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How I Met Your Mother
The title card of How I Met Your Mother.
Format	Situation comedy
Created by	Carter Bays Craig Thomas
Starring	Josh Radnor Jason Segel Cobie Smulders Neil Patrick Harris Alyson Hannigan
Narrated by	Bob Saget (uncredited)
Opening theme	"Hey Beautiful" by The Solids
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	83 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Carter Bays Pamela Fryman Rob Greenberg Craig Thomas
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes (approx.)
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV)
Original run	September 19, 2005 – present
External links
Official website

How I Met Your Mother is an American situation comedy that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005. The show was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays. As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting their mother, which explains the title and allows for a narration in the past tense. How I Met Your Mother's other main characters are Marshall Eriksen, Robin Scherbatsky, Barney Stinson, and Lily Aldrin.

Contents 1 Production 2 Cast 2.1 Main characters 2.2 Recurring characters 3 Main crew 4 Season synopsis 4.1 Season One 4.2 Season Two 4.3 Season Three 4.4 Season Four 5 Episodes 6 Tie-Ins 6.1 The Bro Code 6.2 TedMosbyIsAJerk.com 6.3 Barney's Video Resume 7 Cultural references 7.1 To How I Met Your Mother 7.2 From How I Met Your Mother 8 Critical Reception 9 Awards 9.1 2006 9.2 2007 9.3 2008 9.4 2009 10 DVD release 11 References 12 External links

[edit] Production

Inspired by "our friends and the stupid stuff we did in New York," How I Met Your Mother is Bays' and Thomas' idea. The two drew from their friendship in creating the characters, with Ted based loosely on Bays, and Marshall and Lily based loosely on Thomas and his wife. The duo's first concept about "an Enron executive who gets sentenced by the judge to go teach at an inner-city high school" was discarded because neither writer wanted to research the subject.^[1]

Episodes from the first season generally started with the opening credit screen. However, a cold opening has been used since season two. Viewers then occasionally see Ted's children on a couch and hear him talking to them, telling the story of how he met their mother. Alternatively, scenes from previous shows or shots of New York City with Ted narrating over the top are shown. Thomas has explicitly said that Future Ted is an unreliable narrator.^[2]

The show usually features multiple flashbacks in each episode. This effect has been dubbed "deep frying" the story, a reference to the show's director, Pamela Fryman.^{[citation needed]} This structure necessitates many more scenes than the average sitcom;^{[citation needed]} therefore the show is not filmed before a live studio audience despite being shot in the traditional sitcom format.^{[citation needed]} Laughter is not recorded until the episode is shown to a live audience after it has been completely edited together.^{[citation needed]} Sometimes scenes incorporate a studio audience, depending on the set structures.

The theme song is a portion of "Hey Beautiful" by The Solids, of which Bays and Thomas are members.

The bar "MacLaren's", in which some of the show is set, is based on a bar in New York called McGee's.^[3] It has a mural that Carter Bays and Craig Thomas both liked and wanted to incorporate into the show.^{[citation needed]} The name is from Carter Bays' assistant Carl MacLaren, the bartender in the show is also called Carl .^[4]

A scene directly relating to the identity of the mother, involving Ted's future children, was filmed near the beginning of season two for the show's eventual series finale.^[5]

During the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, How I Met Your Mother shut down production, but once the strike ended the show returned on March 17, 2008, with 9 new episodes.^[6] It was also announced another change in timeslot to 8:30 ET/7:30 CT, flip-flopping from the summer schedule with The Big Bang Theory.^[7] The show was renewed for a fourth season by CBS on May 14, 2008,^[8] which premiered on September 22, 2008.^[9]

In September 2008, it was announced that Lifetime Television purchased the right to rerun How I Met Your Mother at a rate of $750,000 per episode.^[10]

[edit] Cast

[edit] Main characters

• Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby
• Jason Segel as Marshall Eriksen
• Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky
• Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson
• Alyson Hannigan as Lily Aldrin
• Bob Saget (uncredited) as Future Ted Mosby (voice only)

[edit] Recurring characters

• Charlene Amoia as Wendy the Waitress (2005-)
• Bryan Callen as Bilson (2006-)
• Sarah Chalke as Stella Zinman (2008)
• Lyndsy Fonseca as Future Daughter (2005-)
• David Henrie as Future Son (2005-)
• Marshall Manesh as Ranjit (2005-)
• Joe Nieves as Carl the Bartender (2005–)
• Ashley Williams as Victoria (2006)

Numerous actors from Joss Whedon projects have appeared on the show, such as series regulars Alyson Hannigan and Neil Patrick Harris. Guest stars from Whedon projects include Alexis Denisof (Hannigan's husband), Amy Acker, Tom Lenk, Harry Groener, and Morena Baccarin.

