How I Met Your Mother: 10 Craziest Things Ted Did For Love
5. Tracking Down Robin's Locket
Finding out Robin was unable to locate her beloved family heirloom, the locket she buried in Central Park to use as her "something old" in her future wedding, Ted decided to track down the trinket in the apparent pursuit of the perfect "wedding gift".
A lengthy quest, including cross-country flights and awkward contact with numerous exes (surely they'd just be hanging up on Ted at this point?) ensues. Ted even dives into the Central Park lake to receive the locket after Jeanette chucks it into the water, but only after Ted's lengthy speech on how love means "caring about someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want no matter how much it destroys you ... Even when people ... call you crazy."
Well, at least the man is self-aware.
But worst of all, this hugely romantic treasure hunt was for a gift to give to Robin during her wedding to Ted's (joint) best friend, Barney. Robin is so shaken by the locket that she even considers leaving Barney right there and then, interpreting the locket as a symbol that she was meant to be with Ted.