by this, but later confronts her after Marshall and Lily tell him what Robin did. The two of them argue over their feelings for each other and eventually kiss. When the rest of gang figure out that Barney and Robin have been sleeping together the entire summer, Lily forces them to talk about defining their relationship.

Although they agree to pretend to be a couple, they do eventually become legitimate relationship. Barney struggles giving up his old habits, such as going to the Lusty Leopard with Marshall that led to them finding Lily's doppelganger, which leads him to accepting Ted's offer on how to be a good boyfriend. Barney appears to be happy with his relationship to the point where he gives Ted his porn collection, but the video Ted watches is recorded over by Barney.

Noticing Barney's weight gain and how irritable Robin always is, Ted, Marshall, and Lily attempt to break them up. Their plan fails, but Barney and Robin realize themselves that their relationship isn't healthy and mutually break up. Later, Marshall declares the Thanksgiving of as Slapsgiving 2 and delivers the fourth slap of the slap bet to Barney.

Barney would soon meet his match when he attempts to woo a successful, feminist author named Anita. In a last ditch effort to sleep with Anita, Barney and Ted plan a super-date.

Before the date, Lily, Marshall, and Ted inform Barney that Anita was sent by Robin because she was upset over how easy it was for Barney to get over her, such as having a perfect week seven hook ups in seven days , going to the Super Bowl and asking women to call him on live television, and him bragging in front of her about the women he's slept with. Barney would later get jealous of Don when she and Don move in together. In a drunken state, he and Ted confront Robin, but this causes her to end her friendship with both of them so her relationship with Don is not jeopardized.

In the season finale, Marshall and Lily decide to try to have a baby after they find Barney's doppelganger, a brunette cab driver. Marshall would later learn that Barney and cab driver are one and the same and Barney reveals this fact to Lily when he learns that the two of them of having a baby is dependent on the discovery of his doppelganger. Barney also struggles with the idea that Robin may move to Chicago to pursue a great job opportunity.

Even though Robin decided to stay, the thought of losing her made Barney think that the addition of Marshall and Lily's baby to the gang wouldn't be a bad thing so he posed as an Estonian street performer to trick them. Lily and Marshall saw through his ploy and assured him that he would be a great uncle to their child.

Barney and James meet James' father, Sam Gibbs. In , Barney, James , and the rest of the gang go and help his mother pack since she is moving out of his childhood home.

While packing, he and James find an un-mailed letter to Sam Gibbs with a childhood photo of them and "your son" written on the back. The brothers and the rest of gang go to the address and discover that Sam is James' biological father. Afterwards, Loretta offers to tell Barney who his father really is, but realizing how hard his mother worked to be the perfect parent for him and James; he told her that she was his dad.

Later, when GNB revives the new headquarter project Barney gets Ted to resume his old project after a little seducing on Barney's part.

When the gang is invited to gala party at the National History Museum, Barney reveals to his friends that when he was six years old he knocked down the blue whale exhibit. Not believing the blue whale incident to be true, Robin challenges Barney to contest to see how many exhibits they could touch in the museum. Eventually, a security guard catches the two and while detaining them reveals that Barney's story is true.

The guard reads over the file and reveals that Barney's uncle, who took him, signed the release form as Barney's father. Later, Barney would meet his doppelganger, who happens to be Marshall and Lily's reproduction specialist. Barney's heart rate, just before it skips a beat, at the beginning of his second date with Nora.

After Marshall's father dies of a heart attack, Barney calls his mother and tells her that he's ready to meet his father. She gives him Jerome's address and he writes him a letter. He tries to seduce her with a cheesy lie, but Nora sees right through it. The two of them start talking about laser tag and Barney begins to truly like her. Seeing this, Robin, the next day, has Nora substitute for her in a laser tag tournament so she can be Barney's partner and first Valentine's Day date.

Later, Barney would go out with Nora again, but she mentions that she wants to get married and start a family. Barney claims that he wishes for the same things and is even invited to meet Nora's parents. After she invites him into her home, he tells her that he lied so Nora slaps him and leaves. When he tells this story to Lily and his cardiologist, Lily tells him that he does want those things and the cardiologist confirms from the heart monitor that he was wearing that at time of the date his heart literally skipped a beat.

Barney goes to the restaurant where Nora is meeting her parents, but stops at the door. He considers going in, but at the last second leaves. Barney's father later comes to reconnect with him. Barney has no intention of getting to know him after seeing how boring he is. The rest of the gang have an intervention and get Barney to have dinner with him and his family. He has an emotional breakdown after he meets his younger half-brother, J.

Barney takes his basketball hoop claiming it's the least he deserved since Jerome wasn't in his life. His abandonment issues would worsen when Marshall decides to leave GNB.

Later, Jerome would try to connect with Barney again by inviting him to a fishing trip,. Realizing what Barney wants to see, Jerome pretends to drink and acts crazy to impress Barney, but this leads to them getting arrested. Both being magicians, they get out of their handcuffs and head back to Jerome's house to make sure J.

During the trip, Barney asks his father how he stopped his party lifestyle and how even though he loves partying, he doesn't want to love it and believes that he's "broken". Jerome claims that he was much more "broken" than Barney and that settling down is the ultimate challenge, but being with the right girl helps.

In the season finale, Barney runs into Nora and apologizes to her and asks if she would like to grab a cup of coffee. In the season premiere, it's revealed that the future wedding where Ted meets his wife is in fact Barney's. While he worries that the wedding will be the worst ever, they reminisce about Ted's friend Punchy 's wedding, being the worst one ever.

