How I Met Your Mother (2005 — 2014)
The series follows the adventures of Ted Mosby and his love life as a single straight male. His stories are narrated by Bob Saget as Ted Mosby twenty-five years later as he tells them to his adolescent children. The story goes into a flashback and starts in 2005 with the 27-year-old Ted 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 and Lily Aldrin, womanizing playboy Barney Stinson, and Canadian news reporter Robin Scherbatsky; all of the characters’ lives are entwined. The series explores many storylines, including a “will they or won’t they” relationship between Robin and each of the two single male friends, Marshall and Lily’s relationship, and the ups and downs of the characters’ careers.
The show’s frame story depicts Ted verbally retelling the story to his son Luke and daughter Penny 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 this 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 does not want to talk about with his children.
Date of download: 2015-11-11T17:22:34+00:00
Cast:  Josh RadnorTed Mosby (1-9)  Neil Patrick HarrisBarney Stinson (1-9)  Jason SegelMarshall Eriksen (1-9)  Cobie SmuldersRobin Scherbatsky (1-9)  Alyson HanniganLily Aldrin (1-9)  Lyndsy FonsecaDaughter (1-9)  David HenrieSon (1-9)  Bob SagetFuture Ted Mosby (Voice) (1-9)  Cristin MiliotiTracy McConnell (3, 8-9) |
The series follows the adventures of Ted Mosby and his love life as a single straight male. His stories are narrated by Bob Saget as Ted Mosby twenty-five years later as he tells them to his adolescent children. The story goes into a flashback and starts in 2005 with the 27-year-old Ted 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 and Lily Aldrin, womanizing playboy Barney Stinson, and Canadian news reporter Robin Scherbatsky; all of the characters’ lives are entwined. The series explores many storylines, including a “will they or won’t they” relationship between Robin and each of the two single male friends, Marshall and Lily’s relationship, and the ups and downs of the characters’ careers.
The show’s frame story depicts Ted verbally retelling the story to his son Luke and daughter Penny 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 this 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 does not want to talk about with his children.
