
3 Shows Like How I Met Your Mother (2005) to Watch When You're Done
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
Updated June 2026
View How I Met Your Mother details →Where to watch(US)
View on JustWatch →Subscription
Rent / Buy
Availability may change. Data by JustWatch.
If you loved How I Met Your Mother (2005) by Chuck Tatham, here are 3 TV series that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Veep, The Daily Show, Friends. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
3 Shows Similar to How I Met Your Mother

Veep
2012 · Peter Huyck
A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her abo
In common: Comedy

The Daily Show
1996 · James Dixon
The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
In common: Comedy

Friends
1994 · Ted Cohen
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pr
In common: Comedy