How I met your mother was a pop culture phenomenon during its nine seasons and in the years that followed.
How I met your mother told lead actor Ted Mosby's (Josh Radnor) reverse love story – ultimately leading to the moment when he meets the mother of his children. Radnor played wide Alyson Hannigan (Lily Aldrin), Jason Segel (Marshal Eriksen), Neil Patrick Harris (Barney Stinson) and Cobie Smulders (Robin Scherbatsky).
The sitcom, which ran on CBS from 2005 to 2014, also starred the late Bob Saget as a future version of Ted Mosby.
“Something about How I met your mother used to be [that] it has always turned your expectations upside down,” Radnor shared Huff Post Live in 2016. “It always made you cry, it was always not what you thought it was.”
Shortly after the show ended, it was announced that a spin-off series would be released How I met your father was in the works at CBS with Bays, Thomas and Emily Spivey. The project was eventually scrapped, but a new version emerged Hilary Duff in the lead role, debuted in January 2022. How I met your father was canceled in 2023 after two seasons.
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