Win HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Season 4 on DVD
September 28, 2009 by Kath Skerry
The cast, crew and creative team of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER did something right in Season 4. For the first time ever, the series was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. They might not have brought home the award, but being recognized as being one of TV’s best had to be thrilling. Especially when you think back a few seasons when we the fans were biting our nails hoping that the show would be renewed. HIMYM has grown in audience size over the past two seasons, something that rarely happens these days. There’s a reason…it’s that good.
Now’s your chance to win the Emmy nominated Season 4 of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER on DVD. I have one copy to give away to a lucky winner. The DVD and Blu-ray set, both available on September 29th, includes all 24 episodes, plus hilarious special features, commentaries and gag reels,
‘Season 4 picks up from Ted’s (Josh Radnor) marriage proposal to Stella (Sarah Chalke) in the third season cliffhanger (we all know where that ended up) and continues following Ted, Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and the rest of the gang through their hilarious misadventures. How could we forget Ted losing his job and starting his own company, Barney celebrating his 200th female conquest and Robin (Cobie Smulders) moving to Japan? And then of course there was slow realization that Barney Stinson had (gasp) fallen for his good friend, Robin.
So many fantastic episode to enjoy a second time around, or fort he first time if you are just discovering the series.
How to enter…
One of the best episode of Season 4 was “Intervention”. We learned that sometimes being a friend means holding an intervention when your friends go down the wrong path. And sometimes even interventions need interventions.
To enter, tell us one intervention you would have to hold for a friend, or better yet an intervention your friends would need to stage for YOU!
Only one entry person, but you can be entered twice if you send out the following Twitter message (exactly as is or else I won’t be able to track it).
“RT this tweet for a chance to win #HIMYM Season 4 on DVD. Enter at GiveMeMyRemote.com http://ow.ly/qIrn”
The contest will end at 11pm EST on Friday, October 2nd.
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I know this is for HIMYM, but my intervention needs to be between me and The Office! I went to The Convention in 2007, am addicted to Office Tally and Dunder Mifflin Infinity. I took the day off from work when the Season 4 AND 5 dvd came out. I have a problem. I buy everything that says The Office on it at Target. People call me when they have random questions about the show. I need friends to help me.
Hopefully those friends will be the gang on HIMYM, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite shows!
right now the thing I most need an intervention for is Twitter. I tweet way too much.
Plus I reTweeted: http://twitter.com/Calila1988/status/4320446751
My friends would need to hold a movie/tv quote/reference intervention for me. I am constantly using quotes from my favourite tv shows (The Office, HIMYM, The Big Bang Theory, Veronica Mars), movies and even comedy albums/podcasts (Dane Cook, Russell Peters, The Ricky Gervais Podcasts) to answer questions or just drop them into everyday conversation. It’s not a problem if people don’t get the line or reference but it drives them a little crazy when they catch the quote or reference. They would hold it so that I would stop doing that and actually come up with some of my own thoughts and phrases (which wouldn’t be as brilliant or funny).
So that would be an intervention for me.
Cheers
My name is Luke and I’m a TV addict. My friends think I watch way too much TV, so that’d probably be what my intervention is about.
I need to have a Easy Mac Intervention for my friend Jack. Lots of Easy Mac is for college kids…its definitley not something any healthy adult should eat for dinner 6 times a week.
My husband would probably like to stage a “Glee” intervention for me right now! I’ve watched each episode at least twice (5 or 6 times for the pilot), I’ve bought some of the songs on iTunes, I will probably buy the CD, and I follow all of the cast members on Twitter!
I figure it’s just the newness of it, but who knows. If it lasts through the whole season, I may really need an intervention!
My intervention would have to be for always trying to connect everything to a ‘Doctor Who’ reference or quote…which, considering is my only Sci-Fi love, comes out pretty weird-sounding from this super girly-girl… By the way, I think we should have an intervention to stop David Tennant from leaving ‘Doctor Who’. Ever.
