How I Met Your Mother, Season 4

How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014) is an American sitcom, which aired Mondays at 8:00 pm on CBS. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future, in which an older version of the main character, Ted Mosby, tells his two children the story o… more »

Robin:
You know what it is? We were having sex. Men and women need sex to live together. It... it solves all disputes.

Ted:
Oh, like Barney's theory about world peace.

[flashback]

Barney:
So I explain to her... I said, "Madeleine, every single international conflict essentially boils down to sexual tension."

Ted:
Every international conflict?

Barney:
Every single one, dude.

Ted:
So the crisis in the Middle East could be solved by...

Barney:
Gaza Strippers! Next...

Ted:
Apartheid.

Barney:
Apart thighs! What else you got?

Ted:
Cold War.

Barney:
[brief pause] Mrs. Gorbachev, take down those pants!

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