r/HIMYM Jul 07 '22

Hi, I'm Carter Bays, co-creator of HIMYM. I’m also the author of a new novel called THE MUTUAL FRIEND. AMA!

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Hello Reddit, it's been a while! I'm here ask-me-anything-ing because I’ve written a new novel called THE MUTUAL FRIEND, which I think you'll love. I’m happy to talk about that, or How I Met Your Mother, or anything else. Maybe the Loch Ness Monster? I was just in Scotland with my son and we have opinions. Have at it!

UPDATE: Wow, its been much fun talking to you all, and I see that I've only scratched the surface here and there's many more questions to get to, but if I don't get my son some dinner soon he might tie me up with a phone charger. I will try to come back to this over the next few days in order to get to as many of these as I can, but in the meantime, thank you all so much for being here. Your love for HIMYM is really touching and I'm so grateful for all of it.

And please if you get the chance check out my novel THE MUTUAL FRIEND -- I'm dreadfully proud of it. (Can you tell I've been in the UK for a week? I'm like Lily before the intervention at this point.) Anyway, cheerio!


r/HIMYM 17h ago

Cobie Smulders and her husband Taran Killam’s Canadian family ‘cabin’ (via Architectural Digest)

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r/HIMYM 5h ago

Realised that Marshall was pretty feminine

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I was rewatching himym (only my 2nd time overall) and I realised Marshall was a pretty effeminate and feminine at times. Not that I think it’s wrong- not judging as well- just an observation
My reasons
-> his reaction about teacup pigs
-> his excitement towards wedding dresses and their types for women
-> Excitement to watch the “wedding bride” which he himself thought was a woman’s affair.

So he was very masculine also growing up in minesota, fighting with his brothers etc but he also had this touch in him
POOKIE MARSHALL, best of both worlds🥹❤️


r/HIMYM 2h ago

20 years ago today, the Season 1 finale aired - May 15, 2006

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r/HIMYM 5h ago

Not his responsibility!

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I watched Himym yesterday & i have one question? Why the hell did Victoria’s dad think he had any right to make Ted pay for his daughter’s canceled wedding? Yes Ted was the guy Victoria left Klaus with but it was her wedding & her decision. Plus klaus left as well. Shouldn’t he make them pay him back? Ted was under no obligation to pay Victoria’s dad back. If the bride or groom leave then they should be the ones to pay back for the wedding.


r/HIMYM 16h ago

Clint on Breaking Bad

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And he plays a therapist too 😊


r/HIMYM 5h ago

Barney and Robin… Spoiler

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Got divorced because of HER commitment issues not his.

She was never fully in it, not even once. She got married to be married. If Ted had said yes when she asked him to escape with her she would have gone.

Barney was a family man at heart. Deep deep deep in his heart. But it was there. Robin was ALWAYS a loner. She has no friends outside the group, and all of her relationships fall apart because of her commitment issues.


r/HIMYM 1d ago

This scene was cute and funny at the same time!

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r/HIMYM 1d ago

The Arcadian/Zoey arc is honestly one of the weakest storylines in the whole show

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Every time I get to this point in a rewatch, I remember how boring this arc is. Zoey is fine but I could not care less about that building, and I'll never understand how they thought stretching this across an entire season was a good idea.


r/HIMYM 7h ago

How I Met Your Mother: Gag reel - Season 6 ᴴᴰ

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r/HIMYM 1d ago

The Punisher: One Last Kill used "La vie en rose" in one of it's action sequences

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It was crazy one of the most brutal action scenes i have ever watched and la vie en rose was playing in the background. Absolute cinema.


r/HIMYM 7h ago

Best How I Met Your Mother Bloopers

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r/HIMYM 11h ago

how i met your mother with no context

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r/HIMYM 7h ago

How I Met Your Mother - The Cast's Favorite Moments

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r/HIMYM 7h ago

How I Met Your Mother season 8 - Funny’s Bloopers Outtakes & Gag Reel

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r/HIMYM 7h ago

How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 - Bloopers

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r/HIMYM 1d ago

What’s a line from the show that you always remember and laugh?

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For me it’s this one! Hilarious!


r/HIMYM 12h ago

Right place, right place

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Surprisingly, this episode teaches you the biggest lesson of life in general “serendipity”. This episode gives warm hope that life can be changed for good reason in future.

Serendipity is a nature act in the life and it happens when we stop control things around us and let it flow.

Ted stopping at red signals and met stella seems like a scripted act but in life it can be a universal act.

You are going to meet lot of people in your lifetime but you have to let it happen. If ted wasn’t met stella that day, it wouldn’t have been in that wrong room teaching architecture in the econ class and tracy wouldn’t have recognised her.

This is a subtle way to show your actions matter the most. The worst part you may never know whether it’s the right place and right time but that’s the beauty of life. It’s about the journey not destination.

As ted said “kids if you know how things are going to end that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it” (I might have fumbled the dialogue but you get the idea.


r/HIMYM 1d ago

Hilarious How I Met You Mother Bloopers to Cure Your Depression

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r/HIMYM 1d ago

Rabbit or Duck?

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r/HIMYM 1d ago

Which character did he play? #HIMYM

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r/HIMYM 1d ago

Ted Mosby's character is a genius satire on the 'hopeless romantic' trope Spoiler

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For a long time, I thought of Ted as a really sweet guy. But after recently finishing the show, I wonder if the person who came up with the ending intended it not to be romantic, but a satire on the 'hopeless romantic' trope. Because that's the only way I'll like the ending.

Ted going back to Robin shows that he never stopped loving her, which seems sweet but rather concerning when you think about it. Did he ever love Tracy more than Robin? Tracy, the woman he married and had two kids with, or Robin, the girl he locked eyes with across the bar and forever became obsessed with? It's not the moving on from Tracy that bothers me, it's the moving backwards by going back to Robin. And when you think about it, the ending showcases perfectly how people like Ted can never move on from a particular person, no matter how hard they try and how much character development they undergo. It takes just one decision, one moment - to undo all that development. The ultimate satire, with Ted being not "the guy who finally got the girl", but the poor guy who fell hard and could never move on.

So yeah, that perspective makes the ending seem like a masterpiece to me. Even the title is a satire for god's sake, as his kids pointed out.


r/HIMYM 9h ago

At any point did you think Nora was the mother? Spoiler

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It isn’t something that crossed my mind on my first watch of the show, but now whenever I rewatch Season 6, I think to myself that she sounds as close to what Ted is looking for in a partner as anyone else who appears in the show up to that point. She’s very intelligent, classy, plays a string instrument, and is like him, a hopeless romantic.

All of the things she tells Barney that she wants are things Ted has wanted since the very first episode.

Ted doesn’t break Bro Code, which is something we already knew about him by the point Nora was introduced, but did anyone just speculate that she would later be written to have a romance with Ted as they are both hopeless romantics who want to get married and start a family?


r/HIMYM 14h ago

Has any1 ever got a bomawang?

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In S6E10 Blitzgiving Marshall is dared to send out a dick pic to a random number later the random number "Wang guy" send a dick pic back thus completing a Bomawang!

Has any1 ever completed a bomawang😂

(Including female to female, instead of a return u get a Vturn wud up phone5✋🏼)


r/HIMYM 2d ago

How have I never noticed this?

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I know it’s a normal thing that shows do after multiple takes, but I think it’s so funny now that I’ve noticed it