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'HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER'; Focus, People! There's Work to Do - New York Times

THE writing crew of the CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother'' once had a light saber battle in the dark. There haven't been many other accessories in their room, except for a massage chair that was originally in the ''Friends'' writing room, said Craig Thomas, a creator and executive producer of the series. ''We like to stay as focused as we can,'' he said. ''We all have personal lives that we like.''Not that there has been much time for goofing off. Mr. Thomas likens the post-writers'-strike intensity required to crank out 9 episodes in 10 weeks to the Discovery Channel crab-fishing series ''Deadliest Catch'':''It feels like a writers' room. It's these guys stuck in this nasty boat, and ...

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