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'How I Met Your Mother' wraps up an impressive nine-year run with legendary finale
New York Daily News ^ | 03/31/2014 | BY DAVID HINCKLEY

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.

That’s 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.

It’s 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 Mosby’s kids wanted the answer, they didn't have much choice. We didn’t 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 Ted’s good if maybe not best friend Barney Stinson, says the show needed that kind of time. Like a good Irish pub cheese, it couldn’t 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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To: safeasthebanks

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.


41 posted on 03/31/2014 9:15:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (question is this)
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To: napscoordinator
There was no fags on the show.

Barney's half-brother on the show is a homosexual, with a partner, and a child.

42 posted on 03/31/2014 9:32:55 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


43 posted on 03/31/2014 9:35:35 AM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


44 posted on 03/31/2014 9:38:17 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: P-Marlowe
The worst show ever made finally comes to an end.

That title belongs to "Two Broke Girls"

45 posted on 03/31/2014 9:39:31 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: napscoordinator
There was no fags on the show

The character Barney (hetero on the show, homo in real life) has a brother who is homo.

46 posted on 03/31/2014 10:01:53 AM PDT by Vision Thing (obama wants his suicidal worshipers to become suicidal bombers.)
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To: IYAS9YAS; Vision Thing

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.


47 posted on 03/31/2014 10:40:24 AM PDT by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: SeekAndFind
"The first two seasons seemed very on the bubble . . ."

"'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.


48 posted on 03/31/2014 11:34:23 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I enjoyed the show, mind candy that it is.


49 posted on 03/31/2014 1:39:35 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: SeekAndFind
I watched the first few episodes and wasn't impressed.

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.

50 posted on 03/31/2014 1:45:50 PM PDT by x
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To: SeekAndFind

Great show. Funny. Posters here have no sense of humor.


51 posted on 03/31/2014 5:11:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: P-Marlowe

Certainly one of the worst.


52 posted on 03/31/2014 5:16:56 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I never watched the show, but here's a blog post that takes the finale very, very seriously:

The How I Met Your Mother Finale was an April Fools Joke -- It Also Happens To Have Been the Finale of Friends.

53 posted on 04/05/2014 12:40:55 PM PDT by x
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve seen that movie. It was OK but it was just too damn long.


54 posted on 05/11/2014 7:09:21 AM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Well......Bye.)
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