10 Best Robin Episodes Of How I Met Your Mother

6. Subway Wars

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Season six's Subway Wars sees the gang race through New York to prove who is the best New Yorker. When Marshall's friend sees Woody Allen at a restaurant across the city, they each take a different means of transportation to get to him.

Marshall runs, Lily takes the Subway, Ted takes the bus, Robin takes a cab, and Barney takes advantage of an ambulance by faking a heart attack. Since this is How I Met Your Mother, none of their initial transportation systems work, and they each have to find another quickest route across the city.

Throughout the episode, we learn why each character "needs a win," but Robin's reason is the most compelling. She just ended a long term relationship and is constantly being upstaged by an annoying new co-host at work, so she feels like she doesn't belong in New York.

At the end of the episode, Robin wins the race, and proves herself as a real New Yorker by every definition, even the arbitrary ones her friends set in the opening minutes.

Subway Wars is a fun episode which shows just how much Robin means to the rest of the gang. Lily says that if Robin were to leave New York for Canada, they'd all follow her. And after this episode, it's clear that she's telling the truth.

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