I would need to stage an intervention for several of my friends who have become technologically dependent iPhone users. any point in time, it’s in hand and being used. Even if the most exciting thing ever happening were occuring in the same room, they would be on their phone reading about it, tweeting about it, etc. instead of watching it. Plus, it would be quite the Detox Program to witness 🙂
I read too many blogs. For some reason I care way too much about the lives of people I don’t know and will never meet. I am constantly looking to see if they have a new post. It can’t be healthy!
I need an intervention for saying “Have………..you met Ted?” I find myself saying it everywhere I go. There is a great slot machine called “Texas Tea” whose main character is Texas Ted. Every time we play, I sit there and say “Have………you met Ted?” Although my wife LOVES HIMYM, she can’t stand how often I say this great phrase. I tend to do it when we are at the grocery, the mall, and at random times in the car.
I probably need an intervention staged for my manic checking of all the blogs I track thru google reader (I’m way too embarassed to find out what the number is, but safe to say that it’s right up there in the range of Barney’s conquests…*ahem*).
But I also agree with Mary above – I, too, know way too many iPhone-aholics, and they’re all bordering on professional help! But instead, I’ll probably join the obsession soon, too!
We’re an addictive society, what can I say??
Well i need an intervention for my Chuck crazyness , I have to check all the forums everyday and if i don’t find any spoilers at all i have to rewatch an episode of chuck 🙂
And i can’t stop talking about it either my friends and family goes crazy 🙂
Retwetted the message : http://twitter.com/Allantheking/statuses/4321762278
My friend needs an intervention for her blackberry addiction. It’s like surgically attached to her hand.
And I need an intervention for my tivo addiction. I tivo’d an infomercial last week so I could play it when I was having trouble sleeping.
I definitely need a TV/DVR intervention. I watch A LOT of TV. Well really I need an intervention within an intervention for my use of the fast forward button on my DVR remote. I DVR HGTV shows and fast forward through the parts I don’t want to watch. I FF though stuff I probably shouldn’t. I’ve become really impatient when it comes to slow moving action on shows and commercials in general.
I don’t care where the people live now I just want to see the houses they’re looking at or the final reveal. My poor husband never has anthing to watch when I’m not home because I’m always DVRing something. 🙂
Well, I didn’t start watching HIMYM until last season. My friends and I watched all of seasons 1, 2, and 3 while recording season 4. We held an intervention, convincing ourselves we needed to stop watching around 8 episodes every night. Lo and behold, the next episode saved to the DVR was titled “Intervention.” At that point we KNEW we had to hurry through the rest of the series so that Ted and the gang could satirize our own situation.
My friends would do an intervention on me and it would be for my borderline obsession with TV and my occasional lack of a social life. Do I have specific shows I need to watch? Yes. Do I watch and re-watch episodes so many times I know the character’s dialogues? MmHmm. Do my friends roll their eyes at me when I say I want to watch the DVD commentaries and special features so I can know as much information as I can about my favorite shows? Absolutely. Do I get upset when I’m not home to watch a new show live even though I’m DVRing it to watch later? Oh yeah. There is an upside to this though: Over the years, I’ve gotten my friends hooked on shows including HIMYM, The Office, 30 Rock, Chuck, Burn Notice, Psych, Spaced, etc etc etc. I am ready to admit I have an addiction to TV!
I would need an intervention because I watch a lot of my TV shows at 1.5x speed (with sound–I’m not THAT crazy) just to fit in all the shows I want to watch! 🙂
My intervention would have to be for Lord of the Rings I think. When I was younger, when they first came out, I quoted them incessantly. I watched them at least once a week, and I watched all the dvd commentaries as well. My friend and I even made a remake with barbies and we used a baby barbie as gollum and painted it green. To this day, I still quote it all the time and anytime it even get mentioned my geek antenna goes up. Its a dorky obsession that needs to stop. But I don’t want it to! Oh dear.
