what's up people it's Ryan again back
with some more TV show facts that most
of you seem to enjoy this time I did it
on How I Met Your Mother one of the
greatest sitcoms ever in my opinion so
let's get right into it it's going to be
legend wait for it and I hope you're not
lactose intolerant cuz the second half
of that word is Dairy Dairy one all of
Lyndsy Fonseca and David Henry scenes as
Ted's future children were filmed during
the first season to keep them the same
age throughout the series when the kids
footage for the series finale was shot
creators Thomas and bays were the only
people present Fonseca and Henry also
had to sign a confidentiality agreement
and the two kids honored it even after
Henry was bribed with alcohol at a bar
by people wanting to know the ending
what is wrong with you two
after the show ended Josh Radnor kept
the blue French horn Neil Patrick Harris
got the playbook and the games
MacLaren's booze and the three yellow
umbrellas now belonged to director
Pamela Fryman as well as the creators
Craig Thomas and Carter Bays three by
the end of How I Met Your Mother
there was no character in the central
gang that the show could work without
when the prospect of having a ninth
season was floated arrested entirely on
Jason Segel who was uncertain about
returning and as you saw his decision
ultimately defined the ending poor the
biggest star of the show was most
currently Neil Patrick Harris who had
been a household name since playing
Doogie Howser at the age of sixteen
because of that he ended up getting paid
much more than his co-stars he made two
hundred ten thousand dollars per episode
almost doubled the rest of the cast
120,000 when I get that I stop being sad
and be awesome instead five Cobie
Smulders was actually born in Vancouver
her character Robin Scherbatsky was
originally supposed to be from Toronto
but the creator's changes it to
Vancouver to match her real-life persona
oh you're nuttier than in Tim Hortons
maple log SiC in an online poll Victoria
was voted the all-time favorite love
interest of Ted while Joey was voted the
least favorite seven as I'm sure you
know one of the show's recurring gag is
that whenever somebody says a phrase
that resembles a military rank both Ted
and Robin salute and repeat whatever is
said as though addressing a Millett
offices in countries actually still
condone corporal punishment corporal
punishment hey since the very start the
show has been building to the finale so
it's only natural that the final episode
last forever will end up being the
show's most watched episode bringing in
thirteen point one three million viewers
previously the most viewed episode with
season one the pineapple incident still
held by many as the high-water mark for
the show nine the writers pulled from
the actors personalities to shape their
characters Robinson pence Canadian prize
came from Cobie Smulders Neil Patrick
Harris the skills of the magician
relating to Barney and Josh Radnor
intellectualism and Jason Siegel's
obsession with writing silly songs were
woven into Ted and Marshall Oh
initially Robin's dogs were a defining
part of the character but suddenly in
season two they are written out was
having five canines on set proving a
logistical issue sort of Josh Radnor was
actually allergic to dogs
making the scenes he shared with them
unbearable it wasn't a clean break
though and stuff where Ted forces Robin
to get rid of her pets paramedic needed
to be on-call due to radner's close
proximity to the animals 11 Neil Patrick
Harris enjoys Red Bull so much on and
off the set of How I Met Your Mother now
he was given a lifetime supply of it and
many refrigerators because of all the
free advertising he has given the
company 12 Robin Scherbatsky could have
been Jennifer Love Hewitt but the party
of five star turned down the role paving
the way for Cobie Smulders nobody asked
for your help went great do i memorize
13 Barney Stinson was named after a
heroin peddler in the James Ellroy book
LA Confidential 14 three of the main
actors have had their significant others
in multiple episodes husband of Alyson
Hannigan Alexis Denisof plays sandy
rivers Cobie Smulders husband Taran
Killam plays lawmen and David Burtka now
husband of Neil Patrick Harris play
scooters aah
ha 15 there are only 12 times throughout
the entire series that Barney Stinson
shows up without a sued 16 and the
episode where Ted and Robin break up
there was a real-life proposal during
the episodes there was a ring in a
champagne glass and Robin thought Ted
was proposing to her
however the ring belonged to a man at
the next table he planned it proposal
with the producers and now that couple
of engagement will live forever on the
show seventeen the man who plays
Marshalls father and How I Met Your
Mother also voices patrick star in
