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How I Met Your Mother

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How I Met Your Mother

Genre Sitcom

Romantic comedy

Comedy-drama

Created by Carter Bays

Craig Thomas

Starring • Josh Radnor

• Jason Segel

• Cobie Smulders

• Neil Patrick Harris

• Alyson Hannigan

• Cristin Milioti

Narrated by Bob Saget

Opening theme "Hey, Beautiful" by The Solids

Composer(s) John Swihart

Country of origin United States

Original language(s) English

No. of seasons 9

No. of episodes 208 (List of episodes)

Production

Executive producer(s) • Carter Bays

• Craig Thomas

• Rob Greenberg

• Pamela Fryman

• Eileen Heisler

• DeAnn Heline

• Greg Malins

Producer(s) • Randy Cordray

• Suzy Mamann Greenberg

• Chris Harris

• Jamie Rhonheimer

• Kourtney Kang

• Brenda Hsueh

• Theresa Mulligan Rosenthal

Camera setup Multi-camera

Running time 22 minutes

Production company(s) • Bays & Thomas Productions

• 20th Century Fox Television

Distributor 20th Television

Broadcast

Original channel CBS

Picture format 1080i (16:9 HDTV)

Audio format Dolby Digital 5.1

Original run September 19, 2005 – March 31, 2014

External links

Official website

How I Met Your Mother (often abbreviated to HIMYM) is an American sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in Manhattan. As a framing device, Ted, in the year 2030, recounts to his son and daughter the events that led him to meeting their mother.

The series was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, who also served as the show's executive producers and were frequent writers. The series was loosely inspired by their friendship when they both lived in New York City.[1] Among the 208 episodes, there were only four directors: Pamela Fryman (196 episodes), Rob Greenberg (7 episodes), Michael Shea (4 episodes), and Neil Patrick Harris (1 episode).

Known for its unique structure and eccentric humor, How I Met Your Mother has gained a cult following over the years. The show initially received positive reviews, while the later seasons received more mixed reviews.[2][3][4][5] The show was nominated for 28 Emmy Awards, winning nine. In 2010, Alyson Hannigan won the People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Comedy Actress. In 2012, seven years after its premiere, the series won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Network TV Comedy, and Neil Patrick Harris won the award for Favorite TV Comedy Actor.

The ninth and final season began airing on September 23, 2013, and concluded on March 31, 2014, with a double-length finale episode, with the finale receiving a polarizing reception from both critics and fans alike for its controversial twist.[6][7][8]

Contents

• 1 Premise

• 2 Production

• 3 Cast

• 4 Season synopsis

o 4.1 Season 1

o 4.2 Season 2

o 4.3 Season 3

o 4.4 Season 4

o 4.5 Season 5

o 4.6 Season 6

o 4.7 Season 7

o 4.8 Season 8

o 4.9 Season 9

• 5 Critical reception

o 5.1 Season 1

o 5.2 Season 2

o 5.3 Season 3

o 5.4 Season 4

o 5.5 Season 5

o 5.6 Season 6

o 5.7 Season 7

o 5.8 Season 8

o 5.9 Season 9

• 6 Tie-ins

o 6.1 Books

o 6.2 Soundtracks

o 6.3 How I Met Your Dad

• 7 Nielsen ratings

• 8 Awards and nominations

• 9 DVD releases

• 10 References

• 11 External links

Premise

The series concerns the adventures of Ted Mosby (played by Josh Radnor) and how he met the mother of his children. The story starts with the younger Mosby living in New York City and working as an architect; the narrative deals primarily with his best friends, including the long-lasting couple Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan); the eccentric, womanizing-playboy Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris); and news anchor Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders). The series explores many storylines, including a "will they or won't they" relationship between Robin and each of the two single male characters, Marshall and Lily's relationship, and the ups and downs of the characters' careers.

