How I Met Your Mother - Season 1
starring: Alyson Hannigan, Monique Edwards
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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 21-NOV-2006
Media Type: DVD
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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
No Description Available.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 21-NOV-2006
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
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
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- This Show Is Steak Sauce!
Why do I love this show?
I want every character on this show to be my best friend (except Robin).They're funny, caring, and awesome.The actors truly have tons of chemistry, providing a quality show in a half-hour block.
This is no generic sitcom.Sure, it's got a laugh track and some of the banter is cliché, however, most of it is incredibly witty and heartfelt.Ted is engaged in a genuine search for love, and I'm completely wrapped up in it.I fell in love with ... Read More
Rating: - I finally joined the "in" crowd!
Finally, I gave it and gave this show a shot.While I've never been a Neil Patrick Harris fan, I was reluctant.However, wow, what an entertaining, funny, show!FRIENDS, how I miss you Rachel, Joey, Monica, Ross, Chandler, Phoebe...but look out, TV has a new version for Y2K.
Season 1 has many memorable moments, and builds the basis for this show and the character background and development.I think it only took us two weeks to run through it, with quick half hour episodes this makes ... Read More
Rating: 
- Very Funny, But Not A Lot Of Depth
My wife and I have a TV but don't get a broadcast signal, cable or satellite, so we don't see many new shows and only watch shows we get on DVD.My mother got us season one of "How I Met Your Mother" for Christmas.I watched the entire season in pretty short order and I think my first reaction, honestly, is that it surpassed my expectations.Of the little I see of "new" television I am never that impressed, but there are parts in almost every episode of this show that are simply hilarious.This show ... Read More
Rating: - Surprisingly Hilarious
My goodness, this was a pleasant surprise! I'll definitely be getting more seasons. This show is a constant source of belly laughs. It lures you in with standard yet engaging plot lines and then blind sides you with crazy funny jokes out of no where! Neil Patrick Harris is in his prime and steals the show entirely. By the second episode I didn't even mind the laugh track. I suggest if you enjoy silly and sometimes heartfelt entertainment, give How I Met Your Mother a shot.
Rating: 
- excellent show!
This is just about the best show on TV right now.It's amazing and hilarious.Always good for a great laugh!
- This Show Is Steak Sauce!Why do I love this show?
I want every character on this show to be my best friend (except Robin).They're funny, caring, and awesome.The actors truly have tons of chemistry, providing a quality show in a half-hour block.
This is no generic sitcom.Sure, it's got a laugh track and some of the banter is cliché, however, most of it is incredibly witty and heartfelt.Ted is engaged in a genuine search for love, and I'm completely wrapped up in it.I fell in love with ... Read More
- I finally joined the "in" crowd!Finally, I gave it and gave this show a shot.While I've never been a Neil Patrick Harris fan, I was reluctant.However, wow, what an entertaining, funny, show!FRIENDS, how I miss you Rachel, Joey, Monica, Ross, Chandler, Phoebe...but look out, TV has a new version for Y2K.
Season 1 has many memorable moments, and builds the basis for this show and the character background and development.I think it only took us two weeks to run through it, with quick half hour episodes this makes ... Read More
- Very Funny, But Not A Lot Of DepthMy wife and I have a TV but don't get a broadcast signal, cable or satellite, so we don't see many new shows and only watch shows we get on DVD.My mother got us season one of "How I Met Your Mother" for Christmas.I watched the entire season in pretty short order and I think my first reaction, honestly, is that it surpassed my expectations.Of the little I see of "new" television I am never that impressed, but there are parts in almost every episode of this show that are simply hilarious.This show ... Read More
- Surprisingly HilariousMy goodness, this was a pleasant surprise! I'll definitely be getting more seasons. This show is a constant source of belly laughs. It lures you in with standard yet engaging plot lines and then blind sides you with crazy funny jokes out of no where! Neil Patrick Harris is in his prime and steals the show entirely. By the second episode I didn't even mind the laugh track. I suggest if you enjoy silly and sometimes heartfelt entertainment, give How I Met Your Mother a shot.
- excellent show!This is just about the best show on TV right now.It's amazing and hilarious.Always good for a great laugh!