Also, actors from Jason Segel's debut series Freaks and Geeks have appeared on the show, such as Samm Levine, Martin Starr, and Busy Philipps.

[edit] Main crew

• Carter Bays
• Pamela Fryman
• Craig Thomas
• Chris Harris
• Suzy Mamann-Greenberg
• Rob Greenberg
• Stephen Lloyd
• Greg Malins
• Sam Johnson
• Chris Marcil
• Eileen Heisler
• DeAnn Heline
• Jonathan Groff
• David Hemingson
• Ira Ungerleider
• Gloria Calderon Kellett

[edit] Season synopsis

[edit] Season One

In the year 2030, Ted Mosby (voiced by Bob Saget) gathers his daughter and son to tell them the story of how he met their mother.

The story begins in 2005 with Ted (Josh Radnor) as a single, 27-year-old architect living with his two best friends from Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut)^[11][12][13], Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), a law student, and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher, who have been dating for almost nine years when Marshall proposes. Their engagement causes Ted to think about marriage and finding his soul mate, much to the disgust of his friend Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) whom he met in a bathroom after a night of drinks. Barney is known as a womanizer with an unnamed corporate job. Ted begins his search for his perfect mate. He is introduced to the ambitious young reporter Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders), when Barney plays the game he invented to introduce Ted to women: "Have you met Ted?" Ted quickly falls in love with Robin and thinks about settling down, but Robin isn't ready. However, the viewers learn that Robin is not the mother when Ted, as he talks to his children, refers to Robin as their "aunt", not their mother.

As the series progresses, Ted begins dating a baker, Victoria, whom he meets at a wedding, causing Robin to become jealous and realize she does have feelings for him. Victoria moves to Germany for a culinary fellowship, and she and Ted try a long distance relationship. However once Ted learns Robin has feelings for him, he tells her that he has broken up with Victoria and they almost have sex when Victoria calls and Robin answers by mistake. Ted and Victoria then break up, and Robin becomes mad at Ted for a number of episodes, but they eventually make up. Ted gets a call from Love Solutions, the matrimonial company that previously struggled to find a match for him, who have finally found him a match. But Ted decides not to show up for the blind date because he still believes Robin is the one. Meanwhile, Lily begins to wonder if she's missed any opportunities because of her relationship with Marshall, and decides to pursue an art fellowship in San Francisco, breaking up with Marshall in the process. The season ends with Ted coming back to the apartment the morning after getting with Robin, to find Marshall sitting in the rain with Lily's engagement ring.

[edit] Season Two

Ted and Robin are finally a couple. A heartbroken Marshall must now go on and try to continue his life without Lily, and he reluctantly begins dating other people. Realizing she is not an artist, Lily returns to New York. She's reunited with Marshall, and the season culminates in their marriage. Barney loses a "slap bet," which permits Marshall to slap him in the face five times at any given time in the future, whenever Marshall chooses, which he has done two times through the course of this season. It is revealed that Barney has a gay, black brother (Wayne Brady). Also, Barney takes a trip to California to be a contestant on The Price is Right, in part because he believes that Bob Barker is his father, although he doesn't actually say so. They eventually find out that Robin was a Canadian teen pop star in the early 90s.

In the season finale, through a series of flashbacks, Barney learns from Ted and Robin that they had been broken up for some time before Marshall and Lily's wedding. They didn't tell anyone before because they did not want to take attention away from Marshall and Lily. Ted and Robin agree to stay friends as Ted wants to get married and Robin does not. The season ends with Barney excited at the prospect of Ted's and his being single guys on the town again: "this is going to be legen.....wait for it....."

[edit] Season Three

Season three begins with Barney finishing the line he started at the end of season 2, "...dary!" Robin returns from a trip to Argentina, and Ted must adjust to life as just her friend. Marshall and Lily decide to move out on their own, falling in love with a place they can't afford. Marshall learns of Lily's bad credit rating due to her compulsive buying. They are able to finally score their dream apartment despite this, only to discover the neighborhood is next to a sewage treatment plant. Coming to terms with this, they later also realize that the apartment's floor is crooked. Barney is slapped for the third time on Thanksgiving, which Marshall dubs "Slapsgiving."

