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This show is quietly addictive, like an unguarded box of cookies on your desk. It’s like the early days of Friends, before anyone knew what a cultural phenomenon it would be, and it was just about some funny friends and their lives and loves. I’m the only person I know who watches this show, but I love it so much I’ve started noticing parallels between my life and the character’s.

Basic Premise: A father in the near future is telling his kids (who are bored out of their minds) about how he met their mother. This provides the frame and voiceover. The show is set in the present day in New York City.

The Cast: The lead character is Ted Mosby, a romantic young architect seeking the woman of his dreams. He lives with his newly-engaged friends, Lily and Marshall, and hangs out with them and his be-suited and over-confident friend Barney. In the first episode Ted falls in love with Robin, who is more interested in her journalism career than following Ted on his love-marriage-white-picket-fence destiny. She joins in the gang’s favorite pastime of supporting and heckling Ted’s love life.
Ted Mosby: played by Broadway actor Josh Radnor. Beyond cute, he officially qualifies as yummy. Please don’t tell me if he has a girlfriend. Or boyfriend. A girl needs to dream.
Barney: played by Neil Patrick Harris. He’s come a long way from his Dougie Howser days. If you saw Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, you’ll have a good idea of his new persona. Anyone else would play this part as the buffoon; he turns into genius.
Lily: played by Alyson Hannigan, the madly-talented red-head of Buffy and American Pie fame.
Marshall: played by Jason Segel. Never seen him before, but he has some TV credits and fits the part perfectly.
Robin: played by Cobie Smulders. Never seen her before, and she kinda bugs. But I think it’s just because her character was all snooty-patooty about throwing away a wonderful romantic guy who’s madly in love with her (SOME of us don’t have that luxury). But she’s growing on me.

Why You Should Watch: It’s funny. It’s clever. If I drank milk at 9 o’clock at night, I’d be regularly squirting milk out my nose laughing so hard. And it believes that love is out there – or right next to you – and you just never know who it will be.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/

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