I am a sappy, lovesick guy in his mid-twenties (I turned 25 last week actually), so if there ever was a show tailor made for me, then How I Met Your Mother is it. Or maybe Love Monkey, or Ed, or Friends, or... Whatever, you get the point I'm trying to make. You listen to me week in and week out; I absolutely love this show. Along with the ongoing love story, this show has a very deep sense of comradery camaraderie. I grew up in the broken generation. The number of friends I have whose parents are divorced or just not together, is far larger than those whose have parents that are still with each other. Our ideas of families are radically different; our friends are our family, and that's something that comes across extremely well in this show. My friends are my family, and just like the mothers and fathers of yesteryear, they're the ones that keep pushing me to find someone (or at the very least "go out"), so once again, I sympathize with Ted. I'll go into more detail how, but I'll put it at the end so you can choose whether or not you want to read it (not everyone has a built in audience of a couple thousand). For now though -- On with the show!