How I Met Your Mother: Created by Carter Bays, Craig Thomas. With Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris. A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.

The main characters of How I Met Your Mother are: Ted Mosby, a romantic searching for "The One"; Barney Stinson, a womanizer; Robin Scherbatsky, a journalist who moved to New York in 2005; and Marshall Eriksen and Lily Aldrin, a long-term couple.

Marshall thinks she is married, and Barney thinks she was a porn star. It's the year 2030 and an older Ted Mosby is telling the story to his son and daughter about how he met and will eventually marry their mother. This is where we meet for the first time Ted, Lily, Marshall, Barney and Robin.

Ted's epic search for his soul mate is told largely through flashbacks, as an adult Ted recounts to his kids how he met their mother. Watch trailers & learn more.

How I Met Your Mother’s series finale stirred up some serious controversy, so we're here to tell you why HIMYM's grand finish felt like a disappointment.

How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom written and created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for CBS. The series premiered on September 19, 2005, with a thirty-minute pilot episode, and finished its nine-season run on March 31, 2014.