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

Robin is the on and off love interest of Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris), and a close friend to Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan) and Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel).

Bays and Thomas have said that "a pretty famous actress"[1] turned down the role of Robin; they revealed in February 2014 that it was Jennifer Love Hewitt.

In an episode parodying Alanis Morissette and her single "You Oughta Know," Robin performed the song at the 84th Grey Cup, effectively ending her career in music.

Robin lives in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn;[11] she meets Ted Mosby, the show's main character, and they are immediately attracted to each other.

She briefly takes a prominent anchoring position in Japan, only to return to New York and, with help from Barney, host her own talk show.

Barney and Robin have what they believe is a no-strings-attached sexual relationship for a few months, but they become an official couple after some aggressive prodding from Lily.

In "The Stinson Missile Crisis", Robin assaults a woman setting out to destroy Barney's relationship with Nora and is sent to court-mandated therapy, where she meets a man named Kevin.

Their relationship is tested when Robin cheats on him with Barney, and ultimately ends after the two get engaged and Kevin takes back his proposal when she says that she is unable and unwilling to have children.

[20] Her romantic feelings for Barney resurface in the eighth season, when he begins dating Patrice (Ellen D. Williams), a cheerful coworker for whom she has an irrational hatred.

Robin leaves the group upon realizing that she can't bear to be around Barney, who has resumed his womanizing lifestyle, or Ted, who is now happily involved with Tracy McConnell (Cristin Milioti).

In "Timing is Everything", the first-season finale of spinoff How I Met Your Father, which takes place in 2022, Robin gives Sophie Tompkins advice about fear.

The last scene of the show[a] depicts Robin looking outside her window to see Ted, who is now a widower and wants another chance with her, holding out the blue French horn from their first date.