During that wedding, Barney is hoping Nora will call him back. During this, he and Robin share an intimate dance, and Robin wants to tell him that she still has feelings for him. However Nora calls back and agrees to meet with him. He fails to impress her again after trying to wear a neck brace, and ends up confessing to her all the terrible things he's done to women. In a moment of desperation, he proves to Nora that he is ready to change and be with her for real, by staying at the hour diner until she agrees to a 2nd date with him.

He stays for 9 hours straight, and Nora, touched by his persistence, agrees to go out with him again. If he fails, he has to wear Marshall's ducky tie for a full year.

In a classic Barney fashion, it's revealed that he had secretly set up the entire thing and trained in the arts of Shinjitsu just so he could win the bet, if ever given the opportunity. However, Lily foils him by flashing him at the last moment, causing him to lose his focus and mess up, resulting in his loss of the bet.

In an effort to win him back, Robin bonds with Barney, helping him get rid of all of his stuff from his past that he used to lie to women. One of Barney's previous 'methods' accidentally gets activated, and a girl is ready to hook up with Barney, which could ruin his relationship with Nora. Robin decides to support Barney, and attacks the woman to stop her from ruining his date with Nora, and ends up getting arrested and assigned court-mandated therapy sessions.

Barney was horrified and Robin went out of her way to emphasize Barney's Canadian heritage to compensate for all the mockery she has endured from Barney over the years. Robin later tells him that she is pregnant. After he responds happily to the news, Robin faints. He convinces Robin of how cute babies are, but when they both see how hugely their lives will change, they are overjoyed to find out that she is not pregnant after all.

Barney reveals to Ted that he and Quinn slept together at his apartment , but denies that he has feelings for her, and takes one of the drunk girls home, but he tells her he can't do this and when she asks if he has a girlfriend, he tells her that maybe sometime he will.

He says that he doesn't care that Robin is single, and wouldn't even care if she started dated someone else. He tries to ask her out on a date, and although she appears interested, she continually avoids answering and only wishes to hang out at the strip club. When Ted hears about this, he realizes she is just playing Barney. When Barney sees Quinn behaving much the same towards another client, he realizes Ted was right.

Later, Barney runs into Quinn in a coffee house, she then offers to buy Barney's coffee and asks him to sit with her, indicating she really may. In The Broath , Barney and Quinn announce that they are moving in together.

Also, Quinn thanks Barney for being cool and not being jealous about what she does. However, he seems a little uncomfortable about it and asks her what would make her stop stripping. She says that she would stop stripping if she ever got married. Also Barney and Quinn move in together. In Good Crazy , Barney gets concerned over his relationship with Quinn and overreacts in situations regarding her job.

After bystanders greet Quinn on the sidewalk, Barney fires a top GNB official and offers Quinn a job at the bank as an "executive strategy coordinator" - which turns out to be just something to help Quinn earn legitimate income. Seeing that Barney's trying to dictate her career, Quinn asks for some time to think and leaves Barney, who reinstates the official. However, in Barney's suitcase is a box which he refuses to open, due to "The Magician's Code. Afterward, Quinn is told she can leave but Barney must stay, but Barney tells her to wait and that he will finally reveal the magic trick.

After an elaborate magic ploy, it is revealed that in the box was an engagement ring, which he uses to propose to Quinn. She accepts. Then there is a flash forward to Barney's wedding day, and when Ted walks into the bride's room, who is finally revealed to be Robin. Barney and Quinn spend the summer of happily engaged, but trouble is on the horizon when Arthur Hobbs gives Barney the idea of a Pre-nup.

Due to this the couple realized they didn't trust each other, which caused them to break up, kicking off the Autumn of Breakups. Afterwards, Barney was coping with being single again, which led to brover and bro-bibs. After getting engaged, Barney quickly adapted and let go of the single life for what seemed to be forever. In , Barney stops smoking after his divorce to Robin. In , Barney gets a girl pregnant, and in the spring of , Barney holds his daughter Ellie for the first time and realizes he has to settle down now.

Before the start of the series and before he met the rest of the gang, Barney was somewhat of a hippie. He wanted to join the Peace Corps, was disgusted when men treated women like objects, and wished to wait to lose his virginity to his college girlfriend, Shannon , until after the two married.

And his character Marshall, who was a ridiculously nice guy , would have been 36 at the time the show ended. Both Marshall and the actor who played him enjoyed great success before they even turned 40, with the show ending with Marshall having accepted a judgeship. Segel, of course, is not only an actor but also an accomplished screenwriter and producer.

The Canadian actor, who often poked fun at her Canadian roots in the show since her character was Canadian as well, was only 23 when the series began. Her character, meanwhile, a focused career woman all the way through , was supposed to be a bit older at That would make Smulders, born in , now 38 years old.

She still has a few years to go before she reaches her 40s, but already, the actor has made a name for herself outside of How I Met Your Mother. Since the series ended, she has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU in the role of agent Maria Hill, appearing in all of the latest films as well as guest appearing on the series Agents of S.

One of the older actors on the show, Harris' character Barney was supposed to be older than the others as well, at Harris, meanwhile, was already 32 when he began playing the boyish, sleazy womanizer in a suit. Though Barney did change a lot by the end when he finally settled down and married Robin.

Today, Harris is 47 years old and has enjoyed tremendous success since How I Met Your Mother, which marked a return to the spotlight for this once child actor who had been known for decades as his first most popular character, Doogie Howser, M.

Lily also went to college with Marshall and Ted, so naturally, the character was also 27 when the show started. Hannigan is a bit older and was actually 31 when the show began. As the quirky Lily, she was one of the best female characters on the show. Today, Hannigan, who first gained fame for her starring role in the American Pie films as well as the cult series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is 46 years old.

While the character of the daughter wasn't a main one on the show, she and her brother were pivotal to the story, and actually appeared in every episode from the very beginning, Why?