The How I Met Your Mother Blog

Just recently I’ve gotten five or six people in my office to start watching HIMYM. They all love it—obviously—but they’re all surprised they like it so much. Shocked even. They can’t believe that such a good show could have gone unnoticed for so long. Even one guy who was a sworn hater of sitcoms came around after he saw the “Crazy/Hot Scale” YouTube clip.

It would seem then that it ’tis the season to share the HIMYM love. If you’re a new reader, a new fan, or know someone who will love the show now is the perfect time to pick up seasons 1-3 on DVD. Amazon is having a sale where you can get all three for $45. That’s a damn good deal. Pick these up and have everyone over for a viewing party, even if you don’t make t-shirts the way some readers do.

Visit Amazon for the deal on How I Met Your Mother – Seasons 1-3 DVDs. Use this link, or the one in the sidebar, and they’ll know you came from this site and I’ll get a little cash. You’ll be supporting the show and the site. I appreciate both.

So we’re just hours away from the season 4 premiere of How I Met Your Mother and the excitement is palpable. What will happen? What did Stella say? What will Barney do? Who owns the yellow umbrella? What will Lily’s new hair style be? We’ll find out the answers to those questions and more tonight. After the show, check in here for my thougts, likes and dislikes, and join the discussion. I should have the review posted in a few hours after the episode airs.

In preparation for the premiere there’s been a lot of press surrounding the show lately. Earlier this month the cast auctioned off their jeans for charity and now CharityBuzz is working with CBS to give one lucky bidder the chance to win a walk-on role in an upcoming episode of How I Met Your Mother. Check out the details for that opportunity on the CharityBuzz web site.

Just in time for the season four premiere we’ll see Forgetting Sarah Marshall released on DVD. I got an early copy and I have to say that the special features are really impressive. I highly recommend checking out this DVD if you were a fan of the movie. There’s enough extra stuff there to fill up a weekend and who doesn’t want to spend a weekend with Jason Segel, Mila Kunis, and Kristen Bell?

While you’re waiting for the premiere you should check out the Pop and Culture blog where they love HIMYM as much as we do. I did an interview with them about the show and this site. Check it out!

A few weeks ago the lovely Juna contacted me from Detour Designs.  They have a few fantastic HIMYM shirts (pictured above) all of which I highly recommend you go buy immediately.

The banner in the sidebar points to this store as well.

What’s the point of having legendary HIMYM gear if no one sees you sporting it though? That’s why I created the How I Met Your Mother Fan Group on Flickr as a place for fans to show their support for the show. Upload pics of you and your friends wearing HIMYM gear, throwing HIMYM DVD parties, anything to show support.

Once we hit critical mass, I’ll do my best to make sure the people behind the show are made aware of the group so they see how much we all appreciate what they do and how much we love the show.

Need ideas? Try these:

• Come up with new and unique “fives”. Barney invented the “phone five” and “freeze frame five”, what else can we think up? Take a picture or video of your best “five” and post it to the group.
• Take a picture of you wearing HIMYM gear. If you don’t want to buy something, make your own!
• Recreate your favorite scene. Get some friends together and recreate a scene from the show. Upload the video and post it to the group.
• Suit up! Throw on an “outlaw” shirt, a striped polo, some leather boots—any of the cast’s trademark gear.
• Throw a HIMYM party. Have a few friends that aren’t into the show? Have them over for a DVD party where you watch a few episodes. Document the evening and share it with the group.

Any other ideas you have, I’d love to hear them. Tell your friends too! Let’s make this group huge.

A while ago Glarkware offered the Robin Sparkles Mall Tour t-shirt. Then they stopped. Now they’ve started again. They also have a legendary “Slap Bet Commissioner” shirt.

Both are limited edition and only available in May. Buy yourss today!

• Robin Sparkles T-shirt
• Slap Bet Commissioner

Of the shows that have returned from the strike How I Met Your Mother has continually done well for CBS. This week’s episode was the highest rated yet for the show. From the Hollywood Reporter:

A guest appearance by Britney Spears on Monday gave the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” its highest rating ever.

“Mother” spiked to a series high 4.5 preliminary rating among adults 18-49, even as the rest of the CBS comedy lineup fell from last week’s record-setting return to original episodes.

The second week of strong “Mother” ratings (10.6 million, 4.5/12) assures the one-time bubble comedy will be renewed for the fall. “Mother” was the fourth-highest-rated show of the evening, and CBS won the night (averaging 12.5 million, 4.4/11).

It’s not official, but I can’t see CBS canceling a show that’s doing so well. This is great news for us fans. Good work to those of you who wrote letters and signed petitions, but at the end of the day it all comes down to ratings and, lucky for us, the numbers don’t lie.

If you’d told me a year ago that Britney Spears would save How I Met Your Mother I’d have laughed in your face. I guess strange things do happen.

Now, for a bit of talking shop. I’ve heard readers suggest they’d be interested in a weekly ratings section, where we can track the shows stats in real time. Is this something you’d like to see?

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Bonus points for the first person to get the reference in the phrasing of that poll question.