How I Met Your Mother - Series 1 (Box Set) (DVD)

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER - SERIES 1 == Intro == When I saw that Ciao had put 'How I Met Your Mother' as Product of the Week I decided that I may as well give it a watch, seeing as all the current series I've been watching have finished, and I thought this sitcom might be alright. It's not the most well-known show, especially in the UK, and it rarely comes on to any TV channels, so I'd never come across it before. But when I looked it up, I had heard ...
...lengthy and humorous story of how he met their mother, so we flash back to 2005, where we see a 27-year old Ted living in an apartment with his two best college friends Marshall, a law student, and Lily, a kindergarten teacher. Marshall and Lily have been dating for nine years, and when Marshall proposes to Lily, there could only be one answer. The upcoming nuptials cause Ted to reassess his own romantic life, and he decides to search for his soul ...

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...tell them the story of how he met their mother. They don't particularly want to listen to this, particularly as his numerous stories never seem to bring up the aforementioned mother, instead focussing generally on Ted, his best friends Lily and Marshall (and his "other best friend" Barney), and his crush on the beautiful Robyn. It seems the the point of the programme itself is to show how Ted came to the point of meeting his future wife, but will ...
...is to find out ultimately how Ted met the future mother of his kids, then it's going to be like "Lost" - there will NEVER be an ending! The search for Ted's future can surely only conclude once the show decides to end, right? Otherwise we KNOW the ending and therefore the point of the show is moot. *TED'S AND ROBIN'S WILL-THEY-WON'T-THEY? - This has the potential to be the new Ross-and-Rachel, thus adding further to the "Friends" comparisons. He ...

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...two children the story of how he met their mother, and is then set in the past, in the year 2005 onwards. There was only one actor I recognized from the series, and that was Lily, who was played by Alyson Hannigan, who I knew from playing Michelle in American Pie and Willow in Buffy! The rest, while having appeared in various things I did not know. I am quite a generally a fan of American Sitcoms, well, mainly Scrubs and Friends so was reasonably ...
...tell them the tale of how he met their mother. And flash back to 27 year old Ted in 2005 with his best friend Marshall, who is preparing to propose to his girlfriend, Lily. He then rings his other best friend, Barney, the womanizing, suit wearing cocky guy. The series then progresses, telling the tales of Ted meeting various women, all of which you gradually find out are _not_ their mum. One of these women, Robin, becomes a main character. This season ...

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How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom which premiered in 2005 but I've only just got around to watching it recently. In the year 2030, Ted Mosby tells his son and daughter how he met and fell in love with their mother. The majority of the show is flashbacks to the present day showing the story of Ted's younger life when he is 27 years old, which is narrated in parts by Bob Saget. His younger days incorporates all the usual shenanigans of a ...
...advice for Ted. How I Met Your Mother is supposed to act as a kind of replacement to Friends which ended a year before this premiered. It does have a similar kind of feel to it with a close-knit group of friends who spend a lot of their time in MacLaren's, their favourite and local bar in New York. I'm sure most fans of Friends will enjoy this but it is nowhere near as good. There are many funny moments but some of these fall flat and I just can't ...

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...is that Ted is explaining how he met the women who eventually turns out to be his wife and the mother of his children, but it takes a while to get to that stage. We get hints, and Ted has a serious relationship with a girl named Robin, but we are then told she is not the one. Later on, Robin does become friends with the group though. I've read other reviews of this show and completely agree that it is quite similar to Friends, and perhaps considered ...
...in case you've never seen How I Met Your Mother (HIMYW), but there are both happy and sad times. And after both different situations, their friends are always there to pick them up again, showing realistic friendships that one could relate to. As I've already mentioned, the actress who plays Lily is recognisable from Buffy and American Pie, so she was already a star before entering this show. She plays Marshall's girlfriend, who's sweet, gives advice ...

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How I Met Your Mother has been one of my favourite American Sitcoms since I got a glimpse of it back in 2007 when BBC 2 showed the first season and I have secretly been longing for the past 2 years, hoping that BBC will show it again someday. Thankfully my secret prays have been answered by E4, which makes sense since they are the ones famous for bringing the British public Friends, Ugly Betty, Samantha Who and the other American sitcoms. I have ...
...How I Met Your Mother has had, I have never come home looking forward to a show as much as I have in the recent months, even epic shows like Lost or Heroes failed to grip me as much as How I Met Your Mother has, and I am glad because it brings a little ray of sunshine into my usually miserable day. ===What’s It About=== The show usually begins with a man who we never see in the stated year of 2030, who is telling his 2 teenage kids stories about ...

