“Kids, you may be wondering how many of these stories I’m telling you are true. It’s a fair question.” – The birth of humour through the rebirth of the narrative in How I Met

How I Met your Mother (CBS, 2005-2014) is an American sitcom in which Future Ted (the Mosby of 2030) retrospectively tells his two children the story how he met their mother. It has been described as innovative that relies on sophisticated, inventive narrative techniques, both audio and visual channels. The complexity narration arises from unreliability narrator well time manipulation, among other elements. This paper focuses link between use techniques to narrate – more specifically repetition a by unreliable creation humour. Particular attention given episodes same repeated reborn each time: Mermaid Theory (HIMYM 6x11), future cannot recall events properly retells again again, trying get it right, Ashtray 8x17), provides embedded narratives, turn out be told three different points view.