(I also have an issue with tv, but lets not going into that one…) =D
I’m pretty sure my intervention would be over my obsession with The Office. I’m constantly quoting my favorite lines, but hey – I’ve brought a few people over to my side too. 😉
Intervention for my mother would be redecorating/rearranging. EVERY time I go to my parent’s house she’s painted or completely gutted a room, rearranged furniture, or given my dad a remodeling task– but the thing that always gets me is that you can NEVER find anything, or put anything away because she’s always switching around cabinets, etc & if you put it back in the wrong spot you’re in trouble! 🙂 So once we get up the courage to do, my siblings, dad & I would love to have this intervention! 🙂
Myself, like many others here could probably stand to have a tv intervention, but like any other addict am not about to admit it’s a problem!
My friends should probably hold an intervention for me and my tv addiction. They think my marathoning abilities are particularly frightening. I can go through entire seasons in 1-2 days depending, and an entire series in less than a week when I have the time. So, yeah, it’s a little ridiculous.
My friends and family are probably in the midst of planning a Twilight intervention for me right now. I avoided the madness for a while as I generally do when something becomes so popular, and then, couldn’t anymore. Before I was willing to admit to myself that I was really curious, I decided to see if someone had posted the movie on youtube…you know cause that wouldn’t count. Well, they did…and it was subtitled in German. I watched it. Proceeded to start book number 1 while babysitting, bought and finished the rest of the series in the following week. Since then, I have read each book twice, bought the DVD and watched every feature numerous times, and am now listening to the audio books while compulsively looking for filming updates online. Oh, and I’m 32 years old. 🙂 I guess, I just needed that inner 14 year old to come out and play since I didn’t let her when I was actually 14.
My friends and I need a “That’s what she said” intervention. The Office really brought that joke back in rotation for everyday use, but when it becomes an automatic response in conversation, it’s gotta stop.
From Arrested Development, to Veronica Mars, to blasts from the past like Ally McBeal- I’m a quoter and I need an intervention. My friends must be getting sick of me telling them to suit up. In fights, my standard reply is “sit down or I’ll kick you in the vagina”. Anyone who asks what I want, my reply is jumping up and down asking for a pony (or a hit off the juice box). My that’s what she said’s are out of control. I no longer have an inner monologue, but a steady supply of quips from my favorite characters.
I’m Karen, and I’m a quotaholic.
By the way Kath, you’re very talented. I would know, I’m very talented too.
My friends and family probably should stage an intervention for me about trying to convince them to love everything I do. It’s like I think there is something wrong with them if they don’t like a show or a movie I like. I commonly tell people that thier sense of humor is off and if they give it a chance they will love it. I do the same thing with technology. I’m trying to get everyone I know on a smart phone so they can interact with me the way I want them to…. maybe this is all because I think I am superior and that is the real intervention that I need. 😉
My intervention would obviously be for the internet. Can’t watch TV without it, can’t seem to read a magazine without stopping to wikipedia something to find out more info, Facebook and Twitter leave me hardly any time to watch TV! and now I’m behind on everything cause Monday night I took 5 or 6 hours off to watch all the monday night shows, plus Mad Men and Chuck, so I could Twitter about it.
Years ago I had to get a laptop cause when my brother comes over to watch TV, he sits right in front of where my desktop computer used to be, and I couldn’t imdb “where have I seen that actress before”?
If fact, the only time I’m not on the internet is when I watch Jeopardy. Unless I love the question so much that I have to look it up in Jeoparchive and email it to a friend (mostly cause they won’t answer the phone – which I’ve been on for a maximum of 8 hours at one time. hmmm….)
I think my intervention would be a combination of The Office and David Cook. I find things that I love and I just can’t stop talking about them , somehow referring everyday things back to them, looking up every article about them (Thanks Officetally and Davidcookofficial.com!) I actually got DC’s autograph ( which was just an excuse to chat with him, he is so gorgeous!) I am hoping to go to the next Office Convention in Scranton, but money inhibits all of the things I would love to do. This Office intervention would also have to do with my love (similar to yours GMMR) for John Krasinski, I was outraged when I found out he got engaged! If I ever get married will be forever on my *list, including DC!!