It is revealed that the way Ted met "Your Mother" is through a story with her yellow umbrella, which he finds and takes in "No Tomorrow".Ted attempts to woo Stella (Sarah Chalke), a dermatologist he sees to remove an embarrassing tattoo. This culminates in a memorable "two-minute date," which incorporates small talk, dinner, a movie, coffee, two cab rides, and a goodnight kiss, all within two minutes. Meanwhile, an unknown woman begins to sabotage Barney's attempts to hook up. Robin sleeps with Barney after he comforts her following a break-up, which is followed by Ted's disapproval due to the breaking of the "Bro Code." After that, Ted decides not to be friends with Barney any more. Barney's saboteur is revealed to be Abby (Britney Spears), Stella's receptionist, with a vendetta against Barney for not calling her after they had sex. In the last episode, "Miracles", Ted and Barney renew their friendship after both are involved in accidents (Ted is in a cab accident and comes out of it without a scratch. Barney is run over by a bus while rushing to find out if Ted's all right). At the end of the episode, Ted proposes to Stella.^[14]

In the episode "Ten Sessions", Stella reveals that she attended and left a party on St. Patrick's Day, which may have been the same one Ted attended. Ted told his children that the future mother of his children was at the party, but they had not seen each other.^[15]

It is also heavily implied that Barney has feelings for Robin. In the episode "The Goat", it is revealed that in the following year (when Ted turns 31) Robin will be living in Ted's apartment.^[16] This is confirmed in "Not a Father's Day."

[edit] Season Four

The gang continues to mature as they all reach their 30s. Stella says "yes" to Ted's proposal, but she leaves him at the altar in order to get back together with the father of her child. Barney struggles with his feelings for Robin. Barney's company shifts him to the management team of a new acquisition, Goliath National Bank, and Barney in turn gets Marshall a job as in-house counsel and a contract for Ted's firm to design GNB's Manhattan headquarters. Marshall and Lily finally move to their new apartment and struggle over whether or not they're ready to have children. Robin takes a new job in Japan, but finds it's even worse than Metro News One and quickly quits and returns to New York for Ted's wedding. Soon after her return, she becomes roommates with Ted. Robin now has no job or boyfriend, and is unsure about her life in New York. Ted finds out about Barney's feelings for Robin when Ted and Robin sleep together constantly so they won't fight over each others bad habits. Because Robin has no job, she is facing getting deported. Barney helps her make a video resume and she gets a job offer. Relationship tension is rising between Barney and Robin. Ted finds out Lily has been sabotaging all his relationships and indirectly may have caused his breakup with Robin. Robin and Ted end up talking about it and their friendship seems to be moving towards a positive note. Ted gets laid off, which causes Barney and Marshall to hire fake employers so that Ted doesn't feel bad. Ted eventually finds out but realizes he enjoyed having the freedom to design his own stuff, which makes him decide he will work on his own. Ted realizes that the journey is just as much fun as the ending and Barney realizes he is too old to do the same things he did in his 20s.

[edit] Episodes

Season	Ep total	First airdate	Last airdate
Season 1	22	September 19, 2005	May 15, 2006
Season 2	22	September 18, 2006	May 14, 2007
Season 3	20	September 24, 2007	May 19, 2008
Season 4	Ongoing	September 22, 2008	May 11, 2009

[edit] Tie-Ins

[edit] The Bro Code

The Bro Code, stated by Barney many times throughout the series, is a set of written rules for bros to follow, and has been published^[17] as a tie-in novel and also an audiobook.

[edit] TedMosbyIsAJerk.com

In the episode The Bracket, it is revealed that one of Barney's former one-night-stands, whom he told that his name was Ted Mosby (in Ted Mosby: Architect, created a website denouncing him called TedMosbyIsAJerk.com.

[edit] Barney's Video Resume

In the episode The Possimpible, Barney reveals that he has created an online video resume at BarneysVideoResume.com.

[edit] Cultural references

[edit] To How I Met Your Mother

In the episode "No Chris Left Behind" of the FOX animated series Family Guy (also produced by 20th Century Fox Television), a short clip from a pastiche TV show How I Met Your Father is seen. Josh Radnor and Neil Patrick Harris make cameo appearances voicing their characters Ted and Barney, with the name of the show and the gay kiss a reference to Harris's then-recent outing. The clip also introduces a rather different meaning to Barney's "Suit up!" catchphrase.

[edit] From How I Met Your Mother

In "Moving Day", the episode closes with a scene in "MacLaren's" where Barney reads out a Top Ten list, in the style of David Letterman's Late Show.^[18]

In "Mary the Paralegal", Barney says "I said good day!" (Originally a quote from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and used by Fez in That '70s Show).^[19]

In "Swarley", Barney gains the unfortunate nickname Swarley. The end of the episode features all the people in McLaren's Bar calling him Swarley, to which Carl presses play on stereo and plays "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," the Cheers theme song. This episode ends with Cheers-esque theme while the credits are rolling. In that same episode, the men are in a coffee shop and comment on how it is cooler to hang out in a bar than a coffee shop, which the writers later stated was a reference to Central Perk from Friends.^[20]

In "Arrivederci, Fiero", Robin quotes "Pulp Fiction"'s Winston Wolf when describing how they should clean up the Fiero.

