# @popbase on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdfqOtNB9Mf
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-20T03:50:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pop Base (@PopBase) — https://gondola.cc/PopBase

## Caption

‘How I Met Your Mother’ premiered 21 years ago today.

Carter Bays and Craig Thomas created 'How I Met Your Mother' for CBS, loosely drawing on their own real friendship from living together in New York City before shaping it into a full sitcom. Pamela Fryman directed the pilot alongside the vast majority of the series' eventual 208 episodes, and the show premiered September 19, 2005, framed entirely around Ted Mosby narrating the story of how he met his children's mother from a vantage point set in the year 2030.

Josh Radnor starred as Ted, a single 27-year-old architect living in Manhattan alongside his college friends Marshall Eriksen and Lily Aldrin, played by Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan, whose impending engagement pushes Ted to start seriously chasing his own future with someone. Neil Patrick Harris and Cobie Smulders rounded out the core cast as Barney Stinson and Robin Scherbatsky, with Bob Saget voicing the older, future version of Ted narrating the entire series in retrospect.

The show ran for nine seasons on CBS, concluding March 31, 2014, and built a devoted following through its structure of extended flashbacks, running jokes, and slowly unfolding mysteries, including not revealing the title character, known only as "the Mother," until the very end of its eighth season. Its lasting popularity eventually spawned a stand-alone sequel series, 'How I Met Your Father,' which premiered on Hulu in January 2022, extending the franchise's presence nearly two decades after the original pilot first aired.

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