As the name suggests, the American sitcom is all about how the person meets his wife and then tells his kids about how their father met their mother. The wonderful sitcom consists of ward winner artists like Cobbie Smolders and Neil Partick Harrison.
However as it is a sitcom, it consists of 9 seasons. The first 8 season is just how TED, the main character falls in love irretrievably every time with a woman and declares her as THE ONE. But then the same women just breaks his heart and a storms away indicating that true love is hard to find. Finally in the last season, they finally reveal how the mother looks. However the story of how they met or the main plot as to why he makes his children listen to the story is not very clear in the sitcom.
At the end, the children still think that he has is still in love with his first girlfriend, ROBIN or Cobbie Smolders. They then persue him to talk to her and ask her out to become their mother, as the original mother dies when the kids are young. On and all it is funny and very well constructed. It is the best sitcom ever made.