Posted on 03/31/2014 5:27:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) sits his son and daughter down to tell them how he met their mother.
That’s the way “How I Met Your Mother” began, on Sept. 19, 2005.
Nine seasons and almost nine years later, Ted is less than 48 hours from getting to the point.
It’s a tossup which is more impressive here: that a sitcom could last 200 episodes with what sounds like a one-idea premise, or that a parent could keep his kids listening to him talk about anything for nine years.
But if Mosby’s kids wanted the answer, they didn't have much choice. We didn’t even meet Mom until the end of season eight, when we finally saw Cristin Milioti, aka the Girl with the Yellow Umbrella, heading for New York.
It looks like we will get to the end of the story Monday night, when “How I Met Your Mother” wraps up its remarkably successful run with an hour-long episode at 8 p.m.
Neil Patrick Harris, who plays Ted’s good if maybe not best friend Barney Stinson, says the show needed that kind of time. Like a good Irish pub cheese, it couldn’t be rushed.
“The first two seasons seemed very on the bubble,” Harris says. “Which I thought was good for us. It gave us the opportunity to come up with our own sense of humor.
“Sometimes when a show is thrust into success right away, there are high expectations to come up with terrific stuff super fast. We got to develop a great vocabulary and weird little inside jokes. I liked the slow-burn elements.”
Among other things, “How I Met Your Mother” had an almost spooky consistency.
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Seven years as a main character on Buffy, plus the American Pie movies, plus this series, she's got to be rolling in it.
"About a Boy"?
Yes, a fag that pretended to be a woman chaser.
Couldn’t get that picture out of my mind.
Altho, it wouldn’t have been any worse had he been a man chaser.
Didn’t like him before he came out either.
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
Worst T & A show ever. Only Hollyweird casts a gay guy as a hetero stud. The girls on the show are pathetic. Unwatchable trash.
She’s why they invented breast implants. Because sex on a piece of plywood is no fun!
May it R.I.T.H. forever (rest in TV hell).
Entertainment is tough for me.
I like Jason Bourne, can’t stand Matt Damon.
I like Danny Ocean, can’t stand George Clooney.
And so forth.....
Never liked that show
Lots of competition for that title
Well, it was unintentional on my part - but it certainly fits.
Not being a fag, I guess that dick isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when I see the phrase “rammed down our throats”.
Never watched it once in nine years.
Neil Patrick Harris is openly queer. He and his "fiance" have two children, God help them.
his mere presence made the show unwatchable.
Bit all the characters are quite slutty
You know, I see clips of these sitcoms with the studio audience yucking it up after every utterance, and I think, “Really? American’s humor threshold is THAT low?”
Have you seen any “hit comedy” films lately ?
All disgusting filth
I don’t doubt you one bit.
Yes, that is is.
I’m sure Patrick Harris knows a lot about “cheese”.
The finale can’t very well be “legendary” when it hasn’t happened yet.
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