Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543382034
Format: AC-3
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-11-21
Running Time: 482
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2005-09-19

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Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating:

Summary: It's Awesome Times Awesome. It's Awesome Squared
Comment: How I Met Your Mother is a great show and watching Season 1 consistently reminds me of the charm it brings to the air.

It is so easy to fall in love with these characters. Ted, Robin, Lily, Marshall, and Barney have all found a special place in my heart.

I can watch these episodes over and over again.

This show is legen...wait for it...dary.

Customer Rating:

Summary: 5 star show. 4 star DVD
Comment: "How I Met Your Mother" is a wonderfully heartwarming and humorous show rehashing the courtships and surroundings of a late 20s early 30s man named Ted Mosby as part of an overarching story arc of a future Ted Mosby recounting to his future children regarding how he met their mother.

The stories are wonderfully shot, and brilliantly rounded by a diverse set of characters played by Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders, Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris, and Josh Radnor. The individual episodes are cleverly linked and tied together, with foreshadowing and callbacks ranging through complete seasons. The writing is punchy, and the humor is tailored to easily fit with each character, never feeling force. It's enjoyable, heartfelt, and intelligent.

However, the transfer to DVD has one small problem and one really big problem in it, from my point of view.

Small problem is the menu system does not allow for consecutive playing of the episodes without returning to the menu. I consider this feature a must for TV shows transferred to DVD.

The biggest problem I have is that they changed much of the scoring and music selections within the shows. Instead of containing the songs and music from the broadcasts, they have been replaced by unknown and less evocative music. For example, in the episode "Drumroll Please" they replaced "You Don't Knom Me" by Michael Buble for this heartwrenching romantic scene with some neutral generic waltz music...detracting from the scene considerably. In the same episode, the final scene was originally done to Pavement's "Spit on a Stranger" which brought lovely color and climax to the finale of the episode, but on the DVD, it was another generic piece of music. I imagine these were cost saving measures to prevent paying royalties, but it lessens the greatness of the show...and the show really is great.

For this transgression, I have penalized the DVD one star for taking a great show and not keeping it intact during the transfer to DVD.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Buy Up!
Comment: What an amazing show. I havent laughed so hard and pulled so many one liners from a tv show in a long time. If you were a fan of the show 'Friends' then I think you'll enjoy How I Met your Mother. Watching the gag reel and listening to the commentary on the episodes makes this dvd a must own for HIMYM fans.

You should purchase this dvd, watching just one episode will get you hooked.

Its going to be legen... wait for it...

Customer Rating:

Summary: BEST COMEDY ON TV
Comment: My wife got me hooked on this show. This is one comedy that keeps you laughing and hooked time and time again!!!!! Granted the studio should have reduced the price since it's a collection of half hour shows, but Hollywood being as greedy as they are they charged as much for this as hour long shows. So I say just rent it and copy it!!!!!

Customer Rating:

Summary: one of the best shows ever?
Comment: My favorite show of the past was friends. I have all seasons , but wait for it..............

I think this show may be better. It is always funny and I just like all the characters. I hope this goes on for awhile, but unfortunatly for now it's not due to the writers strike!

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Editorial Reviews:

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