How I Met Your Mother: Season Three

How I Met Your Mother: Season Three
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"Friends" minus one. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future about the 5 friends and their dating misadventures.

• Audio: English: 5.1 Dolby Surround
• Language: Dubbed: English / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 1.78:1

Disc 1: 126 Minutes

• Wait For It
• We're Not From Here
• Little Boys
• The Third Wheel
• How I Met Everyone Else
• I'm Not That Guy
• Series Retrospective
  

Lily and Marshall's Honeymoon Videos:

• Awesome Honeymoon
• Love On The Loch
• Nessie vs. Lily
• Honeymoon Suite It Is

• Cast Favorites
• Behind the Scenes of We're Not From Here
• Additional Scenes: How It Really Happened
• Wait for It
• We’re Not From Here
• The Third Wheel
• Little Boys
• How I Met Everyone Else
• I’m Not That Guy

Disc 2: 147 Minutes

• Dowisetrepla
• Spoiler Alert
• Slapsgiving
• The Yips
• The Platinum Rule
• No Tomorrow
• Ten Sessions

• Audio Commentary on "The Platinum Rule" by show creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, director Pam Fryman and editor Sue Federman
• Audio Commentary on "Ten Sessions" by show creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and actors Josh Radnor and Sarah Chalke
• You Just Got Slapped Music Video
• Unrated Gag Reel

Disc 3: 147 Minutes

• The Bracket
• The Chain Of Screaming
• Sandcastles In The Sand
• The Goat
• Rebound Bro
• Everything Must Go
• **Miracles

• Audio Commentary on "The Bracket" by show co-creator Craig Thomas, cast member Neil Patrick Harris, and writer Joe Kelly
• Audio Commentary on "The Chain Of Screming" by writer Chris Harris, cast member Jason Segel and his driver Danny Bress
• Commentary on "Sandcastles In The Sand" by show co-creator Craig Thomas, cast member Cobie Smulders, director Pam Fryman and writer Kourtney Kang
• Audio Commentary on "Everything Must Go" by cast member Alyson Hannigan and consulting producer Jonathan Groff
• Audio Commentary on "Miracles" by show creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and director Pam Fryman
• Ted Mosby is a Jerk
• Robin Sparkles Sandcastles in the Sand Music Video

No other sitcom is as gleefully inventive as How I Met Your Mother. The basic setup is familiar stuff: Five charming, good-looking twentysomethings pal around New York City seeking love and happiness. But many episodes have a narrative trick. For example, when his friends try to persuade Ted (Josh Radnor) from going on a date with the doctor removing the butterfly tattoo he got while drunk, their justifications send the show careening back and forth among three interconnected flashbacks. Other episodes repeat scenes from different perspectives, or leap forward, or interrupt scenes to provide necessary exposition. None of this is groundbreaking, but it is consistently smart and clever--and when combined with crisp comic dialogue and zippy performances, it's pure sitcom delight. This is a show that manages to make a gang's in-jokes actually funny. Season Three is absolutely essential for any fan of the show, because this is the season we actually meet the title character; after two years of preamble, the mother to Ted's unnamed kids finally appears! But there are abundant other reasons to get this season, including Marshall (Jason Segel, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) buying a crooked apartment, Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) getting the yips and getting slapped, and the return of Robin Sparkles, Canadian teenybopper alter-ego of Robin (Cobie Smulders). There's a wee bit of unfortunate stuntcasting (though she doesn't embarrass herself, Britney Spears still sticks out by dint of sheer inescapable celebrity), but it's a minor flaw in an all-around superb season. Add in an abundance of commentaries, featurettes, music videos, additional scenes, and How I Met Your Mother: Season Three is clearly a must-have for fans and a great introduction for newcomers. --Bret Fetzer

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