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How I Met Your Mother: Season Three

How I Met Your Mother   NR   DVD
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No other sitcom is as gleefully inventive as How I Met Your Mother. The basic setup is familiar stuff: Five charming, good-looking twentysomethings pal around New York City seeking love and happiness. But many episodes have a narrative trick. For example, when his friends try to persuade Ted (Josh Radnor) from going on a date with the doctor removing the butterfly tattoo he got while drunk, their justifications send the show careening back and forth among three interconnected flashbacks. Other episodes repeat scenes from different perspectives, or leap forward, or interrupt scenes to provide necessary exposition. None of this is groundbreaking, but it is consistently smart and clever--and when combined with crisp comic dialogue and zippy performances, it's pure sitcom delight. This is a show that manages to make a gang's in-jokes actually funny. Season Three is absolutely essential for any fan of the show, because this is the season we actually meet the title character; after two years of preamble, the mother to Ted's unnamed kids finally appears! But there are abundant other reasons to get this season, including Marshall (Jason Segel, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) buying a crooked apartment, Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) getting the yips and getting slapped, and the return of Robin Sparkles, Canadian teenybopper alter-ego of Robin (Cobie Smulders). There's a wee bit of unfortunate stuntcasting (though she doesn't embarrass herself, Britney Spears still sticks out by dint of sheer inescapable celebrity), but it's a minor flaw in an all-around superb season. Add in an abundance of commentaries, featurettes, music videos, additional scenes, and How I Met Your Mother: Season Three is clearly a must-have for fans and a great introduction for newcomers. --Bret Fetzer


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"Friends" minus one. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future about the 5 friends and their dating misadventures.
  • Audio: English: 5.1 Dolby Surround
  • Language: Dubbed: English / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
  • Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 1.78:1
Disc 1: 126 Minutes
  • Wait For It
  • We're Not From Here
  • Little Boys
  • The Third Wheel
  • How I Met Everyone Else
  • I'm Not That Guy
  • Series Retrospective
Lily and Marshall's Honeymoon Videos:
  • Awesome Honeymoon
  • Love On The Loch
  • Nessie vs. Lily
  • Honeymoon Suite It Is
  • Cast Favorites
  • Behind the Scenes of We're Not From Here
  • Additional Scenes: How It Really Happened
  • Wait for It
  • We’re Not From Here
  • The Third Wheel
  • Little Boys
  • How I Met Everyone Else
  • I’m Not That Guy

Disc 2: 147 Minutes

  • Dowisetrepla
  • Spoiler Alert
  • Slapsgiving
  • The Yips
  • The Platinum Rule
  • No Tomorrow
  • Ten Sessions

  • Audio Commentary on "The Platinum Rule" by show creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, director Pam Fryman and editor Sue Federman
  • Audio Commentary on "Ten Sessions" by show creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and actors Josh Radnor and Sarah Chalke
  • You Just Got Slapped Music Video
  • Unrated Gag Reel

Disc 3: 147 Minutes
  • The Bracket
  • The Chain Of Screaming
  • Sandcastles In The Sand
  • The Goat
  • Rebound Bro
  • Everything Must Go
  • **Miracles

  • Audio Commentary on "The Bracket" by show co-creator Craig Thomas, cast member Neil Patrick Harris, and writer Joe Kelly
  • Audio Commentary on "The Chain Of Screming" by writer Chris Harris, cast member Jason Segel and his driver Danny Bress
  • Commentary on "Sandcastles In The Sand" by show co-creator Craig Thomas, cast member Cobie Smulders, director Pam Fryman and writer Kourtney Kang
  • Audio Commentary on "Everything Must Go" by cast member Alyson Hannigan and consulting producer Jonathan Groff
  • Audio Commentary on "Miracles" by show creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and director Pam Fryman
  • Ted Mosby is a Jerk
  • Robin Sparkles Sandcastles in the Sand Music Video

