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Rewatching the first season, I'm betting that the mother is going to end up having been the ****ty pumpkin and the girl Ted was supposed to go on a date with in "Milk".
 
Sawyer said:
Rewatching the first season, I'm betting that the mother is going to end up having been the ****ty pumpkin and the girl Ted was supposed to go on a date with in "Milk".
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I always thought that the ****ty pumpkin was Joyce Summers, she drinks that dreadful Kahula stuff.

What was the name of Ted's girl who moved to Germany again?
 
http://www.tvline.com/2011/07/how-i-met-your-mother-kal-penn-house/
President Obama’s loss is How I Met Your Mother‘s gain.

Kal Penn — who put the brakes on his acting career two years ago when he traded in his regular gig on House for a job in the Obama administration — is returning to TV with a major recurring role on How I Met Your Mother, sources confirm to TVLine exclusively.

A show rep declined to comment, but a Mother source says Penn will play a love interest for Cobie Smulders’ lovelorn Robin named Kevin.

Penn’s arrival of course reunites him with Neil Patrick Harris, who played, well, “Neil Patrick Harris” to his Kumar in the Harold & Kumar films.

Penn is slated to vacate his White House post — where he served as associate director in the office of public liaison — later this month.

HIMYM exec producer Craig Thomas strongly hinted to TVLine in May that Robin would jump back into the dating scene, especially now that her maybe-soul mate Barney had moved on with Nora: “Robin didn’t do a hell of a lot of dating at all [last season]; she was more [immersed in] switching careers,” he said. “Now, Robin, who’s single and is looking forward a little bit, can’t help but wonder if what happened between her and Barney could have been something more had they been more ready.”

Barney growing up a bit via Nora “has not gone unnoticed by Robin, who did not have a serious love interest this past year. She’s definitely going to have to wrestle with that at the start of Season 7.”

How I Met Your Mother kicks off its seventh season on Sept. 19.
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NPH and Kumar reunite. :up:
 
Now we need to get Harold into the show as well.
 
No reason he can't come back...oh yeah, prison. Well, they broke out of Gitmo, I'm sure they can break Harold out of federal prison.
 
Cannot believe NPH didn't get a Best Supporting Actor emmy nod. Or Jason Segel, for that matter.

Jon Cryer? Gimme a ****ing break. :o
 
Segal needs to get nominated. I think he's the funniest one on the show.
 
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Segal needs to get nominated. I think he's the funniest one on the show.
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Actually Marshall is my LEAST favourite character, Segal's drunken commentaries not helping. As for Jon Cryer, well he deserves an award just for putting up with Charlie Sheen's antics
 
http://www.tvguide.com/News/HIMYM-Season7-Spoilers-1035439.aspx
How I Met Your Mother Scoop: Barney's Epic Wedding and How Ted Got His Groove Back
Jul 18, 2011 07:48 PM ET
by Joyce Eng

Whoever thought Barney Stinson was the marrying kind? But more importantly — who is he marrying?


How I Met Your Mother's season finale opened up a whole new mystery while still evading the original one regarding the identity of the titular mother. But creator/executive producer Craig Thomas assures TVGuide.com that Season 7 will offer answers and even more changes for our beloved quintet. Robin gets a new love interest for one (hello, Kal Penn! Goodbye, Michael Trucco!), Marshall gets a new job, of course, and "Ted Mosby, Architect" will finally be a great pickup line. Don't believe us? Keep reading.

Martin Short to recur on How I Met Your Mother

So Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) does get married, right?
Craig Thomas: Barney does get married. It's not the smoothest wedding day, but it's epic — truly epic. In the premiere, we definitely pick up right where we left off. ... We also see Punchy's wedding in the premiere. We start at Barney's wedding in the future. He's having the jitters. Ted says, "We've already been to the worst wedding of all time" — Punchy's. And we flash back to September of 2011 when the gang finally goes to the long-talked-about Punchy wedding. We had the two weddings inform each other.

How did you decide it would be Barney getting married?
Thomas: Part of it was the story we told in Season 6. Barney reconnected with his father —finding out who his father is and hinting that there is more to Barney than a guy who puts on suits and hits on women to sleep with them. Our hope was that it would play as a surprise and I think it did. We haven't shown yet how he gets from Point A to Point B. That's Season 7 — how he gets to that church, puts on that tuxedo and ends up moments away from marrying somebody. We love the storytelling challenge of showing how this character is so notoriously and proudly single, who has always hated the notion of marriage, getting there.

