Robin Scherbatsky

Robin Scherbatsky is a fictional character created by Carter Bays & Craig Thomas for the television series How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Cobie Smulders.

She is a Television news reporter/anchor at a local news station. Like Cobie Smulders in real life, she is originally from Canada.

She dates Ted, who professes his love for her on their first date. Although she outwardly claims she just wants to just be friends, she harbors strong feelings for him. In the first season finale, Ted again professed his love for her, but she already had a date of sorts with Sandy for the company camping trip. The trip, however, is canceled by a thunderstorm — that Ted himself caused. Robin decided to finally act on her feelings when Ted came to see her that night, and the two finally embarked upon a relationship. This relationship comes to an end nearly a year later in the second season finale, at which point Ted reveals that he no longer sees Robin as "The One." He also reveals that Robin traveled the world and lived in many different countries.

She has performed several embarrassing dares on television. In Mary the Paralegal, Robin won an award for her report on Pickles the singing dog, and attended an award show with the group. She brought Sandy Rivers, a fellow reporter, as a date to make Ted jealous.

Robin once recorded a minor Canadian bubblegum pop hit called "Let's Go To The Mall" as a teenager under the name "Robin Sparkles." After an accompanying music video and the ensuing mall tour, she developed a serious aversion to shopping malls.

Robin and her portrayer, Cobie Smulders, were both Canadian teenage tennis players. Robin claims to have never played any team sports in Purple Giraffe, but missed her high school prom due to field hockey tournaments, according to Best Prom Ever. Robin hates the mall due to the fact that she was a teenage pop star in Canada with her hit "Let's Go To The Mall" and was forced to perform in malls for a year (Slap Bet).

Robin is the only main character on the show who smokes cigarettes; however, none of the other characters, with the exception of Barney, who pointed it out, know this. Ted asks her about it in Moving Day, and Robin tells him no, but is then shown smoking in the hot tub in her apartment later in the episode. She has an in-depth knowledge of cigars and was shown enjoying one with Barney in Zip, Zip, Zip at his cigar bar, with a glass of Johnnie Walker Blue Label. Robin has a younger sister named Katie, who is a teenager.