10 Best Robin Episodes Of How I Met Your Mother
2. The Final Page: Part Two
The Final Page: Part Two offers some of the best payoff in all of How I Met Your Mother. Season seven ends with the revelation that Ted will meet the Mother at Barney's wedding to Robin. Season eight then opens with an arc in which Robin develops feelings for Barney, but he remains distant.
So distant, in fact, that he dates Robin's least favourite person in the world, Patrice.
After Barney tells Ted that he plans to propose to Patrice, Ted finally lets go of Robin by telling her she has one last chance to go after Barney. Robin heads to the top of the World Wide News Building to try and stop Barney through this grand romantic gesture.
When Robin reaches the top of the building, she finds a piece of paper, which outlines one last play from Barney's playbook: The Robin. It reveals that this entire plot line has been manipulated by Barney, and that it will all pay off in this moment, when Barney steps out and proposes to Robin.
Robin and Barney's engagement is beautiful. Just when the Barney/Patrice plot line was running a little too long, The Final Page: Part Two comes around and redeems it by making it meaningful.