How I Met Your Mother, now in its fifth season, offers new exciting twists as Robin and Barney officially hook up while Ted lands a new architectural job at a university and gets closer to meeting "the mother." We‘re already heading towards the middle of the season but there are still some pretty juicy spoilers lurking around the internet and you can learn more about it after the jump.

Official photos from the ninth episode of How I Met Your Mother‘s fifth season.

There‘s no secret formula to picking up women but How I Met Your Mother has a few hilarious tips courtesy of Barney, who is back to his womanizing ways now that he‘s already broken up with Robin. "The Playbook" teaches us every trick, scam and con every used by Barney, from the most basic moves to the more advanced and complicated approaches to charming a girl. 

Playboy Barney‘s officially back and this time he‘s ready to navigate the murky waters of the dating scene. "The Playbook," the eighth episode of

Official photos from the eighth episode of How I Met Your Mother‘s fifth season.

This morning the People‘s Choice Award nominations were revealed, andas always, it‘s populism at its best.  On the TV side, the nomineesoften look like the top of the Nielsen ratings list, with a few notableand surprising exceptions.  Shows like

It‘s hard to choose between just plain old single Barney and Barney in a committed relationship with Robin because both options make good TV but somewhere down the line we all know that no matter what direction Barney chooses, he‘ll still end up loosing Robin. Because two awesomes cancel each other out. At least that‘s what tonight‘s episode of

Does real love make you real fat? We find out tonight in "The Rough Patch," the seventh episode of How I Met Your Mother‘s fifth season. In the episode, we see Barney and Robin getting too comfortable in their relationship to the point that they have let themselves go. Clearly, they are not Barney and Robin anymore, and their friends have now labeled them the fat guy and the old lady.

Jennifer Love Hewitt, who plays Melinda Gordon on Ghost Whisperer, and Neil Patrick Harris, who stars as Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother

Official photos from the seventh episode of How I Met Your Mother‘s fifth season.