I've seen one episode of How I Met Your Mother. That was enough to determine that, given the shows success, I can only conclude that most of the planet are brain dead or extremely retarded. It was also long enough to determine that the show was about the father and the mother was a past tense (after all…. THE NAME OF…

This sounds like a fairly interesting show. Too bad this site just ruined it all with a blow by fucking blow description of everything that goes on during the episode. AVClub sure could learn a thing or two about spoilers.