10 Best How I Met Your Mother Holiday Episodes

One of the show’s best holiday instalments comes from what is universally acknowledged, on the show and in reality, as the most overrated holiday of all, as the gang struggle to bounce between parties in the eponymous uber-fancy mode of transport and attempt to make their New Year’s Eve the first one in human history to amount to more than a crushing disappointment.

Of course, this being a sitcom set in New York City, they instead end up ringing in the year stuck in traffic, but the journey there jumps between countless soirees and give the writers a chance to send up every sort of overrated NYE bash in one handy twenty minute package, as well as fitting in some hysterical character comedy. The night may be a disappointment as it is every year, but this episode, with its sweet denouement and rapidly escalating action, will be a delight for anyone who has ever rung in the new year far from the party they thought they’d reach in time.