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For a show running as long as How I Met Your Mother, one would assume that there would be a bounty of important plot points and character revelations to share. But How I Met Your Mother has never really been a hugely plot focused show. I mean yes, compared to other sitcoms, it is. But like other sitcoms, even though a lot of weird and wacky things happen, very few of it actually matters in the grand scheme of things. Most of the time, things will revert back to normal soon enough, despite what might have occurred. So when you get down to it, only a few things actually impact the plot of a sitcom. And for How I Met Your Mother at least, most of it can be expressed in less than a minute.

Neil Patrick Harris will be recounting the one minute tale of How I Met Your Mother during the season eight premiere of the show on Monday, but Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive clip already up for fans to gawk at. Check out the video below:

First things first, isn’t Neil Patrick Harris just great? His ability to speed talk through the entire plot of the show was fantastic, and he even had time to throw in a little Barney appropriate jokes to keep things entertaining. More importantly though, it continues to illustrate just how meandering Ted Mosby is with his storytelling. C’mon man….if Neil Patrick Harris can recite it in less than a minute, surely you should be able to do it in more than 160 episodes. Makes you think that Ted’s kids would have much rather preferred to hear the story of how their father met their mother from their Uncle Barney. At least then they would’t be slowly dying of hunger/thirst as their father took years to recount his (only slightly) epic tale.

Whatever the case, Ted Mosby will continue to narrate his long, long arc when the show returns for its eight season on September 24.

-Matthew