All the Chicks I Shagged Before I Knocked Up Your Mom...

Last month, I discussed Monday night TV. Kitchen Confidential never really caught me, but since it comes on after Arrested Development, I would watch it or have it on in the background while I blogged or cooked dinner in the other room. Lately, the MLB playoffs have been bumping all regular shows on Fox, and since neither the Indians nor the Nationals are part of the action, I have been channel surfing the past couple o' Mondays. Twice now, I have watched How I Met Your Mother on CBS at 8:30. This is the scoop:

Narrated through flashbacks from the future, How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he met and fell in love with the woman he eventually married. The shows usually begin and end with an off-camera Ted telling his teenaged son & daughter stories about his life "back in the day." His quest for true love all starts when Ted's best friend, Marshall (Jason Segal), drops the bombshell that he's going to propose to his long-time girlfriend, Lily (Buffy's and American Pie's Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher. At that moment, Ted realizes that he had better get a move on if he too hopes to find true love. Helping him in his quest is Barney (former Dr. Doogie Howser, Neil Patrick Harris), a friend with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and a foolproof way to meet women. When Ted meets Robin (Cobie Smulders), he's sure it's love at first sight, but destiny may have something else in store.

It never would have occurred to me to watch this show, but I have been more than pleasantly surprised--it is really funny and apropos to my life in many ways. Barney even intersperses conversations with "Yeah, I was writing about that on my blog..." Turns out, the character actually has a blog, which is a good read. If you're home on a Monday, give it a shot!