TV Series · 2005 · TV Series · 2000s
How I Met Your Mother
Scored from 654 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
A sitcom following Ted Mosby and his group of friends in New York City as he recounts how he met the mother of his children. Over nine seasons, the show explores their interconnected lives, romantic relationships, careers, and comedic adventures while Ted's search for true love becomes the central narrative thread.
How I Met Your Mother is a 2005 comedy and romance television series created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its certificate is TV-14. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Josh Radnor, Jason Segel and Cobie Smulders head the billed cast. Episodes run about 22m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 282 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 654 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 744 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where How I Met Your Mother lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 654.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