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Getting better all the time, June 22, 2008
This review is from: How I Met Your Mother: Season Three (DVD)
I've read a sampling of reviews for Season 3, most stating that 3 isn't as strong as Season 2; I heartily disagree. Season 2 felt disjointed, like filler to me (though of course I still loved it!), but Season 3 keeps the story moving forward. I like that the characters are maturing, unlike the Friends characters who irritated me acting early 20's well into their 30's. There's a natural progression here, that includes some sentiment and drama in addition to the comedy. I simply love this show~ BRAVO to the entire team that creates and excecutes it.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars HIMYM - The Legendary Season Three!, July 28, 2008
By Servo (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How I Met Your Mother: Season Three (DVD)
The HIMYM gang [again guided by director Pam Fryman] returns with 20 more legendary episodes in How I Met Your Mother - Season Three. When Season 2 of How I Met Your Mother ended, Marshall and Lily had finally hooked back up (and tied the knot), but Ted and Robin had suddenly split up. The situations were reversed when Season 1 ended. Season Three picks up sometime later after Season Two with Robin introducing her new Argentinean lover, Gael (Enrique Iglesias) to the gang and Ted hooking up with a wild tattooed woman (Mandy Moore) after going out to party with Barney. The end result from that encounter later leads Ted (in "Ten Sessions") to a chance meeting with Stella (Sarah Chalke, fresh from NBC's recently ended Scrubs), a dermatologist and possible "mother" candidate who he falls for in the season's most engaging story arc. Props must be given to the series creators for the attention to continuity featured each season as past acquaintances (Trudy from Season One's "The Pineapple Incident" returns with a tempting opportunity for Ted in "Third Wheel") and plot devices ("The Goat" from Season One's "Milk" and Season Two's "Slap Bet" in "Slapsgiving") are revisited this season with hilarious results. Guest stars include Britney Spears (in a comeback role and the show's highest rated episode ever), Danica McKellar ("The Wonder Years"), Busy Philipps ("Dawson's Creek," "ER"), Maggie Wheeler ("Friends"), James Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek"), Wayne Brady ("Whose Line Is It, Anyway?"), Will Forte ("Saturday Night Live") and models Heidi Klum, Marisa Miller, Alessandra Ambrosio, Selita Ebanks and Adriana Lima. How I Met Your Mother - Season Three is a 3-disc set featuring all 20 episodes from the 2007-2008 season; Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) video; plus extras.


Episodes:
1. Wait For It...
2. We're Not From Here
3. Third Wheel
4. Little Boys
5. How I Met Everyone Else
6. I'm Not That Guy
7. Dowisetrepla
8. Spoiler Alert
9. Slapsgiving
10. The Yips
11. The Platinum Rule
12. No Tomorrow
13. Ten Sessions
14. The Bracket
15. The Chain of Screaming
16. Sandcastles in the Sand
17. The Goat
18. Rebound Bro
19. Everything Must Go
20. Miracles


Special Features:
* Audio Commentary on select episodes by cast & crew
* Series Retrospective
* Lily and Marshall's Honeymoon Videos
* Cast Favorites featurette
* How It Really Happened: Wait For It...
* How It Really Happened: We're Not From Here
* How It Really Happened: Little Boys
* How It Really Happened: Third Wheel
* How It Really Happened: How I Met Everyone Else
* How It Really Happened: I'm Not That Guy
* Behind The Scenes Of "We're Not From Here"
* Unrated Gag Reel
* You Just Got Slapped Video
* Ted Mosby is a Jerk Audio Track
* Robin Sparkles "Sandcastles in the Sand" Music Video


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28 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Starting to slip a little, but still very funny, May 19, 2008
By A. Gammill (West Point, MS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How I Met Your Mother: Season Three (DVD)
PLEASE NOTE: This review contains SPOILERS.

I've been a fan of How I Met Your Mother from Day One, so I don't use a phrase like "starting to slip a little" lightly. But the fact is, season three just doesn't quite measure up to the previous two.

The main problem, as I see it, is that the writers felt the need to create ongoing conflict between the core group of friends. Sure, conflict is necessary to keep things interesting. But I think the ensemble in this show is better served by external conflicts (e.g., Barney and Ted's various problems with the opposite sex, Marshall's work-related stress, etc.). Watching Ted and Robin try to one-up each other after a painful breakup last season was. . .well, not that funny. Later in the season, Ted and Barney's friendship was on the rocks.

Otherwise, there were plenty of well-written and funny shows. Here's a few highlights:

"Slapsgiving" pays off the long-running joke from last season's "Slap Bet."
"We're Not From Here" allows Barney and Ted to cut loose, posing as out-of-towners.
"How I Met Everyone Else" introduces us to a classic Barney Stinson gimmick: The Crazy/Hot Scale.
"Ten Sessions" introduces Ted's major love interest Stella (Sarah Chalke), probably his most memorable girlfriend since season one's Victoria. His manic (and successful) attempt at a two-minute date is probably the high point of the season.
"Sandcastles in the Sand" brings back Robin Sparkles. . .and culminates in an ending so shocking, you'll be grateful you don't have to wait another week to see what comes next.

I guess it's fair to say the good outweighs the not-so-good in season three. At its heart, How I Met Your Mother is the longest tease in television history (yet a few tantalizing clues as to the identity of "mother" are dropped this year). I hope they can keep it fresh awhile longer, even though the inherent illogic of its premise (just how long have Ted's kids been sitting on that couch listening to Bob Saget?) may soon start weighing heavily even on fans like myself.


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