10 Best How I Met Your Mother Holiday Episodes

10. The Drunk Train

Okay, so this one is a solid instalment, but it’s stuck at number ten due to the mean streak running throughout the episode’s central conceit.

Following a painfully single Ted and Barney through one sad Valentine’s as the duo hop on the eponymous Drunk Train in search of equally desperate singles with whom to spend Valentine’s night, the episode sees the pair instead inevitably end up tearfully admitting they can’t stand singledom and, in Barney’s case, have fallen for the last girl they expected to steal their heart (of course, Barney and Quinn will end in more tears, but that’s a story for another day).

Add in a touching scene between Ted and Robin at the episode’s close and you’ve the show’s most solid Valentine’s Day outing—even if it easier to re-watch when the viewer is not as single as the pair of said protagonists.