spongebob the inner machinations of my
mind are an enigma 18 Neil Patrick
Harris knocked himself out during his
audition for How I Met Your Mother
during a laser tag renditions 19 and any
scene where the gang is eating Chinese
food Barney Stinson is never able to eat
using chopsticks the only time he has
ever shown able to use chopsticks is in
season seven at the hibachi grill
restaurant 20 on screen kisses can be a
big ass and all that will be made worse
if the other person tastes like an
ashtray which is exactly the situation
Alyson Hannigan found herself in when
she first started on How I Met Your
Mother Jason Segel was a long-term
smoker making her numerous kisses with
him a daunting prospect putting her foot
down she insisted he try and quit to
make the whole ordeal bearable Segal
originally tried to use a fine system
where he'd pay Hanigan $10 for every
cigarette each mode when that racked up
a large day he instead decided to go
cold turkey which worked for a year at
least apparently due to stress he
relapsed meeting gum must have been on
hand through much of the show's run 21
because of the numerous scenes and a
quick cut nature of the show's visual
style the show is films without the
traditional live studio audience
the finished episode is later shown to
an audience and their reactions are
recorded and added for broadcast so
maybe we'll do the same hey guys
22 most of the websites featured in the
show such as Canadian sex acts org and
Stinson breast reduction comm are real
website lily and Marshall Estelle
discuss calm was created for charity and
items from the show were auctioned off
23 and most statistics Barney expresses
the numbers 8 and three are involved and
in one instance when he posed as an
elderly man he claims he was 83 years
old 83 how old are you 31 24 how I Met
Your mother's creators Craig Thomas and
Carter Bays based the show on their own
friendship and the shenanigans van
Thomas's wife Rebecca got up to you
while they lived in New York City they
were the first Ted Marshall and Lily 25
many episodes deal with Robin's past as
a teen pop star Robin sparkles including
her big hit let's go to the mall that
song is available on the dancing game
Just Dance 326 the opening theme song is
performed by Thomas and bays Bend the
song is called hey beautiful and the
band is called the solace
twenty-seven MacLaren's is of course
just a set in LA but don't be
discouraged you can still visit the real
bar after spending many evenings in
McKees Irish bar in New York while
working on The Late Show Craig Thomas
and Carter Bays decided to base their
show's bar on McGee's and the owners of
McGee's have really taken to it they
both the special How I Met Your Mother
drinks menu and during its run hosts a
weekly quiz nights on the show 28 in the
real world the actual ages of the cast
are all over the place
Neil Patrick Harris is 9 years older
than his on-screen wife Cobie Smulders
while Jason Segel is six years younger
than Josh Radnor and Alyson Hannigan who
is meant to have gone to college with
funniest of all Cristin Milioti who
plays Tracy Mosby is only 18 months
older than Lyndsy Fonseca her in show
daughter 29 Alyson Hannigan was pregnant
while shooting many season 4 episodes
but the show runners were not interested
in a character also being pregnant most
episodes use time-honored TV tricks to
hide Hannigan's pregnancy including
baggy tops and giant handbags but the
episodes are possimpible showed
Hannigan's pregnancy bump in the context
of a subplot and which lily was a hot
dog eating contest and has a comically
distended stomach afterwards after
Hannigan told the showrunners as she was
pregnant Cobie Smulders discovered that
she was also pregnant
neither of the characters they play were
pregnant on the show so the costume
designers had the job is simultaneously
hiding the pregnancies of the series two
main female actors 30 McLaren's Club was
named for one of the show's crew members
Carl McLaren which showed greater Carter
Bays assistant until 2007 when he was
promoted to associate producer on the
series 31 the series has spawned a
string of books this includes a written
and comprehensive version of Barney's a
bro code as well as bro on the go bro
codes recurrence
what to expect when your awesome the
playbook and How I Met Your Mother and
philosophy 32 the show inspires it's
been off How I Met Your dad Greta Gerwig
was the front the series which are not
really how I Met Your Mother
except that it would share a similar
sensibility and creators Thomas and
BAE's after the pilot was shot
CBS declined to pick up the series
33 one of Hannigan's kids was slated to
play lily and Marshalls second child but
then she got some disappointing news
they fired my kids from that role she
was going to be the baby but producer
Carter bass was like nope she's too old