Was Barney getting married part of the plan when you and Carter [Bays] conceived the show?
Thomas: Well, we always knew it would be a show about people changing and growing up. The whole show begins with people getting engaged and moving on in life. Barney's a great sitcom character. He's a great character to write because he can be a complete, insane cartoon character in his own world one week and in another week be emotionally grounded and you care about his journey. That's a testament to Neil. He can play both. So I think over the years, the more we wrote Barney, the more we saw what Neil could do and the heart and emotion he could inject into this insane character. It made us want to write more about Barney's journey and who he could become.

In Season 1 we did an episode about his backstory ["Game Night"] and who he was before he became Barney. We pitched it as "How He Became Darth Vader." He was this sweet, open-hearted hippie guy who got really burned by his college girlfriend and became Barney. We always look at him as a sort of superhero. He has the superhero outfit and he has this big mythological backstory. Any time we can peel back the layers to Barney, it's better.

When will his bride be revealed?
Thomas: I can't say exactly when it will happen, but we will learn the identity of the person in Season 7.

The obvious possibilities are Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Nora (Nazanin Boniadi). Will there be more candidates?
Thomas: There will be more women than that! We like the idea of setting up a bunch of different candidates. For fans of Barney and Robin, the premiere picks up with the look she gave Barney. A big theme is Robin dealing with the fact that she has feelings flickering for Barney. Any HIMYM fans who felt like there wasn't enough of Barney and Robin when they were dating, stay tuned for more to their saga.

A lot of fans hated that you guys broke them up so abruptly in Season 5.
Thomas: Yeah, there definitely was a faction of fans who were upset by it, but we knew we eventually would stir those flames back up. We knew it would take a while and we wouldn't do it right away, but here we are coming into Season 7. Robin's dealing with the fact that she has these feelings again, which makes no sense since they dated and it didn't work out. It's essentially an episode of love being crazy and mysterious, like most of our episodes are. She's trying to wrap her head around these feelings. No one else but her knows about them.

You said in May the plan was for her to have a big love story with Michael Trucco's character, but his show [Fairly Legal] was renewed, so how have you had to readjust?
Thomas: Yeah, we won't see as much of Michael Trucco as we had hoped. So there will be a new love interest for Robin, which I can't say too much about yet because we're still working out some casting and scheduling with Michael.

Let's move on to that other mystery.
Thomas: Oh, yes, that one! [Laughs] I can tell you we're going to fill in pieces of the puzzle now since we know Ted meets the mother at Barney's wedding. We sort of did that because ultimately, we like the idea of further complicating the mystery. And with the new mystery around that day — who is Barney marrying? — it allows us to work toward it from a new perspective and we'll be revealing more about it from that angle.

Where is Ted (Josh Radnor) now after he was thisclose to getting back together with Zoey?
Thomas: We've seen Ted go through a lot of turmoil over the years — getting dumped at the altar, the Arcadian drama with Zoey. But we'll see Ted on a bit of a hot streak in Season 7. He's a hotshot architect having his building built in New York City. He's realizing, 'Wait a second. I'm kind of a catch right now.' His stock is very high and he's dealing with the fact that he's very attractive to the ladies at the moment. He's struggling whether to take advantage of that or stay on track of trying to find the right person to settle down with. Is this the moment to work it a little bit? He's a little torn. ... So he and Barney are swapping places! [Laughs] By the end of Season 7, Ted will wear suits and Barney's hair will be spiky and messy.

Some fans are impatient about the mother reveal. Are you concerned about their reaction to Ted being back on the dating scene now?
Thomas: The way we look at the show is that if it's purely about answering that question, the show will be five seconds long. We love that larger question and we're now coming at it with this future perspective of this future wedding day. I don't worry too much about that question as long as we're telling interesting stories about these characters. During Season 6, I was far more interested in what Marshall was going through, losing his father. It's about writing about characters, trying to make people care about them. Our cast is fantastic and we feel lucky to write for them. Whether people are impatient, all I can hope is that people care about our characters.

I think everyone was thrilled when Lily (Alyson Hannigan) finally got pregnant.
Thomas: Yeah! It really felt like they earned some good news, didn't it? We're going to see them extremely happy after going through some really hard stuff. I felt like something good happened to good friends of mine.

How are you going to tackle the "baby curse"?
Thomas: The good news is the length of a pregnancy is about the length of a TV season. There will be a May birth. I guarantee you that. ... We know at some point they have a boy, but stay tuned to see what gender [this one] is! ... I guess we have a year to try to figure out how to tackle the dreaded baby curse. I try to look at the bright side. The pregnancy and a baby will open up more stories. And Marshall (Jason Segel) is still unemployed at the start of Season 7. He just learned he's going to be a father, but he doesn't have a job. We'll eventually see Marshall land at an environmental law firm with Martin Short.

