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How I Met Your Mother: Season One |  | Actors: Alyson Hannigan, Monique Edwards
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.98
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Rating:  129 reviews
Sales Rank: 935
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), English (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 482 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 024543382034
UPC: 024543382034
EAN: 0024543382034
ASIN: B000HT3P7E
Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 2005
Release Date: November 21, 2006
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| Editorial Reviews:
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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
Product Description
In a series of flashbacks, Ted tells the story of his group of twenty-something friends and their relationships with other people and with each other.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 25
 Case sucks but.... August 30, 2010
ArmyWifeCarter84
I received exactly what I ordered, but the case was a piece of junk, if that even matters to anyone.
Excellent!!! See how it all started August 5, 2010
Eduardo Labbe (Santiago, Chile)
How I Met Your Mother is an excellent show. It's so funny and well written! You are constantly amazed by how the writers manage to bring stuff from past episodes in a very smart way. The characters are lovable and funny at the same time. With each new episode you'll laugh a bit more, as everything is explained by situations from the past.
Watch HIMYM. You're not going to regret it. Having seen the five seasons (and waiting for the next one to start) I can say that I love this show more than I loved "Friends".
Like Friends but Cooler... July 31, 2010
Justin Hall (OK USA)
HIMYM (How I Met Your Mother) is a fun show about a group of friends and the the stuff that happens to them. The big creative point of the show is that it is narrated by the character Ted from the year 2030, and he is telling all these stories to his children. The over arching story is how Ted met his wife, or how Ted met the mother of his children. I get the vibe from the show, is that it is like "Friends" but the characters are cooler and funnier.
The CBS Version of FRIENDS but Much Cooler! July 22, 2010
R. Chou (Los Angeles, CA USA)
How I Met Your Mother is a hilariously funny show and after watching the first season, I was hooked. The premise of the show is of main character, Ted, who is recollecting and sharing stories to his kids on how he will eventually meet their mother. So the year is actually 2030 but he is narrating the story on the adventures of when he was in his mid-twenties.
Obviously, the meeting their mother part will never come until the series ends but so far, so good. Each episode is another adventure on the mischievous times he had when he was in their mid-20's. Sharing his adventures are his two roommates, Marshall and Lily, best pal Barney and on and off again love interest, Robin.
The setting is similar to NBC classic sitcom FRIENDS where there is a group that hang out too much at a local joint, in this case, a dive bar. They are also living in NYC. Each character is hilarious in their own right but how can you not just love Barney played by Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser M.D.)!
This is must watch television and like other CBS shows; its a shame they are not available for streaming via Netflix or Hulu. I seriously think the show would have greater following but if you never watched this, definitely give it shot!
 WARNING - full screen only February 13, 2010
R. Cohen (Colorado, US)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Don't make the mistake I made - this is full screen only. The original broadcast was wide screen, so why o why do they crop it to full screen and don't offer the wide screen version?
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