The How I Met Your Mother Blog

For the first time, How I Met Your Mother is going to be available for purchase and download via Apple’s iTunes store and Amazon’s Unbox service. There are some promotional specials running to support the new digital releases as well.

The last two episodes of season 2 (Something Borrowed and Something Blue) will be available for free from iTunes while Unbox will have the first two seasons for sale. People who purchase a season pass through iTunes prior to the premiere will receive a discounted rate and special extras including an extended mix of the theme song and a Robin Sparkles music video.

So what are you waiting for? Go subscribe!

Jason Segel (Marshall, if you didn’t know) has a movie coming out which he not only stars in, but has written as well. It’s called Forgetting Sarah Marshall and we can expect to see it hit theaters in May 2008.

Assuming you haven’t been living in a cave for the past couple years, you should recognize many of his co-stars. The list includes Jonah Hill (Superbad), Paul Rudd (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up), Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars), Mila Kunis (That 70s Show), Bill Hader (SNL, The Brothers Solomon), and Kristen Wiig (SNL, Knocked Up).

Kristen Bell plays the titular character (that’s not what that means you perv, look it up). Oh man, I’m there. I’d pay $10 to watch her read the phone book because you know it’d be sassy. The list of attractive young females appearing in the movie goes on and on which leads me to believe Segel will be following in the footsteps of collaborators Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen by making a sex-heavy adolescent comedy. And I love him for it.

And why wouldn’t he? The three of them have been working together forever. Segel was a major on Freaks and Geeks (which you’ve all seen, right?) with Rogen, James Franco, and Linda Cardellini—a show Apatow created. Segel, Rogen, and Apatow also worked together on Undeclared and Knocked Up. It is due to Apatow, in fact, that almost all the young talent in Hollywood today is connected, which means Segel will surely have many more opportunities in his future.

If you’ve never seen Freaks and Geeks, shame on you. Now go watch the credits which are awesome and feature a hilariously young Segel.

CBS has a new ‘alpha’ site up for How I Met Your Mother. It’s beautiful, with big images and video. The site is part of a cooperative ad campaign with CBS and Cadillac to add sophistication to the new fall premieres. This is one of many alternative advertising techniques Cadillac is using this year.

I have to say, I think Cobie Smulders is a very beautiful woman, but photos of her have always left me wanting more. There’s something about her that seems to require movement to appreciate. The picture above (and several others from that site) are the first I’ve seen that do her justice.

Speaking of images, the hero image on the main page of the group in a white-washed bathroom captures the entire show in a single frame. Barney in the tub ala Pineapple Incident; Lily’s knowing look and Marshall’s disapproving glance; Robin lovingly swirling a drink; and Ted looking on, doe-eyed and in love with…the world. O bellissimo!

Credit goes to How I Met Your Blog for getting the story up first.

Mike Jonas, who used to sing with the shag-a-rats, has a new How I Met Your Mother blog, Robin Scherbatsky, Alcoholic, which details the Canadian’s slow decent into rampant alcoholism. Oh, and the blog will serve as a discussion forum covering the music used in the show.

If Mike’s name sounds familiar, it should. He is the man from the IMDB message boards that has single handedly taken on the task of listing each and every song used in the show. I used his data when creating my music page.

So go check Mike out and tell him JD sent you. His link will be in the sidebar from now on as well.

I’m a sucker for a good blooper reel. Who isn’t? There’s something riveting about seeing actors flub lines and ham it up for the camera. If it’s a montage? Sold. I still think of the season one DVD every time I hear “Hide Another Mistake” by HIMYM’s favorite band The 88 who were found guilty on three accounts…of rocking.

Check out the season two blooper reel on the How I Met Your Mother MySpace page.