This is different from the botched interview with Dave Foley in the finale, right?
Thomas: Yeah, we had toyed with Marshall getting that job ... but Dave's pilot got picked up and then we heard through the grapevine that Martin Short was a fan of the show, which thrilled us because we're huge fans of his. When the universe takes one funny Canadian comedy legend away with one hand, it gives you another with the other hand! ... But Marshall will be at his dream job and Martin Short is his mentor and he discovers that Martin Short is the worst lawyer of all time. They're involved in an ongoing case that goes to litigation. And Martin's character — this well-intentioned head of the firm — botches it up. So Marshall's going to be very torn about whether to remain the respectful protégé or try to take over a little bit. We'll see him be awesome at his job. We did a tiny flashforward years ago that reveals Marshall winds up as a judge. So through the course of him getting to a courtroom, meeting a judge, we see him on the path of becoming a judge. It's fun to be able to show the steps these characters get to take. We feel very lucky to get to do that with our show.

Are you still approaching Season 8 as the last one for now?
Thomas: All of our contracts are up after 8, so we're preparing for that to possibly be the end. As long as we know that a year from now, that's fine. But if we don't, then that's a problem! We know exactly the ending minute or two of Season 7. It's going to take place in the future at that wedding day and we're going to end Season 7 there. It's going to be something! And we'll also end with a baby being born and then head into 8. And maybe there'll be more.

How I Met Your Mother returns with two episodes Monday, Sept. 19 at 8/7c on CBS.
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I must say, Cobie Smulders looks really good as Maria Hill here. But this makes me wonder, if she did indeed cut her hair short for the Avengers , I wonder if we'll see Robin sporting a new haircut or not. It's weird, but I don't think I'd like this look for her on the show.

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How I Met Your Mother: What to Expect in Season 7
Barney's bride will be revealed.

How I Met Your Mother heads into Season 7 next month with a big two-season pickup that will take the series through Season 8 in the spring of 2013. We now know that eventually Barney is going to get married and that at this wedding, Ted will meet the Mother of the title – laying a ton of groundwork for the end of the series.

I recently spoke to HIMYM's executive producers/showrunners Carter Bays and Craig Thomas about what to expect this season, as the show heads towards the ending… even if when that ending is going to occur isn't quite clear yet.

IGN TV: More than ever, you have placed several goals in place on the show. Without giving the specifics, is it safe to say you know when you want to reach these moments?

Carter Bays: Yes. We have all the major milestone of the show we have planned out. Last year was about, 'Who's wedding is it?' and we found out one half of that equation. This year will be about finding out the other half. And we'll see who is the girl who has managed to get Barney Stinson to walk down the aisle. It's a tall order.

Craig Thomas: That's a real achievement!

Bays: That person should get a gold medal!

IGN: You have two likely candidates with Robin and Nora, but should we assume it's got to be one of those two?

Bays: No, absolutely not.

Thomas: Don't assume we are beyond or above doing a little bit of Mamma Mia in Season 7 of How I Met Your Mother. There will be some choices. I'll say this, officially: We will meet who Barney is marrying in Season 7. We're not going to string that along. Because we were very vague when that wedding day is – we said, 'It's a little ways down the road.' We will learn who it is in Season 7. It's the big central question, though there are many, many new questions.

Bays: Yeah. It starts as a love triangle and then there are all sorts of geometric shapes that it becomes.

IGN: So not necessarily the wedding this season, but who the bride is…

Bays: We'll definitely find that out, and we'll find out a couple of other things along the way.

IGN: You've got a two-year pickup. I have to ask – are you at all approaching it as the final two seasons or are you still waiting to see on that?

Bays: Our contract takes us to the end of Season 8.

Thomas: And the cast.

Bays: This year we'll be figuring out if and how we'd go beyond that. If there's more story to tell and people would keep watching the show, we'd totally be open to doing more.

IGN: Your show more than other sitcoms has these goals it needs to reach.

Bays: We're the Lost of sitcoms!

IGN: I'd imagine one point of conversation with CBS is the need to have time to head towards your actual series finale – that you couldn't just quickly turn a season finale into the final episode.

Thomas: Let's put it this way: We need to know what our last season is coming into it, so that we can write that end game. Are we in Act 3 of How I Met Your Mother, if it was a big play? Absolutely. We're beginning to tie up some loose ends, ask some new questions, answer some old ones. The show's not going to go on eight more years. And there's something exciting to be writing it from that perspective, because you get to finally answer some questions. You start feeling like the plane's on the descent a little bit.

Bays: There's a few mysteries on the show that at every point, over the course of the show, you're trying to generate stories and you'll think, 'Hey, let's solve this mystery.' And it's always, 'Hey, let's hold on. It's a long story. We want to be on the air for a while.' So we've sort of pushed stuff off to the side. And this year, we're starting to take those toys out from the attic and say, 'Alright, let's play with this now. Let's solve this mystery. Let's answer this question.' And it's been fun. That's been one of the most fun things about wiring this season.

