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Summary: How I Met Your Mother - Season 1
Comment: Another bunch of 'friends' this time in a pub and not a coffee lounge. Clever and entertaining as well as being frustrated and annoyed with the main character, Ted.
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Summary: A story about friends
Comment: I bought the first season of "How I met your mother" because I was looking for a new comedy show. I loved the story and the characters, it is hilarious and one of the best shows I have even seen on TV. I am a big fan of Friends and this sitcom has the same formula. I have already ordered the second season and I am looking forward to watch it.
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Summary: A 'Feel-Good' Sitcom
Comment: How many TV comedies can be called "Feel-Good" shows? More and more comedy on network TV is about misery. Failure. The bitter, cynical realities that allegedly lurk behind the bright, shining happy endings we've all grown up with. The generation that created and continues to embrace Reality TV prefers to look at the lives of others and say "Thank God that's not me" than to look at the world through someone else's eyes and say "Gee, I wish that could be me."
"How I Met Your Mother" looks like a conventional sitcom with its multi-camera shooting style and it sounds like a conventional sitcom with its omnipresent laugh track. But there is nothing conventional about this show. Ted, Marshall and Lilly have been best friends since the first week of college. Now an architect, a law student and a kindergarten teacher respectively, their relationships haven't changed that much, with one notable exception. Marshall and Lilly are engaged and in the light of their wedding preparations, Ted starts to wonder if he's ready to settle down. Then he meets Robin, a beautiful, independent TV newscaster...who is completely wrong for Ted in every significant way. Add to the mix Barney, Ted's confirmed bachelor-for-life friend who insists that he is an expert on meeting, seducing and abandoning women. But throughout all the missteps and bad hookups one thing remains: Heart. It's a show about people who love each other and that makes all the difference.
The cast includes popular favorites like Jason Segal ("Freaks and Geeks", and the writer/star of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall") and Alyson Hannigan (Willow on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"). Barney is played by Neil Patrick Harris, and after seeing him in one scene, you won't even be thinking the word "Doogie." Also on board is Bob Saget ("Full House") who narrates the show as Ted in the year 2030 telling his children the story of how he became the man he had to be before he could meet their mother. Now, it might seem like this gives away the ending of the story, but any true sports fan will tell you that there's more to a baseball game than who won and who lost. Life is a journey, not always an easy one, and this is a show that celebrates getting there as opposed to being there.
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Summary: Why No Widescreen Version?
Comment: Pretty disappointed when I popped the first DVD in and saw the black bars on the screen. Got Season 2 at the same time and it's Widescreen.
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Summary: Great, great show
Comment: The cast is perfect, the comedy is hilarious. The only GOOD thing about never watching this show while it was being broadcast on TV is being able to watch all of the first season at once on DVD. You realized that it's just ONE BIG EPISODE and the jokes are much funnier. You have to watch this show.
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