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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Twentieth Century Fox
Salesrank: 147
Released: September 29, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Loaded with irresistible laughter and filled with outrageous fun, there's just one word for the hit comedy How I Met Your Mother: Awesomeness!
From dating dilemmas to career conundrums, the recently engaged Ted and his feisty friends find themselves at the crossroads of young adult life. While newlyweds Marshall and Lily contemplate parenthood, single gal Robin explores the advantages of having "friends with benefits." Meanwhile, the irrepressible, opinionated Barney continues his hilariously dogged pursuit of the fairer sex. As for Ted, his Miss Right is out there, but amid bar brawls, blizzards, and buck-naked strangers, how will he ever find her?
Description of How I Met Your Mother: Season Four:
The fourth season of the charming sitcom How I Met Your Mother (or HIMYM to fans) remains as inventive yet as heartfelt as ever. The writers pull off all kinds of narrative tricks, and though events are sometimes absurd, they never feel gimmicky--the show has a solid grip on its characters and keeps everything grounded in their ongoing lives. Devoted womanizer Barney (Neil Patrick Harris, riding a wave of popularity in the wake of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) can't understand why he's having actual feelings for Robin (Cobie Smulders), whose career as a TV anchorwoman is floundering. Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) struggle with holding on to their youthful passion under the pressures of getting older. And Ted (Josh Radnor) struggles to follow through on his engagement to Stella (Sarah Chalke)--a relationship that (spoiler alert!) capsizes midway through the episodes. While the season-long story lines are carefully teased out, each episode is flush with clever or daffy ideas, among them a list of Canadian sex acts, Barney trying to pick up hot chicks while disguised as an 80-year-old man, multiple interventions (culminating in an intervention intervention), Marshall's charts and graphs, Barney's fake family, wooo! girls, the cheerleader effect, the front porch test, and the Naked Man, among many others.
Attentive fans will be rewarded with a wealth of small references to past episodes. Though there are moments when the fundamental premise--that this is all part of an unbearably long story that a future Ted is telling to his children--feels obnoxiously stretched (toward the end of the season, one episode in particular builds up to a false revelation), for the most part HIMYM is a sterling example of a well-sustained sitcom; the characters have successfully grown over the four seasons without losing everything that made them funny in the first place. The number of extras is surprisingly small--only a few show commentaries, an enjoyable group interview, and an extended version of Barney's video resume. --Bret Fetzer
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How I Met Your Mother: Season Four Reviews:
It's not Glee, but it has NPH! 
2009-12-13 - I have to buy every season of this. I started, and even though there are definitely times when I feel it has jumped the shark, I know I can rewatch it. I can't tell if it will stand the test of time like "Friends", but I'll let you know in 10 years or so.
Great Show At A Great Price
2009-12-03 - Just as I said in the title, it's a great show at a great price. I doubled up and got season's three and four together and saved an extra $10.
Not as funny as expected 
2009-11-22 - I'm not done watching this season yet but so far I must admit I haven't found the episods as the former ones... But I keep holding my breathe until I finally discover who gets to be Ted's spouse ! ;-) (PS : Sorry if my english ain't perfect, I'm from France)
Legen....wait for it....DARY
2009-11-22 - Yet another amazingly hilarious, charming season full of antics from the people you wish were your best friends. True story.
Great series
2009-11-15 - When it comes to How I met Your Mother I cannot give any negative comments. Best show on air at the moment. Some good extras.
