Worst Things The Characters On How I Met Your Mother Ever Did

In one episode, Robin convinces her friends to watch her morning news program, which airs before dawn. They all assemble in the living room in their pajamas (or, in Marshall's case, a nightgown that Barney mocks). However, instead of watching the show, which ends up being filled with fires, heart attacks, and Robin helping a woman give birth live on TV, they have a fight. Robin gets home excited to discuss the wild show, only to discover, to her disappointment, that nobody paid any attention.

But the fight needs to be had. This is when Lily tells Ted that she has sabotaged his relationship with Karen (Laura Prepon) by placing one of Robin's earrings in his bed to make it look like Ted is cheating. To be fair, Karen, who often cheats on Ted and is a pretentious snob who hates his friends, needs to go. But as Ted points out, Lily has no right to meddle in his personal life like that. To make matters worse, Lily reveals she has actually sabotaged many of Ted's previous relationships, including the one with Robin, because they didn't pass the "porch" test. Meaning, if Lily couldn't imagine her, Marshall, Ted, and whatever girl he was seeing all sitting on a porch in their old age and enjoying a sunset, then she would undermine the relationship. She's usually right that the women are bad for Ted, but this is way over the line.