"The Bracket" closes with Barney beginning to write a blog post^[21] – on a blue-screen computer, an allusion to Harris's role in Doogie Howser, M.D., which usually concluded with Howser writing in his computerized diary. The same music is used. It also used the CBS Sports NCAA Final Four basketball anthem "One Shining Moment" in a montage that parodied the regular post-game montage.

In "Do I Know You?", Ted discovers that he doesn't know Stella as well as he thinks he does. Marshall asks him "What color are her eyes?" Ted's response is directly from the The Princess Bride: "...like the sea after a storm."

In "The Best Burger in New York", Marshall's speech is a modified version of Salieri's from the 1980s movie, Amadeus.^[22]

In "I Heart NJ", when unveiling her dingy basement to everyone, Stella quotes Brian Collins with "Boom goes the dynamite."^[23]

In "Woooo!", Marshall said that Pigeons are smarter than Barney thinks and they hold grudges, then he left Barney at the roof of the building. Suddenly pigeons start to come one by one ; alluding to Hitchcock's The Birds.

In "The Naked Man", Ted's ending toast describes Mitch as a hero in a reference to the ending speech in The Dark Knight.

In "The Stinsons", Barney mentions child actors being better in the 1980's, an allusion to his days as a child star on Doogie Howser, M.D.

In "The Front Porch", Marshall and Barney dream that they are flying in their nightshirts above the city to Bob Dylan's "The Man in Me", a reference to The Big Lebowski when the Dude enters a dream sequence after he is knocked out. Also, Lily's and Ted's combative dialogue when Ted finds out that Lily broke him and Robin up is analogous to the courtroom scene between Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men.

[edit] Critical Reception

The show has received generally favorable reviews and currently has a 69/100 rating on metacritic.com. The best comes from the Orlando Sentinel who says "Romantic comedies depend on appealing actors, and these five are irresistible." On the other end, The New Republic calls it "Cloying [and] lackluster."

Season	Timeslot (EDT)	Season premiere	Season finale	TV season	Rank	Viewers (in millions)
1	Monday 8:30 P.M. (September 19, 2005 – May 15, 2006)	September 19, 2005	May 15, 2006	2005–2006	#43	9.5
2	Monday 8:30 P.M. (September 18, 2006 – October 2, 2006) Monday 8:00 P.M. (October 9, 2006 – May 14, 2007)	September 18, 2006	May 14, 2007	2006–2007	#51	8.5
3	Monday 8:00 P.M. (September 24, 2007 – March 10, 2008) Monday 8:30 P.M. (March 17, 2008 – May 19, 2008)	September 24, 2007	May 19, 2008	2007–2008	#70	8.2[24]
4	Monday 8:30 P.M.	September 22, 2008	May 2009	2008–2009	N/A	10.5[25]

So far the show has an average of 10.54 million viewers for season 4, and episode 12 hit a season high of 11.85 million viewers, the show's highest ratings since Season 1 (February 2006). Episode 18 hits season low of only 7.40 million viewers. This is the lowest rating episode of How I Met Your Mother since the "Showdown" episode.

[edit] Awards

[edit] 2006

• Emmy Award: Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series
• Emmy Award: Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series
• People's Choice Award: Nominated for Favorite New Television Comedy

[edit] 2007

• Emmy Award: Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series
• Emmy Award: Nominated for Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Series
• Emmy Award: Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (Neil Patrick Harris)
• Teen Choice Award: Nominated for Choice TV Actor: Comedy (Neil Patrick Harris)

[edit] 2008

• Emmy Award: Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series
• Emmy Award: Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (Neil Patrick Harris)
• People's Choice Award: Nominated for Favorite Scene Stealing Star (Neil Patrick Harris)
• Teen Choice Award: Nominated for Choice TV Show: Comedy
• Teen Choice Award: Nominated for Choice TV Actor: Comedy (Neil Patrick Harris)

[edit] 2009

• Golden Globe: Nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Neil Patrick Harris)

[edit] DVD release

Season releases Region 1

DVD name	Release date	Ep #	Additional information
Season One	November 21, 2006	22	This three-disc box set includes all 22 episodes of Season 1. Bonus features include commentaries on select episodes, gag reel, and video yearbook. The episodes on the DVD have been cropped from the originally broadcast widescreen to a full frame 4:3 format. At present there is no widescreen version available.
Season Two	October 2, 2007	22	This three-disc box set includes all 22 episodes of Season 2. Bonus features include commentaries on select episodes, gag reel, and several featurettes.
Season Three	October 7, 2008	20	This three-disc box set includes all 20 episodes of Season 3. Bonus features include commentaries on select episodes, gag reel, and several featurettes.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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• Official website
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• Extensive Interview with Josh Radnor (lead character Ted Mosby) on Starpulse.com