Kids, I'm gonna tell you an incredible story. The story of how I met "How I Met Your Mother."
It was the summer of 2012. Barack Obama was a few months away from re-election for a second term as President. Marvel's The Avengers was on its way to becoming the third highest grossing movie of all-time. YouTube was about to contaminate the internet with the music video for Gangnam Style which, to date, is the most-watched clip in its history.
And just a few months earlier, a show described in its Netflix bio as "Ted's epic search for his soul mate told largely through flashbacks, as an adult Ted recounts to his kids how he met their mother," had just wrapped up its seventh season. As the self-proclaimed melancholic sap that I am, this show had me at the words "epic" and "soul mate." And being a fan of any non-linear style of story-telling and of well-crafted scripts using flashbacks to tell their tales, I was instantly hooked. So how did this gem of a show stay hidden from me for 160 episodes?