A friend at work recommended this show to me. I'm not usually a huge sitcom fan, but I decided to give it a chance. It's hilarious and has a hugely creative framing story. I highly recommend checking it out and starting with season one. Here's what Wikipedia says about it:

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Dubbed "A love story in reverse," the show is structured as the main character, Ted, in the year 2030 telling his son and daughter about the events that led to his meeting their mother, which begin in 2005. The show frequently explores the concepts of stories and storytelling usually with multiple flashbacks occurring each episode. This effect has been dubbed "deep frying" the story.

Plus it co-stars Alyson Hannigan. Oh, and, Bob Saget does the narration of older Ted.

All the characters are really well fleshed out. I love Barney (played by Neil Patrick Harris). The character is a catch line machine.

Supposedly the narrator (the aforementioned Bob Saget) is recounting the story of "How I Met Your Mother" to his teenage kids. In the pilot, he meets a girl he is convinced he is going to marry. At the very end, his kids ask, "So that's how you met mom?" to which he answers, "No, that's how I met your Aunt Robin." I've only watched the first five episodes so far, but the series is entering its third season and from what I've read about it, he still hasn't reached the part of the story where he meets their mom.

It is probably one of the deeper sitcoms out there right now, and it adheres to the traditional (read multi-camera) format rather than the trendier single camera format popularized by sitcoms like The Office. This is the format Back to You is supposedly reviving. If this still running series is any indication, the format is doing fine on its own and not in need of reviving. If Back to You was even half as deep as this series, maybe it would quite being a bad reflection on this tried-and-true format.

I've been meaning to check this show out.

My mom got me to watch this show a couple times, & I thought it was pretty funny.  She watches it a lot I think, but then again she watches a lot of TV, so that doesn't automatically make it uncool.  After all, she's the one who introduced me to Alias, Veronica Mars, Pushing Daisies, & a number of other shows.  And I found out recently that she watched Firefly back when it actually aired, which kinda surprised me.

Neil Patrick Harris is just awesome, really.  He should be in more stuff.

Your mom is awesome.

Another Buffy alum alert: Alexis Denisof (Alyson Hannigan's real life husband and fellow Buffy and Angel co-star) plays a re-occurring character named Sandy Rivers who is a stuck up news anchor on a low-rated news station with really big hair (your typical anchorman stereotype).

Maybe it's because of Alyson Hannigan or maybe one of the writers is a huge Whedon fan, but this show is a cornucopia of past Whedon actors:

HIMYM - 2x07 - Swarley: Morena Baccarin (Firefly's Inara) and Tom Lenk (Buffy's Geeky Andrew). Yes, both guest starred in the same episode. How awesome is that?

HIMYM - 2x11 - How Lily Stole Christmas: Harry Groener (The Mayor!)

I watched a couple episodes, and noticed a few things.

1.  These people drink a lot.

2.  That's the guy from Freaks and Geeks!

3.  CBS' online video player suuuuucks.

4.  I like this show.