How I Met Your Mother

Series Similar to How I Met Your Mother

If you enjoyed How I Met Your Mother, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Friends

   1994 · Comedy, Romance · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.5).

   Six young (20-something) people from New York City (Manhattan), 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 pressures of life.This average group of buddies goes through massive mayhem, family trouble, past and future romances, fights, laughs, tears and surprises as they learn what it really means to be a friend.

2. Rules of Engagement

   2007 · Comedy, Romance · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), also on CBS.

   A comedy that follows two couples and a single guy as they navigate the jungles of dating, engagement and marriage.

3. Coupling

   2000 · Comedy, Romance · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Britcom about a group of six friends - three men and three women - and the ups and downs they encounter playing the 21st century dating game.

4. Derek

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   An award-winning bittersweet comedy-drama about a group of outsiders living on society's margins, Derek centers around Derek Noakes (a tender, innocent man whose love for his job at a retirement home shines through. Derek cares deeply for the home's residents, because they are kind and funny and tell him stories of what life used to be like. Working alongside Derek is Dougie, his landlord, who is one of life's unlucky individuals; Kev, a lovable train wreck; and Hannah, a care worker in the home and Derek's best friend. She is smart, witty and hardworking, but unlucky in love, and, like Derek, always puts other people first.

5. The Class

   2006 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on CBS.

   The Class is about a group of twenty somethings who are linked through attending the same third grade class. An impromptu reunion begins on the 20th anniversary of the day they all met, and each is wondering if they'll have anything in common. Some are eager to show off, some want to rekindle old playground crushes, but most just want to satisfy their curiosity.

6. Sugar Rush

   2005 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   The story of Kim and her family, her friend Maria Sweet and being a teenager.

7. Free Agents

   2011 · Comedy, Romance · ended98% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   This crooked workplace/romantic comedy proves you can try to put yourself back out there, but sometimes what you need is right in front of you. Even if it's a really bad idea.

8. Nathan Barley

   2005 · Comedy · ended98% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Nathan Barley is 26. He is a webmaster, guerrilla filmmaker, screenwriter, DJ and in his own words, a "self-facilitating media node". He is convinced he is the epitome of urban cool and therefore secretly terrified he might not be, which is why he reads Sugar Ape Magazine - his bible of cool. Dan Ashcroft writes searing columns for Sugar Ape. He's considered astonishingly cool, but only by those he despises. He is surrounded by idiots and practically worshipped by Nathan (whom he considers to be their king). He is 34. Why has he failed to move on? Claire Ashcroft, 27, is Dan's sister. Like Dan she despises "cool". Unlike Nathan she despises novelty, trash, irony and gadgets. She is furious that no one will fund her hard-hitting documentary about a choir of reformed junkies.

9. Undateable

   2014 · Comedy, Romance · ended98% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Undateable is a comedy series about a group of friends who are this close to finding a relationship - they just need a little help.Whether it's due to a lack of style, the wrong job or even just a bad haircut, everyone goes through a time in their lives when they're undateable. Most of us eventually grow out of it, but some people need a little more help than others. Enter Danny Burton Confident, attractive and impervious to outside opinions, 29-year-old Danny - who may be in a state of arrested development himself - decides to help out his new roommate, Justin Kearney the owner of an unsuccessful bar and a chronic overthinker, and Justin's group of oddball friends - Shelly, Burski and Brett Danny introduces the gang to his recently divorced older sister, Leslie who immediately bonds with this group of guys, as she feels a little stuck in her own life as well. The gang spends most of their time at Justin's bar, helping solve each other's respective problems over beers, and while they love to give each other a hard time, they always have each other's back.

10. Scrubs

    2001 · Drama, Comedy, Medical · ended97% match

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4).

    Fresh out of medical school, new doctors John "J.D." Dorian, his best friend Christopher Turk, and Elliot Reid start their internship at Sacred Heart Hospital. There, they meet the harsh Chief of Medicine Dr. Bob Kelso, J.D.'s reluctant mentor Dr. Perry Cox, nurse Carla Espinosa, and the deceitful and prankish Janitor. Also at the hospital are the wide range of personalities of Sacred Heart's staff, including the religious nurse Laverne Roberts, incompetent lawyer Ted Buckland, and spiteful board member Jordan Sullivan who also happens to be Cox's ex-wife. Other interns make the cut, such as the high-fiving Todd Quinlan and nervous Doug Murphy. Over the next 9 years they face personal and professional highs and lows, realizing that they can't make it through life - much less a hectic job as a doctor - on their own.