've said it before and I'll say it again: How I Met Your Mother is the best comedy on television.

So will someone please tell me why CBS has yet to renew it?

Many people might think I'm speaking blasphemy here, but this is how I truly feel: How I Met Your Mother is better than Friends.

The characters—Ted, Marshall, Barney, Lily and Robin—are not only more realistic than the characters on Friends, but they're funnier too. The How I Met Your Mother characters are perfect for the 18-49 (guys and girls) audience, because we all have friends like them and we all have the conversations that they have.

Last year it took CBS some time before announcing Mother's renewal, so there's still hope that we'll get a fourth season. (Right now all we know is that How I Met Your Mother will return post-strike on March 17 with nine new episodes.) Though I'm still confused as to why it wasn't renewed along with the rest of the CBS shows.

CBS renewed the dramas Cold Case, Criminal Minds, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Ghost Whisperer, NCIS, Numb3rs and Without a Trace. As for the comedies, it renewed Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. Two and a Half Men is a humorous show, but it's a comedy that my parents find funny and one that I can live without. The Big Bang Theory is also very cute, and I'm glad it was renewed as I watched it each week, but if I had to pick between it and How I Met Your Mother, Mother would win with flying colors.

Plain and simple, How I Met Your Mother is a fantastic comedy. And in a time when great comedies are so few and far between, why would CBS take such a prized possession and treat it liked chopped liver?

Please, please, please watch How I Met Your Mother when it returns on March 17, and prove to CBS that the viewers want this realistic and hilarious show to continue for years to come. The characters on How I Met Your Mother have become our friends and we want to grow old with them—not remembering them!
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