How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother is a sitcom that I’ve come to enjoy after FRIENDS. It’s set in 2030, when Ted Mosby sits his son and daughter down to them the story of how he met their mother, but ends up telling them more than they bargained for. The episodes are flashbacks of his misadventures with his friends, Marshall Erikson, Lily Aldren, Barney Stinson, and Robin Sherbatsky that supposedly lead up to how he met his wife.

The face of Ted’s wife has never been shown on television. They’ve given hints though, with the yellow umbrella that ends up in Ted’s hands in season 4. They somehow imply that the woman carrying the yellow umbrella in previous seasons is Ted’s mysterious wife.

It’s smart and refreshing humor, lots of word play/funny pun; it’s totally amazing and hilarious how articulating becomes funny. They make American clichés fun and funny like how some Americans think America is the best country in the world, the idea that Canada sucks and that French women so easy, “it’s like playing tennis with the net down,” (Robin Sherbatsky) or New Yorkers hating New Jersey.

The show goes deeper on the dating game, fear of marriage and commitment, and having kids in America. Sometimes it even touches issues like short attention spans of Americans and in a few episodes environmental issues. Although so many might disagree, somehow it’s the FRIENDS of the new generation.