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Series Theme: Hey Beautiful by the Solids 
Season 2:
Episode 2.01: Where Were We?
- Baby I’m Fed Up by George Perkins (Ted’s summary of 2001 intro)
- Give Up the Funk by Parliament (George Clinton and Lily’s date)
- Boys Don’t Cry by Grant Lee-Phillips
(Only time heals a broken heart- closing) - Take Me Out to the Ballgame (Ted takes Marshall to a Yankees game)
Episode 2.02: The Scorpion and the Toad
- It Was Love by Elected (Marshall & Lily talk)
- Walk Idiot Walk by The Hives (Plays during the re-return when Lily does Marshall a favor)
Episode 2.04: Ted Mosby: Architect
- Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect by the Decemberist (Robin comes to see Ted)
Episode 2.05: World’s Greatest Couple
- Don’t Call Me Whitney, Bobby by Islands (Lily redecorates Barney’s bachelor pad)
- Fernando by ABBA (Marshall leaves Brad and Kara)
Episode 2.06: Aldrin Justice
- We’re #1 by The World Record (Ted shows his plans and Lily decides what she wants to be when she grows up)
Episode 2.07: Swarley
- I Am Woman by Helen Reddy (Ted’s radio request for Swarley)
- Forever by The Explorers Club (Lily and Marshall get back together!)
- Where Everybody Knows Your Name (Cheers Theme) by Gary Portnoy (play for Barney, Swarley, as he walks in and out of the bar)
Episode 2.08: Atlantic City
- Sink to the Bottom by Fountains of Wayne (Lily & Marshall’s wedding and un-wedding)
Episode 2.09: Slap Bet
- Let’s Go to the Mall by Robin Sparkles (Robin’s secret and on the music video…Robin even raps!)
Episode 2.10: Single Stamina
- Mama Your Boys Will Find a Home by Scissors for Lefty (single stamina explanation)
- Skyway by the Replacements (closing and James’s wedding-AIR)
- If I Could Spit by Kite Flying Society (James’e wedding – DVD)
Episode 2.11: How Lily Stole Christmas
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker (Marshall call’s Ted to check on magical Winter wonder land)
- Backdoor Santa by Clarence Carter (Marshall delivers packages during his Awesome Christmas story)
- Lay Me Down by Reggae Revolution (reggae song in the dorm room)
- Silent Night (Lily, Marshall, Robin and a sick Barney carol Ted outside his cousins house)
Episode 2.12: First time in New York
- Gotta Have You by The Weepies (beginning, Ted’s explanation of saying I Love You)
- Love is Strange by Mickey & Sylvia (Barney’s story about his “first time” aka. Dirty Dancing)
- Always Love by Nada Surf (ending, going to the top of the Empire State Building)
- The Time of My Life by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes (during the re-return, Barney tells his first time story… again)
Episode 2.13: Columns
- Whatever It Is by Ben Lee (Beginning, Ted talks about his dream)
- What Do I Know by Peter Walker – (Ted talks about being the boss)
- Corazon Incessante by The Ethels (Ted and Drothers talk at night over a shot of Whiskey in the office)
- Twilight Campfighter by Guided by Voices – (rock bottom and a great idea)
Episode 2.14: Monday Night Football
- Young Folks by Peter Bjorn And John (The Sensory Deprivator 5000 and game time)
Episode 2.15: Lucky Penny
- Nine Words by Oppenheimer (closing, wouldn’t have met your mother…)
Episode 2.16: Stuff
- I Wanna Be Your Dog by the Stooges (Ted keeps seeing Robin’s dogs like her old boyfriends-AIR only)
- Thicker Than A Smokey by Gary Higgins (acoustic number during Ted & Robin’s big fight)
Episode 2.17: Arrivederci, Fiero
- I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers
(plays all the time in the Fiero since the tape is “stuck”)
Episode 2.18: Moving Day
- Soap on Your Skin by the Solids (We’re NOT moving in together sex)
Episode 2.19: Bachelor Party
- When I Get Up by The Wiggins (Barney’s bachelor party recipe)
- Pinched by Chop Chop (Old Ted explains bachelor party characters)
- Here I Go Again by Whitesnake (referenced in show by Barney)
Episode 2.21: Something Borrowed
- Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring
(wedding music, both on harp and later on guitar)
- Love Song by Haunt
(closing, remembering the first wedding)
Episode 2.22: Something Blue (personal note, music from this ep is awesome)
- No One Here by the 88
(plays as Ted and Robin break up)
- Sea Green, See Blue by Jaymay
(closing song, Ted talks with Barney… what a moment, it’s Legen, wait for it…)
