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Shows that feel likeHow I Met Your Mother (2005–2014)

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.

If you loved How I Met Your Mother, the closest series we have are Friends (1994), New Girl (2011) and That '70s Show (1998). All three share How I Met Your Mother's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is What's Wrong with Secretary Kim (2018).

★ 8.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗9 seasons · CBScreated by Craig Thomaswittyplayfulromantic
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Hulu

If How I Met Your Mother hit the spot, these will too

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Friends
1994–2004 · 10 seasons · NBC
★ 8.8comedyMax

A regular booth, a chosen family and a decade of romantic near-misses

The difference: No narrator and no puzzle to solve — just the group, week to week

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 pressures of life.

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New Girl
2011–2018 · 7 seasons · FOX
★ 7.8comedyHuluPeacock

A loft full of idiots you love, and jokes built on years of history

The difference: Sillier and looser — no long mystery pulling the whole show forward

Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.

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That '70s Show
1998–2006 · 8 seasons · FOX
★ 8.1comedy · family · dramaPeacock

A fixed group, a fixed hangout, and years of low-stakes history

The difference: Teenagers in the seventies, with parents nearby

Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out in Eric’s basement, life in the ‘70s isn’t always so groovy. But between trying to figure out the meaning of life, avoiding their parents, and dealing with out-of-control hormones, they’ve learned one thing for sure: they’ll always get by with a little help from their friends.

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Skins
2007–2013 · 7 seasons · E4
★ 8.2drama · comedyHulu

A friend group whose romantic entanglements are the whole plot

The difference: British, raw and genuinely damaging

Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

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My Love from the Star
2013–2014 · 1 season · SBS
★ 8.1comedy · dramaNetflix

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Sits closer to drama than How I Met Your Mother does

An alien who came to Earth 400 years ago is almost able to return to his own planet, but when he meets a famous actress, he doesn't want to go home.

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Parks and Recreation
2009–2015 · 7 seasons · NBC
★ 8.6comedyPeacock

Deeply silly people treated with real affection over many years

The difference: A workplace mockumentary about civic life — no bar, no romance quest

In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

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Jane the Virgin
2014–2019 · 5 seasons · The CW
★ 7.8comedy · drama

Romantic comedy in both cases

A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning the child. Based on the telenovela "Juana la virgen."

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Sex and the City
1998–2004 · 6 seasons · HBO
★ 7.4drama · comedyMax

New York friends comparing notes on dating in exhaustive detail

The difference: Adult and candid, with four women rather than five friends

Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. 

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I Am Not a Robot
2017–2018 · 1 season · MBC
★ 8comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Kim Min Gyu has wealth and success, but lives an isolated life due to his allergy of people. He then meets and falls in love with a girl who is pretending to be a robot for her ex-boyfriend, a genius robots professor.

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What's Wrong with Secretary Kim
2018 · 1 season · tvN
★ 8comedy · drama

Both lean on play more than on comedy

When his secretary unexpectedly quits, an arrogant executive will do anything to bring her back.

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Crash Landing on You
2019–2020 · 1 season · tvN
★ 8.7drama · comedyNetflix

The shared currency is romance

A paragliding mishap drops a South Korean heiress in North Korea -- and into the life of an army officer, who decides he will help her hide.

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True Beauty
2020–2021 · 1 season · tvN
★ 7.9comedy · dramaNetflixMax

Both run witty where it counts

After being bullied and discriminated because of her ugly looks, a high school girl transforms herself into a gorgeous "goddess" and quickly rises to fame after mastering the art of makeup via online tutorial videos.

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