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How I Met Your Mother: Robin Sparkles Is Back! And It's the "Craziest" One Yet!

• Feb 3, 2013 10:05 PM ET
• by Joyce Eng

Put away your jelly bracelets and your cool graffiti coats. It's time to break out your eyeliner and plaid shirts. Robin Sparkles is back on Monday's How I Met Your Mother — but she looks very different.

"It may be the craziest Robin Sparkles yet," executive producer Craig Thomas told reporters on a conference call. "We see a totally new part of Robin Sparkles' career in this."

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James Van Der Beek, Jason Priestley to Guest on How I Met Your Mother

• Jan 7, 2013 06:48 PM ET
• by Kate Stanhope

Robin Sparkles (Cobie Smulders) is going back to the mall — and she's bringing a lot of famous (Canadian) faces with her!

How I Met Your Mother has lined up a slew of Canadian-born celebrities for the Feb. 4 return of Robin's teen idol alter ego, CBS announced Monday.

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