Thomas: Ultimately for us, it's not about how many more seasons or when should we answer… To us, we really do show up to work every day and go, 'What stories can we tell that are true and are from our real lives and resonate with people? What seems like it has heart and is worth telling?' When we run out of that, that's the end of the series. Ultimately, I can't put a number on it. I'm very grateful for the two year pickup, because I love my job and Carter loves his job. We're thrilled to go through Season 8. If it ended there, we'd be the luckiest guys in Showbiz, working with the greatest cast. Five actors we love, a director we love and we get to hang out and make each other laugh. It's a pretty cool job.

Bays: But it really is, to an almost supernatural degree… People have asked us how are we still running the show. Most showrunners run a show for three years and then hand it off and go live on a boat or something. I don't know what they do. But this really is the greatest job we've ever had. It's the story or one of the stories I think we were born to tell and we don't ever want it to end. And it hasn't felt old. We still love the cast. We love the people we work with. So who knows?

Thomas: We have some great surprises coming too. Our premiere has a ton of punch to it and we have this great momentum all the way through November sweeps, because we've kind of broken out the season through there more specifically, even though we know the ending too. But November sweeps has real emotional fireworks within our characters. There's some real, intricate stuff coming up that's surprising us and it's interesting and challenging to write, because there's some real emotional intrigue that happens in this group – and two of them are having a baby on top of that!

IGN: I wanted to ask about that, because you're finally going for it with Marshall and Lily having a baby.

Bays: It's fun writing things that are sort of decisive and permanent. We're in that phase of the show where it's not necessarily about writing something that can just reset the whole gang to sitting around the booth like nothing happened. Lives are changing and the characters are moving forward.

Thomas: Carter and I personally have way more stories to tell about pregnancies and changing diapers than wild nights at a bar. [Laughs]

Bays: Yeah, we've been waiting to tell those stories!

Thomas: We've got a lot of new material!

IGN: You've been prepping for it!

Bays: Yeah, all last season my wife was pregnant and all last year I was filing away stories. 'Not yet. We're not there yet!'

Thomas: And the great thing is a TV season is the length of a pregnancy and Lily's pregnant in September – in the finale of Season 6, we jumped ahead to September. So we have this mapped out. Our costume designers know exactly which clothes to put her in – in episode 12, we know exactly how pregnant she'll be. It's the perfect duration. They'll be a baby at the end of this year and before the end of this season we'll know who Barney is marrying, so there's two enormous bombshells built into this season to begin with – enormous reveals. And they'll be more than that, but I can't talk about it right now!

IGN: So going into this season, are you prepared for Cobie Smulders to start saying, 'I'm an Avenger! You can't tell me what to do!' [Editor's (geek) Note: Yes, I know Maria Hill isn't actually an Avenger – but it sounded funnier to me than 'I'm in Avengers!']

Bays: She's going to come in with such an attitude!

Thomas: 'Listen, I'm an Avenger! This joke is stupid! I'm an Avenger!' If Cobie had that in her, maybe. Cobie does not have that in her.

Bays: It's hard to schedule her, because you never know when she's going to get called away to save the world or something.

IGN: So I have to ask… Have we seen the last of Robin Sparkles or might there be more?

Bays: We're not ready to announce Robin Sparkles, but one thing we can announce is that in episode 1, with an Avenger and a Barney Stinson, there's a very big, fun, kick ass dance sequence. It's like a Dancing with the Stars glory moment between Barney and Robin ay Punchy's wedding in Cleveland. So the opening episode is set there and Barney and Robin get to clear the dance floor and have an awesome minute and a half dance sequence,.

Thomas: It's our way of saying to our [timeslot] competition, 'We've got stars! They can dance!'

Bays: 'And they can dance! What up? What up, ABC?'

Thomas: It's going to be an inter-network Step Up 2 the Streets kind of thing.
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Cannot believe NPH didn't get a Best Supporting Actor emmy nod. Or Jason Segel, for that matter.

Jon Cryer? Gimme a ****ing break. :o
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I know Im late but I just saw this.

F*** that! Cryer doesnt deserve to be nominated for crap. He doenst do anything comedically (made up word) special to be nominated for an Emmy.

But I think thats the way it's going to be as long as all 4 actors from Modern Family are nominated. I love that show and they all deserve to be nominated, but they take up slots for other people (NPH, Segel, IMO Dule Hill from Psych, Jeremy Piven from Entourage, etc.)
 
Well Piven's already won. NPH should have won the year he hosted.
 
Great ending! It's going to be a good season.
 
Great start to the season, absolutely loved the ending.
 
Didn't expect that ending. But it put a smile on my face.
 
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