Posted on 03/31/2014 5:27:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) sits his son and daughter down to tell them how he met their mother.
Thats the way How I Met Your Mother began, on Sept. 19, 2005.
Nine seasons and almost nine years later, Ted is less than 48 hours from getting to the point.
Its a tossup which is more impressive here: that a sitcom could last 200 episodes with what sounds like a one-idea premise, or that a parent could keep his kids listening to him talk about anything for nine years.
But if Mosbys kids wanted the answer, they didn't have much choice. We didnt even meet Mom until the end of season eight, when we finally saw Cristin Milioti, aka the Girl with the Yellow Umbrella, heading for New York.
It looks like we will get to the end of the story Monday night, when How I Met Your Mother wraps up its remarkably successful run with an hour-long episode at 8 p.m.
Neil Patrick Harris, who plays Teds good if maybe not best friend Barney Stinson, says the show needed that kind of time. Like a good Irish pub cheese, it couldnt be rushed.
The first two seasons seemed very on the bubble, Harris says. Which I thought was good for us. It gave us the opportunity to come up with our own sense of humor.
Sometimes when a show is thrust into success right away, there are high expectations to come up with terrific stuff super fast. We got to develop a great vocabulary and weird little inside jokes. I liked the slow-burn elements.
Among other things, How I Met Your Mother had an almost spooky consistency.
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RE: What I want to know is, how freakin’ rich is Alyson Hannigan???
Seven years as a main character on Buffy, plus the American Pie movies, plus this series, she’s got to be rolling in it.
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Not that rich by Hollywood standards if this site is to be believed:
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/alyson-hannigan-net-worth/
Her net worth is “only” $18 Million.
SAlyson Hannigan “only” earns a salary per episode of $225,000 on How I met Your Mother.
Barney's half-brother on the show is a homosexual, with a partner, and a child.
I always wondered how they compute those net worth amounts. Not doubting the numbers necessarily, just wondering. Seems like there would have to be a lot of assuptions regarding spending and royalties.
Legendary? People will be telling the story 4 generations from now?
Please. A Fag playing a ladies’ man? Yeah, I guess that’s a campfire story.
That title belongs to "Two Broke Girls"
The character Barney (hetero on the show, homo in real life) has a brother who is homo.
Shows you how much I know about the show. I have not watched an entire episode. The most I know about the show is through commercials and TV guide.
"'How I Met Your Mother' had a very spooky consistency."
The first two seasons? I've never seen the show, but that's when the ratings were high. They've never been consistent by episode. As the visual graph of TV ratings show, the ratings have been in decline since the first year of the show, and the last 1-1/2 years have shown extreme inconsistency in ratings by episode.
I enjoyed the show, mind candy that it is.
It was like one of those "yuppies -- usually in a bar" shows that NBC was always sticking in between Friends and Seinfeld.
You know, the Single Guy or Conrad Bloom-type clones that never lasted very long.
They got lucky. Being on a lowbrow outlet like CBS probably helped.
Great show. Funny. Posters here have no sense of humor.
Certainly one of the worst.
I’ve seen that movie. It was OK but it was just too damn long.
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