How I Met Your Mother: the next Friends?

I just hope it isn't the next FRIENDS
or the next big breakout hit.

I hate it when shows go to the really big time.
When that happened to Seinfeld the show changed. IT just still great but it changed dramaticly...

I just don't want this to be a Watercooler show.

also i don't think this is the next friends, as this is an awesome show.
FACE, FRIENDS

They should do a spin off with just Barney or mostly abotu Barney. Tonights episode was great, Barney and Robin...LEGENDARY.

It started out OK, but has been getting better ever since. The last few episodes have been tops. Quickly becoming a fav. (Although tonight my tivo spazzed on my and didn't record the last 10 minutes -- right when Barney, Ted, and that girl from Buffy were all taking there pants off, simultaneously, in 3 separate story lines.)

I still say they should drop the future-past tense from the show's mythos. Focus on Ted, Barney, and the ladies that they meet until it forces Robin to commit to Ted. And I've been saying that online since the first episode.

What is going on? With such good comedies out like The Office, Scrubs and Arrested Development, why are rehashes of Friends and Seinfeld ripoffs, How i Met Your mother, still funny. That sort of humor is just played out to death. There is no more need for shows about late 20 and early 30 year olds living in the big city trying to find themselves and looking for love in all the wrong places while they get into zaney situations. Its been done. Doogie's character has also been done before many, many times. Whats so CLEVER and ORIGINAL about a show that needs to be compared to another show?

I didn't sign up immediately to this show but after reading some reviews awhile back, one of which was by Joss Whedon, I gave a few episodes a go. I love it.. it's one of my faves now. It plays like life is between friends and I.. so I relate. The language, the humor.. Lovin' it!

I watched the first 3 episodes and couldn't stand it. Boring, bland and banal with one "edgy" joke allotted per show. It's too formulaic. It'll be a big hit.

I'm not sure about the next "Friends", but it seems to me that it could be an American version of the BBC series "Coupling", one that's better than the crap that NBC gave us when they set out to create an American version of "Coupling".

Lovin' it. It might not be the first show out of my mouth if someone asks for my favorites, but I probably look forward to seeing this show as much as anything on TV right now.

Neil Patrick Harris will probably take Sean Hayes' spot on the award circuit next year and ought to win an Emmy if this season is any guide.