I need someone to stage an intervention on me for staying up late with no damn purpose. I’m busy-busy, so I stay up until 2 am catching up on TV and books, and then wake up at 7 with no energy. And this is even after I got a bit hatchet-happy with my TV viewing schedule.
MANY of my friends tell me they’re going to have a twitter intervention for me. It’s coming. And I’m afraid.
Though I have also tackled my sister to prevent her from buying a Grey’s Anatomy magazine (because she needed to buy something more important at the time and I’m trying to get her to get past this GA thing).
My husband would definitely schedule a Facebook intervention. I log on a hundred times a day just to check what people are up to and update my status. He hates it when I ask him what I should put as my status. I don’t think I have problem… 🙂
Oh lordy, my friends would have to hold an intervention for me to stop watching British TV shows and then trying to talk/explain them to them.
Yeah, okay, I watch alot of British televisions… and sorta love it. A lot. And I know they don’t get it, but I need to vent to someone, come one, give me some credit here! Yeah, it happens like this. Then they just think I’m crazy and give me looks that say “why am I friends with you again?”
Yep, my life.
I think I need a high five intervention. Barney makes it look awesome. Michael Scott makes it look dorky. My goal is to be Barney, though via the way people look at me when I go for it, I have a sinking suspicion I’m more like Michael.
I need a Google Reader Intervention. I spend way too much time during my day at work, and at home checking up on the new posts coming in from the blogs that I read. It’s to the point where I’ve lost nearly all of my shame about people seeing that I’m reading commentary about Mad Men, squealing about adorable puppies, reading articles about my baseball team, looking at photos of what the stars are wearing, or reading Give Me My Remote. If I fall behind by a day, it takes me a very VERY long time to catch up. The only way to get out of this problem would be to give everything up entirely…but then how would I know all the cool stuff going on in the world?
I believe that I need someone to throw an intervention for me so I can stop my obsession with writing things on post-it notes. Being in college, its ok to write the occasional reminder on one, and then stick it somewhere where you will see it. I write everything down on a post it. I studies for a bio exam by drawing glucose on close to 50 post its and sticking them everywhere. I also am currently in the process of making a mural out of post-its, but that will probably end as soon as the fire marshall comes to inspect the dorms next week. But I desperately need help. However, they do come in handy when i stick them on my tv with what tv shows are on tonight. Its easier than reading tv guide!
My most immediate need is for a Diet Coke intervention. I can’t go a few hours without a fix. 😉
I retweeted the message at http://twitter.com/debbiEggroll/status/4326142554.
I would definitely have to say that I need a That’s What She Said intervention. I was talking with two of my guy friends about a new psychological test you can give someone else. I did not want to partake so I told my friend to perform the test on my other friend instead. He then turned to me and said “Well, I’ve never done this to a guy before….” And I proceeded to blurt out ‘TWSS’ at the top of my lungs and could not stop laughing for quite some time.
There’s a time and place for TWSS. With a group of friends, yes. With a bunch of 7th graders during a reading lesson… not so much. 🙂
I would definitely need an intervention on not constantly referring everything back to “How I Met Your Mother”. If the people I’m talking to watch the show, they appreciate the humor, however if they don’t (which is tragic btw) they would just look at me funny, and would never get it. Even more annoying are the references to obscure parts of the show (i.e. random mistakes, robin+ted’s color being blue..etc.).
Of course…this DVD probably would *not* help with..this…oh well.
I need an intervention from work. Unfortunately, this will probably mean a severe decrease in salary. Luckily, I can unwind with my TV at the end of the day. 🙂
Ohh intervention…one of my favorite episodes.
I would absolutely hold an intervention for my roomate. She shortens words. All the time. “Totes” instead of totally. “Obvi” instead of obvious. Even for essential words. It’s out of line!