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How I Met Your Mother is a show sit com which is currently playing on Channel 4. It's an American programme which is made by 20th Century Fox, previous to been on Channel 4, the show was also on Trouble and programmes of the likes before it closed down last year. How I met your mother is a programme about a man called Ted living in present time in New York, and it is narated by Ted in the year 2015 (sometime near here!) talking to his two teenage ...
...the people in it, and How he Met their Mother. Also in the show are Marshall & Lily a couple who have been together since college, Barney, a single man who is obsessed with women and getting into bed with them! And finally Robyn, who Ted has on-off relationships with- but who we are told at some point in the show, is NOT the children's mother (so to me Ted and Robyns relationships are pointless as we know all along it's not going to work out somewhere ...

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...finally over! The similarities between How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) and Friends are obvious from the start. Both US sitcoms are about a group of friends who are in their twenties. Both sets of characters live in apartments in New York and spend what seems to be an unhealthy amount of their time either in the same café (Friends) or in the same bar (HIMYM.) However, the similarities all but end there. I certainly did not watch the TV series or the ...
...What is equally credible is how the shows writers are able to flourish under the pressure of continuing the shows hook. The "reverse love story" theme keeps you watching to find out the identity of the kid's mother and Ted's future wife. But the writers are unable to know the exact number of series that the show is going to commissioned for and as such are forced to keep the show flexible, it seems that neither the audience nor the writers know whether ...

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...his children the story of how he met their mother.Kids not even suspect that history may be delayed. And all because the dad had decided to talk in detail about everything that was in his impetuous youth, which led him to meet with their mother. For example there is a Ted's best friend - Marshal, with whom they are friends since college, who is about to marry his long-standing girlfriend Lily. And they also happened a lot of interesting things. And ...
...the answer to the question how did he earn a living. And Tad has a Robin. The girl with whom he just met, when he realized that the time for young leaves, and you need to find someone with whom you can be is old. -- From interesting facts would like to note that the main character is similar to the famous JD from the clinic (facial expressions, appearance), I would not say that it is negative, but sometimes the effect of light is de ja vu. ...

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This show is huge in America, but relatively unheard of in the UK, possibly due to a poor timeslot on TV. In my opinion it is a modern version of Friends, and though it may never reach the heights that Friends did, it is till well worth watching. The characters are strong, and storyline interesting, and the jokes really made me laugh out loud. With it being modern, the jokes are a bit more risque than Friends without going too far, and i think this ...

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I thought the show was hilarious. I watched ever night it was on. The show is great and I bought the season DvD. My friends and i like to watch it together with popcorn. It's a great show. And really funny. In my opinion the show is great. I have a few episodes that i didn't like but I have a few that are my favorite. This is not my favorite show but it is still one of my favorites. I'm very happy to be wrighting a review on one of my favorite shows. ...
...isn't very populer. I think there should be more ADS. I know about this show and i do tell people about it but i do not know alot of people.At work we have a TV but we never have time to watch so i eaither tape the show or i try to catch it during lunch. ...

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How I met your mother. When I first heard about this new comedy on E4, I classed it as just another wannabe "friends" series, but nevertheless I decided I would watch one. And from that day onwards I have been hooked. I must say, there are some similarities to "friends" and usually this would tick me off, however this show is just so funny. There are at the moment 5 series, and they have been running in America since 2005, only coming to Britain ...
...his kids the story of how he met their mother. Hence the name! It follows Ted through his desperate search to find "the one", with lots of hilarious story lines thrown on top. The other characters are Marshall and Lilly - who are together, Robin - a girl Ted "falls" for, but unfortunately she's not ready for a serious relationship but they remain friends, and Barney -another one of Ted's friends, who could be known as somewhat of a "player". It is ...

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this series is where the love hunting of Ted Mosby (the leading actor of this TV show begins). he wants to settle down and have his own family, then one day he met Robin (TV reporter), he thinks she's the perfect woman for him. Ted falls for Robin but its too soon to tell Robin the he's in love. One night they were making out suddenly just came out of nowhere he said I love you, Robin was shocked and stunned that he let Ted go home. This now starts ...
...for 9 years and Barney the happy go lucky guy whose afraid of commitment and relationships. His friends was giving him advices on what to do if he should pursue his love for Robin or not. As the story goes Robin became one of group but the tension between Ted and her are still surfacing. The combination of the characters were awesome in this series, no dull moments in every episode, and every punchlines were extremely funny. this TV show is worth ...

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...set the next day. How I met your mother is basically a newer, younger more modern version of Friends, considering it is from the same script writers it will not be a surprise to see this series become very big. All my friends are big fans having forced them to sit down and watch an episode, it wasn't long until they were quoting Barney who is a mix of Chandler and Joey (from friends) and deciding who was who in our group of friends. An entertaining ...

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