How I Met Your Mother
It's from 2005, before you were born.
- Network
- CBS
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Premiered
- 2005
- Framing device
- a father's long flashback
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About
As of 2026, it's 21 years old.
How I Met Your Mother spent nine seasons on a hangout comedy framed as a dad telling his kids an extremely, suspiciously long story about how he met their mother — a structure that allowed for flashbacks, running gags, and an ending so divisive that fans still argue it betrayed the whole premise.
Its inventive storytelling, catchphrases ('Legendary,' 'Suit up!'), and Neil Patrick Harris's scene-stealing Barney made it a defining sitcom of its era, finale controversy and all.
Clever, warm, and forever debated, How I Met Your Mother is the comedy that took the longest possible route to its ending and split its fans on whether it was worth the trip.
How I Met Your Mother season by season
How I Met Your Mother ran for 9 seasons (2005–2013) across 208 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