As for me…I’m pretty sure I need an intervention to stop bursting into song. Especially Dr. Horrible songs. It’s becoming a problem…an AWESOME problem! Psh, whatever, I don’t see any problem with this…huh? *Intervention’d!*
*RT’d on Twitter!*
My intervention would be for Sims. I play it way too much and sort forget time when I do it. I could sit down and start playing at noon and the next thing I know it be 8pm or 9pm. I can also play for days and never get tried of it. I know I need help. 😛
I would have to unfurl the INTERVENTION banner for my sister. Her addiction to Facebook Bumper Stickers is absolutely unhealthy. She goes on binges, sending out bunches of bumper stickers at a time: movies, tv, quotes, books and more. Then she expects you to equal her zaniness and send her the same amount of stickers back. It’s daunting and it needs to stop, the fad has long passed and she needs an intervention. Maybe the way to stop her is go the route of Robin’s intervention of Marshall (Dr. Seuss hat = Dr. Seuss poetry) and join in minimally on the obsession to stop the escalation.
I’d need a “shoe collecting” intervention. I’m filling drawers at work full of shoes. It needs to stop. I have actual papers to file in there.
Right this instant, it would be an intervention over doing anything involving Glee. Videos, episodes, interviews, pictures, thoughts…
I also RT the message, http://twitter.com/ShanKeat/statuses/4333670740
I think I would need an intervention for the amount of games I play online. It’s ridiculous. I’m what the kids call obsessive-compulsive, and so there’s one game in particular that I can honestly play for hours on end. It’s ridiculous. I think I might have to block the website.
My intervention happened, and it imitated the sort-of intervention Lily staged in the season opener this year. My friend and I were both attracted to each other, but neither of us would really own up to it. We were together all the time, and people always thought we were a couple, which we would awkwardly deny, just like Robin and Barney. My friend, playing Lily’s part, sat us both down and told us we had to talk about it. So finally I brought it up…and now we’re dating. But it wouldn’t have happened without her putting her foot down and intervening!
(On a separate topic, my roommate & I may need a straight-up HIMYM intervention, as we bought swords like Ted & Marshall’s and also have Pancake Days once or twice a month.)
I would definitely need an intervention for watching too much television. It has to be on when I’m studying, doing chores, eating, and even sleeping. I think I just can’t be in a quiet room.
My friends would need to hold an intervention for my “that’s what she saids”. Sometimes they don’t even make sense. But Michael Scott is hilarious, and I’ll do whatever I can to be ask funny as him! (and as awkward, I guess!)
I would need an intervention for my obsession with correcting people. Yes, I am Ted in “Spoiler Alert”. If anyone misuses words, or has incorrect grammar, I am there to be “Miss Corrector”.
I could use an intervention to get me away from my TV! I’m currently working from home today just to watch a few of the 45 episodes of the West Wing I have on my DVR. I have issues..
I would hold an intervention for my boyfriend for the amount of time he spends thinking about the orioles, watching the orioles, checking their status online, etc.
Although he would probably say the same thing about me and television. 🙂
Thanks for holding this contest, Kath!
My friends would hold an intervention for me. I can see it now, I’d come back to my dorm room and they’d all be standing by my bed with the intervention sign hanging over it. They’d tell me, “Meredith, you sleep way too much. You need to stop taking naps. Your naps are intruding on dinner and lunch hour!” If there is one thing I value more than watching television and reading GMMR, it is my beauty sleep.
I probably need a Lauren Graham intervention. I know Gilmore Girls has been over for quite some time, but the pain is still so raw. My girl crush lives on!
I’d hold an intervention for my friend who has a sick obsession for Alex Skaargard. Now I myself have been prone to many many many celeb crushes but in the back of my mind I always understood how ridiculous they were/are. She doesn’t …. So I’d hold an intervention and bring her back to reality.
Don’t mean to offend anyone here! This intervention would be pretty hypocritical since I’m queen of obsessive celeb crushes–i just keep them to myself so no one realizes! 😉
I need an intervention for my podcast habit. I listen to far too many, and whenever I’m listening to the TV Talk Podcast I laugh out loud on the bus and everyone looks at me funny. Not very smooth.
