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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 1010
Released: November 21, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A love story in reverse: How I Met Your Mother is a fresh new comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love. When Ted's best friends Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lilly (Alyson Hannigan) decide to tie the knot it sparks the search for his own Miss Right. Helping him in his quest is his bar-hopping "wing-man" Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), a confirmed bachelor with plenty of wild schemes for picking up women. Ted's sites are set on the charming and independent Robin (Cobie Smulders), but destiny may have something different in mind. Told through a series of flashbacks, Ted recalls his single days, the highs and lows of dating and the search for true love.
Description of How I Met Your Mother: Season One:
If the end of Friends left a hole in your life, take a look at How I Met Your Mother. Quirky young urban folk grappling with life and love--check. Charming, good-looking actors who aren't afraid of looking like idiots for the sake of a good joke--check. Crisp, solid writing that sticks comfortably within the sitcom format, but is fresh enough to nudge the show into surprising and inventive moments--check. In fact, the creators of How I Met Your Mother should be embarrassed by how close they hew to the Friends formula--except that they do it so well. Let's face it, Friends didn't invent this territory (tales of twentysomething life), they just refined it. How I Met Your Mother quickly cultivates its own flavor: A little more openly romantic than most sitcoms, willing to let a scene take a quiet or off-kilter turn, trusting that not every viewer has to get every joke.
The hub of the likable cast is Josh Radnor, who keeps Ted (a single guy ready to settle down) from being annoying, despite his neuroses and perfectionism. Cobie Smulders gives Robin (the girl Ted thinks might be the one, but who doesn't want to settle down) enough goofy, tomboyish charm that she feels like a person and not an idealized love interest. Jason Segel (Freaks and Geeks) and Alyson Hannigan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, American Pie), plays Ted's soon-to-be-married best friends Marshall and Lily with enough lingering doubt in their engaged happiness to keep them from becoming too comfortable. And rounding out the cast is Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, M.D.), shedding his good-guy image as Barney, a crass, lecherous cad who, nonetheless, comes through for his friends. Episode plots are pretty straightforward (Ted signs up with matchmaking agency; Marshall takes a well-paying job he doesn't like; when Ted gets a girlfriend, Robin realizes she has feelings for him after all; and Lily has second thoughts about getting married), but the show maintains a nice balance of single-episodes stories and a season-long arc--and as you grown attached to the characters, even fairly routine stories are made to feel fresh. This is good comfort television: Smart but not snotty, earnest but not cloying, oddball without being forced or wacky. Check it out. --Bret Fetzer
How I Met Your Mother: Season One Reviews:
At Last a Great Show on TV Again! 
2009-10-28 - It's been awhile since I have found a "new" show on TV I like. So admittedly, I am a late-comer to How I Met Your Mother. I just recently started watching in 2009. After watching a few episodes and being really intrigued, I decided I had to watch from the beginning with Season 1.
As I got more familiar with the characters, I came to appreciate just how perfectly the show was cast. The characters are all unique in their own way and their quirky friendships with each other feel genuine. Their interaction feels so familiar, like it's the way I interact with my own friends. Of course I don't meet with friends in the bar below my apartment every night, so it's not exactly the same..
Ok, moving on, another reason I really like the show is the main character, Ted (Josh Radnor), is an actor I have never seen in anything else before. So I have no preconceived notions about him, which makes his character more believable. It's kind of annoying how a lot of shows recycle the same actors from previous shows. It's hard to let go of those character's personalities and quirks from other shows. Anyway, Ted is a neurotic buffoon obsessed with finding the right girl and getting married. He's so honest and geniune but has a knack for scaring girls off for those very reasons. It's fun to watch as he struggles to find love, as his diverse group of friends take turns encouraging and discouraging him.
Now that I have said all that, I have to contradict myself. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris, from Doogie Howser and some other movies) is amazing on this show. It's incredible how he is morphed into this ultra cool guy the last several years after being a geeky boy genius in the late 80s, early 90s. But although his character is ridiculously over-the-top sometimes, he really resonates with me. There's always a guy just like him in every group of friends. The womanizing, cocky, condescending ass who always has a plan. Without him, no one ever goes to the club or on crazy adventures. So let me say now that its ok for supporting characters to be recycled as long as they re-invent themselves. And I will conclude by saying that I love Season 1 of How I Met Your Mother and strongly urge to watch it as soon as humanly possible if you have not yet.
I NEVER RECIEVED THIS ITEM 
2009-09-02 - I LOVE How I met your mother...It is great! The seller however...NEVER sent me the item but he sure did tell me that he refunded me. Funny. Thank god it was not expensive. This is the first bad experience I have had on amazon.
How I Met Your Mother season 1
2009-08-18 - This is a very original series! Very fun and funny! This will make you laugh and cry at times. Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel play the dream relationship, funny and in love. Neil Patrick Harris is an incredibly shallow, womanizer.
Great Blend Of Shows
2009-08-03 - How I Met Your Mother is a blend of some other shows, such as Friends or Seinfeld, but to me takes the good points of each of those shows and makes it's own type of show.
It centers on Ted (the semi neurotic architect), Barney (the ladies man business man), Robin (a local newscaster) and the married couple Marshall (lawyer) and Lily (teacher).
Through flashbacks and hints on "How I Met Your Mother" that starts and ends the shows to introduce and summarize the shows, with some twists, the group find themselves in sometimes awkward and usually very funny situations. Though it could quickly turn into strained comedy, it somehow avoids all of that and makes each episdode humorous as the back story to why each charactor is acting or reacting in a certain way gets filled in.
Very enjoyable show, with some overtones of other comedies without being a clone and manages to establish its own identity.
Among the better sitcoms on tv 
2009-07-21 - Good show, very funny. Sort of like Friends (gang of single NYer's) meets Scrubs (innovative comedy). The only disappointment is that the entire first season revolves around the whole "will-they-or-won't-they-get-together" plotline. Except you know from the very first episode of the series that they don't end up together (when the kids in the future refer to "Aunt Robin"). Still, I really do enjoy the show.
