How I Met Your Mother - Part 2

[O'Haire]

Brad is great. Especially the episode where him and Marshall were going to brunch and Broadway plays.

 

[Paradox1]

Oh.... you mean the one true Superman?

Spoiler

Your right he would of been an awesome Superman

 

[Sawyer]

Nah, that was mainly sarcasm to piss HighFivingMF off. He's far too beefcakey to be Supes.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Nah, that was mainly sarcasm to piss HighFivingMF off.

Oh no you di'int.

 

[Sawyer]

EW:

'How I Met Your Mother' casting: 'Reno 911!' vet is the man Victoria left at the altar! -- EXCLUSIVE
by Sandra Gonzalez

Get ready to meet Victoria’s fiance!

EW has learned exclusively that former Reno 911! star Thomas Lennon has been cast as Klaus, the man who was set to marry Victoria (Ashley Williams) before she left him at the altar to run away with Ted (Josh Radnor) in the season 7 finale of How I Met Your Mother.

When the new season picks up, Victoria and Ted are driving off into the sunset when Ted learns a terrible truth: Victoria didn’t leave her abandoned fiancé a note!

“Ted Mosby is one of the only guys who can say [he's] been left at the altar and been left for at the altar. He’s been on both sides of a crazy equation,” exec producer Craig Thomas explained to EW during the Television Critics Association press tour. “But we try to write even the crazy turns as real as we can, and the real of it is if you were Ted Mosby you’d say, ‘Victoria, I’m turning this car around. You’ve got to leave this poor bastard Klaus a note.’”

Since his six years on Reno 911! as Lt. Jim Dangle, Lennon has appeared in a number of television shows and movies, including Children’s Hospital, New Girl, and What to Expect When You’re Expecting.

Lennon’s casting comes on the heels of news that Joe Manganiello will return to the show for an arc this season, which kicks off Sept. 24 on CBS.

Oh... em.... gee..... Great addition.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

^interesting casting

I was worried I'd feel bad for the guy... but Thomas Lennon usually comes across as a total *****e, so, I probably wont care that he got left

 

[Scarecrow_King]

I was wondering if we'd get to see who it was. Cool.

 

[venom892]

Thomas Lennon is a great addition. He is a hilarious dude.

 

[DyeLorean]

They need to re-record and renew the stock of recorded laughs, its getting too notorious they use the same set of laughs. There's one distinctive final laugh that I notice every time.

 

[AxlsAppetite]

I specifically remember this one laugh that's louder than the rest and just doesn't seem natural. Sounds like a black dude. Haven't seen the show in a while so I cant be sure its from it, but it got annoying.

 

[DyeLorean]

I read somewhere that they admit they use recorded laughs because the show has so many flashbacks and little scenes that is very hard to use a real audience when tapping the show.

 

[O'Haire]

The show is funny enough on it's own. Doesn't need a damn laugh track period.

 

[KALEL114]

The show takes three days to shoot one episode. Most sitcoms only take three hours . The show is shown to an audience after it is pieced together and their reactions are recorded. I do think they do what Big Bang (which is shot in front of a real audience) does and add "sweeteners" or extra reactions in places.

Here is an old article on it.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2007/01/how_i_met_your_.html

 

[DyeLorean]

The flashbacks work like a live-action Family Guy.

 

[Sawyer]

Except that there's an actual point to them.

 

[Matt]

^interesting casting

I was worried I'd feel bad for the guy... but Thomas Lennon usually comes across as a total *****e, so, I probably wont care that he got left

I disagree. I think Lennon comes off as so pathetic that you feel bad for him. That is probably what the writers will go for.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

^maybe I've just seen him in the wrong roles

 

[AxlsAppetite]

He didnt come of as pathetic in "Reno 911".

 

[Sawyer]

lol were we watching the same show?

 

[Dark Raven]

I hope that eventually we get a whole season dedicated to Ted meeting his future wife. I don't know if it will be this season or a future one.
I don't want it that he only just meets her in the very final episode. I would rather see the circumstances of how they got to know each other, began dating and then he eventually asked her to marry him. If it's just literally how he met her, then that would be like the final few minutes of Star Trek Voyager where they get home and then it ends, and you don't see any of the ramifications of that at all.

 

[Prison Mike]

I think it all depends on whether there is a season 9. I'm pretty sure (or at least hoping) Ted finally meets the mother in the season 8 finale. Anything after that is icing on the cake. I just hope they don't drag it out too long.

 

[Dark Raven]

I think it all depends on whether there is a season 9. I'm pretty sure (or at least hoping) Ted finally meets the mother in the season 8 finale. Anything after that is icing on the cake. I just hope they don't drag it out too long.

Well the series has never been just about how he literally met their mother. It's been more about the emotional journey and the person Ted had to become to meet her. I would hope they would adopt something similar, otherwise their literal meeting would be something extremely short.

We know that it has something to do with the yellow umbrella and that they met at Barney's wedding. In the season 6 opening episode, it begins to rain and Ted says to Marshall that he wishes they had an umbrella. If all it consists of is the mother randomly sharing her yellow umbrella with Ted while out in the rain later, then that would be a bit anticlimactic. Lots of people meet for a few seconds every day, but there's no guarantee of something further or deeper. Otherwise that would be like two people meeting right at the beginning of a romantic comedy film and then the story ends there.

I would want to see why they realise they connect and how they come to fall in love and how Ted proposes. If they don't show the audience why we should also like her, she would seem like just any one of Ted's other random "skanks" he has dated whom he thinks "this could be the one!" Why is she the one? That's the answer they need to show.

 

[batdude]

I think at this point, it is fairly obvious the mother is going to be a big name. Possibly only seen in the last episode.

 

[SpideyVille]

I really love the movie, 500 Days of Summer, and that character reminds me a lot of Ted, and recently I saw it and realized that the end is much more vague than I thought. When I first saw it, I figured he meets a girl and its the typical happily ever after ending from there, but then I realized it's not, and anything could've happened with that girl.

With that said, I always thought the series would and should end with him just meeting the mother, but the more I think about it, I think they also need to show why she was the one. They don't need another season, but rather some time devoted in the finale to showing possibly a montage of events that take place over the years that prove that she was the one Ted was waiting for.

I actually hope this is the last season because I feel like the main arc of Ted's search has been overshadowed by a lot of the other characters, which isn't a bad thing, but I would finally like to see them close that out instead of trying to fit as much as they can in between. As for the way I see it happening, I can see Ted going to each for the yellow umbrella, thinking it was his and they get into a discussion about how they have the same umbrella or something. Although I remember the first time they ever mentioned it, they showed it being blown away by the wind in the street, so I wonder if they changed it to happen at the wedding or if something happens and they interact afterward or something.

 

[DyeLorean]

The series has entered into what I like to call 'The Lost circle', in which the idea can't be stretched much longer, even though the series is still good.
By making the whole series like a big flashback/flashforward, they need to start thinking about the ending beforehand, unlike most sitcoms.