I need an intervention for my addiction of Shirley Temples. I started drinking them when I was 10 and I have never stopped. I am 32 years old and still love those fun red colored drinks. So much so that I make them at home and practically own stock in genadine! My husband is embarassed to be seen with me in a bar when I order one and bartenders always ask “A shirley Temple? Are you sure?” I need to learn how to love grown up drinks!
My intervention would be an online/fact intervention. Whenever someone mentions anything–and I do mean anything–I am compelled to research the the topic and then “inform” my family/friends/whoever is present with that knowledge. It has already become extremely annoying to pretty much everyone around, and they have been brutally honest about this. I will admit that I have a serious problem with researching meaningless information, reading blogs, etc., however, who is the first person that they ALL call when they want to know something? HA!
I think I’m going to need an intervention when Lost ends because I’ve been addicted way too long and those withdrawals won’t be pretty.
I say “that’s what she said” way too much! It’s come to the point where I say it and it doesn’t even make sense (I still laugh anyway of course). I need help fixing my problem and I can’t do it alone… that’s what she said 🙂
Everyone I know with a child under the age of 5 needs a “PLEASE talk about something other than your kid sometimes” intervention, for sure.
My friends would hold an intervention for me. I get hooked on a programme or a film and then I chatter on about it incessantly until they watch it or in a few cases, give me the silent treatment until I calm down.
I have a nasty habit of drawing parallels to my life and the show/film in question, often allocating characters to my friends without their knowing. I’m Robin, in case you were wondering. I moved from England to Ireland for career prospects, I love a guy who can hold his own in a fight and I don’t talk about my feelings. Ever.
They would probably have to hold a “Twilight” intervention for me 😉
I have to have interventions to get my friends and family to watch the tv shows I love, because otherwise they will never understand any of my references.
Intervention for myself…
“eBay shopping must end. Look around. Where are all the things that you got on eBay? Oh yeah, stashed away somewhere. You got that collector’s issue of that magazine. Reason? Because it was a collector’s issue. Yup, absolutely no point. Yes, that vase was only 99 cents and it might have been a steal, but (a) did you need a vase? and (b) the $10 shipping cost totally negates the “steal” aspect of the vase. This is an intervention. Enough with the eBay shopping already!”
🙂
Hmm … I think I need an intervention regarding my television obsessions. Not that I think they are obsessions, mind you, which probably makes it even worse. For example, on season premiere nights, I REFUSE to go out, in case my VCR (yes, I live in the Dark Ages) were to malfunction, and I would somehow miss the show I love, which has been set to tape TWICE, once on my time zone, and once on a time shift time zone. I get excited when “my people” pop up on other programs, and often jump up, clap, whoop, and make noises like they were my best friend and I’m just seeing them again. I cry when shows get canceled, get renewed, and even when major (and non major) things happen on my programs. Worse of all … I call them “my programs” … which is almost as bad as “my stories”, am I right? Soon, I’ll be an 80 year old woman, referring to the new century in which “my stories” were on. Sheesh.
My coworkers and I would stage an intervention with another coworkers. The problem? She plays great songs … just not the originals: really bad Disney remakes, Chipmunk voices … or just listening to her voice over the much better original voices. I’m fairly certain the first sentence would be. “Enough already! We’re not getting any work done. All we can think about doing is 50 ways to destroy the radio to make it stop!”
I would have a Chuck Norris intervention for my brother — Stop watching Walker Texas Ranger!!!
I need an intervention on how many times I say “That’s What She Said” a day. Its out of control.
I need an intervention for Scotch and profanity. And women.
Okay, so this may sound absolutely and completely LAME….but, I am the one who needs an intervention and you would never believe what for: HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER! Seriously. I have seen every episode a minimum of five times. I can’t get enough of this show. Some might even call me an addict. I never get bored of it and everytime i see an episode, it’s like the first time all over again. I would love it if I could just sit around and watch this show all day, everyday. I hope it never has to happen, but at least an intervention for HIMYM would be pretty freakin hilarious!!!!