How I Met Your Mother

[Flubber]

It was an episode about a list of things people weren't supposed to do any more when they got old. The only vaguely funny part was I Love You Man's Murtoch impression (even that was somewhat ruined by the unfunny supposed future censorship of the 4 letter synonym for feces)

I never saw that one-- Like I said I have been finding it far less funny this year so I have not been making the effort to see it-- its more like I see it when I see it. Maybe they need fresh blood or something.

[Boris Godunov]

The sitcom format really just needs to die. If you need a canned audience to cue the TV viewers when to laugh, your show isn't funny.

30 Rock, The Office, etc. are the right way to do TV comedies.

[Flubber]

It's Friends, but tries to be more absurd, I think. The narration is really grating.

Neil Patrick Harris has his moments, but his character in Harold and Kumar... was better.

Friends? Don't be ridiculous. There were 6 people in Friends and it was set in an TWO NY apartments and a coffee shop. This show had FIVE people and is mainly set in ONE NY apartment and a bar-- completely different doncha know.

The narration? I just wish he would meet the kids freaking mother!!!

[Japher]

Also, the chicks in HIMYM are much more slutty...

[Flubber]

Also, the chicks in HIMYM are much more slutty...

Which is true but weird when one of the two girls there has been in a monogomous relationship from the start (but I still remember her fondly as the American Pie band camp girl )

[Imran Siddiqui]

It's Friends, but tries to be more absurd, I think. The narration is really grating.

It's an 00's version of Friends, but with some big differences. One being the storytelling technique. HIMYM has a lot more flashbacks, flash forwards, quick cuts to other story-supporting items (like pictures or whatnot), references to earlier episodes (or foreshadowing for others - ie, "that's another story for the future" stuff), narrator (who can be unreliable) references, and just a general playing around with time - part of the narrator function telling the story to his kids in 2030. Also, yes it is more absurd as the sterotypes are played up (such as Barney being an uber ladies man).

[Japher]

It's rather funny that his "brother" is Wayne Brady, and is a gay version of Barney. It's also funny how Barney thinks Bob Barker his father... I don't know, it's more absurd than Friends in general, and I like the sense of humor of the show. It's nice to have around, and I would compare it more to Scrubs than to Friends.

[Imran Siddiqui]

A mix of Friends and Scrubs is probably a good way to put it. More of the setting and characters of Friends (though much better) with the zany humor of Scrubs.

[Guynemer]

As to the list that Drake linked to...

I highly, highly recommend The Venture Brothers (#24, if I recall correctly). Best comedy currently on the air.

[Provost Harrison]

To answer the original question...

In a brothel KH, in a brothel

[a.kitman]

The Office

i hope you mean the uk original and not the us versions.

[chequita guevara]

Neil Patrick Harris' awesomeness is the only reason to ever watch HIMYM. I do enjoy the concept of him as an unapologetic, successful womanizer. And I used to lust for Alyson Hannigan back when whe was Willow on Buffy.

Yet even with two cast members I really like, I never watch this show. Ergo, it must suck.

This

[Tuberski]

I've watched 2 shows on that top 30 list Futurama occasionally, and every episode of Dexter for the first 3 seasons.

ACK!

[Imran Siddiqui]

I've seen The Sopranos, Arrested Development, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Office (UK), Deadwood, The Office (US), Battlestar Galactica, 30 Rock, Futurama, Friday Night Lights, How I Met Your Mother, Big Love (when I had HBO), and have watched the first season of Dexter (and will rent more) and the last few season of Six Feet Under.

So, 13 (not including Dexter & Six Feet Under), I guess. I watch (or rather DVR) a lot of TV.