and she got replaced 34 How I Met Your
Mother has had some pretty impressive
cameos in his time Britney Spears Katy
Perry
Jennifer Lopez and Jorge Garcia have all
popped in to join the gang and McLaren
for an episode or two but odds are most
of the audience will have missed one of
the bigger cameos Conan O'Brien O'Brien
insisted he be an extra
despite the writers keen to give him a
more prominent role 35 Pamela Fry moon
is one of the most important people
involved in the production of How I Met
Your Mother
throughout its run she directed all but
12 episodes of the show a mighty
impressive feat when you consider the
complicated time-jumping narrative most
episodes employ only three other people
directed those remaining 12 Rob
greenberg directed seven Michael Shia
directed four and Neil Patrick Harris
directed 136 back in season one Ted gets
horrendously drunk and wakes up with a
girl in his bed and a pineapple on his
nightstand
he eventually pieces together the night
but the origin of the fruit remains a
mystery that was until the complete
series DVD which boasts a deleted scene
that finally gave us an answer it turns
out the captain follows an old naval
tradition of leaving a pineapple outside
of his house as a symbol of hospitality
something that drunk Ted found utterly
hilarious 37 Jim Parsons auditioned to
play Barney the future Big Bang Theory
star lost out to Neil Patrick Harris who
credited the physical comedy he
exhibited for landing the role
specifically when asked to pretend to be
playing laser tag Karen started a dive
role that ended with his body meeting a
chair 38 the have you met Ted pick up
line was actually from Bay's and
Thomas's boss at Letterman Late Show
writer Justin saengil invented a pickup
line when Stangl and Bay's rather bar
dangled would stop a girl walking by and
say having met Carter
39 Britney Spears specifically wanted to
be on the episode 10 sessions which
freestyle phase and Thomas who are
worried that the singer would want to
play Stella a character for whom they
had big plans instead she liked the role
of Stella's receptionist at
you sad - so was the most-watched
episode at that point that was credited
with possibly saving the show from
cancellation 40 Alicia Silverstone was
originally going to play Stella until
Britney Spears got involved so we're
still how to be replaced by Sarah Chalke
after silver stones representatives were
worried that the client would be
overshadowed by Spears 41 Cobie Smulders
was actually diagnosed with ovarian
cancer during the third season
smoulders received the bad news at the
age of 25 and kept it a secret from the
public two years and several surgeries
later she was declared cancer-free 42
Victoria would have been the mother if
CBS canceled the series early the
initial 13 episode order conveniently
concluded with drumroll please which
introduced Ashley Williams characters 43
producers are worried Alyson Hannigan
and Cristin Milioti look too similar
Hennigan says the whole process of
finding the right actors to play them
all was very secretive and caused some
suspicion around set when trailers that
would never be locked
suddenly were Hennigan says she first
met Cristin Milioti in a makeup trailer
because producers wanted to see how the
pair would look side-by-side 44 Jason
Segel was actually getting tired of his
role and would have preferred the series
to end after the eighth season he even
poked fun that's a predictable nature of
his role in an interview 45 just in case
he didn't recognize his voice Bob Saget
was a narrator for How I Met Your Mother
oddly enough Alyson Hannigan used to
babysit Bob Saget's kids 46 both Bob
Odenkirk and Bryan Cranston had minor
recurring roles in How I Met Your Mother
47 Barney's duck tie appeared in a total
of 11 episodes not enough if you ask me
48 episodes were generally shot over a
three-day period in soundstage studio 22
and featured upwards of 50 scenes with
quick transitions and flashbacks 49
Cristin Milioti had no idea what role
she was auditioning for after a
30-minute Skype interview they flew her
out to LA and even while testing for the
role she read from fake scenes that had
nothing to do with How I Met Your Mother
15 some fans were so angry at the ending
that they started a petition to CBS to
redo the whole thing
leaving Barney and Robin together and
having everyone lived happily ever after
alternate ending that remove the two
contentious elements as hopefully
somewhat please those fans and that kids
is how I Met Your Mother
alright guys I hope you enjoyed the
video please leave a comment below
telling me what TV show you'd like me to
do facts on next I still have a whole
list of shows I'm going to do but I'm
sure that I missed a couple
so yeah just let me know and hopefully
I'll get to your favorite TV show
alright peace