Season 4 Episode 24 - The Leap
As his 31st birthday nears, an all-nighter to try to get business has Ted realizing he may need to pursue another career than architecture. Meanwhile, Marshall tries to get him up to a rooftop surprise party.



As his 31st birthday nears, an all-nighter to try to get business has Ted realizing he may need to pursue another career than architecture. Meanwhile, Marshall tries to get him up to a rooftop surprise party.
Ted is trying to find a new job, and when an old acquaintance tries to help nothing goes as planned. Barney tries to smooth talk his way out of a ticket.
Ted explains to his future kids how a chance encounter with a former girlfriend changed his life. Barney makes the 200th notch in his bedpost.
When Ted violates the 'three days rule' by continually texting with a girl he's just met, Barney and Marshall retaliate by impersonating her.
Ted goes out on his own as an architect and hires an intern to help get things started, but the intern gets a little too close to others in the gang.
Barney attempts to complete in a single day all the tasks from a list Ted made to prove the gang's not too old to do them.
Marshall and Barney lie to keep Ted from finding out the headquarters he'd been hired to design for GNB has been cancelled.
Ted is shocked to learn that Lily is responsible for many of his breakups with ex-girlfriends—including Karen.
Ted's college girlfriend reenters his life and leaves Marshall and Lily remembering how much they hated her—a fact they never revealed to Ted.
When Barney inexplicably leaves MacLaren's, the gang thinks he has a girlfriend.