The show's frame story depicts Ted (voice of Bob Saget, uncredited) verbally retelling the story to his son Luke (David Henrie) and daughter Penny (Lyndsy Fonseca) as they sit on the couch in the year 2030. This future-set frame is officially the show's "present day," and How I Met Your Mother exploits its framing device in numerous ways: to depict and re-depict events from multiple points of view; to set up jokes using quick and sometimes multiple flashbacks nested within the oral retelling; to substitute visual, verbal or aural euphemisms for activities Ted doesn't want to talk about with his children (sexual practices, use of illicit substances, vulgar language, etc); and even to add some elements of humor: in the episode How I Met Everyone Else, Ted describes his dates with a girlfriend whose name he has forgotten (Abigail Spencer), leading all characters to act as though her given name is "Blah-Blah."

While the traditional love-story structure begins when the romantic leads first encounter each other, How I Met Your Mother does not introduce Ted's wife (Cristin Milioti) until its final season, and only announces her name (Tracy McConnell) during the series finale. The show instead focuses on Ted's prior relationships and his dissatisfaction with those women, thus setting the stage for his eventual happiness with Tracy.

Production

How I Met Your Mother was inspired by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas's idea to "write about our friends and the stupid stuff we did in New York", where they previously worked as writers for Late Show with David Letterman, among others.[1] The two drew from their friendship in creating the characters. Ted is based loosely on Bays, and Marshall and Lily are based loosely on Thomas and his wife.[9][10] Thomas' wife Rebecca was initially reluctant to have a character based on her, but agreed if they could get Alyson Hannigan to play her. Hannigan was looking to do more comedy work, and was available.[9] Josh Radnor and Jason Segel, who were cast as Ted and Marshall, respectively, were not well known, though Segel had been a cast member on the short-lived Freaks and Geeks and a recurring guest star on Judd Apatow follow-up Undeclared. The role of Barney was initially envisioned as a "John Belushi-type character"[11] before Neil Patrick Harris won the role after being invited to an audition by the show's casting director Megan Branman.[12] Pamela Fryman invited Bob Saget to be the voiceover narrator, Future Ted, explaining to him that the show would be like The Wonder Years but "kind of into the future".[13] Saget either went to the television studio and recorded the narration while watching the episode, or did so separately and rerecorded with the episode if necessary.[14] He normally did not attend table readings, but did so for the last episode.[15]

In various interviews Bays and Thomas have stated that "a pretty famous actress"[16] turned down the role of Robin, whom they revealed in February 2014 to have been Jennifer Love Hewitt.[17] They then cast Cobie Smulders, also an unknown, for the role. Bays and Thomas later said, "Thank God we did for a million reasons... when Ted's seeing her for the first time, America's seeing her for the first time — the intriguingness of that propelled the show going forward and kept the show alive".[16] Although Ted is initially smitten by Robin in the pilot, it is quickly established at the end of the episode that she is not the mother, which Thomas said was done so they would not copy or rehash the "will they or won't they" Ross and Rachel storyline from Friends.[10]

According to an Entertainment Weekly article, the writers adopted facets of each main actor's personality and incorporated them into their characters. This includes Neil Patrick Harris's skills with magic, Jason Segel's passion for songwriting, Alyson Hannigan's absent-mindedness while pregnant, and Josh Radnor's intellectualism.[18]

MacLaren's, an Irish bar in the middle of New York, in which some of the show is set, is loosely based on four favorite bars of Bays, Thomas and others from the Late Show staff. They include: McGee's, a Midtown tavern near the Ed Sullivan Theater where the Late Show is taped; McHale's, a legendary Hell's Kitchen bar which closed in 2006; Chumley's, a since-closed historic Greenwich Village pub; and Fez, another closed bar on the Upper West Side.[19] McGee's had a mural that Bays and Thomas both liked and wanted to incorporate into the show.[20] The name for the bar is from Carter Bays' assistant, Carl MacLaren; the bartender in the show

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